...they haven't been favourable...

I think the most difficult thing about living in Toronto is the distance I feel to certain events as they happen, and how I respond to them. I might hear from one source that disruptions at an Ahmadinejad speech at Amir Kabir University were an "uprising" they feel will become substantial resistance; the AP will describe the same event as a small group of student protestors "heckling" the President. So I wait, reading different sites, talking to different people, wondering what actually happened and whether it means anything, in the larger scheme of things.