Moroccan police have blocked a second attempt by migrants to cross the border into Ceuta en masse.
Riot police were deployed at the border on Saturday as hundreds prepared to storm the Spanish territory, two weeks after tens of thousands made the crossing.
Migrants gathered in the border town of Castillejos after calls were made on social media encouraging a second attempt.
The federal government says it’s committed to protecting the endangered southern resident killer whale population while also fast-tracking a new West Coast oil pipeline and other infrastructure projects that could threaten the orcas’ survival.
And the British Columbia government has said it recognizes, along with Ottawa, the need to protect these whales when it dropped its opposition to the pipeline last month.
“Long-time readers may remember a piece I wrote two years ago on how Schleswig-Holstein sold their reliable diesel ferry for a song, spent 3.3 million Euro for a new emissions-free solar ferry that doesn’t work and increased carbon emissions on top of it all.”
h/t handy n handsome
Suddenly, everyone – and their grandmother – seems to be an expert on supply management.
That newfound interest is healthy. Canadians are finally examining the benefits, costs and contradictions of a complicated system affecting roughly one-quarter of the country’s agricultural economy.
In a whitewashed basement in a village south of Kabul, a dozen young women bustle about, stirring cauldrons of bubbling cherries and plums, and sticking labels on glass jam jars. Ventures like this are one of the rare spaces where women are still able to gain skills and employment in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
It is run by Najia, a 47-year-old Afghan entrepreneur and mother of nine children who was married at the age of 14.
If the authorities hadn’t barred girls and young women from secondary schools and universities, many of the women in this workshop, including Naija’s daughters, would be studying for a different kind of future.
For the past year and a half Canadians’ attitude toward Mark Carney might best be described as one of deference.
Where he leads, they more or less said, we will go. We aren’t sure how to handle Donald Trump but we have confidence that Carney will make the right calls. Poll after poll confirmed it: in Mark we trust.
But as Canada faces its latest showdown with Trump, with the prospect of 50-percent tariffs being imposed next week, I sense something important has changed. The public mood is shifting — and it’s shifting in ways that will make it even more difficult to get a deal.
France’s highest constitutional authority on Friday struck down the ban on social media for children under 15.
The Constitutional Council ruled that the flagship policy of President Emmanuel Macron’s second term infringed on freedom of expression.
“By prohibiting minors under the age of 15 from accessing certain online services, the law inherently requires every person, even an adult, to prove their age before accessing them,” it said in its decision.
Good news from France is rare.
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TMU struggled to police campus protests over Middle East tensions, a report found. Here’s what it says needs to change
Toronto Metropolitan University needs to tighten its code of conduct and make clear that intimidation and discrimination won’t be tolerated when it comes to protests, says an independent report that looked at growing tensions on campus over the Middle East.
“What began as a review and investigation into two specific events quickly revealed a broader institutional issue: a deeply polarized campus environment shaped by the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” retired Justice Mary Lou Benotto wrote in her
“The review concludes that the two incidents under review were symptoms of a deteriorating campus climate that, absent decisive institutional action, are likely to recur,” she wrote, referring to an on-campus forum and an off-campus event targeted by student protesters that led to arrests as well as misinformation and outrage on social media.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress, but like many of her “Squad” colleagues, she has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.
The Bronx and Queens Democrat has owed between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loan debt since her election to the House in 2018. That’s the same amount she owes now, according to her August disclosure, where lawmakers report ranges for debt and income.
OTTAWA – United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. will not tolerate retaliation from Canada but is hopeful Canadians may take a more conciliatory approach.
“If a country retaliates against us, we’re obviously not going to tolerate that,” said Greer, during a press conference in Des Moine, Iowa, on Friday. “We’ll take action. My sense is the Canadians, they want to have a more conciliatory approach, but we’ll see.”
Should be a fun ride ahead.
A woman has been accused of assassinating a former Ukrainian submarine commander who defected to Russia.
Robert Mansurovich Shageev, who was wanted for high treason by Kyiv, is believed to have been the target of the attack.
A woman identified as 32-year-old Margarita Reut was arrested in Sevastopol in Crimea on suspicion of carrying out the bombing on behalf of Ukrainian special services.
While it may mean fuller jails in the next weeks to come, with one stroke of a pen, Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey has just ended the free hall pass for violent crime.
It will be too late to save slain Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto or the fellow Toronto copper who was shot this week in the thigh, but starting Monday there will be no more free bail in Ontario. That June murder and the August attempted murder were allegedly committed by people out on release conditions. In fact, almost every violent crime is like that.
In the last few months Ford has …
Declined Carney’s offer to increase TFW’s
Stopped paying welfare to foreign freeloaders.
And now bail reform.
Ford’s internal polls must have forced him to pretend he is a conservative.
A public swimming pool in Germany marketed as being inclusive planned an event that would ‘be open exclusively to Black communities’.
The temporary open-air pool in front of Berlin’s Volksbuhne theatre was officially opened just last week, and will remain open for eight weeks.
The €300,000 (£256,289) pop-up was promoted as a summer meeting spot for locals, however, has been heavily scrutinised over plans to shut the pool off to the majority of the public for one day.
A new opinion poll shows the campaign to become the next mayor of Mississauga is a dead heat!
What a heavyweight horse race it is. Strong field. Unique set of circumstances.
You have the former mayor challenging the current mayor, who took over the job in a byelection when the previous mayor quit to pursue provincial politics but wants to come back now that she was unsuccessful there.
No Islamist candidate. I guess these two are sufficiently subversive.
