News Room
Netherlands considering sending rejected asylum seekers to Uganda!
Photo credit: the Telegraph The Dutch coalition government, headed by Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party, is considering sending Africans whose asylum requests have been rejected to Uganda. However, opposition politicians have said the plan is impractical. The Guardian reports that the Dutch minister for trade and development Reinette Klever, during a visit to Uganda this…
Majority of Canadians say there’s too much immigration!
Photo credit: CBC A long-term tracking has found that many Canadians believe their country has accepted too many immigrants. They made this revelation in a poll released on Thursday. 58 per cent said there’s too much immigration. In 2023, 44 per cent and in 2022 27 per cent believed Canada had too many immigrants. The…
Italy ships migrants to Albania!
Photo credit: Aljazeera Italy has set a record by being the first EU state to divert migrants to a non-EU country. The first sixteen migrants rescued at sea while trying to reach Europe through Italy arrived at the Albanian port of Shengjin on Wednesday aboard an Italian navy vessel. According to Italy’s Coast Guard, the…
Canadian dairy industry dumping billions of litres of milk!
Photo credit: Vancouver is awesome A new study found that Canada’s dairy industry discarded enough milk to feed 11 per cent of the country’s population every year for over a decade. Vancouver is Awesome reports that research published in Ecological Economics found that between 6.8 billion and 10 billion litres of milk have vanished from…
Cambridge man penalised for threatening asylum seekers!
Photo credit: Cambridge News A man who phoned a Cambridge hotel to threaten asylum seekers has been handed a five-year criminal behaviour order. CambridgeshireLive reports that Robert Shortman phoned the hotel on a withheld number at about 5 p.m. on August 4 and asked if it was housing asylum seekers. The call lasted about 36…
The EU has a hurdle to cross before deporting migrants!
Photo credit: Luxembourg Times Some European Union countries are pushing to normalize ties with Syria to facilitate deportations of migrants as mainstream leaders look to replicate anti-immigrant far-right parties’ surging population across the continent. Politico reports that the EU cut ties with Syria in 2011 due to that country’s violent crackdown on protesters, which spiraled…
Taylor Swift concert to genarate $282m economic boost for Toronto!
Photo credit: Destination Toronto Pop star Taylor Swift’s massively popular Eras Tour is expected to generate 282 million dollars in economic impact for Toronto. CBC reports that her six concerts, which will be held next month, are sold out. Destination Toronto, the non-profit representing the city’s tourism sector, estimates there will be more than $152 million in…