Hundreds of protesters gathered in Portsmouth on Sunday night after 140 migrants in a single dinghy were rescued in the English Channel. BBC reports that in the second major anti-migrant protest of the weekend, police faced off with demonstrators as they blocked roads in an effort to stop the people who had arrived on the small…
Photo credit: The independent A Jamaican delegation to the United Kingdom has said it will file a petition addressed to King Charles III to seek legal guidance on the question of slavery reparations. Al Jazeera reports that this is the first time a British Commonwealth state will use this legal route “for the cause of reparatory justice”,…
A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…
According to a narrative, Simeon was an old, devoted Jew whom God had promised that he wouldn’t die until he had seen the Messiah. After the Saviour was born, His parents brought Him to the temple for consecration. So when they brought Him to the temple, old Simeon held the little Jesus in his hands…
Do you know why?I’ll always say the truth the way I see it, at that point in time.At that point in time because, I’m confessing naturally that I’m not an avatar of knowledge. I’m always open to superior arguments. Of course, my stand has earned me so many enemies. To the point, only evidence wins…
Photo credit: CTV News For as long as anyone can remember, Canada and the US have arguably been the world’s closest allies and friends. The sibling settler-colonial nations sharing the world’s longest undefended border are deeply linked, culturally and economically, with any differences historically resolved respectfully. National Post reports that as the trade war initiated by US President Donald Trump drags…
Photo credit: The Telegraph On Saturday, dozens of masked people protesting Channel migrant crossings blocked access to the port of Dover, briefly halting ferry traffic between England and France. Al Jazeera reports that images shared online showed dozens of demonstrators dressed in black and wearing balaclavas streaming onto roads surrounding the port in the United Kingdom. In…
