Toronto school board becomes first in Canada to recognise caste discrimination
Reuters Toronto’s school board has become the first in Canada to recognise that caste discrimination exists in the city’s schools and has asked a provincial human rights body to help in creating a framework to address the issue. The Toronto District School Board on Wednesday voted in favour of a motion to that effect, which […]
Bruxy Cavey, Canadian megachurch pastor, resigns after sexual misconduct probe
RNS The pastor of one of Canada’s largest churches was forced to resign after an independent investigation found evidence of his sexual misconduct. Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with some 5,000 people attending 19 campuses in the larger Toronto metropolitan area, was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman who […]
Why the Latin American community in Toronto has been hit hard by COVID
Toronto, CanadaReuters In a pandemic that has hit marginalised people hardest, Latin Americans in Canada’s largest urban area have been particularly at risk: They’re more likely to be hospitalised with COVID-19 than any other ethnoracial group, according to the most recent data available from the city of Toronto. They work front-line jobs, live in often […]
Housing affordability: On Canada’s east coast, COVID-19 fight brings pricier homes
MATTHEW LAVIETES, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the rising cost of housing in what has traditionally been a poor region of Canada…
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ESSAY: AIR INDIA ANNIVERSARY – WHO REMEMBERS THE CHILDREN KILLED IN CANADA’S LARGEST MASS MURDER?
CHANDRIMA CHAKRABORTY, of McMaster University in Canada, writes about a plane bombing, the worst terrorist act in Canadian history, which, he says, is little known even in Canada…
LIFESTORY: CANADA’S DREW MARSHALL, “RAW AND REAL” CHRISTIAN RADIO HOST, ENDS HIS 16 YEAR RUN
JOHN LONGHURST, writing for Religion News Service, speaks with Canadian radio host Drew Marshall…
Lodging for spouses becomes Anglicans’ latest battleground over LGBT clergy
LondonRNS A British university that customarily houses those attending the Anglican Communion’s worldwide gathering of bishops is welcoming same-sex clergy couples to stay on campus despite the Archbishop of Canterbury’s attempt to ban gay and lesbian bishops’ spouses from the 2020 Lambeth Conference. For years the issue of homosexuality and how the Church of England […]
This week’s parliament of religions is more than a big ‘pat on the back’ for faith
Toronto, CanadaRNS With its theme of “The Promise of Inclusion, the Power of Love,” and its focus on global understanding, the seventh Parliament of the World’s Religions could hardly have picked a more inclusive spot than Toronto, Canada’s largest city. The more than 8,000 people expected from 80 countries in this weeklong gathering will hardly stand out […]
Updated: Death toll rises to 10 in Toronto after van mows down pedestrians
Updated: 1pm, 24th April, 2018Ten people have been killed and at least 15 more injured after a van ploughed into pedestrians at high speed in the Canadian city of Toronto on Monday afternoon. A 25-year-old male suspect was later arrested and the van located. The incident took place about 1.30pm on Monday afternoon when the […]