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Toronto announces 6 new shelter locations!
Photo credit: CBC Toronto plans to build new homeless shelters in the coming years. CBC News reports that city officials announced this on Wednesday, before warming centres were set to open so vulnerable people could get indoors before temperatures plunge. The city plans to open two 80-person shelters by 2027 and the remainder by 2030. They…
German retirees find low-cost refuge in Hungary!
Photo credit: Reuters Over recent years, thousands of Germans, mostly retirees, have settled in Hungary, lured by cheap housing and low living costs. The Japan Times reports that the right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban is anti-migrant, according to political analysts and the expats themselves. “With the policies that have taken … with Angela Merkel’s 2015…
Tough times for asylum seekers in Papua new Guinea!
Photo credit: Aljazeera Asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will be stripped of government-provided housing and healthcare under a new deal that forces them to cover all living expenses with a single allowance. ABC News reports that the asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has…
Trump to end birthright citizenship!
Photo credit: PBS President-elect Donald Trump has promised to eliminate birthright citizenship as soon as he is inaugurated to fulfil his campaign promises aiming to restrict immigration and redefine what it means to be American. News18 reports that efforts to halt the policy would face steep legal battles. Birthright citizenship ensures that anyone born in the United States automatically…
Ontario lawyer loses licence!
Photo credit: Law Times An Ontario lawyer, convicted of defrauding the US government of over US$3 million and sent to prison for almost four years, has lost his licence to practice in Ontario. NationalPost reports that the lawyer, Ronald Ori Davidovic, between 2014 and 2019, participated “in a scheme in which a network of durable…
20 children nearly smuggled into South Africa!
Photo credit: Africa News South Africa continues to see a surge in the number of undocumented immigrants attempting to get smuggled into the country through some of its borders. The South African reports that in a matter of days, close to fifty people have been recently reported to have been caught trying to enter the…
Syrian refugees in Calgary, GTA, elsewhere celebrate Assad’s fall!
Photo credit: the Globe and Mail On Sunday in Calgary, hundreds celebrated in front of the city hall, waving Syrian and Canadian flags, dancing, and chanting. CTV News reports that Sam Nammoura, co-founder of the Syrian Refugee Support Group, said, “This is the right for a glorious future. Any hiccups along the way, we will…