Tag Archives: Diverse

Kelsey Verzotti was once told by a teacher she might never play Anne Shirley at the Charlottetown Festival because she’s not white. Hearing that was a pivotal moment in her young career, Verzotti says. “Oh I can’t be in a show because of the way I look? Because of my race and my culture?” …

Premier Doug Ford will create a larger cabinet that better reflects Ontario’s diversity and puts his own stamp on government more firmly than he did four years ago, according to Progressive Conservative insiders. Forming a cabinet will be job No. 1 for Ford in the wake of his re-election to …

A study that analyzed 31,845 tickets issued for public health violations by Quebec police during the first 15 months of the pandemic found there was a higher concentration of fines in some of Montreal’s more diverse neighbourhoods. The total number of fines tops $50 million provincewide and nearly 50 per cent …

Gender identity—a person’s internal sense of being a boy, girl, neither, or both—begins to develop in early childhood around age 2-4 years and may evolve over time, with a more developed sense of gender identity usually emerging in adolescence. Gender identity is different from sexual orientation, which is defined as …