News Room
Carney rolls out assistance for sectors affected by tariffs!
Photo credit: the Wall Street Journal Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has rolled out measures that he says will transform the country’s economy into a force that can withstand the trade shocks of the Trump administration. CBC News reports that the measures, announced on Friday, are targeted to specifically help workers and businesses that have…
“Queen of Canada” arrested, rearrested!
Photo credit: BBC Romano Didulo, the so-called “Queen of Canada”, was rearrested on Thursday, a day after she and 15 of her followers were taken into custody and promptly released after a police raid on her cult’s compound in rural Saskatchewan. CBC News reports that all sixteen of them had been released without charges earlier on Thursday, according…
South Korea investigates inappropriate treatment of migrant workers!
Ajit Roy, 41, of Bangladesh came to South Korea for work, but was diagnosed with a deadly lung disease 9months after starting his job at a farming machinery factory. Photo credit: Los Angeles Times President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea has ordered a fact-finding investigation into cases of unfair treatment and delayed wages involving…
Two jailed over Vietnamese people smuggling!
Photo credit: ITVX Two men who attempted to smuggle ten Vietnamese people into the UK have been jailed. Viet Nam News reports that Eoin Nolan and Daniel Loughran were part of a people-smuggling gang who conspired to move ten migrants, including eight children, from Belgium to the UK on March 5, 2020. The gang are…
Trump supporter’s British wife faces deportation!
Photo credit: the Times of India Donna Huges-Brown, a British woman who has legally lived in the US for over three decades, faces deportation after being detained at Chicago’s O’Hare. The Times of India reports that her husband, a former Trump supporter, regrets his vote while blaming the administration’s immigration policies. The woman, a green…
Illegal container-style boarding house director fined!
Photo credit: The Post A South Auckland property director has been fined after running an illegal boarding house for migrant workers that wasn’t fit to live in. The Scoop Independent News reports that Paul Knights was fined $54,000 by the Auckland District Court for housing migrant workers in 44 container-style cabins that lacked adequate fire safety systems…
Sudanese rape victims speak…
Photo credit: A Jazeera This story includes graphic details of sexual violence, including against minors. Some readers may find this disturbing. Islam, a young woman from El Geneina, Sudan, was preparing for her exams when a strike landed directly on her family’s home. She is now in a refugee camp in Adre in eastern Chad. Now 22, she…