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Photo credit: Reuters says countries must consider reparations for slave trade A UN committee said countries are legally obliged to consider reparations for the transatlantic slave trade and take other measures to address the enduring legacy of racial discrimination it says persists today. Reuters reports that guidance published on Monday by the Committee on the…

Photo credit: Edinburgh live Hundreds of flags were removed from lampposts across Scotland, with many removed in Edinburgh last year as social tensions around immigration grew. Edinburghlive reports that over 700 banners – almost all of them saltires or Union jacks – were taken down from public property by local authority workers in 2025/26, marking a…

Photo credit: The Globe and Mail Every Sunday morning, on the westernmost edge of Toronto’s Cabbagatown, 45 or so worshippers cram into the tiny chapel at Saint Luke’s United. Every seat in the pews is usually spoken for, with extra chairs squeezed into the aisles. But the tight quarters haven’t cramped the church’s sense of…

Photo credit: Yahoo News Canada’s immigration reset is entering a harder phase. After Ottawa sharply reduced planned arrivals of international students and temporary workers, the head of a prominent immigration-policy council is arguing the country should go further. Parisa Mahboubi, who chairs the CD Howe Institute’s Immigration Targets Council, says the federal goal of bringing non-permanent…

Photo credit: Global News When a house of worship closes its doors, a sense of emptiness and melancholy can inflect the final services. By then, the congregation is often reduced to a greying trickle, easing into a quiet coda that follows a decades-long period of decline. For the Lutheran Church of the Criss, west of downtown Winnipeg,…

Military-run Guinea-Bissau will hold a referendum on Sunday on a constitutional change that would give the president more powers ahead ofc a general election meant to restore civilian rule later this year. Euro News reports that this new constitution was presented by transitional, unelected bodies that emerged from the military coup d’etat last November. Bubacar Toure, who heads…

Photo credit: Leadership Newspaper Dozens of soldiers were killed or arrested after a group of young troops attempted a mutiny in Niger’s capital in what was seen as a major threat to the country’s junta, according to a state television broadcast and analysts. The Associated Press reports that it was the culmination of nearly 24 hours of unrest that appeared…