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How to fix anti-Black racism ingrained in the TTC

Whether it’s the inferior TTC service in Toronto’s inner suburbs where most Black Torontonians reside or the disproportionate targeting of...

Jamaal Myers

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Practising mindfulness can help us through the coronavirus pandemic

We seem to have mastered the perfect recipe for chaos: a global ecological emergency, humanitarian crises and to top it off, a pandemic of epic...

Kira Jade Cooper

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Grassroots activists must consider the personal costs of digital campaigns

Widespread use of social media has made it easier to mobilize collective action, yet citizen activists struggle to navigate these digital tools and...

Delia Dumitrica

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Finding a place to pee during a pandemic or a protest shouldn't be so hard

In early June in our home city of Guelph, Ont., thousands marched to support the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s murder...

Edith Wilson

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Quand les lapins auront des enfants

S’il y a une institution qui s’est transformée à la vitesse grand V au cours des dernières décennies, c’est bien la famille. Avant, une...

Richard Martineau

Don Quichotte de la révolution

En observant le triste spectacle du vandalisme des statues et des monuments survenu dernièrement un peu partout en Occident, j’ai soudainement...

Léolane Kemner

Pas obligés d’aider le Cirque

Cette semaine, on a pu entendre Daniel Lamarre, PDG du Cirque du Soleil, dire sur plusieurs tribunes que c’était une bonne nouvelle que...

Claude Villeneuve

Blue Jays notebook: Detecting dead particles vital to testing protocol

TORONTO – An oft-touted tenet of Major League Baseball’s health and safety protocol is that any player infected with COVID-19 must produce two...

Shi Davidi

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On ne peut plus ignorer la crise de la justice

Le Projet de justice mondiale classe le Canada au 9e rang sur 128 pays. Mais lorsque l’on exclut la justice pénale, on obtient de moins bons...

Beverley Mclachlin

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Comme un déclic en soi

Au départ, elles devaient partir pour un road trip amusant afin de fuir leur vie banale et leurs conjoints violents. Mais ce périple n’a pas...

Marilyne Levesque

Rethinking the boundaries between economic life and coronavirus death

As governments around the world begin to reopen their borders, it’s clear that efforts to revive the economy are redrawing the lines between who...

Carolyn Prouse

Quand les lapins auront des enfants

S’il y a une institution qui s’est transformée à la vitesse grand V au cours des dernières décennies, c’est bien la famille. Avant, une...

Richard Martineau

Pas obligés d’aider le Cirque

Cette semaine, on a pu entendre Daniel Lamarre, PDG du Cirque du Soleil, dire sur plusieurs tribunes que c’était une bonne nouvelle que...

Claude Villeneuve

Le grand relâchement

Pendant que le Québec vit une « période charnière » dans la lutte contre le coronavirus, où la vigilance est de mise, force est de constater...

Karine Gagnon

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Le grand relâchement

Pendant que le Québec vit une « période charnière » dans la lutte contre le coronavirus, où la vigilance est de mise, force est de constater...

Karine Gagnon

Shree Paradkar: Ottawa trustee censured over treatment of Black teen. Her colleagues want her gone, but they’re powerless to fire her

The case of an Ottawa trustee reprimanded by her colleagues for her conduct with a Black teen shows how even when institutional wheels roll towards...

Shree Paradkar

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Vers la fin de l’idiocratie?

Depuis toujours, je suis fasciné par les États-Unis. Parfois admiratif, parfois choqué, je suis toujours passionné par ce qui se passe au sud de...

Luc Laliberté

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Le Canada a de plus en plus faim

Statistique Canada a confirmé ce que la plupart d’entre nous savaient déjà : le Canada a de plus en plus faim. Selon une enquête menée par...

Sylvain Charlebois

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Why Flames' Valimaki is unlikely to make his return this summer

The chances of Juuso Valimaki being part of the Calgary Flames‘ playoff picture are slim. Even if he’s given a clean bill of health by doctors...

Eric Francis

Pellerin: Some pandemic-parenting tips as the summer unfolds

Congratulations. You’ve reached the beginning of a most unusual summer. And boy, do you need a break. Working from home while helping your kids...

Brigitte Pellerin

As U.S. buys up remdesivir, ‘vaccine nationalism’ threatens access to COVID-19 treatments

At the end of June, the United States government announced that it had secured the entire supply of remdesivir, an antiviral drug that shortens...

Joel Lexchin

Sous le poids de la Chine, Hong Kong suffoque

C’est franchement gros comme rien et – pour nous, Québécois – littéralement à l’autre bout de la planète. Nous pourrions, sans remords,...

Richard Latendresse

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Sous le poids de la Chine, Hong Kong suffoque

C’est franchement gros comme rien et – pour nous, Québécois – littéralement à l’autre bout de la planète. Nous pourrions, sans remords,...

Richard Latendresse

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Shawn Micallef: Winds of change are blowing through policing. Toronto city council finds itself in doldrums of its own making

Instead of forcing Toronto police to change, council asking them to reform themselves based on a report the police have already ignored.

