Diane Scaletta

Can someone please explain why Canada is giving $800,000,000 USD to USA universities? @uvic cannot afford a pool, VIU daycare. Budgets slashed due to protesters eating the budgets.

Small-scale farmers grow 1/3 of the world's food 🍎🌏 To think big when it comes to building sustainable, healthy and equitable #FoodSystems, we have to think small.

Humanity’s relationship with nature is at a tipping point. It’s time to choose a smarter path. Investing in healthy ecosystems is vital to providing clean air and water, regulating our climate, and supporting livelihoods.

This. 💪

The world is at a crossroads and counting on Canada. Let’s stand for human rights, democracy, and equality because #AidWorks

Devastating news from @snolen of @nytimes on the absolutely life-threatening #USAID cuts in global health. The ED of the African Population and Health Research Center @CKyobutungi is blunt: “People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” International cooperation is not optional. These lives are not optional. Canada and the world must fight back and step up. nytimes.com/2025/02/27/hea…

Within days of assuming office, Trump has thrown international aid into chaos: issuing a "stop work" order on most US international assistance, making moves to shutter USAID, and beginning the process to withdraw from the @WHO. These decisions threaten countless critically needed programs across the world and put millions of lives at risk. Read more on the situation and what we need from Canada in this moment in our latest feature in our LinkedIn newsletter The Informed Advocate 👇 linkedin.com/pulse/canadas-… | #cdnpoli #IDW2025

The Hadzabe, one of Africa's last true hunter-gatherer communities, are experiencing the impact of climate change on their livelihoods. 🐝Thanks to an IFAD-supported project, they have received beehives & honey production equipment, learning to adapt to the changing climate.

For #RuralWomen, financial independence can open up a world of possibilities — and put their goals within reach. Take it from Hayet in #Tunisia 👇🇹🇳

Canada has a strong legacy of leadership in global nutrition🌍 A renewed commitment and investment are critical to address the malnutrition crisis and especially benefit women, girls, infants and babies. Find out why Canada must act now to #FeedOurFuture at the #NutritionForGrowth Summit in March! 🌱 Read more 👇 resultscanada.ca/campaign/campa… Join us in taking action 👇 resultscanada.ca/strengthening-… @JustinTrudeau #cdnpoli #malnutrition #hunger

In Saskatchewan, struggles to stem highest #HIV rate in Canada increasingly urgent as cases rise across country, by @alanna_smithh theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via @globeandmail #AIDS #WorldAidsDay

𝟯. The most direct investment we can make in a sustainable future for the whole planet 🌟 #InvestInRuralPeople

“We will overcome AIDS if the rights of everyone, everywhere, are protected.” — On Sunday’s #WorldAIDSDay, @antonioguterres calls for removing barriers to vital services to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. unaids.org/en/2024-world-…

Today the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence begins. There will be the Mayor's Proclamation & some speakers at the Launch, in the Mayors Offices at City Hall Nov. 25, at 2 pm. We will be collecting dry or canned food for the Food Bank. Please come and wear purple!

Every 10 minutes, a woman is killed. There is #NoExcuse for violence – not at home, not at the workplace, not in public, not online. Nowhere. Let's UNiTE to end violence against women. #16Days

"We saw what happened in Canada when we were able to eradicate polio... and we know that's what we need to do with a strong investment in @gavi for children around the world." See this and other personal impacts of💉below👇@ResultsCda x.com/ResultsCda/sta…

Forcibly displaced and stateless women and girls are at higher risk of gender-based violence. Gender-based violence is a violation of human rights, and there is #NoExcuse for inaction. During the #16Days of Activism and beyond, let’s fight discrimination and inequality.