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Photo credit: CBC The provincial government of Ontario committed to enacting new laws to protect migrant farm workers last July but is yet to follow it through. To this end, the advocacy group Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW) has sent the province an open letter. In the letter, the group calls for agriculture-specific requirements for…

Photo credit: BBC Although police from Kenya have been deployed to Haiti, the gangs terrorizing the country have warned they would resist the deployment of the Kenyan policemen, who are better armed and equipped than their hosts. The Washington Post reports that hundreds of Kenyan police officers were deployed to Haiti to beat back the…

Photo credit: Global News A person reportedly fell from a ride at Canada’s Wonderland on Thursday. Global News reports that the person was subsequently taken to a trauma centre. York Region Paramedic Services said they responded to the amusement park in Vaughan at around 2:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a person had fallen from a…

Photo credit: Daily Mirror A Sri Lankan and 64 Thai are among the 88 foreigners detained by Malaysian immigration authorities in a crackdown on sex activities at three locations. Daily Mirror Online reports that the operation took place at a hotel and two entertainment venues suspected of offering sex services on Tuesday and Wednesday. The…

Photo credit: the West Australian Two people running a massage parlour in a Western Australian town have been accused of exploiting foreign workers. Illawarra Mercury reports that the two, Yuteng Zhang and Jess Fang Ching Ting, allegedly mistreated a 36-year-old woman after she arrived in Australia last year by confiscating her passport, underpaying her and…

Photo credit: Daily Post Not less than 29 people were killed in Gaza and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a camp for displaced people outside a school in southern Gaza. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said Tuesday’s strike it next to the gate of al-Awda school in the town of Abasan…