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Immigrant Communities: John Tory and Community Organizers

immigrant communities: With her parents by her side, the Eritrean-Canadian human rights lawyer outlined the key tenets of her progressive platform affordable housing, free public transit, less policing and more jobs for youth, according to NOW Magazine. The experts tell me our communities the working-class, immigrant communities don't vote. On October 10, the first day of advance voting, mayoral candidate Saron Gebresellassi congregated with a small contingent of first-time voters and community organizers at Nathan Phillips Square. I see my primary mission to convert non-voters to voters. I'm not trying to woo the folks who would vote for John Tory. That's the real key ingredient to success, says Gebresellassi the next day over the phone. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.