Skateboarders thought this Toronto park’s ramps were unsafe, so they built their own. Now the city wants to tear them down thestar.com/news/gta/skate… via Toronto Star

This is devastating. This is around the age I left home and looking back, I don’t know how I survived those years. I was very lucky. There are many young people in this province with nowhere to go and no one to look after them or to fight for them. Their lives matter too.

I AM NOT A LAWYER, AND THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE

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Listen in. I broke when Ivan Land, 61, who had come to the Mercury clinic this morning at Grassy Narrows to get assessed for mercury poisoning (every single community member here is effected by it), asked me if he would die. This is the hardcore reality- of men, women and…

This was from the bail hearing.

Acquittal also lifts publication ban on reason why Zameer was granted bail in 2021: judge at bail hearing thought the Crown's theory was 'contrary to logic and common sense.'
Premier Doug Ford and then-Mayor John Tory had complained at the time that bail was granted.

SPEAKERS:
Jonathan Arnold, Acting Director of Clean Growth, Canadian Climate Institute
Roger Beauchemin, President and CEO, Addenda Capital
Fate Saghir, SVP and Head of Sustainability, Mackenzie Investments

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Amazing night Sidney Hillman Foundation awards ceremony in Toronto this evening! Geordie and I won the Broadcast category for our doc Killer Water. Made possible by a partnership with Ricochet Media The Real News IndigiNews
To the people of Fort Chipewyan who’ve been dumped on by…

At the Hillman Awards last night the president said in 2022 and 2023, Mexico was the deadliest place to be a journalist with 4 & 11 killed.

In the last 6 months over 90 journalists have been killed in Gaza. A woman behind me called out Gaza twice, but the speech just continued

'It may seem wrong that, after more than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have perished, it took the deaths of just seven international aid workers to stir Western governments into a sense of outrage, but that is the reality.'

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'This is not an isolated incident. As of 20 March, at least 196 humanitarians had been killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory since October 2023.

This is nearly three times the death toll recorded in any single conflict in a year'.

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