Jennifer McPhee

A Cup of Joe and a Slice of Life

A Cup of Joe and a Slice of Life

In a small corner of a paper filled with editorial ads and tips on how to be hip, city columnist Joe Fiorito tells compelling stories of urban underdogs and the underclass

Joe Fiorito has spent the morning working on a follow-up story about two bickering parking lot attendants in downtown Toronto. Since his first column about the lots, the feud has escalated and one of the attendants, an Ethiopian immigrant named Gashaw Mequanent, now has a broken wrist. It’s a typical Fiorito piece, a tiny urban […]