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Photo credit: CBC A new 36-bed detox space has been established in downtown Toronto. CTV News reports that although the centre essentially helps homeless patients, it’s open to anyone who needs to get clean. There are private and shared rooms, a kitchen with cooked meals and several lounges to play cards or watch the television….

Photo credit: the Guardian Pakistan’s most famous city, Karachi, could get an influx of 2.3 million climate migrants by 2025. According to a recent report, the Good Man Project reports that only Dhaka, Bangladesh, is expected to receive more migrants. If the world fails to meet the Paris Agreement target to keep the rise in global…

Photo credit: BBC Armed and hooded members of the Venezuelan security forces have surrounded Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, according to the country’s opposition. CNN reports that six opposition members are currently taking refuge in the embassy. They fled there to escape a crackdown by Venezuelan authorities in the run-up to July’s presidential elections. Pedro Urruchurtu, who…

Photo credit: CNA Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counterassaults, according to a senior Ukrainian military source. Reuters reports that the source said Russia had deployed 59,000 troops to the Kursk region since…

Photo credit: Victoria News A farm operation in the Cowichan Valley has stepped in to help bring a refugee family from Afghanistan to the region. Sooke News Mirror reports that Cammy Lockwood, the Green party candidate for the Cowichan Valley in the provincial election in October, has hired Mohammed Aziz, the patriarch of an Afghan family…

Photo credit: Times of Israel That the International Criminal Court has issued warrants of arrest on two Israeli leaders and one Hamas leader is no longer news. However, is the ruling worth the paper on which it was written? I ask this question with all seriousness. Lawyers usually use relevant judgements as precedents to support their…

Photo credit: the standard Canada’s Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) uncovered over 10,000 fraudulent student acceptance letters this year. BS50 reports that the revelation follows intensified scrutiny of international student applications, with 500,000 documents reviewed in 2024, under stricter verification measures. Media reports say about 80% of the fake letters were linked to students from…