By Yvonne Sam PRIDE Guest Columnist Lyrics to a song made famous by the Carpenters, “We’ve only just begun”, run thus, “sharing horizons that are new to us, watching the signs along the way”. How applicable are these words to ...
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Suck Salt By Lorna King PRIDE Poet for you I reserved a place, completely yours till you poisoned me. Gave me stories filled with mines; offered me guarantees which froze in the cold icy winter; melted in the summer; then ...
Read More »Reparations For African Canadians: The Dirty Words We Are Not Supposed To Utter
By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist Imagine for a moment you are a long distance runner about to run a marathon. You and the other runners, from all around the world, are at the starting line waiting to begin. Just ...
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CARDING By Lorna King Version one; Botha a card designed to attach itself to your history a thread from the street, a people in the wrong place at the wrong time version one; apartheid managed movements leading to spying, ...
Read More »Black Lives Matter Toronto Solidifies Support For Somali Canadians
By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist It was standing room only, after the Black Lives Matter Toronto (BLMTO) chapter filled every seat in Toronto’s Ryerson University Student Campus Center, earlier this month, on Friday, August 5. BLMTO hosted a Prayer ...
Read More »Lack Of Racial Diversity At Ontario’s Judicial Misconduct Bodies — Part 2: The Justices of The Peace Review Council
By Ernest Guiste PRIDE Guest Columnist If the government of Ontario is serious about combating racism and systemic discrimination, one of the first, and most effective, steps in this direction is to review the staffing and operation of its agencies ...
Read More »Lack Of Racial Diversity At Ontario’s Judicial Misconduct Bodies: The Ontario Judicial Council
By Ernest Guiste PRIDE Guest Columnist As the government of Ontario embarks on yet another public consultation process on the lamentable problem of racial discrimination and inequality, I thought I would highlight an area of the administration of justice where ...
Read More »Racists Hate Trump Too: The Myth Of Oppression In Canada
By Lamoi PRIDE Columnist I remember the first time I fell in love with the idea of being the loud-mouthed audience member on a talk show, was while watching Jerry Springer—the early 90s digestible real world issues Jerry Springer, not ...
Read More »Dear Mr. Prime Minister, When Can African Canadians Expect To Receive An Apology For Slavery?
By Mark Brown PRIDE Guest Columnist Chinese head tax, Indigenous residential schools, South Asian Komagata Maru incident. These are some of the apologies given by current and previous federal governments for historical injustices done to Canadians because of their race, ...
Read More »The Struggle For Admission By Women And African-Canadians In Ontario’s Legal Profession
By Ernest Guiste Guest Columnist The Province of Ontario was established in 1867. Prior to this time, the area of land now known as Ontario was initially known as Upper Canada which was a British Colony. In what was Upper ...
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