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Photo credit: DW Bethlehem marked another sombre Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of the war in Gaza. CTV News reports that the excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank on Christmas were nowhere to be found: The festive lights…

Photo credit: Daily Mail A global financial agency has warned Australia that “stronger-than-expected” government spending and high immigration are fuelling inflation and stopping interest cuts. DailyMail. com reports that the International Monetary Fund warned about excessive government spending and population growth a few months before Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s upcoming election.   As employment is at…

by Adewale Sobowale I understand the Nigerian government has denied being responsible for the stampedes in which about 70 people lost their lives and quite a few were maimed.  Did anyone remember to remind the Nigerian authorities that in a presidential system of government, the buck rested on the table of the chief executive? The…

Photo credit: Toronto Star Canada Border Services Agency has launched a mobile app to track permanent residents, foreign nationals and refugee claimants who are required to report to border agents while awaiting deportations or final decisions on their immigration status in Canada. Toronto Star reports that the ReportIn app, uses facial recognition technology and location data to confirm identity…

Photo credit: CBC A coalition of mainly Black-led groups amended Friday that the city adopts recommendations from a report critical of its refusal to let refugee claimants access beds in its homeless shelter system in 2022 and 2023. CBC reports that the report by Ombudsman Kwamme Addo, released last week, found that the city’s decision to stop allowing…

Photo credit: CBC The University of Waterloo community is mourning the killing of two Palestinian sisters after they were accepted into a PhD program at the southern Ontario school. CBC reports that the sisters, Sally and Ghazi Ibaid, 26, died in a bombing this month amid the Israel-Hamas war. Their family says they had hopes of…

Photo credit: CNN  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants last fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014, according to a newly released report. CNN reports that although President-elect Donald Trump has rebuked President Joe Biden’s immigration policy while vowing to make mass deportations a cornerstone of his administration, the latest ICE…