Adoptees of Sixties Scoop tell their stories
Thousands of indigenous children across Canada were taken from their homes and adopted into white families during the Sixties Scoop.
Duane Morrisseau-Beck, Colleen Cardinal, Leslie Noganosh, Shaun Ladue and Tealey Normandin tell their stories at the Indigenous Adoptee Gathering along the Rideau river in Kemptville, Ontario on August 25, 2015.
This video is from a 2015 story featured in the Star. Read more:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/11/02/indigenous-children-removed-from-homes-in-the-1960s-just-now-beginning-to-heal.html
For an update on the Sixties Scoop settlement click here:
https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/08/30/the-deadline-to-file-for-the-sixties-scoop-settlement-is-an-outrage.html
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October 15, 2019
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Surveillance video of dramatic police chase and arrest
Kareemallah Muhammad fired a single shot up Parliament Street then fled by car with three others. This footage shows the police pursuit and arrest, on May 28, 2018. He and three others have since pleaded guilty in connection to the incident, which was captured by a combination of surveillance cameras and police in-car cameras.
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October 15, 2019
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Andrew Scheer and the fading dimples strategy | Opinion
Itâs no big deal, said Andrew Scheer about whether he was a fully deputized insurance broker, or has dual citizenship. But the deal, Iâd say, was that they undermined the dimples factor.
Heâs basically been running on them. Anything he said that might seem aggressive- like liar, fraud fake- would sound harsh from Stephen Harper. Scheerâs dimples have simply swallowed them up. He was like Sweetface in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
His core message wasnât, Iâm gonna put more money in your pocket. It was, Nothing offensive here. But the dimples barrier was showing cracks, even before the debate.
If dual citizenshipâs no big deal, why did he attack Michaelle Jean over it while not mentioning his own? No big dealâs the kind of thing Trump says. Itâs a classic micro-aggression: a hostile shrug. Same for, Because I was never asked about it- like a kid whoâs been caught. Suddenly the dimples started looking shifty. I didnât know they could. Hugh Grantâs never do. Or do they?
Iâm not sure he has another gear beyond the dimples. They worked well. They soften his scarier positions like climate change, which is a real joke: sell Canadian greenhouse gas technologies to other countries and claim their reductions as our own. Somebody thought that up late at night. But when the dimples start looking shifty, so do those policies.
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October 08, 2019
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How police wiretaps embroiled Rob Ford
Now that the case against Sandro Lisi is over, the Star can reveal evidence including wiretaps compiled by police in Project Traveller, an investigation into Toronto gangs that came to involve then-mayor Rob Ford.
This video was produced in June 2016 and has not been updated. For more on Rob Ford visit:
https://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/robford.html
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October 04, 2019
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Teachers and students at a New Zealand schools on the importance of connecting with their culture
Flaxmere College saw academic achievements skyrocket once it adopted Te Kotahitanga principles. Part of the Toronto Star's Atkinson series on Education without oppression.
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October 02, 2019
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What's the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats? We break it down
Scientists remain divided about the health impacts of saturated fat. The Star looked at the governmentâs best evidence underpinning its advice on fat and found some of these key scientific studies have flaws and were funded by the food industry. To read the story, visit thestar.com/foodguide
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September 25, 2019
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How this school in India is empowering girls
The Prerna Girlsâ School in Lucknow, India is helping its 1,000 female students defy the odds to become authors of their self-rescue from hauntingly marginalized lives at the intersections of gender, caste and extreme poverty. Part of the Atkinson Series on Education Without Oppression.
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September 26, 2019
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Maxime Bernier sits down with Toronto Star editorial board
The Starâs editorial board meets with Maxime Bernier, leader of the Peopleâs Party of Canada, to talk about the upcoming Canadian federal election.
October 02, 2019
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September 26, 2019
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What is Destination Ontario?
International studetns who arrived in late August at âs Pearson were greeted by Destination Ontario kiosks set up by post-secondary schools and municipalities to provide guidance.
