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Photo credit: MSN Rumeysa Oziuk, a Turkish student was detained on Tuesday evening in Somerville, Mass., outside of Boston. CBC reports that she was accosted by masked and plainclothes agents in the latest Trump administration action against a foreign student who had voiced support for Palestinians in Israel’s war in Gaza.  Her arrest came a…

Photo credit: Toronto Star Toronto city council has unanimously approved Mayor Olivia Chow’s plan to fight US tariffs, despite reservations expressed by some members that the measures were “performative”. It would do little to deter American trade aggression, according to them. Toronto Star reports that in a speech, Chow accused US President Donald Trump of launching a…

Photo credit: the Cable The Yoruba have a saying, it is: While the place we’re going to may not be far, the various side attractions delay us in getting there. In 1952, the Irish writer Samuel Beckett wrote a tragicomedy named “Waiting for Godot.”  The play consists of conversations between two characters – Vladimir and…

Photo credit: Yahoo News A Canadian professor has warned that irregular immigration and drug smuggling could surge in Canada because of US President Donald Trump’s strict border enforcement. Fox News reports that Kelly Sundberg from Mount Royal University said on Sunday that a “tsunami” of illegal immigrants can be expected to cross the United States into…

Photo credit: New Arab An appeals court judge said Monday that Nazis were treated better under the Alien Enemies Act than Venezuelan migrants removed from the US and flown to El Salvador earlier this month. CBS News reports that Judge Patricia Millett while admonishing the Justice Department during oral arguments said: “Nazis got better treatment…

Photo credit: UN News South Sudan is tethering on the brink of a return to full-scale civil war as violence escalates and political tensions deepen, the head of the UN mission in the country (UNMISS) Nicholas Haysom warned on Monday. According to the UN website, he warned that “A conflict would erase the hard-won gains made…

Photo credit: Aljazeera Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved to dissolve Parliament and trigger a snap election on April 28. AlJazzera reports that the decision on Sunday, after meeting with the governor-general to request parliament’s dissolution, has kicked off an election race.  On the festering tension with the United States, Carney said: “We are facing the most significant crisis…