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.
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
April 12, 2021
Awakening
I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in.
The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out.
My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell of the earth. I was huddled in the dark next to my mother in a root cellar in the west of Germany, surrounded by sacks of potatoes, while sirens blared above.
Print Edition: March 25, 2015
Bill C-51, the proposed Anti-terrorism Act, has been criticized by its opponents as unconstitutional since it was first introduced and read at the House of Commons on January 30.
The Conservative Party of Canada calls the bill an extension of existing legislation like the Combatting Terrorism Act and the Nuclear Terrorism Act, and is a step towards better countering terrorist threats.
However, the bill is criticized for its use of the phrase “terrorism in general,” which opponents argue is too vague, therefore allowing for a possibly unfair interpretation of what is deemed terrorist activity.
In the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ magazine