
Toronto city hall will fly the Palestinian flag for the first time next Monday to commemorate State of Palestine Independence Day, a gesture long sought by advocates that the city says it has now agreed to because Canada recognized Palestine in September.
City hall hoists several dozen flags a year. In 2024, it raised more than 60. Most were national flags but about a third were for sports teams or various causes, including the End Polio Now Flag, the Black Liberation Flag and the Period Purse Flag on Menstrual Health Day in May.
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We all know that on Election Day, New York City began a death spiral so steep that it will terminate in a smoking hole in Dante’s Ninth Circle. Things were not looking much rosier in Minneapolis, where Omar Fateh made his own mayoral run. Fateh, an American and Minnesota state senator, with Somali parents and a socialist (of course), was running on a platform of standing up to Trump, protecting illegal immigrants, a $20/hour minimum wage, replacing some police visits with mental health crisis responders, and environmental justice, 
