Friends and family mourn victim of Dartmouth fire
Ron Dunphy died on Friday after a fire destroyed the Dartmouth home he shared with his partner. As Preston Mulligan reports, Dunphy's brother says he played a pivotal role in the early days of the Pride movement in Halifax.
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- Toronto Sun
Republican lawmakers rip Sesame Street for Pride post
'This is evil and should infuriate every parent in America. DEFUND,' Congresswoman Mary Miller posted Diane Sawyer attends the 2025 Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Photo by Theo Wargo / Getty Images Republican lawmakers have renewed their efforts to defund PBS following a Sesame Street social media post that celebrated the beginning of Pride month. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account 'On our street, everyone is welcome,' the long-running children's show wrote Sunday on X. 'Together, let's build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy #PrideMonth!' The post included an illustration featuring the arms of Sesame Street characters holding hands and arranged in a rainbow of colours. It went viral and had been viewed more than 25 million times as of Wednesday afternoon. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Republicans criticized the post for being 'woke' and called for the public broadcaster to be defunded. 'PBS is shamelessly grooming our children while collecting taxpayer dollars,' Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois wrote Monday. 'This is evil and should infuriate every parent in America. DEFUND!' PBS is shamelessly grooming our children while collecting taxpayer dollars. This is evil and should infuriate every parent in America. DEFUND!! — Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) June 2, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In a subsequent post Tuesday, Miller reiterated her call for the cancellation of funds going to PBS and NPR. 'The woke mob is coming for our kids, and they're using taxpayer dollars to do it,' she wrote. 'President (Donald) Trump's rescissions package to defund PBS, NPR, and USAID must be brought to the floor for a vote this week. It cannot wait!' The woke mob is coming for our kids, and they're using taxpayer dollars to do Trump's rescissions package to defund PBS, NPR, and USAID must be brought to the floor for a vote this week. It cannot wait!! — Rep. Mary Miller (@RepMaryMiller) June 3, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Mike Lee, a Republican senator representing Utah, also called for an end to PBS funding. 'Federal funds aren't for grooming,' he wrote Monday, quoting a post featuring a clip of Elmo, Cookie Monster and Johnathan Van Ness of Netflix's 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.' 'Through Sesame Street characters or otherwise. Defund PBS.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. On Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky told Margaret Brennan of CBS News' 'Face The Nation' that he is supportive of funding cuts to public television. 'I don't think we necessarily need government programs any more,' he said. 'We have so many choices on the internet and so many choices on television.' 'It's Sesame Street! It's Sesame Street. It's PBS and NPR' – @margbrennan interrupted @SenRandPaul as he cited the wasteful spending in expected upcoming foreign aid rescission request. Sesame Street (Children's Television Workshop) left PBS for HB0 in ten year deal in 2015 and… — Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) June 1, 2025 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. On May 1, Trump signed an executive order that sought the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — a publicly-funded non-profit — to end its funding of PBS and NPR. 'Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options,' the order reads. 'Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.' 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2 days ago
- CTV News
Flag raising celebrates St-Jean-Baptiste Day in Sudbury
It's a day when Francophones across the country show their pride by celebrating their language and traditions. June 24 is St-Jean-Baptiste Day, a day when Francophones across the country show their pride by celebrating their language and traditions. On Monday morning in Azilda, there was a flag raising at the Lionel Lalonde Centre in Azilda, is a city facility where the Franco-Ontario flag will permanently fly. 'Francophones have been in Sudbury since its inception -- since it started, since it was incorporated,' said Joanne Gervais, the executive director of Association canadienne-française de l'Ontario Du grand Sudbury. 'The first mayor of Sudbury was a Francophone. So we are from here, this is home. Mayor Paul Lefebvre said French speakers make up more than 35 per cent of the population of Greater Sudbury and that number is increasing. 'We are seeing the numbers actually rise with new immigrants coming to our city and certainly we have the schools we have the businesses,' Lefebvre said. 'We have a lot College Boreal, Laurentian and the University of Sudbury. There is a lot of institutions that are bilingual, actually. Francophone, as well ... So it's actually an added value for our city. A lot of the jobs by the federal government and provincial government are brought here to Sudbury because of the bilingual aspect of what we can offer.' The city said the Franco-Ontario flag was created by a Laurentian university professor and a group of students in 1975.
