On 27 May, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., reported the discovery of more than 200 remains of children at the site of what once was Canada’s largest residential school. The institution operated from 1890 to 1969, mostly under a Catholic order called the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The federal government then took over and ran it as a day school until it closed in 1978. The recent discovery was made after a government grant allowed the nation to pay for...

The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on pre-existing and growing inequalities within the Canadian job market. The onset of the pandemic in March and April 2020 resulted in a reported loss of more than three million jobs across Canada. According to Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey, Ontario lost 355,300 jobs in 2020, the largest annual loss of employment on record. The province’s annual unemployment rate jumped to 9.6% in 2020, the highest since 1993. In addition to job losses, Ontario’s...

Ahead our Building a Sustainable Toronto: Plans for a Better City by 2030 virtual panel event, we chatted with Jennifer Keesmaat.