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On Tuesday Oct 19th, 2SLGBTQIA+ events and programming were cancelled out of an abundance of caution based on information received by Waterloo Region Police Services. These details have been relayed publicly by the organisations that were contacted. There is no ongoing investigation at this time 1/

Local organizations push province to allow safe needle distribution at HART Hubs Hundreds of medical and legal experts have signed an open letter calling on the provincial government to allow the distribution of clean needles and syringes at HART Hubs.

Harm reduction and safe consumption sites do not enable addiction, they save lives and make communities safer. Needle return and collection services are available at HART Hubs but NOT needle distribution, putting lives at risk. www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Today, during a heatwave, Cambridge bylaw and police used heavy machinery to throw out 4 unhoused peoples personal belongings. With no suitable shelter options, they face serious health risks. Evictions should be paused during extreme weather. Learn a better way: homelesshub.ca/book/office-...

Looks like Mexico’s president is giving land back to Indigenous communities. I guess Land Back is land back.

Join Us for the Ubuntu Community Health Fair! Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025 Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5. Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community! Come connect with seasoned local experts, explore community supports and join the conversation around building a healthier future for the African, Black and Carribean communities in the KWC region. Lunch will be catered & free parking and GRT two-way bus tickets will be available.

Join Us for the Ubuntu Community Health Fair!

Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Kingsdale Community Centre, 72 Wilson Ave, Kitchener, ON N2C 1G5.

Let's have real convos about Black health, healing and community!

Beijing beckons fired federal scientists Decoding transatlantic relations with Beijing. By PHELIM KINE Send tips here | Tweet @PhelimKine | Bluesky @phelimkine.bsky.social | Subscribe for free | View in your browser Hi, China Watchers. &n…

China is trying to recruit U.S. government scientists fired by DOGE www.politico.eu/newsletter/c...

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Yet another attempt to isolate, harm and scapegoat #LGBTQ students, as a way to undermine publicly funded education. Community is having to respond to homophobic and transphobic delegates at the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.

Kelp forest project in West Sussex having 'remarkable results' The rewilding project off the West Sussex coast is celebrating its fourth anniversary.

Undersea rewilding initiative to restore a kelp forest in West Sussex is celebrating amazing results for marine biodiversity.

Rewilding is needed just as much at sea as on land.
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In this March 27, 2019, file photo, measles, mumps and rubella vaccines sit in a cooler at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y.

Most of Quebec’s 36 measles cases contracted in health-care settings montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/12/q... @cdnpress.bsky.social

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

In the USA and beyond…

Freeland co-created the dire conditions of social life with Trudeau. Don’t pretend that her resignation is some kind of radical revolt. Her resignation is an acknowledgment that their collusion to transfer more wealth to the already very wealthy is reaching it limit.

🇮🇶🇺🇸 Reports of american drones in the skies of Salah al-Din, Baghdad, Mosul and Babylon in great numbers.

Every time I haul out the snow pants I remember my nephew lying down on the sidewalk in his full snowsuit in silent protest. He was right, the struggle of getting all those extra clothes on is exercise enough for the day.

Thank you for all the information and updates that you share. All very helpful in raising concerns in the communities I work in.

How a Hwy. 401 tunnel went from private proposal to government policy | Globalnews.ca Global News has learned that, in 2019, the construction firm Aecon submitted an unsolicited proposal to Ontario's Ministry of Infrastructure pitching a tunnel under Highway 401.

NEW: Long before Premier Ford announced plans for a tunnel under the 401, a Canadian construction firm was privately pitching the same idea - and even submitted its plans to the province.

Here’s what we’ve learned.

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Why Canada Post workers are on strike On the morning of November 15, 55,000 postal workers—members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)— walked off the job. It’s the latest in a series of large-scale public sector strikes that h...

Why Canada Post workers are on strike Why Canada Post workers are on strike
Postal workers are striking against the “gigification” of work—and aiming to expand public services at the post office | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...

Greenpeace Canada blocks Poilievre’s house, calling him out for his anti-climate agenda that betrays people Early this morning, two activists locked themselves to a replica oil pumpjack in the driveway of Stornoway, the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa, unveiling a strong message...

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Octavia: “Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen." (1/2)

Animals are relatives AND food. Same as plants. Your binary thinking is colonial af.

Up now: renovictions! Staff had put forward a final recommendation for a bylaw starting July 31, 2025. It would require landlords to seek a renovation license to evict a tenant, demonstrating renovation can't be completed with tenant in place. Also requires compensation to tenant

Health Canada authorizes 3 vaccines that could be used if bird flu becomes pandemic

Health Canada authorizes 3 vaccines that could be used if bird flu becomes pandemic www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/...

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A starter pack full of individuals expressing astonishment and bewilderment is a non-starter.

When pundits say no more identity politics, what they mean is they don't want Black people to talk about race. Liberals don't want Black people to talk about race. Conservatives don't want Black people to talk about race. They want silence as a response to white supremacy