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Changes coming to 2025 Pride Toronto festival amid rising costs, sponsorship uncertainties

  • Pride Toronto announced that three major corporate sponsors have withdrawn their funding due to a backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, according to Kojo Modeste, the executive director of Pride Toronto.
  • As a result of losing these sponsors, Pride Toronto will cancel a main stage and a signature event, leading to a significant impact on community offerings.
  • Modeste believes that this loss of support is directly linked to U.S. Political developments regarding DEI initiatives.
  • Experts, including Aida Sijamic Wahid, suggest that this trend may affect other Canadian organizations and advocate for companies committed to DEI to step up.
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The Globe & MailThe Globe & Mail

With Trump spurring sponsors to ditch Pride Toronto, Canadian companies should step up

We all need to wake up to the reality that what is happening in the United States right now threatens not only our livelihoods, but our values

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Toronto Pride says sponsors bolting over Trump's anti-DEI push

The head of Canada's largest Pride festival said major corporate sponsors, which also do business in the United States, have withdrawn support to avoid being seen as favorable to LGBTQ initiatives. Kojo Modeste, the executive director of Toronto Pride, declined to name the companies that have severe...

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The Toronto StarThe Toronto Star

Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity

Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival is in peril after three sponsors pulled funding amid a corporate push against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the U.S.

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CTV NewsCTV News

Changes coming to 2025 Pride Toronto festival amid rising costs, sponsorship uncertainties

The 2025 Pride Toronto festival will see some notable changes as organizers deal with the “crippling” cost of running the four-day event, coupled with the loss of three key corporate sponsors.

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Pride Toronto loses 3 corporate sponsors in move it connects to attack on DEI programs in U.S.

Pride Toronto says three large corporate sponsors have pulled their funding from the festival this year in a move it says is connected to a backlash against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in the U.S.

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Get Woke Up!Get Woke Up!

President Trump Cancels Toronto Pride

BLT activists are fuming over news that President Trump’s assault on DEI has delivered a death blow to the 2025 Pride Toronto Festival.  Pride organizers are scrambling to slash key events after losing three major corporate US sponsors and struggling to cover the soaring costs of the four-day hedonistic extravaganza. In a move that has left many questioning the festival’s future, the stage at Dundas and Church streets in the city’s gay village h…

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CBC News broke the news in Canada on Thursday, February 27, 2025.
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