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Mass protest over OSAP cuts!
Photo credit: CBC Students across the province protested recent changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) – the post-secondary financial aid system which will go from a majority grant structure to a majority loan structure in the new school year. CBC News reports that hundreds of students rallied outside Queen’s Park in Toronto, while hundreds more walked…
Toronto gets $25M donation to establish new model for tackling homelessness!
Photo credit: CBC A philanthropic organization says it’s donating $25 million to establish a new system for tackling homelessness in Toronto that will use an evidence-based approach to move people off the streets and into supportive housing. Toronto Today reports that the Slaight Family Foundation says the money will go to a St Michael’s Hospital research centre,…
The migrants in the ancient forest (contd)
Photo credit: VICE It was in the summer of 2021 that people from Somalia, Iraq, Syria, and other countries with ongoing conflicts began showing up in the Polish woods. Many had children with them. They entered at the Belarusian border, through perhaps the world’s most politically engineered migration trade route. Months earlier, Aleksandr Lukashenko, the…
Boat capsizes off Libya …
Photo credit: Daily Sabah Emergency teams recovered victims after a migrant boat capsized off the coast near Derma, in Libya. Africa News reports that the incident once again underscores the dangers of the Central Mediterranean migration route. Saleh Jumaa Al-Mahjoub, a member of the Libyan Red Crescent, said 12 bodies have been recovered so far in the Qasr Al-Akhyar and Ghanima…
The migrants in the ancient forest
Photo credit: The New Yorker Last August, Ahmed found himself in Belarus, at the Polish corder, watching a smuggler lean a ladder against a very high wall as members of the Belarusian border guard looked on. The New Yorker reports that Ahmed, a nineteen-year-old Somali, is tall and lanky, with close-cropped curly dark hair. At home…
Trump’s Iran gambit: A strategic quagmire with no clear exit!
Photo credit: NDTV The Trump administration’s military intervention against Iran has evolved from a presumed swift demonstration of force into a deepening strategic quagmire. Yeni Safak reports that initial assumptions underpinning the campaign – that intensive aerial bombardment would paralyze Iran’s military capacity and that internal dissent would trigger popular uprisings – have collided with battlefield realities. Tehran has maintained its retaliatory capabilities,…
Canada urges diplomatic solution in Iran!
Photo credit: Toronto Star Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada would like to see a diplomatic solution to the ear in Iran, even as Canada has expressed support for the US military attack that killed Iran’s leader on Saturday. Toronto Today reports that Anand, speaking to reporters in New Delhi after Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly cancelled his scheduled…