Massive Pride parade to take over downtown Toronto today

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Toronto's colourful Pride parade will take over the city's downtown core today.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Toronto Mayor John Tory are among those expected to attend the annual celebration of all things LGBTQ.

Premier Doug Ford has said he won't participate in the march because uniformed police officers were excluded from the event for a third year in a row.They were banned again in 2018 over criticism the force had not taken the disappearances of several men missing from the city's gay village seriously. Serial killer Bruce McArthur pleaded guilty earlier this year to murdering eight men with ties to the gay village.

Leadership of Pride Toronto had initially invited officers to apply to march in this year's parade, but the membership voted to bar police once again.Toronto's Pride parade is set to take over the city's downtown core this weekend -- a rainbow-hued culmination of tensions that have simmered for months between some in the LGBTQ community and the organizers of the annual event. A reveller waves a modified Pride flag during the Toronto Pride parade on Sunday, June 24, 2018.

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ctvottawa You fund this parade!!! City of Toronto flips the bill.

ctvottawa I don’t get this parade crap ? You’re gay fine no one cares move on with your life

ctvottawa Yeah let’s show our pride by showing up naked and yelling like idiots....

Why a parade?It should not matter who you are with,as long as your happy.We know you raise kids.Just be yourself and love each other.Never mind what others say..A parade just doesn't seem feasible.Who funds this...I wish you all the happiness.

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