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Ontario mental health system faces overhaul Ontario is going to change the way its “fractured” $3 billion mental health system works so that people get steered to the help they need, Health Minister Deb Matthews said Wednesday. Her comments followed a report from an expert advisory panel slamming the bureaucratic Continue Reading

David Noble, academic and activist, dies at 65 David Noble, one of North America’s most prominent critics of the corporatization of academia and a groundbreaking researcher on the influence of technology on society, died Monday evening at age 65. He passed away in hospital unexpectedly of natural causes with his Continue Reading

Woman deported to Mexico despite claims of persecution A gay woman who fled to Toronto was deported to Mexico early Monday, despite her claims of persecution there because of her sexual orientation. Brenda Garcia, 30, was deported around 5:30 a.m. and was allowed a brief visit with her brother before Continue Reading

On This Day: Emma Goldman Deported On December 21, 1919, Emma Goldman, along with 248 other radical “aliens,” was deported to the Soviet Union on the S.S. Buford under the 1918 Alien Act, which allowed for the expulsion of any alien found to be an anarchist. Emma Goldman, born in Continue Reading