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Last night an 11 year old girl Riya Rajkumar was kidnapped by her dad and this followed an amber alert that broadcasted province wide . Unfortunately she ended up being found dead.

And many Ontarians actually had the audacity to complain about how the alert “woke them up and scared them” instead of focusing their anger towards the actual problem. Many even still had the nerve to actually continue to complain after she was found dead saying “it was pointless than”.

If Riya was a white girl named Rebecca this sort of reaction would probably not have happened. If she was a white little girl people would have been all worried and calling her father a monster, writing think pieces on child abuse ect. These people lacked the empathy to be concerned over this little girl because she was brown instead of white girl. Some white woman even had the nerve to tweet there was no concern cause she was with her father.

Google’s futuristic development on the eastern waterfront, Quayside, is only the first step in an expansive and ambitious plan to build new neighbourhoods — and new transit — throughout the entire Port Lands, the Star has learned.

In return for its investment in this vision, Sidewalk Labs wants a share of the property taxes, development fees and increased value of city land that would normally go to city coffers.

Internal documents obtained by the Star show Sidewalk Labs plans to make the case that it is “entitled to … a share in the uptick in land value on the entire geography … a share of developer charges and incremental tax revenue on all land.”

During her two terms as a city councillor, McMahon voted against the interests of community housing residents (2C, 1), homeless people (6A, 6B-6), and those of us who rely in general on tax-funded services - tax money that she’s now advocating for Google to steal. She doesn’t have even a passable understanding of what Toronto needs, and yet she’s now in charge of convincing us that this nightmare will be beneficial.

When it comes to celebrating his family name, Dave Assman refuses to take no for an answer.

After Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) denied his latest request for an ‘ASSMAN’ vanity licence plate, the Melville man had an oversized decal designed to replicate the plate in question and then placed the decal on the tailgate of his white Dodge Ram pickup truck.

Assman — pronounced OSS-men — said he appealed SGI’s decision on Tuesday and received a message around four hours later that his request had once again been rejected. Then the railroad worker took action.

“I could have got a plate for the front but I really wanted a vanity plate on the back of my truck!” Assman wrote in a social media post showing off the decal.

“See, I hate to say it but I’m kinda a sarcastic ass and well I just wanted to go big!” he said later via direct message.

WHO THEY ARE:

“Rainbow Railroad receives hundreds of requests for help every year from countries where LGBT individuals are open targets of violence. Because the volume of requests is so high, we focus our efforts on assisting LGBT people who have faced physical violence or face an imminent threat of violence, imprisonment, or death. We have been successful in helping individuals from the Caribbean, Africa and Middle East where we have local networks to support and validate cases.”

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO HELP?

“The costs range as every case is unique. Sometimes the individual has the resources to help themselves and they just need information and support from us to make a move.  In these cases, the cost to Rainbow Railroad is staff and volunteer time to research and provide information.  In cases where they need financial support to get to safety, it costs about $5000 to cover flights and other related costs.”

You can donate at the following link: https://www.rainbowrailroad.ca/donate

contrary to popular belief, Gays can do math, but only at MAX CAPACITY, you can either invent the laws of gravity or you can cry over fractions 

this is… the fairest call out I’ve ever received 

Rowan Burdge says she’s spent more than $70,000 over the last 10 years just to keep herself alive with the insulin she needs to treat her Type 1 diabetes.

She has extended health benefits through her job, but that plan excludes insulin and her additional insurance is capped at $7,000 annually for her treatment needs.

So Burdge is forced to pay out of pocket for something that provides “just the baseline of not dying.”

“It’s terrifying. It’s overwhelming. I know if I make a mistake with my insulin shots, I could die quite quickly, which is horrifying,” she said.

Burdge made the comments at a media event in Burnaby South Wednesday evening, as reporters and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh listened. She was one of three local residents who told stories of struggling to afford the medication they need to survive before Singh touted his party’s plan to implement a national universal pharmacare plan.

Rowan says she’s spent $70,000 on medication to treat her diabetes. She has coverage through her work but her insulin isn’t covered. #cdnpoli

Singh, who is running in a Feb. 25 byelection in Burnaby South, said Burdge’s story is common across Canada and only the New Democratic plan will properly address the issue.

According to Reuters, the Liberals will soon announce a limited plan to cover some drug costs and plan to campaign on the policy during the October general election.

“What the Liberals are proposing and Mr. Trudeau is proposing is a patchwork system which will not help out all Canadians,” Singh said. “It might help out the Bay Street insurance companies that profit to the tune of billions of dollars.”

So I decided to even things up and do a recs list of ten short stories featuring only two male authors and eight authors of other genders.

This was not hard! There’s lots of great short stories written by people who aren’t dudes, available to read online for free. The only hard part was narrowing my list down. (Also writing descriptions of each. I’m really bad at pithy enticing nonspoilery descriptions. My apologies for the below. I did my best.)

Here you go:

1. Never the Same, by Polenth Blake Set on another planet on a colony that isn’t thriving, exploring the family stuff of the main character at the same time as exploring the reason for the colony’s difficulties. It’s complicated and unsettling in the best kind of ways, and has a wonderfully interesting main character.

2. The Perseverance of Angela’s Past Life, by Zen Cho I figure at this point I have recced my favourite Zen Cho story (The House of Aunts!) often enough that it’s time to take a break and recommend other Zen Cho stories because she has SO MANY good stories because she’s a brilliant writer; her stories are never a disappointment. This one is about dealing with an overly-literal past version of yourself who you thought you’d left behind, and it is lovely.

3. The Cage, by A.M. Dellamonica Look it’s the canadian lesbian activist community werewolf baby story of my heart. IT’S BASICALLY THE BEST.

4. The Tempting: A Love Story, by James Alan Gardner Definitely one of the weirder stories on this list, and I love it for that. I haven’t reread it in a while and I don’t actually remember the plot? Haha like I ever read for plot anyways. AT ANY RATE this is a deeply interesting story and I recommend it! or it wouldn’t be on this list, obviously.

5. The Bride In Furs, by Layla Lawlor An excellent fairy-tale-ish story, with a good fairy tale feel, that is all about ladies, aww yeah. INTO IT.

6. The Lady Astronaut of Mars, by Mary Robinette Kowal It’s about an aging famous astronaut who’s been wanting another opportunity to venture into space for years. What a good everything. I cried and it was amazing.

7. Burning Girls, by Veronica Schanoes Let me go with the official description because it’s better than what I could come up with: This story “is a fascinating dark fantasy novella about a Jewish girl educated by her grandmother as a healer and witch growing up in an increasingly hostile environment in Poland in the late nineteenth century. In addition to the natural danger of destruction by Cossacks, she must deal with a demon plaguing her family.” YEAH. And it’s REALLY GOOD.

8. Sauerkraut Station, by Ferrett Steinmetz Little House on the Prairie in space, is more or less its hook, and it IS that but it is also a million times better than that makes it sound. I had a lot of feelings.

9. Jackalope Wives, by Ursula Vernon Ursula Vernon won a Nebula for this! And with good reason, holy crap. I mean I love every word Ursula Vernon ever puts down on page or screen but this is definitely a particularly good piece of Ursula Vernon’s words. It’s… I don’t know, it’s a fairy-tale-ish story with a strong sense of character and of place, and about identity and about making hard decisions. And stuff. I’m bad at one-sentence plot teasers!