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October 02, 2019
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How to rent an electric scooter with your phone
Bird, the international electric scooter sharing service, launched free rides near and in the Distillery District on Thursday in hopes of building support that will lead to government position to operate across the city starting next spring.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/09/06/e-scooter-operator-hopes-limited-rollout-will-go-citywide.html
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September 05, 2019
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About the 2018-19 Atkinson Series
Education Without Oppression â the 2018-19 Atkinson series â examines the continuing marginalization of Black and Indigenous students in Canada. It analyzes the challenges and breakthroughs nationally and in the cities of Baltimore, Md.; Lucknow, India; and Napier, New Zealand.
Read the stories at thestar.com/atkinson2019
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September 05, 2019
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with Star about Canada's middle class
Justin Trudeau speaks with Star journalists about the middle class.
September 05, 2019
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Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer speaks with the Star about the future of young families
Andrew Scheer, leader of the federal Conservative Party, sits down with the Star editorial board and senior journalists for a conversation about the future of young families.
September 04, 2019
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At this school, kids get a lesson in mindfulness
Colin attends a mindfulness session after being disruptive in class. He knows heâs not in trouble and the session prepares him to return to the classroom at Robert W. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore.
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September 26, 2019
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Learning and 'having a great time doing it'
City Springs Elementary School in Baltimore takes students up to Grade 8. It has a full-time community co-ordinator that helps arrange partnerships to benefit the school.
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September 26, 2019
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She's a 'principal's dream'
Bertha Knight is a community coordinator at Robert W. Coleman school in Baltimore. She arranges partnerships with businesses to benefit the school.
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September 26, 2019
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The brilliant plot behind that awful NFL game in Winnipeg | Opinion
What a disaster that NFL exhibition game in Winnipeg between the Raiders and Packers was. Or was it? it shouldâve been a huge humiliation. Our fields are longer and wider than theirs but this one was in such rough shape, they had to shorten it to 80 yards to find decent turf. That is totally unheard of. It meant cancelling kickoffs. Star quarterback Aaron Rodgers never stepped onto the field. Fans said they felt ripped off. The players were befuddled.
But wait. Think what was at stake. Canadian football is a national icon. It developed parallel to the US game but independently- with more room, fewer downs, so thereâs more passing, a more exciting kicking element: itâs less robotic. Itâs our version of a game they also love. Canadian football exists for only one reason: because Canada does.
But thereâve always been wannabe Americans like Paul Godfrey who schemed to bring the NFL here so we could be like them- and who were blocked by proud Canadians like John Tory, who had his finest hour in the 1990s when he helped save the CFL. I see Winnipeg as another moment in that drama of national survival.
So what really happened? I picture people saying to each other as the Raiders and Packers landed: OK everybody, play dumb and incompetent till they leave. When the Americans finally flew out wondering why theyâd bothered, it was high-fives all around. They wonât be back anytime soon looking to plant their football flag here.
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August 27, 2019
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Yorkville 1966
Listen to Toronto Star reporter Wendy Darroch's full story on Yorkville and its frequenters from 1966 with photos by Reg Innell.
Yorkville--a city within a city--a way of life! Two long blocks where teenagers wander ... the lively, the lonely, the lost.
Where the discipline of parents, the strain of formal education and the hypocrisies of an adult world are discussed , chewed, rebelled against. Inhibitions are shaken like a winter coat in springtime. You can see it in their faces, the way they talk. their manner of walking.
Huddled in groups, or alone on a corner, they come to seek refuge from the worries of an atomic age, on streets clustered with elegant boutiques, elaborate restaurants and coffee houses.
There are the 'Mods' and the 'Rockers.' The âmods' in skirts above their knees teamed with lacy stockings, open shoes and free-swinging hair. Or others in the latest bell-bottom trousers. brilliant in colour, fetching.
The 'Rockers' in boots or bare feel, heavy sweaters, jeans, beards, leather jackets. Their hair is long, it's difficult to tell the girls from the boys, it's 'beat.'
But regardless of garb they have wound their way to Yorkville for the same reasons. They are the restless ones, the angry ones.
In a world where standards are changing, principles and morals are disintegrating, they are confused, they don't know where to turn.
So they turn to the Village, to their own kind. Hour upon hour they sip coffee, lick ice cream and talk. Sometimes they just stare into space. They stand and wait, but they don't know what for.
Someone strums a guitar , another sings. They write poetry, some dabble in paint. Some are in love, they sit and hold hands, talk and wonder. Others are disenchanted, bitter, bewildered.
