Protesters across Canada this weekend joined those south of the border in standing up against police brutality in the wake of the death of a young Black woman in Toronto.
Uniformed police officers have been indefinitely barred from participating in Toronto's Pride Parade after a close vote that Pride Toronto said showed a deep division within the city's LGBTQ community.
As Toronto's annual Pride parade wound through the city's core on Sunday, June 24, 2018, the streets might have been their usual sea of colour, but at moments, a heaviness hung in the air.
A unique bookstore that celebrates and honours artists of colour has just opened in Montreal, where many youth feel underrepresented in Quebec's cultural world.
Toronto's Pride parade began on Sunday, June 26, 2017, under cloudy skies with sporadic rain amid debate over whether this year's event took a step back in terms of inclusiveness.
The union representing Toronto's police officers is urging the city to pull an annual grant to Canada's largest Pride parade after the event banned police floats.
A Toronto city councillor is calling for certain funding to be cut for the city's Pride parade after the event banned police floats from future festivities.