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Daily Bread to cut off Scarborough food bank after reporting financial concerns to police

Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank is cutting ties with one of its largest member agencies after the charity uncovered discrepancies with invoices Feed Scarborough provided to support grant funding and reported those and other financial management concerns to police.

Daily Bread’s board of directors decided not to renew Feed Scarborough’s membership agreement last week, so it will no longer receive food deliveries or funding from Daily Bread after its membership expires at the end of this month.

The charity’s CEO Neil Hetherington says Daily Bread had previously paused funding to Feed Scarborough while it investigated financial irregularities, but continued providing the organization with food so residents of south Scarborough wouldn’t be impacted.

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UK: Young People Have Concluded There’s No Point Getting a Job

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced that Universal Credit (UC) will increase in April to match inflation. Universal Credit is a monthly Government payment designed to support people on low incomes or those who are out of work, originally replacing multiple benefits with a single payment. It provides financial support for housing, childcare, disability and caring responsibilities. Alongside the increase, the Government has also announced cuts in certain areas in an attempt to encourage people back into work. However, these changes are unlikely to resolve rising unemployment rates. It is still some form of money – and a substantial amount too.

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Fawlty Towers stage show slapped with woke trigger warning for ‘adult themes and controversial topics’

The Fawlty Towers stage show has been slapped with a woke warning for ‘adult themes and controversial topics’, including the use of bad language and violence.

The Leeds Heritage Theatre issued a trigger alert for the comedy show, which previously ran on London’s West End and is heading on tour across the UK.

Fans were warned to expect ‘adult themes’ from the stage show, and put in place an age limit for audience members to be over 14 years old to see it, even though tour bosses previously said it was not recommended for theatre-goers under five.

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Why Canada should make a bid to host the United Nations headquarters

Donald Trump’s assault on the United Nations continues. Last Wednesday, he signed an executive order pulling the United States out of 31 UN bodies or agreements, in addition to another 35 that work closely with it.

These 66 entities do crucial work promoting world order and global well-being. They include the Framework Convention on Climate Change – the only truly global effort to prevent catastrophic overheating of the planet – as well as the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, offices dedicated to fighting child soldiery, violence against children, sexual violence in conflict, and so on.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, U.N., U.N. Corruption, United Nations, USA, WTF?

Olympic tensions flare as US skeleton star alleges Canadian coach rigged qualifying event

Sporting tensions between the USA and Canada have erupted once again, this time in skeleton as next month’s Winter Olympics approach.

The USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton, has accused the Canadian team of depriving her of a place at the Milan-Cortina Games by manipulating a qualifying event over the weekend.

Uhlaender says that Canada deliberately pulled four of its six athletes from the race in the North American Cup in Lake Placid, New York. That meant the field was reduced to under 21 athletes and fewer qualifying points were on offer due to the lack of competition. Uhlaender believes the Canadian team did so to prevent American athletes from catching them in the standings for Olympic qualifying.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

As couple’s trial resumes, advocate questions Children’s Aid Society’s ‘outrageous’ decisions before boy died

Becky Hamber, Brandy Cooney Killer Moms

With the trial for two women accused of killing a 12-year-old boy they were trying to adopt now in its final weeks, the public deserves to know if and how the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) has been held accountable, says Ontario’s former child advocate.

But full transparency from the CAS is very unlikely, said Irwin Elman, who was in the independent watchdog role from 2008 until the Ford government closed his office in 2019.

“The child protection system is a closed system,” said Elman, who’s not involved in the trial but has been closely following it.

No one will lose their job over this horror story.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCrime, WTF?

Canadians’ pandemic drinking habits have stuck. Here’s how bad it’s gotten, according to new report

Canadians are drinking more frequently than they did before the pandemic, with a new report showing a rise in both daily alcohol consumption and weekly binge drinking since 2019.

Documented in the 2025 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Monitor eReport, released Monday, the findings suggest that habits formed during COVID-19 have not switched back to previous levels and may be contributing to higher levels of psychological distress.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

Uber-rich lead rise in diagnoses of ‘longevity fixation syndrome’

There are two certainties in life: death and taxes. It seems now the uber-rich and famous appear to believe that they may be able to avoid them both.

Leading health professionals have recognised a new disorder, longevity fixation syndrome, which they say is an obsession with longevity so all-consuming it begins to take over daily life.

Now a Swiss clinic has said that it has seen a “significant uptick” in clients coming to them exhibiting symptoms.

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