Cheol Joon Baek

The city's popular all-night art event has swapped a marquee corporate sponsor for curatorial focus in the past two years. But the big difference in the 13th edition of Nuit Blanche was an expansion to Scarborough, with exhibitions taking place in the Scarborough Civic Centre, public library, the Scarborough Town Centre mall and in the Scarborough RT stations.

The first anniversary of the mosque shooting of six men during evening prayer at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec was marked with events across the country January 29. In Toronto, the National Council of Canadian Muslims hosted a community vigil at Nathan Phillips Square to remember the victims. They are: Mamadou Tanou Barry, Azzeddine Soufiane, Khaled Belkacemi, Ibrahima Barry, Boubaker Thabti and Abdelkrim Hassane.

It was all smiles at the Pride parade celebrations until the city got a reminder of the inconvenient truth of anti-Black racism. Thousands of revelers crowded along Yonge St. for Pride Toronto's marquee parade on Sunday (June 25). Amid the spectacle of confetti and rainbows, spectators danced to the sounds of Abba's Dancing Queen and Rihanna's Wild Thoughts emanating from passing floats. For the second year in a row, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Kathleen Wynne attended the parade.