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Canada's food insecurity becoming epidemic; majority of food insecure households are working families

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Despite anti-poverty efforts, hunger in Canada has not decreased -- and it has now reached epidemic levels in Nunavut, where almost half of households suffer from food insecurity, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers.

One in six children under the age of 18 in Canada lives in food insecure households, according to Household Food Insecurity in Canada, 2014, a report published by PROOF, a U of T research group.

Household food insecurity is the inadequate or insecure access to food because of financial constraints.

In Canada, rates of food insecurity are monitored by Statistics Canada through the Canadian Community Health Survey. In 2013-14, the food security survey was optional, and Yukon, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador opted out.

High rates of food insecurity have persisted across the provinces and territories that participated in the survey. Food insecurity is a serious public health problem that takes a measurable toll on individual health and well-being, and costs our health care system.

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Dark days ahead: Porter Ranch gas leak will lead to summer blackouts

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The immense six-month Porter Ranch gas leak in Southern California has left local power plants without enough fuel and will eventually result in blackouts this summer.

After the leak began in October 2015, the Southern California Gas Company stopped using the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility. The fuel storage location provides 11 million people across the region with gas.

According to California officials, the leak led to a drastic decline in gas supplies for the state's power plants and will lead to electricity shortages during the summer.

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PayPal withdraws North Carolina investment project over anti-LGBT legislation

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© AFP PHOTO ERIC PIERMONT PayPal had planned to invest $3.6 million in a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina that would have employed more than 400 people
US online payment giant PayPal dropped plans Tuesday to invest millions of dollars in North Carolina, joining a growing chorus of protests by major companies against recently passed state legislation targeting transgender people.

PayPal's move came as another state, Mississippi, signed into law a measure that allows government officials and businesses to deny gay people service if it conflicts with their religious beliefs.

The legislation is part of a series of measures that have been labeled ant-gay that are sweeping southern states.

The North Carolina law, known as HB2, prohibits local governments within the state from enacting policies protecting the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community from discrimination at public facilities and restrooms.

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Russia bringing peace, humanitarian aid and forging international bridges while Western media keeps silent

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American foreign policy pundits and their echo chamber in the press scoffed at Russia's intervention in Syria: it would be a quagmire. When Russia brought home most of its planes after a successful campaign against ISIS, Americans pretended to be 'surprised'. 'Putin is bad' was replaced by 'You never know what this guy is going to do next'.

These comments follow logically from the virtual news blackout on the uninterrupted flow of academics, businessmen and politicians to Russia during the last few years. St. Petersburg, Vladimir Putin's home town, vies with Moscow as a major international conference and event hub, but you have to watch Russia's international channel RT, to learn about these goings-on. France's international channel, France 24, which usually reports on the same events as its Russian counterpart, is silent on Russia's international confabs.


Most recently, Germany's Foreign Minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, was in Moscow signing all sorts of deals. He and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov announced the resumption of the Petersburg Dialogue, a forum that gathers representatives of Russian and German civil societies first launched more than 15 years ago. The two ministers also signed a joint commitment to back a cross-cultural youth exchange year spanning 2016-2017. At the same times, the German diplomat agreed to reactivate the Interagency High Level Working Group on Strategic Cooperation in the field of economics and finance.

Comment: Russia's remarkable renaissance (and why the West is seeking to crush it)


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NY Governor and NYC mayor ban nonessential travel to North Carolina as protest over anti-LGBT law

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
© Chip Somodevilla/2015 Getty ImagesNorth Carolina Governor Pat McCrory
Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio have found something they both can agree on. There's been some bad blood between New York's governor and New York City's mayor in recent months, but on Monday, they both issued bans on nonessential government travel to North Carolina to protest the anti-LGBT measure rushed into law last week.

"In New York, we believe that all people — regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation — deserve the same rights and protections under the eyes of the law," Cuomo said in a statement. "From Stonewall to marriage equality, our state has been a beacon of hope and equality for the LGBT community, and we will not stand idly by as misguided legislation replicates the discrimination of the past. As long as there is a law in North Carolina that creates the grounds for discrimination against LGBT people, I am barring non-essential state travel to that state."

The governor and mayor issued similar travel bans last year when Indiana passed a law allowing businesses to refuse service to the LGBT community on religious grounds. Those bans were lifted when Indiana modified the law.

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Minnesota Governor bans all nonessential state business travel to North Carolina over anti-LGBT laws

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton
© Eric Miller / ReutersMinnesota Gov. Mark Dayton
Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has introduced a ban on "all nonessential state business travel" to North Carolina after the state introduced anti-LGBT laws.

