Ontario students are organizing walkouts and protests across the province in the face of major changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP). OSAP, a financial aid program made up of both loans and grants, was created in 1966 following advocacy from students. The program assisted about 440,000 full-time students in the 2023–2024 fiscal year, according to a report from...

"We have a gap in municipal governance," said the mayor of Whitby, Elizabeth Roy, as councillors debated a motion to establish a public registry of third-party consultants used by city councillors. The motion passed unanimously at Monday's town council meeting in hopes of promoting transparency and strengthening public trust in municipal governance. If implemented, Whitby would join Pickering and about...

As 'Market at 70 King' comes up to its two-year anniversary, it could face significant changes. One tenant has already left, there's a recent addition, and others say they're unlikely to renew their leases. The redeveloped mixed-use building, formerly the Genosha Hotel, has space for nine vendors on its first floor, and 86 "really nice luxury apartments" above, explained Richard...

Amid the turmoil of Augusto Pinochet’s “hectic” military dictatorship, a family from Santiago de Chile, parents and three daughters, traded weekends at their grandmother’s small farm and week-long beach camping trips for a new life in Timmins, Ont. Their new home was a town with “very cold, very long winters,” and also experiencing an influx of Chilean migrants arriving to...

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Some audience members say a recent event featuring the Oscar-nominated filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat helped them with their ongoing journey to learn about truth and reconciliation. NoiseCat, 32, presented his new book "We Survived the Night" at the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Dean's Public Lecture at Regent Theatre in downtown Oshawa. Farah Eshraghi and Orquidea Castillo, friends from...

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Critics continue to question the provincial government's $1.3 billion Skills Development Fund (SDF), a fund that saw Durham College (DC) receive almost $800,000 through a contract with FIRST Robotics this year. It is one of three community partners that received funding from the SDF training stream, a provincial grant under scrutiny after a report from the auditor general said the...

A recent bill aimed at ending homelessness in Ontario did not pass in the provincial legislature but its authors hope their recommendations get included in future policies. The bill aimed to establish a provincial strategy to end homelessness within 10 years, as Ontario remains one of the few provinces without such a plan. Instead it has delegated that responsibility to...

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Rising inequality, social unrest and public distrust, among other systemic challenges and socioeconomic crises, are eroding Canada's social fabric and destabilizing communities worldwide. Instead of addressing these inequalities, governments continue to pursue neoliberal economic policies that worsen them. In response, a resurgence of far-right nationalist and populist movements, exemplified by leaders such as Trump, Bolsonaro, Milei, Meloni, and Le Pen,...

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DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS (DtMF) is the sixth studio album by Puerto Rican singer Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, known as Bad Bunny, released under the independent Puerto Rican label Rimas Entertainment. Across 17 tracks and just over an hour, the album delivers a cross-generational revival of Puerto Rican music, spanning reggaetón, salsa, dembow, Latin pop, trap and much more. Production...

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Story by Eva Ritchie and Juan Esteban Suarez CastrillónSharon McIvor has fought for changes to the Indian Act for years. On Tuesday, the member of the Lower Nicola Band in B. C. was at it again. This time, she was one of three women appearing before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples.“We’ve done a lot of talking, lobbying, and...

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