A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through. theguardian.com/world/2024/dec…

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NEW: The government of Alberta announced the Friday before the Xmas break that they're defunding Homeward Trust/Calgary Homeless Foundation. These orgs do point-in-time homeless counts and coordinate funding to frontline orgs serving the unhoused.

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Matt Duss sums up Biden’s disastrous foreign policy legacy.

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I’ve been watching this announcement, I just have to say that Mark Carney is making commitments on housing more substantial than I would have expected. - Build Canada Homes, a new public agency devoted to building housing directly - $25B in financing and loan garuntees for

Gaza has become a “mass grave” for Palestinians and those helping them. Israeli forces are systematically destroying Palestinian life and showing a blatant disregard for the safety of humanitarian and medical workers: msf.org/gaza-has-becom…

FYI : This is happening in Gaza!

The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and

The fact that Mark Carney and Anita Anand have yet to take ANY concrete action on Israel’s forced starvation of Palestinians is a STAIN on Canada that will never wash out. How do we live knowing we could have stopped this? How can we ever be forgiven? Please. Do something.

Amir walked 12 kilometres, barefoot, to get food. He kissed the hand of an American soldier, thanking him for a bag of rice and lentils. Then Israel killed Amir, right in front of the soldier. A child, grateful for lentils. Executed in broad daylight. Amir was 5 years old.

“It is a famine caused by cruelty. Justified by revenge. Enabled by indifference.”

A 57-unit Scarborough apartment had only had two eviction applications in nine years. Then in 2018, Starlight Investments purchased the building and, in just over a year, filed 29 eviction applications — increasing the rate of filings more than 10,000%, a recent study revealed.

An Israeli soldier is stealing a Palestinian kid’s bike. Is the bike a threat to anyone?

He deleted this, but here is a Toronto Sun columnist saying that people on the left should be shot

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