Photo credit: CBC A Seoul-based non-profit organized a program intended to raise awareness about the challenges faced by refugees and defectors from North Korea seeking asylum in Canada on Thursday. CBC reports that refugees from the country shared their stories of hardship, escape and survival with Winnepeggans at the event. Freedom Speakers International, which helps…
Photo credit: Facebook I had wanted to post something on how and why I think Canada is fast replacing the US as the land of opportunities before I attended an event yesterday. The event which continues today is the ‘Faire Nationale de L’Eemploi’ which is being held at Place Bonaventure in the city of Montreal….
Photo credit: Nairaland I read someone’s complaints about their juniors, in school, who had stopped referring to them as ‘senior’. I decided to make this post in order to show, in the first place, that seniority is not for ever. Second, if a person didn’t misuse his ‘seniority’, he becomes an ‘egbon’, as older siblings…
Photo credit: Euro News The Hamas strike is no longer news. Neither is the Israeli reaction. Of course, the seemingly unending Russo-Ukrainian war is still thereThe Sudan conflict continues, and Syria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and many others are in turmoil. We can’t discount the forceful takeover of government in some countries. Which group of people is…
Photo credit: CityNews Toronto About one of the places a newcomer to Toronto should visit is one of the hundred branches of the Toronto Public Library. There, the visitor would see how libraries are run. Apart from the neatly stacked array of books and magazines – not forgetting the fact that there’s no shortage of…
Photo credit: UN News Despite the civil war in Sudan, the number of Sudanese refugees heading home from Egypt has been rising since July. The National reports that an estimated 1.2 million Sudanese have fled to Egypt since fighting broke out in April last year between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The…
