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By R. Blake Brown Guest Contributor The federal government is reportedly preparing to ban assault weapons following the recent mass shooting in Nova Scotia. The man who killed 22 people in the province had illegally stockpiled firearms. Gabriel Wortman’s father said ...

By Beverly Bain, OmiSoore Dryden and Rinaldo Walcott Guest Contributors The claim that COVID-19 and its associated medical and social responses do not discriminate belies the history of how pandemics work and who is most impacted by them. States of emergency show ...

By Andrea Paras Guest Contributor Faith communities play an important role in people’s daily lives. According to the Pew Research Center, 63 per cent of Canadians identify with a religious faith while at least 55 per cent of Canadians report that ...

By Inderveer Mahal Guest Contributor The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed how doctors provide health care. This public health crisis has shifted the paradigm on how Canadians access medical care and has ushered in the new era of telemedicine. Almost overnight, patients ...

By Noah S. Schwartz Guest Contributor The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in gun sales. Estimates based on background checks show that an estimated 2.6 million guns were sold in the United States in March. That is an 85 per ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario April 9, 2020 — For the first time, since its inception, in 1967, almost 53 years ago, the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, formerly known as Caribana, will not be staged, this year. The Board ...

By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Contributor One of the first stories to use race-based data to talk about the risk that Black communities face because of COVID-19 came on March 30 from the Charlotte Observer. The article said Black residents ...

By Richard leBrasseur Guest Contributor In February, a Nova Scotia MP introduced legislation aimed at tackling environmental racism. When it comes to environmental racism, it is essential to understand its long history in Nova Scotia. The African Canadian communities of Preston, ...

Dear Members of the Media: I want to take an opportunity to say thank you, to each and every one of you. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, across the world, you have been working around-the-clock to get the public the ...

By Sharmon Carrington Contributing Writer PEEL, Ontario March 24, 2020 — Guyanese-born Imam Shaykh Imran Ally, who immigrated to Canada in 2000, has recently been recognized for Chaplaincy Services, by the Peel Regional Police (PRP) — third largest municipal police ...