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Posted: Jun 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: June 14 Uniformed police officers have been excluded from participating in Torontos Pride parade since 2017. New documents show Pride Torontos leaders were poised to drop that ban as they sought federal grant money.(Mark Blinch/The Canadian Press) Pride Toronto took in $250,000 of federal grant money to commemorate a contentious milestone in Canadas LGBTQ history with hopes of improving relations with police — even though a majority of its...

Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. April 12, 2021 Awakening I have no memory of my birthplace of Tallinn, Estonia. I was two years old when Red Army busted through the Leningrad Blockade and marched in. The Russians were hardly liberators. They were almost worse than the Nazis. They’d culled the population of Estonia to a million people, and who knows what fate my family would have met had we not fled on one of the last boats out. My earliest memory is the raw, dank smell o...

Print Edition: March 25, 2015 Bill C-51, the proposed Anti-terrorism Act, has been criticized by its opponents as unconstitutional since it was first introduced and read at the House of Commons on January 30. The Conservative Party of Canada calls the bill an extension of existing legislation like the Combatting Terrorism Act and the Nuclear Terrorism Act, and is a step towards better countering terrorist threats. However, the bill is criticized for its use of the phrase “terrorism in genera...