Geek Dad
2 days ago
- Geek Dad
Review – DC Pride 2025 #1 – A Farewell to Friends
DC Pride 2025 #1 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: DC's Pride anthology is always a highlight every year – they go all-out, with a massive collection of stories celebrating the company's LGBTQ heroes and creators. But this year they're doing something different – the anthology has a central framing story about the DCU's pre-eminent gay bar, almost a century old in Gotham City. It's closing down, and the queer luminaries of the community are turning out to pay tribute. This segment is written by Tim Sheridan, who did the incredible Alan Scott miniseries last year, and comes in and out of the book tying everything together. Notes from the past. Via DC Comics. 'The Heart Wants', the central story, focuses on Alan Scott and a new character named Ethan – a young trans man who is visiting the bar for the first time. But Alan has been going there for close to a century – and his first time was with Johnny, the first man he ever loved. Of course, knowing what we know about Johnny now, this is a story with a long, painful history – one that Sheridan is able to tie up in this issue, in an epilogue that's essential reading for anyone who loved his initial miniseries. After this, the story shifts to tell individual tales of the various heroes who make up the guests of honor that night. Renee Montoya is up first, in a story by Vita Ayala and Skylar Partridge, which finds Renee having a night out at the club. She's tempted to drink, but encounters both Kate Kane – and surprisingly, her long-dead partner Crispus Allen. But her Question instincts are never far away, and she quickly picks up that not everything is as it seems. Sam Maggs and Phillip Sevy are up next, with a story focused on Connor Hawke. This one finds him as Green Arrow, encountering an attractive vigilante patterned on Black Canary – but the asexual archer quickly figures out something is up as well. It seems that the club itself has turned into a lotus eater machine of sorts, giving them visions of a life that could have been. This is a really good take on Connor Hawke, as he realizes that his father's life isn't what he wants. The format of this issue can be a little disorienting at times, as it jumps from story and creative team very quickly. There's a brief segment by Doyle, Trujillo, and Kaplan focusing on Ethan's past in the army, and then we dovetail quickly into a brilliantly funny Midnighter and Apollo segment by Maggs and Charm as they find themselves in a parody of American suburbia where Midnighter can go up against an army of cartoonish bigots. It's a hilarious little bit – until Ethan falls out of the sky right into their reality. There are a whole lot of amazing indie cartoonists in this issue – like Max Sarin, who teams up with Maya Houston on a Harley quinn story that finds her waking up as one of the top psychiatrists in the world. As she digs into her new life – and tries to figure out why Ivy is nowhere to be found – she discovers that maybe she doesn't like this version of herself. This is a great Harley story, and Sarin is one of the most expressive cartoonists in the business. Houston, Ayala, and Cecil take us into the world of Jo Mullein, who is a very different kind of Green Lantern. In this reality, she's a lover of Nubia, and the two have a relationship so passionate it kind of makes me want to see this relationship explored in the main DCU. As each fantasy or nightmare plays out, it becomes clear that something is pulling the strings – and as Ethan continues to ping-pong between realities, he discovers that there's a ghost hunting the bar. One who has been there for a very long time. Not all the fantasy segments work perfectly – Blue Snowman's take by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore is over-the-top satirical and casts Wonder Woman as a stammering clown as she gets called out for accidentally outing the non-binary antihero. The story's heart is in the right place, and the segment that follows with Ethan and Blue Snowman is surprisingly touching. Trujillo and Aguillo tackle Bunker's story, and the art here is gorgeous. While Bunker is definitely one of the less-known DC heroes in this issue, his segment has a great message about how it's impossible to have a utopia if people are stuck outside of it. And of course, there's one person we haven't followed yet into the world of dreams – Alan Scott. His segment is written by Sheridan and drawn by Giulio Macaione, and it finds him and Johnny living quietly in their utopia as happily retired old men. This story is brilliantly poignant, and is spliced together with a story of Ethan confronting the power behind it all – and making a fateful decision. The ending hints at something much bigger for this character that I hope we get to see Sheridan follow up on. He was the undeniable all-star of this issue. But it's not over yet! The issue finishes with a cartoony closing tale and a very personal narrative by Jenny Blake and Sara Soler, as the newly-out writer takes us into her daily life. Blake has been pretty cautious on her social media for good reason, so this story is a first look into a lot of the more personal details about her transition and her personal awakening over the last several decades. It's funny, heartfelt, and very emotional given all the social factors lurking at the fringes. Another brilliant addition to the works of Kevin Conroy and Phil Jiminez over the last two years. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
