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HEALTHING -- 'Good intentions are not enough': Volunteers who just show up in Ukraine contributing to dangerous 'disaster tourism'

BY ANTHONY FONG (FGJ ‘22) -- Along Poland’s border with Ukraine there is Hrebenne, a bustling pop-up community in a parking lot with a patchwork of canopy tents and trailers. People busily criss-cross the scene, some in bright volunteer vests, others in camouflage or religious habits. There are portable toilets and even a bank machine. READ MORE. 

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THINK GLOBAL HEALTH -- Bake for Ukraine

BY MONICA KIDD (FGJ ‘22) -- Anna Makievska has joined the civilian defense against Russia's war in Ukraine. But not by building Molotov cocktails or helping to pile sandbags.  By baking bread and keeping people fed. READ MORE. 

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TORONTO STAR --  Amid Victoria’s drug crisis, the angel of Pandora Street helps keep homeless people alive

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- Her day has just begun, but by the time she walks the single block from where she stows her bicycle to the grim Victoria sidewalk that is home for the people she helps, Millie Modeste has already comforted three homeless and addicted souls. READ MORE. 

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TORONTO STAR -- For Logan Staats, defending Wet’suwet’en territory is the fire that fuels his music

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- Singer-songwriter Logan Staats was performing at the Wet’suwet’en blockade in northern British Columbia in November when a swarm of RCMP officers grabbed his hair, slammed his face on the ground, jumped on top of him and arrested him, he said. READ MORE.

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NEWS DECODER -- In Ukraine war, Red Cross defends neutrality against critics

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) AND DANEESE RAO (FGJ ‘22) -- The Red Cross’s long tradition of neutrality is proving controversial in some quarters as it seeks to help victims on both sides of the war between Russia and Ukraine. READ MORE. 

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NEWS DECODER -- Decoder: What happens if you buy a carbon credit?

BY MONICA KIDD (FGJ ‘22) -- Anyone with a credit card and the inclination can go online and buy credits to offset the carbon costs of a family vacation or the emissions of their weekly commute. READ MORE. 

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CBC NEWS -- B.C. conservation group moves thousands of salmon — by hand — so fish can produce millions of eggs

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors' dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea. READ MORE. 

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TORONTO STAR -- Black Canadians’ chances of getting kidney transplant hurt by race-based adjustment

BY KATHARINE LAKE BERZ (FGJ ‘22) -- Charles Cook has survived a stroke, a heart transplant, a kidney transplant and months in Toronto General Hospital. The 53-year-old knows he’s one of the lucky ones. But he worries that while waiting for his next new kidney, his luck will run out. READ MORE.