#38 - Justin Trudeau wore brown/black face, TTC settles lawsuit with black man over 2018 incident




This Week in Toronto show

Summary: This was an interesting week in politics to say the least, pictures of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing brown face and blackface from a yearbook over 18+ years ago surfaced this past week. Temba talks about the outrage surrounding it and why it doesn't matter. And Justin Trudeau tried his best to switch topics from that controversy into talking about banning semi - automatic rifles, Temba gives stats on homicides by semi auto weapons why this ban won't make any sense. A toronto resident went viral on Reddit because of the conservative party illegally putting a sign on his lawn. And the TTC settled a lawsuit with a man named maxwell crawford for a 2018 incident in which he claimed off duty transit officers were racist towards him, however CCTV footage shows otherwise, Temba talks about why the TTC shouldn't of settled with him. Available wherever you get your podcasts! This Week in Toronto History: 1916 September 16 The 'Ontario Temperance Act takes effect. 1949 September 17 Noronic burns at the Toronto Harbour resulting in 118 fatalities. iTunes l  Spotify l Stitcher l Android l Google Play Podbean l TuneIn l RSS  (Another link to the podcast in case you can't access the ones above): https://linktr.ee/thisweekintoronto Email: thisweekinto@hotmail.com Email for questions to be answered or to be a co-host of the show, must live in Toronto or GTA area to be co- host.  My blog, go follow and read! https://medium.com/@tembajennings Follow the podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisweekinto/ Subscribe to the podcast on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxgvK8oxhIzGlU4XDCPNcbQ?view_as=subscriber Follow Temba on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tembajennings