Canada was not able to convert a second-half penalty and had to settle for a scoreless draw against Nigeria in their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Group B opener from Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on Thursday....
I think Canada played poorly in their soccer match against Nigeria, and surely they can perform better. I’m just glad that Ashley Lawrence didn’t get seriously injured after that nasty foul.
Unifor has reached a tentative agreement with Metro grocery stores. The agreement covers 3,700 frontline grocery workers at 27 Metro stores across the Greater Toronto Area....
The Canadian women’s national team is preparing for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand. After winning gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Canada enters the tournament as one of the favorites to claim the title. However, the team’s roster has undergone some significant changes since the...
The City of Toronto had 102 candidates run for mayor in the June 26 byelection, but many people think that’s too many. City council is expected to vote on a motion this week that, if passed, might see that number cut down considerably in the future....
Michael Smith, a 71-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia and multiple health conditions, longs for a place he can call home after being without one for 25 years. Currently residing in a downtown Toronto hotel, which serves as a temporary homeless shelter, Smith has built a sense of community and stability. However, the hotel...
A group of asylum seekers in Toronto has been forced to sleep on the sidewalk outside a shelter intake office for several days, enduring extreme heat and rainfall....
It’s a good question! After all, we have seen occasions where the federal government handed money to provincial governments, and they refused to actually spend it on the intended sector.
While civil disobedience, especially among brave women, has increased, the situation not only has not improved but has also gotten worse. For example, banks are forced not to provide service to unveiled women, hefty fines and sometimes imprisonments are imposed on those who are without hijab, vehicles are seized because unveiled women have been captured by the CCTVs inside them, and so on.
These are aside from the continuous political oppression, mass arrests, tortures, and executions of those who publicly oppose the regime and the current situation in Iran. In the past two days, there have been reports of deaths among dissidents while in custody (apparently due to excessive torture and lack of medical care). Also, yesterday, Toomaj Salehi, a well-known Iranian rapper, who was extremely vocal during the Mahsa Amini protests and publicly sided with the people seeking freedom, was sentenced to more than 6 years in prison after being in solitary confinement for about 8 months.
So, in a nutshell, things have not improved because the root causes of the uprising are not and will not be resolved under this authoritarian regime. Clearly, things can’t go on like this in the long run, and change is inevitable. The only question is when!
Canada held to scoreless draw by Nigeria in FIFA Women’s World Cup Group B opener | TSN (www.tsn.ca)
Canada was not able to convert a second-half penalty and had to settle for a scoreless draw against Nigeria in their 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Group B opener from Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on Thursday....
Outcry over Quran burning in Sweden: A timeline (www.aljazeera.com)
Iraq has expelled Sweden’s ambassador shortly after protesters had stormed its embassy in Baghdad and set parts of the building on fire....
Canadian men climb two places to No. 43 in latest FIFA world rankings (www.cp24.com)
In the wake of a busy June, the Canadian men have moved up two places to No. 43 in the latest FIFA world rankings....
Toronto City Council passes Mayor Chow's motion to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic (www.cp24.com)
Toronto city council has declared gender-based violence and intimate partner violence an epidemic in the city....
Strike averted as Unifor and Metro reach tentative collective agreement (www.unifor.org)
Unifor has reached a tentative agreement with Metro grocery stores. The agreement covers 3,700 frontline grocery workers at 27 Metro stores across the Greater Toronto Area....
June 2023 financial update for lemmy.ca
This is a little late, but I figure that it’s better late than never!...
Women's World Cup 2023: How Canada's roster has changed since the Tokyo Olympics (ca.sports.yahoo.com)
The Canadian women’s national team is preparing for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand. After winning gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Canada enters the tournament as one of the favorites to claim the title. However, the team’s roster has undergone some significant changes since the...
Is 102 candidates for mayor too many? Some Toronto councillors aim to burst bloated ballots (www.cbc.ca)
The City of Toronto had 102 candidates run for mayor in the June 26 byelection, but many people think that’s too many. City council is expected to vote on a motion this week that, if passed, might see that number cut down considerably in the future....
Why this Toronto grocery worker is going on strike - Macleans.ca (macleans.ca)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1677755...
Why Erin O’Toole wants politics to be less polarized (toronto.citynews.ca)
In today’s Big Story Podcast, we have Justin Ling interviewing Erin O’Toole....
With another Toronto shelter hotel to close, residents call for action from new mayor (www.cp24.com)
Michael Smith, a 71-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia and multiple health conditions, longs for a place he can call home after being without one for 25 years. Currently residing in a downtown Toronto hotel, which serves as a temporary homeless shelter, Smith has built a sense of community and stability. However, the hotel...
'It's an emergency': Officials meeting to address refugees stuck sleeping on downtown sidewalk (toronto.citynews.ca)
A group of asylum seekers in Toronto has been forced to sleep on the sidewalk outside a shelter intake office for several days, enduring extreme heat and rainfall....
Students barred from Iranian universities for refusing to wear a hijab (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1324530...
OPP rolls out new text-messaging tool (cknxnewstoday.ca)
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are taking to your devices to help keep you informed of certain events....
Toronto transit least reliable in the GTA, new report cards find (www.cbc.ca)
Only about 58% of Toronto transit trips are on time, regional board of trade says...