In a letter distributed to all Minnesota state employees on Saturday, Dayton took aim at North Carolina's introduction of laws in March whereby local governments were blocked from making their own rules against gender and sexual discrimination, as well as dictating that if using a public bathroom, transgender people would have to use the one according to their gender at birth.

The Democratic governor said such legislation was "appalling" and "violates the values and the laws" of Minnesota as well as being "destructive to the progress we have made to provide equal rights and protections to our LGBT community."

"I direct that all state employees cease all nonessential state business travel to North Carolina until further notice," wrote Dayton.

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Combatting the elite rulers divide and conquer tactics

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In order to keep the populace deceived into believing that the 'theatre of illusion' world they live in is real, it has been necessary for those controlling the show - the world's ruling elite with their stage con artists - to artfully invent a number of distractions. These distractions are designed to keep the populace's focus away from the ruling elite's deceptions so that they don't get worked out and become exposed.

One of the ruling elite's most effective pieces of distraction woven and spun, socially engineered into the fabric of the fake world for controlling the populace, is the divide and rule tactic.

Be it in politics, business, banking, finance, science, religion, race relations, the military, medicine, drugs, etc. the divide and rule tactic continues to have a massive controlling effect on a deceived populace as they bicker, argue, take sides and fight amongst each other, never joining the dots, never seeing the bigger picture, never realizing how they're being played by distraction....

In the divide and rule clash of viewpoints a number of common patterns recur:

1. All sides, each with their conflicting views and ideals, have been secretly manufactured or funded and controlled by the ruling elite. In effect, the ruling elite are the invisible 3rd party in the conflicts.

2. Thus, no side is the one that's 'got it right.'

3. ...or has the 'truth.'

5. No side will ever win. The Hegelian Dialectic conflict will continue here on out. Even if it morphs into a different dialectic the same old conflicts will occur.

6. The destabilizing weakening 'us' versus 'them' scenario prevents those divided and ruled from realizing just how powerful they could be together. How together they could topple those puppet masters at the top of the hierarchical tree....

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Panama Papers Stink: Social media users slam media's focus on Putin

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Dozens of high-profile politicians, including current world leaders, have been directly linked to the biggest data leak in history, but mainstream media has focused on the person who was not mentioned in the Mossack Fonseca documents at all - Russian President Vladimir Putin, causing a social media firestorm.

Putin's name was splashed all over the headlines as details on more than 11.5 million secret files covering Mossack Fonseca's four decades of operation started to emerge. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred to the coverage as "Putinophobia" that has become so severe that it is "practically impossible to speak well of Russia or any type of actions Russia does, or any success Russia enjoys."

​"World leaders actually named in the #PanamaPapers but Putin, who is NOT named, is used by all media covering story?" Stacy Herbert asked on Twitter, referring to Saudi King Salman, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, the current president of Argentina Mauricio Macri among others.

"Pictures of President Putin could be found on the front pages of highly-respected news publications around the globe. The Guardian and the Mail Online were both at it, despite the fact that in the 11.5 million documents that were published; Putin's name was not mentioned once," Jose Alvarez observed, commenting on a CNN story on the Panama Papers.

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Why patriotism is a lie: Tales from two soldiers

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© Charles Rex Arbogast / APSupporters, at left, of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump face off with protesters after a rally was canceled last month at the University of Illinois, Chicago, over security concerns.
When Rory Fanning, a burly veteran who served in the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion and was deployed in Afghanistan in 2002 and 2004, appeared at the Donald Trump rally in Chicago last month he was wearing the top half of his combat fatigues. As he moved through the crowd, dozens of Trump supporters shouted greetings such as "Welcome home, brother" and "Thank you for your service." Then came the protest that shut down the rally. Fanning, one of the demonstrators, pulled out a flag that read "Vets Against Racism, War and Empire."

Click here to see a YouTube video of Rory Fanning being ejected from a Donald Trump rally. During the incident he was doused with a drink and struck.

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LAPD officers shoot innocent man in the head -- he lives on to speak out and sue them

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Shot in the head for holding a towel, a disabled man filed a civil rights lawsuit against the LAPD on Monday for attempting to kill him without reason or warning. Although witnesses assert the man did not pose a threat to anyone, the officer immediately jumped out of his patrol car and shot him without issuing any commands.

At 6:35 p.m. on June 19, 2015, LAPD Officer Cairo Palacios and his unidentified partner were sitting in their patrol car stuck in traffic when they noticed a man standing on the sidewalk attempting to flag down the officers. According to LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith, the cops heard 48-year-old Walter DeLeon calling out to them saying, "Police, police."

Comment: Insanity! Will this madness ever stop?