Shawn Micallef

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The Fresh Air Fund: a gift of summer joy

‘The Star’s Fresh Air Fund has been sending children from low-income families to camp since 1901 — and will do so again this year.’

Star Editorial Board

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Mesure alimentaire dans les écoles primaires de Montréal: un soutien essentiel, encore plus en pandémie

Au printemps 2019, de nombreux parents et organismes communautaires de différents quartiers de Montréal se sont mobilisés à la suite de...

Yves Bellavance

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BONOKOSKI: When a name, randomly picked, becomes everyone’s dartboard

Everything was going rather swimmingly last Sunday as I celebrated my (XX) birthday with my wife, both of us still self-isolating as best we can so...

Mark Bonokoski

GUNTER: A leading voice apologizes for the 'climate scare'

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the central character is Winston Smith. At the Ministry of Truth, Smith’s job is to alter archived...

Lorne Gunter

FUREY: When it comes to renaming controversies in Canada, here's an idea

For the longest time I had never stopped to read the historical plaque in downtown Toronto I passed by almost daily on my way from my home to the...

Anthony Furey

MALCOLM: July 1 - the day we celebrate our unique achievements and proud history

It was disappointing to go onto social media on Wednesday to see various campaigns trying to smear our great country on its national holiday....

Candice Malcolm

MALCOLM: July 1 - the day we celebrate our unique achievements and proud history

It was disappointing to go onto social media on Wednesday to see various campaigns trying to smear our great country on its national holiday....

Candice Malcolm

Nicolas Fontaine : le legs d'un père

RDS.ca vous propose une série de rencontres avec des athlètes québécois qui ont marqué l’histoire de leur sport à leur façon. Que font...

Jean-Luc Legendre

On road to 2021 draft, Raty unfazed by historic chance

SPORTSCENTRE Reporter Follow | Archive Kaapo Kakko (2019), Patrik Laine (2016), Aleksander Barkov (2013) and Kari Lehtonen (2002) have all been...

Mark Masters

ELDER: Random thoughts while not out 'protesting'

At a time in America when one’s race has never been less important, the left has taught an entire generation of the most privileged Americans ever...

Larry Elder

Ottawa trustee censured over treatment of Black teen. Her colleagues want her gone, but they’re powerless to fire her

In a rare instance of an institution disrupting the status quo, trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) crossed out a third-...

Shree Paradkar

LETTER: Judges’ pay resolution: 'the world has changed”'

The Liberal government is sleepwalking through the current fiscal and economic crisis. During the June sitting, Justice Minister Andrew Parsons...

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All-Out Assault on Hong Kong—Benedict Rogers on Communist China’s Hong Kong Security Law

By Epoch Times -- Jan Jekielek—— Bio and Archives--July 5, 2020 World | Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us Just what does the...

Epoch Times

B.C.’s education system no hotbed of systemic racism

Ian Cameron A commentary by a retired educator. A recent story (“Four years later, family learned name of officer in killing,” June 21) quoted...

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Blemished but not broken

By Rolf Yungclas —— Bio and Archives--July 4, 2020 American Politics, News, Opinion | Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us We are at...

Rolf Yungclas

Ode to Karen: New Villain in the Covid Fear Pandemic

By Daniel Wiseman —— Bio and Archives--July 3, 2020 American Politics, News, Opinion | Comments | Reader Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us Karen,...

Daniel Wiseman

TAYLOR: Canadian Rangers on front line in war against COVID-19

The Canadian Rangers have been around for a long time. They were established during the Second World World when 10,000 were recruited. They were...

Gilbert Taylor

CHAUDHRI: Walking the 'gig economy' tightrope

The gig economy as we know it is reinventing itself. The June 26, 2020 decision released by the Supreme Court of Canada allows Uber drivers the...

Sunira Chaudhri

ELDER: Random thoughts while not out 'protesting'

At a time in America when one’s race has never been less important, the left has taught an entire generation of the most privileged Americans ever...

Larry Elder

Allison Hanes: Rolling up welcome mat an unfortunate consequence of COVID-19

After a long spring of hunkering down at home, Montrealers are eager to deconfine and make the best of a summer like no other. For many, this will...

Allison Hanes

LANE: Pallister loses control

Having wrested government from Selinger’s NDP death grip in the 2016 PC landslide election, and then holding it in a shockingly early 2019...

Graham Lane

Dana Larsen: Toronto cops barrage fellow officers with porn and abuse

This is the second in a series of articles looking at the culture of sexual harassment and intimidation within Canadian police forces. As debate...

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‘Presentism’ denies history’s ugly realities

‘Presentism” is the practice of applying 2020 cultural expectations and values to some 18th- or 19th-century events we’d rather forget....

Geoff Johnson

Coming-of-age tale a good reminder of paying ...

A coming-of-age tale (thankfully not mine) that nearly ended in disaster. For a couple of years in my late teens, I had a summer job at an...

Lawrie Mcfarlane