Ahmed Hussen, the minister of housing, diversity and inclusion, made the announcement during a news conference Friday morning, saying the funding will be given to the BlackNorth Homeownership Bridge Program in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Toronto.
The Big Smoke comes with a big price tag for home. In fact, a new study shows Toronto became Canada’s most expensive housing market last month, a new report from RBC Economics shows.
Downtown Toronto is now being locked down by farmers. The workers of the world are uniting – just not in the way the globalists hoped. pic.twitter.com/WFyvyLOmb7
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 4, 2022
The U.S. charity that serves as the face of the BLM movement provided the bulk of the funding for the purchase of the 10,000-square-foot property in July. The purchase flew largely under the radar at the time, but anger has now reached a boiling point amid other revelations about BLM’s management and its finances.
Canada’s largest school board is pushing to make mandatory vaccination a condition of returning to the classroom on Jan. 17.
In less than an hour on Thursday, Toronto District School Board trustees voted 13-4 to have the COVID-19 vaccine made compulsory under the Immunization of School Pupils Act.
As the calendar nears 2022, mystery surrounding the deaths of Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman will enter its fifth year without a single suspect.
It was early in 2021 that additional information was published by Canadian media, though not detailed enough to reveal potential suspects.
Barry Sherman, founder and chairman of the board of drug giant Apotex, and his wife Honey Sherman, were found dead in the basement area of their home in Toronto’s North York neighbourhood on Dec. 15, 2017. The cause of death was determined by investigators to be caused by ligature neck compressions, a type of strangulation.
An unvaccinated Toronto paramedic who has been a first responder for 23 years warned in an interview with True North that vaccine mandates are having negative impacts on first responders in the city.
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has banned a plethora of European children’s literature and destroyed 5,000 books for being “offensive.”
As reported by the National Post, some 30 books were burned for “educational purposes” and then the ashes were used as fertilizer to plant a tree.
The service says it’s been inundated with complaints from a group of teachers that argue the requirement to prove vaccination at the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic District School Board is tantamount to extortion — and asking that the reports stop.
Between a real estate market pricing people out of contention and job losses resulting from lockdowns, an already crisis-level of homelessness in Toronto is only growing worse.
Some refugees say the multiple moves are disrupting connections they’re building in the local community and creating instability for children who have to change schools as a result of the relocations.
Tipis designed by Indigenous artists and youth will again transform Nathan Phillips Square. Both days will begin with a sunrise ceremony, followed by featured speakers and presentations. Evening programming will feature special entertainment each night. All programming and workshops are family-friendly, safe, and free to the public.
The gathering will also promote the Spirit Garden as a permanent structure responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Call to Action 82. The Spirit Garden will honour residential school survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities. The spirit garden is set to be completed in 2023. More information is available online.
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The city had given its almost 32,000 active employees until Sept. 17 to disclose their vaccination status. That was extended until end of day Sunday, with the deadline for proof of double vaccination now Nov. 15.
Parents of elementary school children in Toronto are expressing concern after their children were asked not to speak during lunch in an effort to curb transmission of COVID-19.
The single-minded officials in charge of combatting black racism at the city of Toronto have used the pandemic as an excuse to put together a special food plan for the city’s black families.
