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…
Photo credit: Euro News Just like road to heaven; Our old rugged earth; Roads tarred in white seems a heavenly delight! Trees wrapped in white present a fine sight! Lonesome are streets due to snowstorm! When it’s snowy; It deters moving from any place to other space! Since it’s snowing; it’s time for coffeing, to get recessed…
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…
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…
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…
Clearing dirty debris of sordid history, off to sea! Flotsam and jetsam they soon become: What goes up, down must come! Chasing water, exquisite palaces built! Corpse’s lone foot malignantly stuck out! Water finds level! Levelled are palaces, built on the sea! Ojo nro, Sere ninu ile, Ma wo nu ojo, Ki also re, Maba…
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…
