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Colour of Change Network – to help us best profile the key issues and concerns impacting racialized groups and other historically disadvantaged equity-seeking communities in Toronto – please help us best promote the upcoming Toronto Mayoral Debate on Equity Issues – set for the evening of Tuesday September 14, 2010 – please spread the word, generate interest and get people out to the debate !!

ALSO – the final questions to be posed to the Candidates in the debate will be partially selected by votes cast on the website as below – and we will also be selecting questions – picked by a carefully selected panel – at the debate itself !!

Again – please help forward this email to your networks – thanks in advance – michael

Keynote Speaker – Hamlin Grange
Mayoral Debate – Building a Fair Toronto for All
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – from 7.00pm – 9.00pm
Moderator – John Tory

Innis Town Hall ( 2 Sussex Ave, University of Toronto, St. George Campus – just south of the St. George St. entrance to the St. George Subway Station – at the northwest corner of St. George St. and Sussex Ave. )

· How can all Torontonians have a say in how city hall makes decisions?
· How can we tackle the growing divide between the have and have-nots in our city?
· What’s the plan for creating good jobs for all – including good public sector jobs and good green jobs?
· What is the plan to ensure we all have access to good public services – such as childcare, public transit, affordable housing and policing services?

Find out where our mayoral candidates stand on building a fair city, and ensuring good public services and good jobs are available to all
Make an informed choice when you vote for Toronto’s Mayor this October 25 !!

Help us choose questions

Submit your question for Toronto’s new Mayor

A joint initiative of Equity Toronto, Good Jobs for ALL and many other partners.

http://www.EQUITYTORONTO.org

http://www.GOODJOBSFORALL.ca

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119355954782111&ref=ts.com

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michael kerr
Coordinator, Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change

The problem persists around the world – and it’s also an urgent reason to fear our own government

Gerald Caplan (The Globe and Mail)

Twelve girls and women have been murdered by family members in Canada since 2002; these grisly deaths, perversely known as honour killings, have all taken place in certain minority communities. But these minorities have no monopoly on such savage brutality. In Ontario alone between 2002 and 2007, 202 women were murdered by their partners, an astonishing average of 42 each year.

These appalling statistics were the basis of my column last week on violence against women in Canada, which discouraged a number of readers who have long been engaged in the struggle to end this horror. What they rightly pointed out is how long this battle has been raging, and yet how widespread the phenomenon remains throughout the world. Read more…

(from the CERIS listserv)

Dear TIEDI partners,

Many of you will have read about the federal government’s plan to convert the ‘long form’ of the 2011 census into a voluntary survey, thereby significantly affecting the quality of social data that will be available in the years ahead. I won’t elaborate on the reasons why this is a bad idea – there have been many articles in the press over the last few days that make a variety of points. Here are a few, in case you haven’t seen them already: Read more…

A very successful forum was organised by three community-based trade union organisations. The Asian Canadian Labour Alliance (ACLA), Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) and the Latin American Trade Unionists Coalition (LATUC) held a racialised municipal candidates’ forum to talk about issues important to people of colour and communities of colour. Invited guests were Kristyn Wong-Tam, Karen Sun, Neethan Shan, and Cadigia Ali.

The forum was opened by Janice Gairey, President of CBTU Ontario, and then the framework for the evening was laid by Jojo Geronimo, of ACLA. The panel was moderated by Pablo Godoy of LATUC.

Questions asked of the candidates can be seen in one of the photos posted on Flickr.

All photos can be seen here:

ACLA – www.aclaontario.ca
CBTU – www.cbtu.ca
LATUC – www.sindicalistas.ca