CALL TO ACTION!! City to vote on continuing to fund ads in Corriere Canadese, a publication that has been bullying advocates of the 2SLGBTQ+ community, including trustees, teachers and private citizens. The publication has been actively working against Human Rights protections in our publicly funded Catholic schools.

We can do any or all of the following:
1) Submit Comments at the top of this motion
2) Contact the Mayor's office, ask him to support
3) Contact city councillors directly to support

Details
City of Toronto MOTION MM28.9 Cancelling City of Toronto Advertisement in Corriere Canadese- by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, seconded by Councillor Paul Ainslie

Summary
The City of Toronto’s Human Rights and Anti-Harassment/Discrimination Policy states that we “will not tolerate, ignore, or condone discrimination or harassment and is committed to promoting respectful conduct, tolerance and inclusion.”

The publisher of Corriere Canadese has been publishing articles targeting the Toronto District Catholic School Board, its Trustees for their support of LGBTQ2S+ students and their families. The articles are portrayed as factual news when they are opinion pieces that are discriminatory towards a charter protected minority group.

It is our opinion that Corriere Canadese has:

• attacked Toronto District Catholic School Board Trustees De Domenico, Di Pasquale, Li Preti and Rizzo on numerous occasions, calling them “thugs”[1], a “rat pack”[2], and “gangsters”[3];
• defamed YouthLine[4], a youth-led charity that affirms and supports LGBTQ2S+ youth that provides life-saving peer support and educational resources; and
• dismissed our Human Rights Code:

“Traditional religious values” have, in their view, become unacceptable because the sexual practices espoused by Catholic values are deemed bigoted and homophobic. The new standard is their Human Rights Code, in my respectful opinion vastly inferior in breadth and depth to the Catholic “code” except that the HRC is enforced by the State police and whoever motivates it with complaints of alleged grievances.[5]

The City's advertising dollars should not be invested in a community newspaper that espouses discrimination and harassment against:

• the LGBTQ2S+ community or any other charter protected minority group
• elected officials
• a public school board

[1] https://www.corriere.ca/english-articles/time-to-put-sexualized-virtue-signalling-thugs-in-their-place/

[2] https://www.corriere.ca/english-articles/a-rat-pack-in-charge-of-our-catholic-schools/

[3] https://www.corriere.ca/english-articles/code-of-conduct-thuggery-gangsterism-and-persecution/

[4] https://www.corriere.ca/english-articles/tcdsb-website-hosts-pornographic-site-defended-by-trustees/

[5] https://www.corriere.ca/english-articles/code-of-conduct-thuggery-gangsterism-and-persecution/

Background Information: Member Motion MM28.9 (http://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/mm/bgrd/backgroundfile-162918.pdf)