For the last three years, Mary Crosby has been collecting thousands of pairs of socks to give back to the local shelters to those who need it most.
“If you’re homeless and you’re out walking the streets, what are you going to wear out first? Your socks,” said the 63-year-old who is retired from hospital admin.Even before her donation efforts, Crosby has been knitting 50 pairs of socks a year for the last 20 years and has been donating them to her local shelters. “When I’m sitting, I’m knitting,” she laughs.
“Well the big one is, ‘Mary, Queen of Socks.’ I was labelled that last year and this week somebody on Facebook called me, ‘The Sock Star’. A lot of people in the group get a big kick out of that. I had somebody make me a coffee mug that says, “Mary, Queen of Socks’”. “Right now, the state of our cities is a mess. It breaks my heart when you drive around the cities and see tents. People trying to survive and some of these people work but can’t afford an apartment,” said Crosby.
Canada has evacuated 41 diplomats and their 42 family members from India after Delhi made good on its threat to strip them of their diplomatic immunity, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly said Thursday. This move will impact the level of service delivery Canada will be able to provide in that country.New data shows that errors are growing in Canadian hospitals, as one in 17 hospitalizations from March 2022 to March 2023 involved a patient experiencing harm, according to a new report..
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