Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

they were supposed to match 

[ID: An Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint comic. Yoo Joonghyuk and Han Sooyoung are standing together, both looking angrily in the same direction. Joonghyuk has little pigtails and a trans coloured scrunchie. He’s wearing a t shirt over his coat that says “I (Heart) My Bisexual… Wife + Husband”. Some text is cut off by his crossed arms, and the heart is the bi flag colours. Sooyoung is shouting with angry disbelief, wearing a matching t shirt that says “I (Heart) My Bisexual War Criminal Husbands” and a trans-coloured sweatshirt around her waist.

[context: tl;dr: my friend siraj and his family of 24 have been trapped in the area of gaza facing the heaviest assault and no way out due to a lack of funds]

bombing in northwest gaza city has subsided just enough that transportation is now available for siraj. he needs to move his family and supplies a mere 500 meters in order to access the trucks and get out of that area

he is about $600 usd short of the transportation cost to get his entire family to the south of gaza

ive seen people raise more in less time i am literally begging people to donate and reblog so he can get out of gaza city and live another day

this is probably the most urgent post i have ever made about siraj's situation. he either gets out of gaza city or his family dies.

i don't want to lose him.

[verified]

really valuable little piece from a 17 year old poet and writer in gaza about the reality and indignity of relying on foreign aid solicited online. this has been the reality for gazans since the beginning of the genocide when a lot of people lost their jobs. while a lot of discourse around online fundraising understandably centers the necessity of this aid (or, less sympathetically, the feelings of westerners who object to the knowledge of our position of power that gazan fundraisers reveal) i really think the perspectives of the palestinians who do the e-begging has been lost.

notice how his post never once suggests you should /stop/ aiding gazans through donations or even deprioritize it. what he is asking is explicitly solidarity, not charity. while it cannot undo the hierarchy inherent to the practice, radical charity is a thing and i think we owe it to people like yazan that we do not see gazans as a helpless population (or a horde invading our attention) but people in their own right using the tools available for them, as we use the tools available to us to help keep them alive.

this post was taken from @abolishtheusa on instagram, and yazan's instagram is @yazan._.mohammd. here is his chuffed fundraiser.

here is the linktree for the sameer project, a which also relies on donations and is running seriously low on funds

On Instagram @ bridge.of.solidarity

✅️🦋Verified by Butterfly effect project line 355 in spreadsheet🇵🇸🚨🦋✅️

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #515) ✅️

✅️My campaign is listed on Jessica Rapoza's Linktree of verified families.✅️

***My blog on We Are Not Number website here you can read more about my life struggles in this genocide 😭***

I'm Areej Kasab(Shatat ),

I'm a mother for three kids (Yahya, Aysha,Reem) and need your help in getting a bag of flour for my kids to feed them some I'm Areej Shatat I'm a mother for three kids and need your help in getting a bag of flour for my kids to feed them some bread and to know more about us, there is nothing to eat except bread so please make your best efforts to give me some money to buy a bag of flour for those kids 💔💔💔

My daughters and son always ask me: “When will we eat like other children?”💔💔💔😢 and there's no answer for this‼️

One bag of flour costs 1000$ please help me to have this money each two weeks so in one month I need 2000$ Please share this as much as you can 🙏🙏🙏🙏😢😢😢😢😢

I also have baby reem who is only 6 months and she needs diabers One bag of this costs 100$ and I need every month 4 bags so it costs 400$ Also one can of milk costs 100$

Please do your best to help even with 5$

Please save my kids they are all my life I can't imagine to lose them in this cruel war 💔‼️🙏

Please Donate here please my babies are waiting you 😢🙏🥺🥺🥺⬇️⬇️

You can support me here 🙏❤️

Chuffed here 4% 4230$ out 100k

Or in GFM link here 20℅ 11,987$ out of60k$

More than 50,000 children killed or injured in Gaza.

Source

Every day, every hour, these numbers are increasing day after day. The Zionist army does not differentiate between innocent civilians and even children in Gaza. All living and even inanimate creatures are bombed and killed. They are exposed to destruction.

We are exposed to the worst types of suffering, famine and massacres. There is no description that I can describe to you so that you get the picture, but I would like to tell you that we need you and your help. My children need you. Share the post with your friends and donate any amount you can, please.

My son longs to see trees and natural scenery instead of destruction and devastation. I shared the drawing with him and told him that Palestine will be free and we talked about the fact that we have many friends who will not support us constantly and will not let us suffer alone in this war.

He offered to write some of them and I said that you have advised well. They are truly wonderful and giving people and I hope you will always be that way, my friends.

My son Hussein is waiting for some compliments on his drawing.

Let's support him, please.

Donation link here.

My campaign has been shared by @90-ghost and @nabulsi .

My family is also listed as #245 on the vetted fundraisers list by @/gazavetters.

🗡️ill be your savior — a guardian angel bound to protect

⚔️ this piece was inspired off themes of radiance, divinity, and the beauty of being QTPOC - viii strength