[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

Ugh. Sorry about that. It's changed since I first signed up.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Thank you. Your numbers are outdated tho. Here are updated counts from Toronto's 2021 Street Needs Assessment., page 20-21.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

That said, it is the failure of modern governments to enforce such moral behaviour these last two decades especially, but it is also a failure of us voters to force them to make good and uphold such morals in the first place.

I would also add that the encroachment of the religious far-right from America has had a detrimental effect on how voters judge who is and is not acting in a "moral" way. Religiosity is still seen as having a "moral code", even tho there are dozens/hundreds of immoral acts commited by such people (and institutions).

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

I would recomment registering on Canada's National Do Not Call List. It doesn't help all the time, but in this instance of political calls it should.

Personally I've been registered for about 20 years and rarely get any unsolicited calls now.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 hours ago

I'm wondering where you see mostly male unhoused people, as in what areas of your city you frequent. Because if you aren't visiting red light districts where unhoused women often ply their trade to gain financial resources, I would suggest your anecdotal evidence is skewed at best.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

I can't find a comprehensive list, but I did find a 2024 interprovincial co-operation report:

  • pg 10 has a table showing select barriers to internal trade
  • pg 14 is a table showing ease of doing business in multiple provinces
  • pg 17 has a table showing barriers to labour mobility
  • pg 31 has listings of items with or without reconcilliation agreements

This is the most concise source I can find.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago

According the Constitutional divide of fed/provincial powers the only thing the feds can do is provide funding. Then it's up to the provinces to use the funding appropriately.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 24 points 12 hours ago

The Liberals aren't the problem as the feds have little to do with provincial issues.

This is on Drug Fraud's shoulders alone ... and he couldn't give a shit about poor unhoused women's deaths.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

He thinks he's opaque but people can see right through his machinations and manipulation.

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New data suggests most Ontarians are against Premier Doug Ford’s call for an early election. CTV’s Colton Praill reports.

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Recently released data for the first six months of 2024 from Toronto Public Health has found that the median age of death for women experiencing homelessness in the city is just 36.

In 2022, unhoused women who died in Toronto were on average 42 years old. That number was 43 in 2023.

The median age at death for men experiencing homelessness in the first half of 2024 was 50.

Torontonians residents, in general, live much longer with men typically dying at the age of 78 and women at the age of 85, according to 2022 data.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

aka Millhouse.

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As calls grow for removing Canada's interprovincial trade barriers to help counter the effects of a potential trade war with the United States, some experts say Manitoba is among the provinces that stand to gain the most from any regulatory cuts.

That idea was borne out by a recent index from the Montreal Economic Institute, which in 2021 suggested that if those barriers had been completely eliminated in 2020, Manitoba's gross domestic product per capita would be nearly $5,000 higher in 2030 compared to a status quo scenario. Only Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador would have seen greater gains, the institute said, with GDP boosts of $10,000 and $9,000, respectively.

The idea of reducing barriers to trade between the provinces and territories isn't new, but has gained renewed attention in recent weeks, with federal Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand saying this week those barriers could all crumble within a month.

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A sudden, rash move by the mercurial administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, in terms of oil tariffs or the Enbridge pipeline, would be a serious source of financial concern, even for Canadians who are eager to see the country wean itself off oil production as a revenue source and hasten the transition to a clean-energy economy.

This has Canada suddenly considering its short and long-term export and transport options for an industry that will still be around for a few more decades.

That includes breathing some life into an idea that sounded fanciful mere months ago: Transporting oil across the northern Manitoba muskeg and filling tankers at a port on Hudson Bay.

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A new project providing transitional housing in converted shipping containers in Gatineau, Que. is proving a success, advocates say.

On a parking lot next to the former Robert-Guertin Centre in Hull, Village Transitiôn aims to reduce homelessness by providing private and safe lodging to residents who previously lived in tents.

The first residents moved in shortly before Christmas and already the 40 units of the project's first stage are full.

"It's small ... but it's perfect," said one woman. CBC is not naming her due to the potential stigma associated with homelessness.

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Sometimes you come across an image online that's so horrifying you can't unsee it. For Krzysztof Franaszek, it happened at work.

Franaszek runs the advertising research firm Adalytics based in the US. Recently, he was studying where ads for the US Department of Homeland Security end up online, and the project took him to an image-sharing website called ImgBB. There, Franaszek uncovered something sickening: sexually explicit images of a very young child, with adverts for Fortune 500 companies running alongside them.

