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Green Card Holder detained after 23 years in US!
Photo credit: the Economic Times A US green card holder who’s lived in America for 23 years was detained at a North Carolina airport upon returning from a vacation in the Bahamas. Knewz reports that Sonny Lasquite has been placed in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Although the man, a Filipino migrant, has…
Youth homelessness summit holds in Toronto!
Photo credit: CTV News Toronto’s youth cabinet and a coalition of youth homelessness organizations are calling for a youth-first strategy to break cycles of poverty and prevent youth homelessness across the city. CTV News reports that in a summit that took place Monday at City Hall, over 100 young people and dozens of organizations came together to discuss…
Indian migrant scolds Australians supporting anti-immigration rallies!
Photo credit: The Guardian Indian immigrants across Australia say they fear for their safety ahead of anti-immigration rallies planned for Sunday. Daily Mail reports that one of them has warned that although they pay taxes and help kep the country running, they are increasingly being made to feel like outsiders. The group march for Australia is…
Bangladesh holds conference on Rohingya!
From left, Jahena Begum, 50, and her three disabled children – Sumaiya Akter, 23; Md Ayas, 21; and Md Harez, 19 – live in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [File: Valeria Mongelli/Al Jazeera] Bangladesh is holding a two-day conference on the persecuted Rohingya community before a high-level conference on the Rohingya refugee…
People’s Fair holds in Toronto!
Photo credit: Daily Hive It was a parade of intellectual discussions, exhibition of culture, expositions of political ideas, reaffirmation of struggles, laced with good food, drinks, along with poetry and music at The People’s Fair held on Sunday, August 24 at the OPSEU/SEFPO Downtown Toronto Regional Office. It was organized by various groups, including Students and…
Three sisters die while crossing the Mediterranean!
Photo credit: TRT Global Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy. Daily Mail reports that the sisters were from war-torn Sudan. They were 9, 11 and 17 years old. The Mediterranean route has claimed over 30,000 lives since the…
Canada counter-tariffs US goods!
Photo credit: BBC Canada’s Trade Minister has said the decision to drop retaliatory tariffs puts Ottawa in a better position to negotiate changes to US President Donald Trump’s devastating duties on key sectors and eases tensions ahead of a review of a critical continental trade agreement. Toronto Today reports that LeBlanc said, “Our responsibility as the government is to…