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Podcast: This Matters
Episode: Toronto Pride: funding woes, rising hate and why events must go on
Description: Guest: Sherwin Modeste, executive director of Pride Toronto Toronto’s Pride festival is up against some financial challenges this year. Organizers say rising costs of necessary security and policing, paired with quadrupled insurance premiums, have resulted in desperate calls to three levels of government for help and the possibility of cutting back on programming. While Trudeau’s government delivered Pride Toronto a reprieve of about $250,000 from a $1.5 million Canada-wide grant, executive director Sherwin Modeste says the organization remains very tight. He joins “This Matters” to talk about the challenge and why their events must not scale back in an er...