But it is here they can meet on common ground. They share the same problems, the same lust for independence, the urge to be heard. It is here they find understanding, a common bond.
For this is Yorkville--a city within a city--a way of life.
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https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/08/26/a-look-at-torontos-yorkville-neighbourhood-when-it-was-the-home-of-the-hippies.html
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August 27, 2019
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Police investigating âextremely dangerousâ viral video of young man tossing traffic sign onto QEW
Police investigating âextremely dangerousâ viral video showing young man tossing traffic sign onto QEW.
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August 23, 2019
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#StarCampusVotes: Housing is a pretty important issue to me because it's so expensive I might never be able to move out... yeah especially as university students living downtown, and commute is really tough. â Sarah Shep, 19, Morgan Gerard, 19, at Ryerson University
Share your own videos social@torstar.ca | đ¸: Sahar Fatima
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#StarCampusVotes: Making education more affordable for everyone because education is such an important aspect in my life and also so many people's lives especially if they want to make a difference in the world. â Gurreet Bhandal, 19 physiology, education at University of Alberta.
For the first time, milllennials will make up the largest voting bloc in Canada. We're asking post-secondary students about what's most important to them in this election. Send your own videos to social@torstar.ca đ¸: @hamdiissawi
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#StarCampusVotes: I'm very passionate about women's access to reproductive rights and abortion because abortion is healthcare and it's a basic human right. â Cassandra Burbine, 18, first year student, Bachelor of Arts, University of Kingâs College
Share your own videos with us at social@torstar.ca đĽ: Julia-Simone Rutgers and Yvette dâEntremont
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An environmental group called Extinction Rebellion shut down the Bloor Street Viaduct this morning. The protesters say it's to show that major disruptions are inevitable if society fails to act on climate change. |đ¸: Andrew Francis Wallace
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Nuit Blanche â Torontoâs annual sunset-to-sunrise art show â returned Saturday night and early Sunday morning to showcase nearly 90 installations from more than 300 artists. Visit the link in the bio for more. | đˇ by @steverussell
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#StarCampusVotes â What topics are most important to students across Canada ahead of the federal election? Homelessness. I've had a lot of family members go through that. â Christian Herrera, 4th year in Business, marketing at @ucalgary đ¸: Amy Tucker
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#StarCampusVotes: âWhatever support we can get from the federal government to help first time homebuyers to purchase homes and to be able to compete with this ridiculous market we have in Vancouver.â Across Canada weâre asking post-secondary students about the issues they care about for #elxn43. This is what @kia_teimouri from @universityofbc had to say. đˇ: @tessavikander
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Millennials and Gen Z are the biggest voting bloc in #elxn43. In our new series, #starcampusvotes we asked post-secondary students across the country to share the main issues they believe in. From female reproductive rights to electoral reform to the climate crisis, hereâs what they had to say. Share your own videos by tagging #StarCampusVote to potentially get featured.
First up, Alondra Umana, 19, at @ualberta. Swipe through to hear their story. đˇ: @hamdiissawi
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Itâs an extreme makeover no one really wanted.
A bungled improvement project in a laneway near Ossington Street and Queen Street West has left more than 20 garages that were once brightly painted with local street art blackened over â and some angry neighbours and artists.
For the full story, visit www.thestar.com
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Inspired by @gretathunberg Canadians across the country took part in the #climatestrike. These are scenes from the large crowd marching in downtown Toronto. Read the latest on thestar.com | đ¸: Rick Madonik / The Star
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âThe planet is getting hotter than @tchalamet !â Across Canada, students are taking part in the #climatestrike and these kids arenât playinâ. Follow along live by clicking the link in our bio. | đ¸: Sahar Fatima / @sahar_fatima / a Toronto Star
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As the @ttcinsta gets ready to retire the last of its older model streetcars, a group of artists is ensuring at least one of the creaking vehicles goes out in style.
Thanks to an art project orchestrated by a local charity called CityFund, the Toronto Transit Commission will unveil one of its iconic Canadian Light Rail Vehicles (CLRVs) with an eye-popping new look later this week.
The revamped rail car, which the TTC plans to put into regular service until the CLRV fleet is decommissioned at the end of the year, will be hard to miss.
Read the full story by Ben Spurr at thestar.com. đ¸: @rlautens
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