Toronto Pride should be ashamed

Today’s Toronto Pride ban is damaging an inclusive celebration of diversity. Pride is repeating the very history that it claims to abhor.

Toronto police chief Mark Saunders, pictured. Pride Toronto's decision to ban Toronto police from its Pride Parade is a slap in the face to thousands of law enforcement officials who are courageous enough to march openly in a police environment which is still rife with machismo and homophobia, writes Sheila Copps. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

April 9, 2018

OTTAWA—Toronto Pride should be ashamed. Last week’s misguided decision to deny the Toronto Police Service official participation in the country’s largest gay pride celebration is a blot on Canada’s reputation as an open and inclusive country. It simply repeats the same kind of prejudice th...

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