At Pride flag raising, Mark Carney celebrates doing bare minimum for Pride

Xtra: There was no mention of the funds that Pride organizers were in Ottawa to ask for in March. They are facing tougher financial circumstances with growth in audiences without added revenues, and that many of their remaining sponsors are being hit hard by Donald Trump’s trade war, meaning companies have less to give to Pride organizations. Instead, it was just the government patting themselves on the back for those funds that were committed by the Trudeau government, and the “ongoing” funding is the existing $1.5 million for security, not programming or other event costs…