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Bridging the divide: Canada’s Digital Success Dashboard
Read more: Bridging the divide: Canada’s Digital Success DashboardIn today’s world, the expectation is that everyone has access to a phone, a laptop, and the internet. Everything from government resources and education to social opportunities are online and digital. “Many people don’t know that there are hundreds of thousands of people [without access or easy access],” says Let’s Get Together (LGT) founder Alison…
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The problems with artificial intelligence predictive policing
Read more: The problems with artificial intelligence predictive policingOn October 14th from 6-8 p.m. the Peel Regional Police held the second of three community consultations on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in policing. The topic of the second session was “predictive policing and community perspectives on machine learning. The Peel Regional Police have not yet shared specifics on how they hope to…
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PC expansion of housing fund still falls well short of Peel’s needs
Read more: PC expansion of housing fund still falls well short of Peel’s needsPremier Doug Ford recently announced the key funding mechanism that supports municipal housing projects will be increased from a total of $2.4 billion to $4 billion, but stakeholders are already questioning how the bump from Queen’s Park will meet the crushing demand towns and cities across Ontario are struggling with. The announcement came at the…
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Take Back the Night
Read more: Take Back the NightOn September 18, 2025, the Peel Committee Against Women Abuse (PCAWA) held their annual Take Back the Night rally and march. Hosted in the Region of Peel since 2016 and led by Embrave, it’s an important event that raises awareness of the need to support an end to gender-based violence, especially sexual violence, and the…
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Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion
Read more: Where there’s a need, there’s a LionFor 50 years, since 1974, Central Mississauga Lions Farmers Market has managed weekly hardtop locations for local Ontario farmer’s stalls and independent vendors in the central Mississauga area of Square One. General Manager Ahmad Khan recently assumed duties. “The Farmers Market is important to family-run Ontario farms, some of whom have been with us for…
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Legal action threatened against Regeneration Brampton
Read more: Legal action threatened against Regeneration BramptonFor more than 25 years, Regeneration Outreach Community has offered vital food programs, addiction supports and food programs. For the past 10 years it has occupied space at Grace United Church in downtown Brampton. The City of Brampton and Region of Peel have benefited from Regeneration’s frontline knowledge to shape policy and programs, which have…
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The path to belonging
Read more: The path to belongingWhat does belonging mean to you? You might answer this in a few words, or perhaps you have a story that goes with it. Reflexively, I answered this as “community and connection,” but reflecting deeper from the many identities I hold, it’s much more than that. What do those words really mean? People are complex…
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Five years of Cooksville Free Food Tables
Read more: Five years of Cooksville Free Food Tables“It was March 26, 2020 that we set up our first Free Food table – a wintry day, 2 weeks into the COVID lockdown”, says Mr. William Graham, MS E.d. Graham, an octagenarian Veteran who saw WWII combat action, and his wife Shirley, a retired educator, set up two “Free Food” tables on Dundas Street…
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Q&A with Councillor Martin Reid
Read more: Q&A with Councillor Martin ReidThe Peel Youth Charter was created in October of 2007. Eleven signatories unanimously adopted the Charter on behalf of civic and policing partners. In 2018, the Peel Poverty Action Group advocated for a re-endorsement of the Charter, with greater youth involvement. Mississauga Ward 9 Councillor Martin Reid says that he wants to revisit and update…
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Lack of public transit leaves Caledon residents struggling with few options for mobility
Read more: Lack of public transit leaves Caledon residents struggling with few options for mobilityCaledon is a big town with a small population and a growing problem when it comes to public transit. The town is physically larger than Brampton and Mississauga combined, but makes up only a fraction of the Peel population. It won’t be like this for much longer, with a population growth to 300k expected by…
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- Bridging the divide: Canada’s Digital Success Dashboard
- The problems with artificial intelligence predictive policing
- PC expansion of housing fund still falls well short of Peel’s needs
- Take Back the Night
- Where there’s a need, there’s a Lion