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Since 2016, the entire month of June has been declared Pride month, with a program of events throughout the month leading up to the parade. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the organization's in-person Pride festivities for 2020 and 2021 – including the Trans March, the Dyke March and the Pride parade – were cancelled. [2]
Pride Toronto, Canada's largest and most prominent Pride Festival, officially cancelled its pride events, such as the Dyke March, Trans March and the Pride Parade, [94] as did Fierté Montréal. [95] Several pride festivals announced plans to proceed with online "digital pride" festivals.
During the 2006 Halifax Pride parade, one member of the Canadian Forces marched in the parade, helping to carry the large pride flag. In the 2008 Toronto Pride parade, ten members of the Canadian Forces marched for the first time as a group. One month later, twelve gay and straight members of the Canadian Forces marched in the Vancouver Pride ...
Toronto's pride parade has been held yearly or every June since 1981; the first pride parade in Toronto was held in June 1981. In 2003, its activists helped score a major victory when the Ontario Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling which made same-sex marriage legal in Ontario, the first jurisdiction in North America to do so. [ 202 ]
March/April: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, both Pride Toronto [262] and Fierté Montréal, [263] Canada's two largest and most prominent pride festivals, are cancelled. Several pride festivals cancel their regular events, but announce plans to proceed with online "digital pride" festivals, including Vancouver Pride, [264] Calgary ...
Chicago’s Pride Parade has been canceled for the second year in a row, organizers said Wednesday, citing safety concerns due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. The parade had been postponed this year ...
Many summer festivals and events were cancelled including the Canadian National Exhibition and Canadian International Air Show in Toronto, [45] Calgary Stampede, [46] Celebration of Light fireworks festival, and Pacific National Exhibition. [47] Pride events planned to take place across the country were changed to take place virtually. [48] [49]
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