"The London attack instantly brought back memories of the act of terror at the Quebec City mosque.
It took years of advocacy to come to a point where the federal government could commemorate that day by explicitly naming Islamophobia." thestar.com/opinion/contri…
"Advocates and allies called on all levels of government to do more to combat the scourge of racism and Islamophobia.
Here we are, four and a half years later with far too little progress and with our communities now feeling more vulnerable than ever." thestar.com/opinion/contri…
"What is urgently required is a comprehensive action plan that would provide concrete recommendations and benchmarks to both governments and communities in combating hatred in all its forms." thestar.com/opinion/contri…
.@AmiraElghawaby outlines six steps that can be taken to make a difference, including removing barriers to reporting hate and mandating anti-racism and anti-oppression training in schools thestar.com/opinion/contri…
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🚌 After almost a century of use, the Toronto Coach Terminal will cease operations next month and be handed over to the municipal government for potential redevelopment. thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
For almost a century, the grey building near the corner of Bay and Dundas Streets downtown has been Toronto’s hub of intercity bus service. /2 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
A report going to the Toronto Coach Terminal Inc. (TCTI) board says its agreement with a joint venture of Greyhound and Coach Canada will run out on July 7, and the bus companies “will not be occupying the properties after the lease expiration.” /3 thestar.com/news/gta/2021/…
“If you had a bunch of really smart people sitting in a room trying to think up ways to kill retail, you couldn’t have done a better job than the Ford government,” said a furious David Bensadoun, CEO of Aldo Shoes. /3 thestar.com/business/2021/…
Ford will invoke the Constitution’s “notwithstanding” clause for the first time in Ontario history to overturn a judicial ruling that struck down limits on unions’ electoral spending thestar.com/politics/provi…
This comes one day after Ontario Superior Court Justice Ed Morgan’s decision that the Charter rights of Working Families, a coalition of unions, were “infringed” by curbs on what it can spend on advertising outside an election period thestar.com/politics/provi…
Manitoba currently has the highest case rate in the country by a significant margin.
Down in the U.S., lotteries or free giveaways have begun more common as public health officials work to woo the hesitant. But it’s still a novel approach in Canada thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Two draws will be held this summer — open to all Manitobans age 12 and up who have gotten at least their first shot.
Each draw will award a series of $100,000 prizes for different health regions, and 10 $25,000 scholarships for those age 12 to 17 thestar.com/news/canada/20…
NEW from @TondaMacC: Moderna says it will deliver seven million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Canada before the end of June thestar.com/politics/feder…
The federal government says this puts it in line with its contract obligations, even though it falls short by about a million doses of the original plan thestar.com/politics/feder…
Moderna will switch to using its American production facility instead of its Europe-based factories to supply millions of the mRNA vaccine doses that it contracted to ship to Canada in the second quarter. thestar.com/politics/feder…
NEW: The head of the statue of Egerton Ryerson which was toppled over at the downtown school on Sunday has turned up at 1492 Land Back Lane, a 25-acre front in assertion of Indigenous land rights.
The last time anyone saw the statue head was by the Toronto Harbour. The head now sits on a pike in unimpeded view of garden plots and newly planted pine saplings to commemorate the children found at the former residential school in Kamloops. thestar.com/ths/news/hamil…
Ryerson’s head also rests down the road from the former Mohawk Institute in Brantford, a residential school. Skyler Williams says the land back movement is in part an attempt to secure space for Indigenous people to “deal with that trauma and heal.” thestar.com/ths/news/hamil…