Youth homelessness summit holds in Toronto!

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…

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Snowstorm by Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: Euro News Just like road to heaven; Our old rugged earth; Roads tarred in white seems a heavenly delight! Trees wrapped in white present a fine sight! Lonesome are streets due to snowstorm! When it’s snowy; It deters moving from any place to other space! Since it’s snowing; it’s time for coffeing, to get recessed…

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Bangladesh holds conference on Rohingya!

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…

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People’s Fair holds in Toronto!

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…

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Ajantala by Adewale Sobowale

Clearing dirty debris of sordid history, off to sea! Flotsam and jetsam they soon become: What goes up, down must come! Chasing water, exquisite palaces built! Corpse’s lone foot malignantly stuck out! Water finds level! Levelled are palaces, built on the sea! Ojo nro, Sere ninu ile, Ma wo nu ojo, Ki also re, Maba…

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