Why the homelessness crisis could get even worse

Emergency funding has dried up, and the head of Toronto’s shelter department says without $317 million, the city will have to shut more shelters

Toronto is in the throes of a homelessness crisis that’s only getting worse, but new budgets from the federal and provincial governments have failed to offer a life raft, says the head of the city’s shelter system. Short of a major infusion of new funds, he’s warning that Toronto could see fast-tracked shelter closures and increasingly squeezed sites as early as the start of next year.

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Biggest fungus outbreak in US history sees nearly 100 staff at paper mill in Michigan struck down by rare mold strain that kills one in 100 victims

Nearly 100 people have been infected and a dozen hospitalized by a rare fungus linked to a paper factory in Michigan.

The fungus Blastomyces is feared to have arrived on moist and rotten wood at the Billerud paper mill in Escanaba, in the north of the state.

Experts told DailyMail.com that the scale of the outbreak was ‘extraordinary’ — and, if confirmed, would be the largest recorded in the US ever.

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Transsexual, 44, elects to die by euthanasia after botched sex-change operation turned him into a ‘monster’

A Belgian transsexual has chosen to die by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation to complete his transformation into a man left him a ‘monster’.

Nathan Verhelst, 44, died yesterday afternoon after being allowed to have his life ended on the grounds of ‘unbearable psychological suffering’.

It is understood to be the first time someone in Belgium has chosen euthanasia after a sex-change, and comes soon after it emerged that it is now the cause of nearly one in 50 deaths in the country.

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Incredulous Riley Gaines slams statement from SF State PRAISING students for ‘peaceful’ protests after she was ‘attacked’ and forced to hide inside a room when trans-rights protesters stormed her speech about women’s sport

College swimming champion Riley Gaines slammed San Francisco State University for praising their students for so-called ‘peaceful’ protests after she claims she was hit ‘multiple times by a guy in a dress’ following a speech about saving women’s sports.

Gaines, 23, was forced to barricade herself inside a room for around three hours at the San Francisco State University campus on Thursday night after a group of activists ambushed her.

She was giving a speech to students about competing against Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, at the Women’s NCAA Swimming Championships last year. It’s unclear what exactly set off the fracas but video shows students loudly drowning out Gaines’ speech about competing against ‘biological males’ in women’s sports.

Sick bastards.

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Man charged after threats uttered, car driven at Mosque worshipper: Cops

A man in a vehicle allegedly drove directly at a worshipper at a Markham mosque while yelling threats and religious slurs, according to witnesses.

York Regional Police say officers are treating the April 6 incident at the Denison St. mosque as a suspected hate-motivated crime.

 

He is of Indian origin, likely a Hindu so what we are seeing is vibrant diversity in action. There is a serious ongoing conflict between Hindus and Mohammedans in India.

Indian-origin man arrested for ‘hate-motivated’ attack at Canada’s Markham mosque 

Leicester is coming.

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US Government May Need To Seize Private Property To Further Green-Scam Agenda , Says JPMorgan CEO

US Government May Launch New Effort To Seize Private Property, Says JPMorgan CEO – Here’s Why

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says the US government may need to seize private property to fuel one of its most high-profile initiatives.

In a new annual letter to shareholders, Dimon says government agencies could evoke eminent domain and forcibly obtain private property to propel the push for clean energy.

h/t DM

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A pro-Russian hacking group may have targeted Canada’s energy infrastructure.

A hacking group, under the guidance of Russia’s Federal Security Service, may have compromised the I.P. address of a Canadian gas pipeline company in February and caused damage to its infrastructure, according to leaked Pentagon documents.

If the attack by the cybercriminal group, Zarya, succeeded, the intelligence report said, “it would mark the first time” the United States intelligence community “has observed a pro-Russia-hacking group execute a disruptive attack against Western industrial control systems.”

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Macron says Europe must not be ‘follower’ of US, China on Taiwan

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published Sunday that Europe must not be a “follower” of either the US or China on Taiwan, saying that the bloc risks entanglement in “crises that aren’t ours”.

His comments risk riling Washington and highlight divisions in the European Union over how to approach China, as the US steps up confrontation with its closest rival and Beijing draws closer to Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.

Weasels!

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