Society

During COVID-19, these local musicians are putting their vans to good use — and helping out clients of Breakaway Addiction Services.

OPINION: Grim conditions and fatality rates reveal the devastating mistake Ontario has made in allowing homes to be treated as financial assets for investor gain.

The lead pastor with Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga was terminated last week. The reason? She came out as a transgender woman.

COVID-19 has hit the tourism industry hard. Will more Ontario developers consider turning hotels into homes?

OPINION: Hostile and even racist encounters have been an ongoing part of my health-care journey. Solutions will require long-term efforts — but the stakes are never higher than when patients are alone, in pain, and more vulnerable than ever.

OPINION: I teach at the same Toronto middle school I once attended as a student — and I’ve learned cold, hard, and ugly truths about how racism operates in the education system.

OPINION: In a workplace historically designed for cis white men, the best solution may be to create our own financial independence.

Across Ontario, public-health units are not only battling COVID-19 — but also advocating for a new post-pandemic normal.

OPINION: Critics say progressives are clamping down on free speech and stifling open discussion. But many of those critics have done the same thing.

The pandemic has made more people aware of how few places there are to go — and advocates say it’s time to embrace bathrooms as public-health infrastructure.

I made some progress last week in my mission to promote respectful discussion online. Here’s how.

Roundtables. Liaison. Community consultations. The city is developing a strategy — but activists say they’re not seeing quick and decisive action.

TVO.org speaks with David Gratzer of CAMH about policing, de-escalation, wellness checks, and how to change the system after decades of neglect.