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7 ways Iran war could affect Canadians

Photo credit: Citynews Toronto The war the US launched against Iran could have implications for Canadians’ pocketbooks and security. Toronto Today reports that as the conflict engulfs the broader Middle East, the following are the possible outcomes for Canada: 1) An oil boom? The war is already choking global fuel supplies. One-fifth of the world’s oil…

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6 = <0.5 – Adewale Sobowale

I’m not a mathematician, but I know that the six Yoruba state governors, in the actual sense, are really less than half of a whole number. We all know the federal government is of little use to the common man. I stand to be corrected, we’ve never had it so bad at the center. Even…

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Ogede Nbaje! – Adewale Sobowale

So, killings are now the order of the day in Nigeria. I really wonder how we got to this state of things in Nigerian society. In the Nigeria of my childhood, criminality was scorned. There’s no society that’s crime-free, but the frequency of crimes in Nigeria is alarming. Those involving human lives are simply pathetic….

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And, I Cried! – Adewale Sobowale

I’d always considered myself a strong man. Now, I had usually been surrounded by women. Yeah! On my maternal side, apart from mom, I had this troika of grandmas. One was Mama Ghana. She was my biological grandmother. A no nonsense woman, she didn’t have the time for my shenanigans. She called a spade its…

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Diary of a cow! – Adewale Sobowale

Sons of men are celebrating today. They say today’s International Women’s Day! Hmm… There’s even a saying among them that if you educate a woman, you’re educating a generation. So, if you educate a man, you must be educating generations. But then, there’re women that calling them women of substance is an unfavourable understatement. This…

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Stateless! – Adewale Sobowale

Lucky ones went with a backpack; Others with only the clothes on their backs, since their lives depended on it! When they arrived an unknown land, some had to sleep rough, with no loonie, and neither food nor water! No border remembers their names No anthems rise when they stand, The wind never asks for…

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Supreme Court says asylum seekers entitled to subsidized Quebec daycare

Photo credit: Global News Quebec discriminated against female refugee claimants by introducing regulations that denied them access to subsidized daycare spaces, Canada’s highest court said Friday, leading to strong rebukes from members of the provincial government. The Canadian Press reports that in an 8-1 ruling, the court said that blocking female refugee claimants from subsidized daycare threatens to marginalize…

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