'It's just an overall explosion in #homelessness ': Encampment numbers in Toronto have more than doubled over last March, by Victoria Gibson thestar.com/real-estate/it… via @torontostar

Israel is conducting secret mass surveillance of Palestinians during its assault on Gaza—and ex PM Stephen Harper’s investment fund helped make it happen.

Martin Lukacs & @timmgroves report on the Israeli spy tech firm controlled by Harper & partners. breachmedia.ca/stephen-harper…

'You would think that if a company is so bad at doing its job you have to call in the military to take over, you wouldn't renew its licence to operate a care home, let alone entrust it with even bigger projects.'

Well, you'd be wrong. Excellent reporting by Armine Yalnizyan

Now and then a story comes along you can't not write. When famous elk Bob was killed by a car, the story unravelled before me like a true crime mystery: why was he here? And how many more elk will die before something changes?

thenarwhal.ca/bob-the-elk-yo…

Longreads Great Canadian Longform

Palestinian doctors “are working on a daily basis on the most horrific, explosive trauma that you’ve ever seen. They’re doing sometimes 14, 15 amputations, mostly on children, per day, and they’ve been doing it for six months now.”
theintercept.com/2024/03/23/int…

Canadian officials found radiation levels in these northern Ontario homes ‘well above’ the safe limit.

Their response: ‘¯\_(ツ)_/¯’

#StarExclusive with Investigative Journalism Bureau trib.al/GBz3YQP

I wrote about how the lack of internet access in Canadian prisons is making it nearly impossible for prisoners to pursue postsecondary education.

“They’re supposed to be rehabilitating people,' one inmate's mother told me. “But they’re stifling them.”
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After months of warnings that Israel’s siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza apnews.com/article/gaza-m…

“I hope this torment will end,” Kolab wrote. “Cold and frost eat away at our bodies.”

Heartbreaking story by Ben Mussett + translation by Ghada Alsharif | غادة الشريف

In Rafah, a young mother holds her children close as bombs fall from the sky Toronto Star
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In Opinion

“We are still people and not trash.”

As the U.S. struggles with a growing homelessness crisis, it’s time to start listening to the people who are living it. Here’s what they want you to know.
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