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By Stephen Weir Guest Contributor HAMILTON, Ontario (Friday, September 17, 2021) — A new peer-reviewed study — by Canadian researcher and professor, Dr. Krissy Doyle-Thomas, titled, “Investigating Sensory Response to Physical Discomfort in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using Near-Infrared ...

By Lincoln DePradine Guest Contributor TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, September 2,2021) — A call was made, by a group of Black health professionals, for the conducting of a “systematic public health education campaign’’, focusing on Black residents of Toronto, and other ...

By Brian Budd Guest Contributor After Justin Trudeau triggered what will surely be one of the most unique elections in Canadian history, candidates across the country are campaigning against the backdrop of COVID-19. Trudeau and the Liberals are hoping to ...

By Alex Marland Guest Contributor The claim: Justin Trudeau says that the 2021 Canadian federal election might be the most important election since 1945. The verdict: This election is important for Trudeau’s political legacy. All political leaders, particularly heads of ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Hogan’s Alley was Vancouver’s first major Black community and continued to grow, as Black immigrants escaped from the United States. According to Wayde Compton, a Black Canadian writer and historian, “there has been a Black ...

By Ingrid Waldron and Juliet Daniel Guest Contributors In the 1940s, the town of Shelburne, N.S., became home to a new garbage dump. Residential, industrial and medical waste from throughout eastern Shelburne County was burned at the dump over the decades, ...

By Stephen Weir Contributing Writer TORONTO, Ontario — A provincial private members Bill — to proclaim Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Day and Thalassemia Awareness Day — received rare Royal Assent, earlier this month, just in time to honour this year’s ...

TORONTO, Ontario — The Board of Directors of the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) has hired Moya Teklu as the legal clinic’s new Executive Director and General Counsel. Teklu has a long history of working to eradicate anti-Black racism in ...

YORK REGION, Ontario — Educator, Darcie Sutherland, was appointed, two weeks ago, as Principal of Inclusive School and Community Services, with responsibility for coordinating the implementation of the York Region District School Board’s (YRDSB) Dismantling Anti-Black Racism Strategy (DABRS). A ...

By Neil Armstrong Contributing Writer BRAMPTON, Ontario — Overjoyed! That is the feeling of many African Canadians — who were following the Ontario Judicial Council hearing into four allegations of misconduct, against Justice Donald McLeod — when they heard that ...