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Canada limiting international students, temporary immigrants
KITCHENER, Ontario — Canada’s broad support for immigration, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said is necessary to counter an aging labor force and low fertility rates, has set the country apart. The United States’ closest neighbor is growing faster than its Group of Seven peers, as well as developing and more fertile countries such as India. In 2023, the population here grew by more than 1.2 million people, up 3.2 percent from the year before — the highest annual increase since 1957. About 98 percent came from immigration. But now, amid a housing affordability crisis and strain on social services, Trudeau’s government is rolling up the welcome mat for some immigrants. It has capped the number of permanent residents it will welcome, announced a temporary limit on international student visas and pledged to shrink the proportion of the population made up of temporary immigrants such as foreign workers. A “massive spike” in temporary immigrants has exceeded “what Canada has been able to absorb,” Trudeau told reporters this month. “That’s something we need to get …
Temporary channels being created to aid Baltimore bridge response
NO PUBLIC USE “The channel is being opened to people involved in the response,” US Coast Guard Petty Officer Carmen Caver told AFP on Monday. “We have no plans as of now to open it to public use, but you may see ships transiting if they’re involved with the actual operations,” she added. The first temporary channel will have a depth of 11 feet, a 264-foot horizontal clearance and vertical clearance of 96 feet, the multi-agency task force overseeing the operation said in a statement. The temporary channel “is not big enough for any container or cargo ships to pass through,” Caver told AFP, adding: “They’re working on a plan to make it slowly open to more and more people.” The port of Baltimore is a key hub for the auto industry, handling almost 850,000 autos and light trucks last year – more than any other US port – according to Maryland state figures. It also ranked first for farm and construction machinery, as well as imported sugar and gypsum, and second for coal exports. …
Julian Assange gets temporary reprieve as he fights extradition to US – POLITICO
The decision extends Assange’s stay at the high security Belmarsh Prison in southeast London, where he has been held since April 2019. Legal action against Assange started in 2010 after hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published. The publisher spent seven years in London’s Ecuadorian embassy between 2012 and 2019 to avoid extradition to Sweden on a separate investigation which was later dropped. Then-Home Secretary Sajid Javid signed the United States’ extradition request in June 2019, an action supported by subsequent Home Secretary Priti Patel, who signed an extradition order in June 2022. If extradited to America, Assange’s lawyers say he could face up to 175 years in prison, while U.S. government lawyers have argued Assange’s actions put innocent lives at risk. The High Court previously ruled Assange could be extradited in December 2021 following assurances he would not face restrictive prison measures. Source link
Unitarian Universalists’ Boston headquarters hosts temporary overflow shelter
(RNS) — Headquartered in a South Boston building in the city’s affluent Seaport District, the Unitarian Universalist Association happened to have a vacant sixth floor last summer just as Massachusetts’ governor declared a state of emergency to deal with the state’s rapidly growing migrant population. The association, home base for more than 1,000 UU congregations across the U.S., has long supported the human rights of migrants and refugees, and earlier in the year, they had heard from some member congregations that had been wanting to host temporary shelters. Using their sixth floor as a makeshift shelter, the staff quickly agreed, was a no-brainer. On March 7, the 10,000-square-foot commercial space opened as an overnight shelter for homeless families with children and any pregnant person in need. Up to 80 people can be housed at the shelter, which features a kitchenette, a nursing and health station and open spaces filled with rows of green cots. Many of those currently at the shelter are migrants who had previously been sleeping at Logan Airport. The temporary shelter is approved …
Man says his ‘temporary’ tattoo from Ephemeral studio hasn’t faded after two years
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter A man has shown how his “temporary” tattoo from Ephemeral Tattoo has lasted much longer than he anticipated. In a viral video shared to TikTok by user Brandon Wake (@heybrandonwakeup), he claimed he received an Ephemeral tattoo “two full years ago” and it has yet to fade away. “Remember a couple years ago when we had those Ephemeral tattoos that were supposed to last only nine to 12 months,” he began his TikTok, which has since been viewed more than one million times. “Well, I got one and I’m here to give you an update,” Wake continued. “It has officially been two full years since I got that temporary tattoo, and this is what it looks like.” He positioned the camera to show off a large deer tattooed onto his upper thigh, noting how Ephemeral tattoos “at the time” were advertised as fully …
A U.S. ship is headed to Gaza to help build a temporary pier for aid shipments
The U.S. Army Vessel General Frank S. Besson has departed Joint Base Langley-Eustis on its way to the eastern Mediterranean to help build a temporary aid port in Gaza, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command hide caption toggle caption U.S. Central Command The U.S. Army Vessel General Frank S. Besson has departed Joint Base Langley-Eustis on its way to the eastern Mediterranean to help build a temporary aid port in Gaza, the U.S. military said. U.S. Central Command A U.S. Army ship was on its way to the Mediterranean on Saturday, less than two days after President Biden announced that the military would head up an emergency mission to build a temporary pier in Gaza that can receive large aid shipments. The expansion of U.S. aid efforts to Gaza comes amid signs of growing tension between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s military operations in Gaza, which have left more than 31,000 Palestinians dead, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. On Thursday, Biden announced during his State of the Union …
Ship that will build temporary port in Gaza departs its US base | Israel War on Gaza News
A United States military ship carrying equipment to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies – and get around Israeli obstruction of aid operations as it continues pounding the Gaza Strip – has departed the US. The General Frank S. Besson left its base in the US on Sunday, a little more than a day after US President Joe Biden’s announcement, “carrying the first equipment to establish a temporary pier to deliver vital humanitarian supplies”, the military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said. While the US ostensibly aims to alleviate the acute humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Biden continues to approve arms sales to Israel as it continues its assault. Since the attack by Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian armed groups on Israeli civilians and communities on October 7, the US has approved 100 arms sales to Israel to carry out its retaliatory war in Gaza, which has killed more than 30,000 people – mostly women and children. Just last month, the US was preparing to give Israel about 1,000 MK-82 500-pound …
‘My children never had a place they could say was home’: the UK family in temporary housing for 22 years | Homelessness
When Melissa’s parents moved abroad in 2002, she and her one-year-old child needed help to find a place to live. Her local London council placed her in temporary accommodation. “They told me I’d be in it for six weeks,” she said. “I’m still in it today.” Shocking as it may seem, the housing crisis and lack of affordable rents in some parts of the UK mean a growing number of people have spent huge chunks of their lives in temporary accommodation. For some children, it is all they have known. Melissa (not her real name) said she had been placed in three different properties over more than 20 years. Though she is in work – as an experienced and senior teaching assistant – she cannot afford London-level private rents. “I got an eviction notice from my first property, then it was back to the homeless department,” she said. “They wanted to send us to East Sussex, but I don’t have any family there. My kids were in school. Leaving London meant uprooting my children’s lives …
Revealed: homeless children spending entire lives in temporary housing in England | Homelessness
Some homeless children are now spending their entire childhoods in supposedly “temporary accommodation”, while thousands of families have been housed in it for more than a decade, according to alarming new evidence of a homelessness crisis “spiralling out of control”. One homeless household in London placed in temporary accommodation in 2000 is still there today, according to new research seen by the Observer. Among about 50 local authorities known to have high numbers in temporary accommodation, almost 14,000 households have been in it for more than five years. The findings have led to warnings that describing such housing as temporary has become, in effect, meaningless. The revelations come after a budget in which the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, was accused of opting for pre-election tax cuts over relieving the pressures that have led to record levels of homelessness, and failing to ease the local government crisis that is stifling councils’ ability to help those without a home. There are now demands for a change in the law to ensure that there is a maximum length of …