Photo credit: CTV News Toronto’s youth cabinet and a coalition of youth homelessness organizations are calling for a youth-first strategy to break cycles of poverty and prevent youth homelessness across the city. CTV News reports that in a summit that took place Monday at City Hall, over 100 young people and dozens of organizations came together to discuss…

Photo credit: The Guardian Indian immigrants across Australia say they fear for their safety ahead of anti-immigration rallies planned for Sunday. Daily Mail reports that one of them has warned that although they pay taxes and help kep the country running, they are increasingly being made to feel like outsiders. The group march for Australia is…

From left, Jahena Begum, 50, and her three disabled children – Sumaiya Akter, 23; Md Ayas, 21; and Md Harez, 19 – live in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Valeria Mongelli/Al Jazeera] Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee…

Photo credit: Daily Hive It was a parade of intellectual discussions, exhibition of culture, expositions of political ideas, reaffirmation of struggles, laced with good food, drinks, along with poetry and music at The People’s Fair held on Sunday, August 24 at the OPSEU/SEFPO Downtown Toronto Regional Office. It was organized by various groups, including Students and…

Photo credit: TRT Global Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. Daily Mail reports that the sisters were from war-torn Sudan. They were 9, 11 and 17 years old. The Mediterranean route has claimed over 30,000 lives since the…