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Conservative's bill would boost power to MPs
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Bail denied for accused in alleged VIA terror plot
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Workers Action Centre demands equal pay rights for temps
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Federal government seeks firm to ‘monitor’ social media content
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Allow Mountie to smoke medical pot in uniform, advocate says
RCLC: Cpl. Ronald Francis was stripped of his uniform and placed on medical leave Thursday. Francis smokes marijuana to cope with PTSD which he says results from policing the Kingsclear First Nation, his community.
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Playing with words: Language key to G20 spying, says civil-liberties group
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Suspension reduced for “uncivil” Toronto lawyer
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Advocacy lessons from American race politics for Canada
“It is eerie and unsettling to hear the same issues in country after country. It lifts our common challenges in ways that are sobering,”
Angela Glover Blackwell said, after listening to each person’s introduction.
Squeezed into an early morning session, the walls at the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) were lined with people from the non-profit sector and advocacy groups, funders and even a former Cabinet Minister, all concerned with racial equity. The Colour of Poverty/Colour of Change had invited us to hear Blackwell, Founder and CEO at PolicyLink, and Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California, both speaking at a recent conference in Toronto, and here to share lessons on how to advance the equity policy agenda.
“We need to continue to look for ways to capture the weary, to inspire those with goodness in their heart,” Blackwell explained.
“There is an…
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