Brendan Kennedy Social Justice Reporter
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  • Toronto Star

Brendan Kennedy is the Star’s Social Justice Reporter, a position he has held since August 2020. Brendan, who grew up in Toronto, joined the Star in 2009 as an intern. He has previously worked on the investigative team and for the sports department, covering the Blue Jays for five seasons from 2012 through 2016. Before coming to the Star he was a general assignment news reporter at the Ottawa Citizen and Kingston Whig-Standard. He has a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University.

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Toronto Star

Focus Areas

  • Social Justice
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Inequality
  • Immigration Detention
  • Corrections

109 Articles
5 months ago
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‘Let them know we’re not going anywhere!’:Trans March kicks off Pride weekend

Purported to be the largest Trans March in the world, Friday’s event helps kick off Pride weekend, which culminates i...

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6 months ago
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‘Do we need this?’: Halton school board rejects new ‘professionalism’ policy

Criticized for being too vague and not specifying a dress code for teachers, the proposed policy was ordered in respo...

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6 months ago
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‘An incredible victory’: Ontario to stop using jails for immigration detention

The province’s decision effectively ends the controversial practice across the country.

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6 months ago
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‘Alarming’ number of jailed immigration detainees have mental health problems, Star analysis finds

The Star reviewed 60 cases of immigration detainees held in Ontario jails and found more than half had reported menta...

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6 months ago
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Ontario continues to house immigration detainees in jails even as other provinces put an end to ‘...

Nearly 460 detainees were jailed here last year, most because they were considered flight risks. Ontario says it’s re...

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6 months ago
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When Ontario said ‘no.’ Inside the only known case where the province defied Ottawa’s request to ...

The nearly two-year detention of an African immigration detainee was found to be “dehumanizing” and “degrading.”

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8 months ago
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‘I’m angry’: Parents in disbelief as TDSB error excludes racialized, disabled, LGBTQ students fro...

Board blames third-party company for administrative mistake that caused some students to miss out on draw for high-de...

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9 months ago
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TMU said it increased security after a string of campus sex assaults. Now, some students and staf...

TMU denies its messaging was untruthful and says decisions on where to place security guards focus on a way that “max...

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10 months ago
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He never learned about Canada’s first Black doctors in medical school. He wants all students to k...

Physician Nav Persaud said he hopes “people will be inspired” by plaques in Toronto celebrating pioneering 19th-centu...

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10 months ago
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Innisfil police shooter ‘ambushed’ cops before killing himself: SIU

South Simcoe police constables Devon Northrup, 33, and Morgan Russell, 54, were killed Oct. 11 after arriving at a ho...

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11 months ago
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‘This campus isn’t safe’: Following a string of sexual assaults inside a Toronto university, the ...

A Toronto Metropolitan University official said the campus is safe and TMU has increased security in the building whe...

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12 months ago
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Toronto parents less likely to see reduced daycare fees than almost anywhere else in Ontario

For-profit daycares opted out of $10/day child care program at much higher rate than non-profits, a Star analysis found.

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