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Photo credit: the Globe and Mail Ottawa should open a permanent residency pathway for Ukrainians who came to Canada through a special visa program launched after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress said on Wednesday. CTV News reports that the CEO of the congress, Ihor Michatchyshyn, said his organization presented a policy…

Photo credit: Aljazeera US President Donald Trump has ordered a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, in Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Nicolás Maduro’s government, targeting its main source of income. The National reports that it is unclear how the order will be imposed, and whether Mr Trump will turn to the…

Photo credit: Antares News Indonesia’s Migrant Workers Protection Ministry is integrating its Golden Migrant Village program with the Ministry of Villages’ Thematic Village scheme to make overseas job placement safer, cheaper, and better regulated. Antara reports that the initiative was discussed by Minister of Labour and Protection of Workers Mukhtarudin and Ministers Yandri Susanto for…

Photo credit: CTV News A conservative Canadian think tank has ranked Canada as the twelfth “freest” country in the world based on a global index that measures human freedoms, while claiming that freedom has declined for the vast majority of the world’s population in recent years. CTV News reports that the Fraser Institute, jointly with…

Photo credit: Rolling Stone These are certainly interesting times as the United States President Donald Trump has sued the BBC for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the US Capitol. His action has opened an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems…

Photo credit: Shalee global Traditionally, a major source of outbound students to Asia-Pacific countries, Malaysia is now seeking to reverse that trend through new government and institutional initiatives aimed at attracting more international students in the region through streamlined, shorter admissions and approval processes. University World News reports that Malaysia’s Deputy Higher Education Minister, Mustapha Sakmud, told…

Photo credit: CTV News The World Happiness Report says Canadians under 30 were the happiest age group in the country as recently as 2011. Toronto Today reports that they’re the unhappiest now. The 2024 edition of the decades-long study of global happiness, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, asked participants…