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Black Lives Matter Sudbury makes final push to defund police ahead of budget deliberations
Sudbury city councillors will soon be finalizing the municipality s 2021 budget, and they re still getting input from some community members on where dollars should and should not be allocated. Members of Black Lives Matter Sudbury are making a final push to encourage them to reduce the city s police budget.
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Posted: Feb 24, 2021 6:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 24
Black Lives Matter Sudbury, a group that formed in mid 2020, is calling on the city to reduce funding for the Greater Sudbury Police Service in 2021. (Supplied/Black Lives Matter Sudbury)
Black Lives Matter organizer wants to see more BIPOC therapists, counsellors in the north
The co-president with Black Lives Matter Sudbury says there needs to be more local BIPOC therapists.
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Posted: Jan 28, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 28
Black Lives Matter Sudbury co-president Ra anaa Brown says there s a severe lack of BIPOC counsellors and therapists in Sudbury. (Casey Stranges CBC)
The co-president of Black Lives Matter Sudbury says there needs to be more local BIPOC therapists.
Ra anaa Brown says there is a gap in the amount and availability of therapists, counsellors or resources, specifically for people of colour.
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It has been a year of upheaval for the Laurentian University community. A time where we survived and thrived, struggled and overcame, where we stood shoulder to shoulder, through the challenges of this truly unique period.
We supported each other through our shared grief with university communities across Canada when Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was shot down over the skies of Tehran in Iran.
We came together in inspired gratitude for our health care workers during the darkest hours of the initial COVID-19 lock-down.
We banded in solidarity during the violent unrest which rocked cities like Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria.