Toronto Food Delivery Workers Protest
Photo credit; Toronto Today Hundreds of food delivery couriers temporarily stopped working on Monday to protest…
Biden under knocks!
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…
BAM BAM L’AYO! WE’RE OVERFED!! – Adewale Sobowale
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…
Israeli attacks on Palestinian aid seekers continue
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…
US judge blocks new immigration law in Texas
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…
Lords checkmate Rwanda plan!
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…
Sheffield United 0-6 Arsenal; Match Report
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…
Nigerians deploy different strategies to survive as economic hardship kontinu to bite
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….
Trump’s claims of a migrant crime wave are not supported by national data
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…
Toronto Food Delivery Workers Protest
Photo credit; Toronto Today Hundreds of food delivery couriers temporarily stopped working on Monday to protest their living conditions – and to deliver a letter of their demands to Uber. Toronto Today reports that the demonstration began at Nathan Phillips Square and proceeded to Uber’s office on Bloor Street. The demonstration was organized by Delivery Drivers United,…
South Korea probes passport leak affecting president, 167 others
Photo credit: CNA South Korea’s presidential office held an emergency meeting Tuesday after passport numbers and birth dates of President Lee Jae Myung and 167 members of his overseas entourage were leaked online, according to Yonhap News Agency. Yeni Safak reports that the exposed information, uploaded to a publicly accessible website in June, included details concerning the first…
Different generations have very different ideas of what counts as a respectable career
Each generation was raised with different expectations around work and success. Traditional career paths aren’t necessarily the standard anymore, as younger workers start to question whether climbing the corporate ladder is really worth it. Your Tango reports that if asked what makes a career respectable, some might say a steady paycheck and good benefits, while…
& So What? – Adewale Sobowale
So people have been oppressing you and you have been left sulking. You are not serious. Get on your tracks and prove to them that you just can’t be beaten. Alright, you did not succeed the first time and you retire into your cocoon, tail between your hindlegs, like a rain-drenched dog. No, that’s not…
Oja Oyingbo! Marketplace!! – Adewale Sobowale
Not one present absence;Could be felt in essence!Not even freezing cold;Keeps hustlers in hold! Come they in hundreds;Some for hourly bread;Others do come,Just to windowshop! Few do come-And they stun-With their impacts,Which could be global! Riddle of life:Needn’t be held tight!Easy go, easy come;Life is turned! When markets close,Minding not those-Yet to conclude exchange;No-one dares…
Toronto man discovers 35 half-siblings after DNA test
Photo credit: CP24 A DNA test bought on sale led to a discovery that would change one Toronto performer’s understanding of his family and eventually inspire a musical. CP24 reports that 31-year-old Noam Tomaschoff learned that the man he had grown up calling his father was not his biological father and that he had been conceived…
