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An investigation into unmarked graves and missing children by British Columbia’s Sto:lo Nation has revealed at least 158 deaths, most of them at a hospital.

The report by the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization calls for urgent attention to save both lives and jobs. Beyond the nine countries rating the highest level of concern, the agencies said 22 countries are identified as “hotspots’’ risking acute food insecurity.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $250 million in new food aid on Thursday, June 23, 2022, and blamed the growing threat of starvation squarely on Russia as he prepared to meet with leaders whose nations are feeling the pangs of famine.

In other parts of the world, the kind of nightmare scenarios the West is anticipating have already arrived. 

No mother should have to lose her child. Owliyo Hassan Salaad has watched four die this year. A drought in the Horn of Africa has taken them, one by one.

The UN World Food Program has warned that millions of people in the developing world and conflict zones are on the brink of starvation following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one of the world's biggest wheat exporters.

The unprecedented feeding program is a state and federal response to last year's record number of 1,101 documented manatee deaths.

A residential school in Manitoba known for harsh discipline and fatal runaway attempts has been the focus of a large-scale, years-long investigation into sexual abuse allegations.

Six wolves at risk of dying of starvation have successfully been moved off a northern Ontario island to one on the U.S. side of Lake Superior.