On today’s show:
People in dozens of Canadian communities took to the streets in competing protests to voice their opposition or approval on how schools approach Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity education. A piece of history from rural New Brunswick resonates all across Canada and around the world. The book, “Len and Cub: A Queer History,” documenting one of the Maritimes’s earliest same-sex relationships, becomes the talk of the town. In Six Nations in Ontario, the Moment 4 Life Colour Run suicide awareness walk, returns after being put on hold for years. And the housing crisis in Montréal pushes people into poverty and sees students in dire straits.
Thanks to our team of journalists this week, Deya Miller, Mick Sweetman, Jules Bugiel, and Erica Butler. To our national editors Maureen McEwan in Ottawa and Victoria Fenner in northeastern Ontario. Host and producer Boris Chassagne. Viewpoints is brought to you by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.