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Photo credit: Radio Canada Canada lost 68,000 jobs in September, according to Statistics Canada, marking a second straight month of losses. CBC News reports that the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 6.5 per cent, the same level it was at the start of the year. The figure bucked economists’ predictions of a 9,200-job gain…

Photo credit: TVS A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit Panama, the latest strong tremor after a 7.7 quake struck the country a day earlier, local media reported on Saturday. Shafaq News reports that the country’s emergency operations chief Rene Garcia said no deaths were immediately reported, while at least two people were injured in the earllier earthquake. Seismo…

Photo credit: Daily Mail Restoring Indigenous cultural burning could help break a “catastrophic fire loop” plaguing Australia’s southeast forests, a new study has found. Researchers reconstructed the past millennium of vegetation, fire and erosion in Victoria’s Croajingolong National Park in East Gippsland, one of the country’s most fire-prone forests. The study, published on Thursday by the University…

Photo credit: The Hill Times Prime Minister Mark Carney responded Thursday to tech industrialist Elon Musk’s endorsement of provincial separation movements by saying Canada’s future will be decided by its citizens – not by large US tech firms. The Canadian Press reports that speaking at a news conference in Sherbrooke, Que., Carney said  Canadians can live…

Photo credit: DW Anti-migrant protests in two South African cities, Durban and Soweto, turned violent on Thursday, with the government blaming disinformation over a court ruling on asylum seekers. Reuters reports that five cars were burnt in Durban. Foreign-owned shops were also looted.  The unrest followed a protest by a group demanding that a refugee…

Nigeria – A Season of Serial Betrayals A Civic Renaissance Series for themigrant.online When a state can no longer guarantee the safety of its citizens, the social contract begins to unravel. There is no greater responsibility of government than the protection of human life. Before roads, before schools, before hospitals, before economic prosperity, there must be security. A citizen…

Photo credit: Reuters The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims. The Associated Press reports that the office of Prime Minister Balendra Shah decided on Monday that search…