With inflation on the rise, people across the Greater Toronto Area are facing food insecurity, especially newcomers. This is the case for Mohammad Shafin and Adekunie Adebiyi, two international students who have recently settled in…
The top candidates of Toronto’s 2023 Byelection for Mayor have prioritized affordable housing as a key issue in their campaigning.
With the pandemic increasing people’s stress and anxiety levels, some say we need music more than ever. Some students found solace in online lessons.
The Good Neighbour Project, a volunteer organization that launched in March 2020 to deliver groceries and other necessities to the vulnerable, has helped thousands of people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its volunteers have no intention of stopping.
Providing outreach support to people experiencing homelessness is particularly difficult — yet crucial — during the coronavirus pandemic, according to medical professionals.
The GTA saw the first snow of the season fall over the area the past few days and the OPP reporting more than 400 collisions within 24 hours.
Patrick Sullivan dedicates his life to raising awareness about marginalized people to students and youth in the GTA through his business Bridges for Youth 2. His business, Bridges for Youth 2, operates out of Sanctuary, a church on Charles Street with a unique way of carrying out their mission to help Toronto’s poor.
Toronto is under a severe weather warning, with a winter storm expected to hit by Monday and last into early Wednesday.
A GTA resident says police and social workers have discriminated against her and she wants to see more unity between Black Lives Matter Toronto and the anti-racism directorate.
Cora Reid, a reggae artist from Bowmanville, Ont., spoke Wednesday evening at the provincial government’s anti-racism directorate forum in Scarborough. This was the fourth such meeting facilitated by MPP Michael Coteau, Ontario minister responsible for anti-racism.
Jason Mullis waited patiently for the funeral to end. People paid their respects at a coffin draped with the Canadian flag and with flowers all around the gravesite.
“I knew something was different,” he said, “so I stood there for … hours waiting for everyone to leave.”
That’s when he finally spoke to Denise, the mother of the deceased veteran being buried. Mullis simply wanted to offer his assistance to her. He recognized the difficulties she might have faced as the mother of a former soldier who died by suicide.