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44 nominated for Global Diaspora elections!
Photo credit: Jamaica Gleaner Forty-four people have been nominated across Canada and the US to contest for seats on the Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC) and the Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Cou ncil (GDYC). The Gleaner reports that 17 of them were nominated to represent the United States Northern Region, 16 to represent Canada, eight…
Trump withdraws Carney’s invitation to “Board of Peace”
Photo credit: Toronto Star President Donald Trump has rescinded an invitation to Prime Minister Mark Carney to join the new “Board of Peace,” – marking the latest upheaval in the relationship between Canada and the US as a critical trade agreement set to be reviewed. Trump did not give details about why he was withdrawing Carney’s invitation…
US Immigration detains 5-year-old!
Photo credit; Aljazeera US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have detained a 5-year-old boy. AA reports that the boy was taken from his home in the state of Minnesota on Thursday .https://youtu.be/RodeOnpH_cc?si=UNFySbztKk-_Qeo- The child was taken by ICE agents from the driveway of his suburban Minnesota home on Tuesday after returning from preschool and was…
Nigeria’s Vice-President links food crisis to import dependence!
Photo credit: Street Journal Vice President Kashim Abubakar has announced that Nigeria no longer views food security through a narrow agricultural lens, but as a fundamental macroeconomic, security and governance issue. Leadership reports that he said the government had begun a multi-dimensional agricultura drive designed to insulate the nation from global shocks while restoring the…
Trump backs off threat over Greenland!
In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, US President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic Island. CBC News reports that Trump had stuck to a take-it-or-leave-it position on Greenland. He insisted that nothing short of the US owning the Danish territory would address…
Seoul’s population outflow slows as youth migration reverses course!
Photo credit; Asia News Network Seoul has consistently seen more people in their 20s and 30s move in than relocate to other regions over the past 24 years, while the overall decline in the number of people leaving the capital has slowed. The Korea Times reports that the Seoul Metropolitan Government released the data on Thursday, based…
Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood gets another social housing project!
Photo credit: Toronto Today After just over a year, a 551-unit apartment building, Dunn House, was opened in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood; a similar project will be sited there. direct access to doctors Toronto Today reports that Dunn House is the first social housing project in Toronto’s housing history to offer residents a roof over their heads, along with direct…