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City unveils winter homelessness strategy as shelter system already stretched beyond capacity
After a summer and fall that saw refugee claimants with nowhere to go sleeping on downtown streets, Toronto officials say the demand…
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Statistics Canada study on Black-owned businesses suggests systemic challenges hold them back
The number of Black-owned enterprises in Canada is growing, but still represent a tiny fraction of the country’s business landscape,…
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Ontario seeks to add 50,000 child-care spots, focusing on underserved areas
Now that thousands of Ontario families are paying reduced child-care fees under the national $10-a-day program, work is underway…
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Torontonians know these trash cans are a problem. Are solar compacting bins a solution?
Toronto has a trash problem with garbage overflowing onto streets and blowing into surrounding areas, and some councillors are now calling…
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Nearest and dearest
The definition of “family” has evolved consistently. Even the popular definition from let’s say, 15 years ago, is…
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“The cost to retain lawyers to fight it out in Court, and the time involved, can destroy a couple financially, emotionally and psychologically” – Christopher J. Clapperton
One of the most important institutions, that like others, has been changing throughout the years. Family. The constitution of…
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Alternative facts
Not being generous with the truth is as popular as honesty itself. There are so many guises of lying…
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It’s getting harder to put food on the table
Our everyday lives have been affected by the turbulent economic scenario the world, Canada included, is facing right now.…
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Ontario extending $10/day child-care opt-in deadline to get more operators to apply
Ontario is extending the deadline for child-care operators to apply for the $10-a-day program and standardizing the process in…
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Freedom of Speech? Is that thinking before you speak?
Have you ever said something that you regretted? Speech is God’s gift to mankind. Through speech a human being…
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A stolen truck trailer carrying thousands of guns has been recovered, Peterborough police say
A trailer carrying more than 2,000 guns has now been found after it was stolen along with a truck in Peterborough,…
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Police push back protesters blocking Ambassador Bridge
Police in Windsor, Ontario have begun to clear out people who’ve been blocking the Ambassador Bridge between Canada with Detroit…
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Voluntarism… Giving back or taking back
Growing up in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood and living among folks that had very high educational skills, it was…
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Kate Hawkins: “The pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on vulnerable women and girls throughout Canada”
Although we live in an era that has evolved immensely since the days of our grandmothers and even mothers, we…
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Money, politics, democracy and skepticism
Michael Bloomberg spent $450 million dollars to advertise his candidacy for the Democratic leadership in the US. In Canada that…
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Dinheiro e Política
Mais um dia e os provedores do medo continuam a descrever um mundo a cair aos pedaços. O nosso mundo…
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Last of more than 100 cats removed from Toronto home now in shelters or adopted
The last of more than 100 cats, including about 20 kittens, recently removed from a Toronto home have been transferred to animal…
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