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Ferdinand calls Blatter out on comments re: racism in football Rio Ferdinand – respect! 

Mental-health patients dying young http://www.healthzone.ca/health/mindmood/mentalhealth/article/931141–mental-health-patients-dying-young?bn=1 Affordable housing advocate Linda Chamberlain knows eight people with mental illness who have died recently. But she’s convinced it wasn’t mental-health issues that killed them. “I can’t tell you how many people are dying at 40 from heart attacks due to diabetes and not proper Continue Reading

Prince The Dog Returns Home After 5 Years, Finds Owner Myrna Carillo’s New House If you move four times in five years, it’s hard enough for the mail to find you, let alone a dog. But that’s just what one smart Shih Tzu did this past week. According to NBC Continue Reading

Settlement agencies shocked by gag order “Immigrant service agencies were horrified when they got a government email last week banning them from discussing recent federal funding cuts that may kill some of them — a memo Citizenship and Immigration Canada now says was all a big mistake. Members of the Continue Reading

[The Star] The casualties of Rob Ford’s war 🙁 good summary on the damage Rob Ford is already doing to our communities. He said there would be no tax increases and no cuts in service; hell, he guaranteed it. What are these things? Cuts and increases. He suggests that refugees Continue Reading

Szeto Wah, Political Activist in Hong Kong, Dies at 79 Szeto Wah, a Hong Kong union leader and critic of British colonial rule who became an implacable critic of the Chinese Communist Party after the Tiananmen Square killings in 1989, died on Sunday after a long struggle with lung cancer. Continue Reading

Orphaned Chinese brothers face separation Gao Zhi Xiang doesn’t know how to break the news to his 8-year-old brother, Zhi Xin, when the day comes for his deportation. The 19-year-old, who arrived in Toronto last year on a visitor’s visa from China to see their dying mother, is faced with Continue Reading

Hope fades for Toronto student facing deportation An 18-year-old Toronto high school student who fled Mexico for Canada three years ago is “feeling very, very alone” after news Thursday that he will be deported to Mexico on New Year’s Day. Daniel Garcia, a Grade 11 student at Parkdale Collegiate Institute, Continue Reading