Getting my Canadian permanent residency should have felt like a win. But I’ve lost a lot along the way

Getting my Canadian permanent residency should have felt like a win. But I’ve lost a lot along the way

I was 18 when I moved to Canada as a Nepalese international student, carrying two suitcases and a simple dream: to study, build a career and eventually call this country home. However, I didn’t fully understand when I first arrived how uncertain and emotionally exhausting the journey to permanent residency could be.

While I studied psychology and international relations at the University of British Columbia, I interned at the Canadian Cancer Society and worked as a research assistant in a lab. I said yes to opportunities, built connections and slowly started to feel like I belonged here.

I didn’t know Canada had a crisis level shortage of psychology and international relations majors.

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U.S., China to slash tariffs on goods worth US$30B after Trump-Xi meeting

U.S., China to slash tariffs on goods worth US$30B after Trump-Xi meeting

The United States and China released Monday reciprocal lists of products worth about US$30 billion each that will see tariff cuts, from American hair products to Chinese toys, in a deal expected to boost bilateral trade.

The details came days after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington in his first state visit to the U.S. since 2015. The U.S. had already reduced tariffs against China after Trump’s tariffs reached as high as 145 per cent at one point last year, as tensions between the two countries eased.

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RAF base terror suspects are British nationals

RAF base terror suspects are British nationals

Five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences at RAF Fairford are all British nationals in their 20s from London, counter-terrorism police have said.

The men were pictured on Sunday being apprehended, shirtless, near the RAF base in Gloucestershire, which is being used by the US air force in its operations against Iran.

Police said three of them were 24, one was 25 and one 23, and three resided in Westminster, one in Camden and the other in Willesden. Officers said the men were being held under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act and a custody extension had been secured until later on Monday.


Nothing like a home grown 5th Column.

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They don’t want an agreement with the US

They don’t want an agreement with the US

h/t Mauser

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Israel tracks down and kills motorbike-riding Hamas terrorist who kidnapped October 7 hostage Noa Argamani

Israel tracks down and kills motorbike-riding Hamas terrorist who kidnapped October 7 hostage Noa Argamani

Israel has tracked down and killed the Hamas terrorist suspected of kidnapping hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7 attacks.

Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr supplied weapons to Hamas during the war and rode the motorbike used to kidnap the couple from the Nova music festival and take them into Gaza in 2023.

The terrorist was killed by an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation carried out by Israel Police’s Gideonim Unit 33.

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‘Thrown under the bus’: Former defence chief’s memoir lays bare his battles with the Trudeau government

‘Thrown under the bus’: Former defence chief’s memoir lays bare his battles with the Trudeau government

Canada’s former top military commander considered resigning “several times” during his tenure in battles with the former Trudeau government over the sexual misconduct scandal, and the lack of commitment towards defence spending.

Retired general Wayne Eyre’s new memoir, Into the Breach: A Soldier’s Journey, also peels back the curtain on the internal debate that took place over how to end the convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa in early 2022.

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At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

At least 27 dead after two mass shootings in South Africa, police say

Two separate mass shootings near South Africa’s two biggest cities killed at least 27 people, as the country grapples with one of the world’s highest murder rates amid investigations into corruption and criminality within the police.

The South African police service said on Sunday that 17 people were killed on Saturday night when eight suspects armed with AK-47 assault rifles and pistols opened fire at a bar in Wedela township, about 50 miles south-west of central Johannesburg. At least 15 other people sustained gunshot injuries in that attack, police said.

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Trump administration muses about hitting Canada with EU-style tariffs over Carney’s EU pivot

Trump administration muses about hitting Canada with EU-style tariffs over Carney’s EU pivot

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney has explained his push for a closer relationship with Europe in simple terms.

“Developing an alliance for the future with the European Union … is based on Canada becoming more sovereign,” he said last week at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

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Trump-Xi summit: What wasn’t said might matter the most

Trump-Xi summit: What wasn’t said might matter the most

On Monday, China released more information of what was agreed at the talks between Xi Jinping and Donald Tump last week, shedding light on a handful of concrete outcomes.

But there were no joint statements and few major breakthroughs.

Instead, both governments issued separate accounts of the meeting – perhaps a sign that despite the White House tours and promise of warmer ties, Washington and Beijing remain wary of each other.

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Five things Pierre Polievre’s Conservatives must do to gain a foothold this fall

Five things Pierre Polievre’s Conservatives must do to gain a foothold this fall

Parliament is back with a substantive legislative agenda that reminds us: Democracy is nothing without accountability. For shame, then, that His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition is distracted by internal schisms and online echo chambers.

This fall, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives must gain a foothold. The party’s own MPs know it. Conservative deputy leader Melissa Lantsman told reporters, “This is not the position we want to be in.”

Indeed not.

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What’s left of Britain’s crumbling empire is up for grabs

What’s left of Britain’s crumbling empire is up for grabs

Has there ever been a time in living memory when British prestige, at home and abroad, was at a lower ebb?

Not in the 1940s, when the country was bankrupt after the Second World War. Not in the 1950s, when we were humiliated by Suez and decolonisation gathered pace. Not in the 1960s and 70s, when we were the “sick man of Europe”. Not in the 1990s and 2000s, when financial crises rocked the economy. Not even in the last decade, a time of chaos, pestilence and war.

No, the period that began in 2024 has defined a new circle of hell – one in which what is left of Britain’s withered empire looks about to fall apart and nationalist vultures are gathering over the United Kingdom itself.

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Free Speech under Islamo-socialist attack in Canada

Free Speech under Islamo-socialist attack in Canada

Neil Herland has worked for the CBC, Canada’s state-owned media corporation, for 29 years. He is also Jewish. And today, for the first time in his 29-year career, his employer has taken him off the air, seemingly at the behest of a Muslim advocacy organization. What the hell is going on with freedom of speech in Canada?

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Trump says RAF Fairford terror suspects were ‘looking to do big damage’ to US forces as Iran link is probed

Trump says RAF Fairford terror suspects were ‘looking to do big damage’ to US forces as Iran link is probed

Donald Trump has warned the five men arrested over a foiled terror attack at RAF Fairford were ‘looking to do big damage’ to US forces.

The arrests come amid heightened concerns around the threat from hostile states to the UK, with Russia among those that have used proxies to commit crimes on their behalf on British soil.

However, counter-terrorism police are understood to be probing a potential link to Iran.

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