Toronto honours Indigenous veterans at City Hall ceremony
Photo credit: Toronto Today Toronto marked Indigenous Veterans Day on Sunday with a ceremony at…

Rights Advocates criticised President Joe Biden of the United States for referring to an undocumented immigrant as an “illegal”.He was accused of echoing the dehumanising rhetoric of his predecessor, Donald Trump. Rights advocates and progressive lawmakers have long condemned the use of the term “illegal” to refer to human beings who do not have immigration…
When I was a kid, I can still remember situations when I refused to eat. It normally happened when I was annoyed. Whenever that happened, my mother wouldn’t utter a word. She would have her meal, and for what I then thought was an overkill, she would begin singing, Bamubamu la yoAwa o mo p’ebiNpo’mo…
Israel has not relented in its efforts to fire Palestinian civilians. Al Jazeera reports that its cameras captured some Israeli forces firing a crowd of Palestinians awaiting aid distribution at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City. The attack is noted to be the second since yesterday. It is also reported that an Israeli air attack…
A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration enforcement effort. U.S. District Judge David Ezra’s preliminary injunction pausing a law that…
The U.K.’s Upper House has passed five amendments on the Rwanda bill. If the amendments are ratified, it would make it harder for the lower house to declare Rwanda a “safe” country. It would therefore require the government to comply with domestic and in international laws. The amendments would also severely affect the main purpose…
A breathless, brutal display of attacking football saw us equal our record away win the Premier League for the second time in a matter of weeks. Following a 6-0 win at West Ham late last month, and a 5-0 hammering of Burnley in our last away league game, we were at it again at Bramall…
Di rising cost of living dey push Nigerians to di point wey be say dem no know wetin to do again. Wit inflation wey don almost hit di highest in thirty years for January, almost half of di population dey live inside poverty now. Di money wey dem dey earn dey below $1 a day….
When Donald Trump speaks at the southern border in Texas on Thursday, you can expect to hear him talk about “migrant crime,” a category he has coined and defined as a terrifying binge of criminal activity committed by undocumented immigrants spreading across the country. “You know, in New York, what’s happening with crime is it’s…
Photo credit: Toronto Today Toronto marked Indigenous Veterans Day on Sunday with a ceremony at Nathan Phillips Square honouring the service and sacrifices of First Nations, Inuit, Metis and non-status Indigenous veterans. Toronto Today reports that the gathering took place at the Spirit Garden outside City Hall, where participants took part in a sacred fire ceremony, traditional teachings, a…
Photo credit: LA Times At least 21 people died after a boat carrying migrants sank off Senegal’s coast, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday. The Daily Mail reports that the ministry said in a social media post that, as of Saturday evening, teams had found one person alive and had mobilized to continue searching…
Photo credit: The Greek Times Twelve migrants have been found dead aboard a boat off the southern coast of Crete, where three separate search and rescue operations have been carried out overnight, with a total of 105 people rescued. IOEMA reports that the tragedy unfolded approximately 15 nautical miles south-southwest of Kali Limemenes, when a…
The vice-president of Nigeria, pastor ‘Yemi Osinbajo, a senior advocate of Nigeria, has declared that the late Afro-beat icon, Fela Kuti, deserves a national award. While I may not comment on the issue of award, I want us to ponder on the indignities Fela suffered for daring to question an unjust government. I believe the…
Onikaluku jeje ewure! We remain joyous;In dark smelly colors,Of rabid corruption,Which barks confusion! Onikaluku jeje agutan! Stead of a Nigerian state;We do have a barbarian tale;We continue to mourn;Our future for so long! Olurombi jeje omo re! We’ve been hoping for youth;Us to save from loot-ers! With arrant yahooing;Plonk goes our hoping! Omo re a…