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Photo credit: Aljazeera Ugandan opposition leader Bobby Wine says he has escaped from house arrest after police denied claims from his party that he had been seized by helicopter, with the final result of Thursday’s election to be announced shortly.  Wine’s party had said a helicopter landed in the grounds of his house in the capital,…

Photo credit: City Bews Ontario A new report confirms what many people already see with their own eyes: the homelessness crisis in Ontario is getting even worse. Toronto Today reports that, according to updated numbers from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), nearly 85,000 people across the province were known to be homeless in 2025….

Photo credit: Aljazeera Thousands of people marched from Copenhagen City Hall to the US embassy on Saturday in protest of President Trump’s comments that he wants to acquire Greenland. NPR reports that the crowd, waving Greenland flags, chanted “Greenland is not for sale.” Many demonstrators wore red hats in Trump’s own “Make America Great Again” fashion that read,…

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I hear Nigeria is hiring an American lobbying firm for $750,000 per month over six months to defend its international reputation in the US. In total.  The total is  $4.5m. The contract doesn’t stop there; it continues for another six months, bringing the total to a whopping sum of $9 million. The government is spending more money than the Bafran separatists,…

A Toronto city council committee has approved a plan to transform a heritage church into a 48-storey development -a proposal that one supporter says sets a new standard for how faith institutions redevelop underused land amid the housing crisis. Toronto Today reports that several years ago, developer Kindred Works proposed a 12-storey building for the site…

Photo credit: the Guardian Uganda’s presidential election was plagued by widespread delays on Thursday. The Canadian Press reports that there was also a days-long internet shutdown that has been criticized as an anti-democratic tactic in a country where the president has held office since 1986. Some polling stations remained closed for up to four hours…