Posted: Jun 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: June 14
Uniformed police officers have been excluded from participating in Toronto's Pride parade since 2017. New documents show Pride Toronto's leaders were poised to drop that ban as they sought federal grant money.(Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press)
Pride Toronto took in $250,000 of federal grant money to commemorate a contentious milestone in Canada's LGBTQ history with hopes of improving relations with police â even though a majority of its membership continued to oppose having uniformed officers march in the country's largest Pride parade, CBC News has learned.
After pushback from the community, the organization and federal officials reworked the contract so some of those taxpayer dollars could instead be spent on programs Pride Toronto ran before the grant was even awarded in 2018.