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Photo credit: the Guardian Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for over a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves, he Home Office has said. The Guardian reports that the announcement is part of a package of measures to be announced…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…