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@christina00017.bsky.social

A 288% spike in overdoses at drop-in centres in Toronto due to the closure of supervised consumption sites. How do you sleep at night #PremierDougFord #DeputyPremierSylviaJones #onpoli

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · Jul 18

Overdoses at Toronto drop-ins spiking since supervised consumption sites closed in spring: network https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/article/overdoses-at-toronto-drop-in-centres-have-spiked-since-closure-of-5-supervised-consumption-sites-network/

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People receive a free meal from a downtown Toronto church drop-in centre on Friday, April 24, 2020.

August 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM

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Peter Stefanovic

@peterstefanovic.bsky.social

Jeez. Russia launches air attack on Kyiv hours after Zelenskyy agrees to 30-day US ceasefire deal

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Russia launches air attack on Kyiv hours after Zelenskyy agrees to 30-day US ceasefire deal – Ukraine war live

Kyiv’s mayor says air defence forces are engaged in repelling the strikes; Donald Trump says he plans to talk to Putin about ceasefire

www.theguardian.com

March 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM

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Rufus Hickok

@rufus-hickok.bsky.social

There was a point in 1933, right after Hitler’s election and the anti-Jewish boycott in Berlin, in which the world responded by boycotting German goods. The response from Nazi Germans? Depthless self-pity at how the Jews had cruelly turned the world against them.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 11

Trump is now pearly clutching about how Canadians could stoop so low as to use electricity as a bargaining chip.

Pretty rich coming from a guy threatening to annex several countries right now.