As more cataract surgeries move to private. for-profit clinics, more low-income Ontarians are being left behind, CMAJ study finds, by Kenyon Wallace thestar.com/business/as-mo… via @torontostar

The best solution to the affordability crisis? Tax the rich. The top one per cent of Canadians pay only 23.6 per cent of their income in taxes, enjoying the lowest tax burden of all of us. #Opinion trib.al/AezHFzi

🚨Jaw-dropping investigative story from Jon Woodward 👇 Turns out @FordNation didn’t even look at Ontario crime data before making the announcement about closing supervised consumption sites. Because when the data is analyzed, turns out CRIME WENT DOWN in neighbourhoods with an

Dead people don’t need recovery beds: Ontario’s closure of ten supervised consumption facilities will result in more toxic drug deaths cpha.ca/dead-people-do…

This heat map shows the concentration of overdoses. leave CTS/SCS alone, expand their funding and resources and then build out models of care for those who are not homeless or housing unstable. Models that could reach construction workers, that are gender specific, cultural

A teen from central Alberta who called 911 for help, alleging people were trying to kill him, is dead after two responding Mounties shot him, RCMP said Friday. cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Only 16 hospitals out of 36 are still functioning in Gaza. With Al-Aqsa hospital under threat of attack, we’ve quickly opened a field hospital. We call on all parties to protect the last remaining hospitals.

A 15 year old child was killed by RCMP on Friday. He was First Nation. His name, Hoss Lightning. Where is the outrage Canada?

The Ottawa police secretly wiretapped five of its Somali officers and their family members for months, never laid any charges, and refuses to tell them why, alleges a $2.5-million lawsuit filed by the officers. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…

Not all men, but her husband, a local councillor, a nurse, a journalist, a former police officer, a prison guard, a soldier, a firefighter and a civil servant, to name a few. This case sickens me. We should be taking to the streets. Women are never safe. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Life expectancy among status First Nations people in B.C. has plunged by six years. The number is horrifying – and it represents a failure in Canada’s work toward #reconciliation: The Globe and Mail editorial theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor… #sdoh

1M+ used the food bank last year, a 25% increase. 1 in 14 Ontarians are going hungry. 1 in 6 food bank users are employed. 1 in 3 food bank users are children. Food banks are meant to be an emergency provision of food when most in need, not a solution to food insecurity.

Waterloo region urges #ONgov to NOT defund #CTS, protect #UPHNS #overdose prevention sites, citing health and safety concerns, and $1.65-million savings because of the #CTS. kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/09/10/wat…

I have, and continue to feel nothing but pride to have Sarah Jama as my MPP. My heart burst tonight standing in a packed room with all my neighbours who feel the same Cannot wait to re-elect her to be our voice #HamOnt