If we don’t help LGBTQ+ organizations now, services will disappear | Opinion | Page 885 | Unpublished
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Author: Aaron Hutchins
Publication Date: February 10, 2026 - 04:00

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If we don’t help LGBTQ+ organizations now, services will disappear | Opinion

February 10, 2026
LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits deliver critical services and programs to the most vulnerable queer people. In Ottawa and across Canada, they’re facing the perfect storm: economic precarity, government belt-tightening and corporations rescinding financial support, all made worse by a social and political climate increasingly hostile to LGBTQ+ acceptance. Read More


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The deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is reverberating on the other side of the country in the small Newfoundland fishing community where the killer’s mother spent her early childhood and many of their family members still call home. Police have identified Jesse Van Rootselaar, 18, as the shooter. Van Rootselaar’s mother, Jennifer Jacobs, 39, and 11-year-old half-brother, Emmett Jacobs, were also found dead Tuesday at the family home in Tumbler Ridge. Van Rootselaar, who identified as a trans woman, then killed six people at the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School before dying...
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