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Canada’s response to Trump is not at all what he expected
Photo credit: The Guardian President Donald Trump and his top officials keep insulting Canada as they wage their unprovoked trade war against the country. From renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” to joking that Canada is “America’s 51st state,” the Trump administration has assumed that Canada would bend the knee to the United States –…
Israeli airstrikes on a village in southern Lebanon kill 12 people
Photo credit: Reuters Israel’s air force carried out two airstrikes early Monday on a southern Lebanese village, killing at least 12 people and wounding others, including children, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. The Associated Press reports that Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite a truce…
Kenya offers temporary amnesty to undocumented East Africans amid fears of crackdown
Photo credit: Reuters Kenya’s government offered a temporary amnesty to undocumented East African nationals after hundreds of Burundians flocked to their country’s embassy in Nairobi on Monday seeking travel documents, fearing a crackdown on small-scale traders from abroad. Reuters reports that Kenyan President William Ruto last week called on authorities to close down all small-scale…
Protesters block roads in Portsmouth as 140 migrants rescued
Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after 140 migrants in a single dinghy were rescued in the English Channel. BBC reports that in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend, police faced off with demonstrators as they blocked roads in an effort to stop the people who had arrived on the small…
Jamaica to file slavery reparations petition during UK state visit
Photo credit: The independent A Jamaican delegation to the United Kingdom has said it will file a petition addressed to King Charles III to seek legal guidance on the question of slavery reparations. Al Jazeera reports that this is the first time a British Commonwealth state will use this legal route “for the cause of reparatory justice”,…
Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives
A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…
Majority of Canadians now see US as an enemy,…: poll
Photo credit: CTV News For as long as anyone can remember, Canada and the US have arguably been the world’s closest allies and friends. The sibling settler-colonial nations sharing the world’s longest undefended border are deeply linked, culturally and economically, with any differences historically resolved respectfully. National Post reports that as the trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump drags…