Toronto announces 6 new shelter locations!
Photo credit: CBC Toronto plans to build new homeless shelters in the coming years. CBC News reports that city officials announced this on Wednesday, before warming centres were set to open so vulnerable people could get indoors before temperatures plunge. The city plans to open two 80-person shelters by 2027 and the remainder by 2030. They…
German retirees find low-cost refuge in Hungary!
Photo credit: Reuters Over recent years, thousands of Germans, mostly retirees, have settled in Hungary, lured by cheap housing and low living costs. The Japan Times reports that the right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban is anti-migrant, according to political analysts and the expats themselves. “With the policies that have taken … with Angela Merkel’s 2015…
Tough times for asylum seekers in Papua new Guinea!
Photo credit: Aljazeera Asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea will be stripped of government-provided housing and healthcare under a new deal that forces them to cover all living expenses with a single allowance. ABC News reports that the asylum seekers were sent to PNG more than a decade ago under an offshore processing deal with Australia, which has…
Who’s Mad? Tan Were? – Adewale Sobowale
The news is awash with the Osodi Chief Tout’s children’s graduation in far away United States of America. Hmm… The Yoruba say if a mad man gets a hoe he would first clear the grass towards himself. The late Fuji maestro Ayinde Barrister also sang about a person called a lunatic who did not fail…
Getting better! – Adewale Sobowale
Photo credit: the Guardian Things are getting better in Nigeria. Someone called me this morning while waiting for a Bolt taxi. He was at Maryland and he was going to Ilupeju. Out of curiosity I asked him how much he was going to pay. His response was 1,800 naira. I then asked him what the…