He immediately reported the content to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and child safety organisations. The Canadian Centre for Child Protection – one of those Franaszek alerted – says it found at least 35 images flagged by Adalytics on the site that meet its classification of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The Centre says it notified ImgBB, and the images were taken down. An FBI spokesperson says the bureau reviews all allegations of criminal conduct but does not comment on tips from the public. The DHS did not respond to questions.

The more Franaszek dug, the clearer the problem became – and his findings raise questions about how the adverts you see online may also be inadvertently pumping large sums of money into undesirable, and at times illegal, corners of the internet.

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Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.

The information is then being used by Facebook’s owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the Observer can reveal. A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors’ data – including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click – and sharing it with the social media company.

By law, data should only be used and shared for marketing purposes, with explicit permission obtained from users on the websites in which the tools are embedded. But testing by the Observer of 150 gambling sites – including virtual casinos, sports betting sites and online bingo – found widespread breaches of the rules.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Canada doesn't need fElon Musk invited up here to fuck with our lives.

Nope nope nope.

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Every morning, Nick Voyles jumps in his car and hustles to a methadone clinic in a nearby strip mall. As he walks up to the glass partition that separates him from the nurse—and his daily dose of America’s most regulated drug—his mind starts racing: What if this takes forever and I’m late for work? What if I can’t pee while I’m being watched? “I’m scared the entire time,” he says. “I’m called to the window and I’m just waiting to see what will happen.”

For Voyles, the executive director of the Indiana Recovery Alliance, a harm-reduction organization based in Bloomington, methadone has been a lifesaver and a stabilizer. “I bought a house. I married the woman I love,” Voyles told me on a rainy day as we sat on mismatched couches in the group’s office. “I raised a child. I’ve got a career.”

Despite well-established benefits—it reduces overdose deaths by as much as 59 percent—and low risks, methadone is the only prescription drug that doctors cannot call into a pharmacy and is solely available through segregated clinics. Unless they’re granted the “privilege” of take-home doses, people have to travel to the clinic every day or risk going into withdrawal. In the 30 years Voyles has been on methadone, he’s missed many Christmases with his family in Texas. Since he couldn’t get take-homes, he wasn’t at his mother’s bedside when she was diagnosed with cancer. He’s driven to clinics an hour away and shown up two minutes after dosing hours have ended to be turned away at the door.

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U.S. President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order Friday stopping all aid to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group.

The Trump administration says a land expropriation law South Africa recently passed was “blatantly” discriminatory against its white Afrikaners, who are descendants of Dutch and other European colonials. The Trump administration said the South African government was allowing violent attacks against Afrikaner farming communities.

It also accused South Africa of supporting “bad actors” in the world, including the militant Palestinian group Hamas, Russia and Iran.

[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

I use Mullvad, based in Sweden. Works great for me.

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Donald Trump’s tariff threats have sent most Canadians into a panic. But for the country’s corporate class, the crisis has spelled opportunity.

They’re pushing their long-standing wishlist of corporate tax cuts, deregulation, and austerity—and even expressing appreciation for the U.S. president’s bullying.

The head of the country’s most powerful lobby group, the Business Council of Canada, sounded positively grateful while attending Trump’s inauguration.

“I think we owe the president a thank you,” CEO Goldy Hyder told journalists in Washington, D.C. “He’s woken us up.”

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Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party leadership candidate Wally Daudrich joked to a group of party members this week he could reduce homelessness in Winnipeg by letting polar bears loose downtown.

Daudrich, who operates ecotours to view polar bears east of Churchill, on the coast on Hudson Bay, made the comment as a joke during an appearance at a Winnipeg hotel on Wednesday night.

"We have a homeless crisis here in Winnipeg. I always say where I come from in Churchill, we don't have any homeless people. Anybody take a guess why?" he asked, eliciting laughs.

"When there are serious repercussions for a bad lifestyle, people smarten up very quickly. So my plan is to import 10 polar bears and let them go in front of the Ledge," Daudrich said, referring to the Manitoba Legislature.

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April Woodhouse, 50, was found lying outside on the steps of a house in Pinaymootang First Nation—about 240 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg—not far from where she lived.

In the hospital, she said they were told April had signs of internal bleeding. When Stagg went into the hospital room, she noticed something else.

“I was holding her hand, and I noticed her hands were badly beaten,” she said, adding there were marks on her sister’s body.

When Stagg called RCMP, she was told her sister’s death was not being considered a homicide.

When CTV News first reached out to Manitoba RCMP on Tuesday, a spokesperson said April’s death was a “medical incident.”

However, one day later, RCMP responded to CTV News again. This time the police said an investigation is underway.

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