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Don Wall February 11, 2021 SCREENSHOT The Urban Land Institute’s Toronto chapter kicked off Black History Month with a webinar billed as Redressing Black Displacement in Canada.
The Urban Land Institute’s Toronto chapter kicked off Black History Month with a powerful call for justice, a webinar featuring activists representing Black communities in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver that have been victims of historical injustices or thoughtless urban renewal.
The Feb. 1 event was billed as Redressing Black Displacement in Canada.
Moderator Camille Mitchell, an architect with Gensler, facilitated a discussion featuring Angela Simmonds, manager of equity and access with the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society; Itah Sadu, co-owner of Toronto’s A Different Booklist Cultural Centre; and Stephanie Allen, founding member of the Hogan’s Alley Society in Vancouver.
No tolerance for hatred
As residents, home owners, and community members of San Luis Obispo County, we are upset, but not shocked, by the tragic hate crime perpetrated on the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity on the Cal Poly campus. The hate crimes on the campus are ongoing, a cyclical targeting of one group after another who claim individual and/or intersectional identities of female, Jewish, Muslim, Black, LGBTQ-plus, and non-majority identities.
It is common knowledge that a swastika is the symbol used to represent the Nazi party. The wider implications of the sign are terrifying and go far beyond symbolic signaling: Its use is a crime of the most severe degree against these individuals and our collective humanity. We call for local and federal authorities to treat this occurrence for what it is an
Greater Sudbury Police are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a missing woman.
Stephanie Allan is 29, white, 5-foot-3 and 110 pounds, with shoulder length brown hair and hazel eyes.
She was last seen near Kathleen Street and Burton Avenue on Feb. 2 at 10 p.m.
“There is concern for Stephanie’s wellbeing,” police said in a release.
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Public health authorities still haven’t earned trust after years of mistreatment.
Moira Wyton is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. SHARES Vaccine distrust is high among Black people across North America because of the horrific ways that science has treated them. In the US, some Black leaders such as Andrew Young have received a COVID-19 vaccination to encourage others to do so.
Photo by Ron Harris, the Associated Press.
When COVID-19 vaccines began to arrive in British Columbia, many in Stephanie Allen’s family and the wider Black and African diaspora communities were far from relieved.
Illustration by Katy Smith
After the financial crisis, a slow and imbalanced recovery fostered a new set of social, health, economic and political problems. At a GGF webinar, expert panellists discussed how policymakers can ensure that – as countries finally emerge from the pandemic – the next recovery addresses these problems rather than exacerbating them. By Catherine Early
The pandemic has led to “impact piling upon impact for the most disadvantaged in society,” said former UK permanent secretary Clare Moriarty. For COVID-19 not only causes most physical harm to those who are old, disabled or unwell; its economic and social impacts have also been felt most by those with the least income, assets and job security.