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Canada is on track to accept more immigrants this year than at any time in the country’s history, despite a pandemic that has largely closed borders to outsiders The Liberal government expects to achieve this goal largely by converting eligible foreign students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers who were already in Canada into permanent residents.
“U.S. President Joe Biden said he was ending the “forever war in Afghanistan” when he announced U.S. forces would leave the country this summer. Almost immediately, the Taliban went on a vicious spree: taking districts, banning women from work, attacking girls’ schools and reportedly forcing unmarried women to wed Taliban fighters.
“Recruited by Horgan out of the NDP organization in Manitoba in 2016, [Bob] Dewar brought an outsider’s political perspective to the faction-ridden, stagnant-in-Opposition B.C. NDP. “I had no baggage with anybody,” as Dewar puts it, and only one job: “Make John Horgan premier.” His fresh pair of eyes paid off in an episode recounted by reporters Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman in, their definitive account of how the NDP took power in 2017. At the start of the campaign, the B.C.
“When a government can’t be bothered to speak to the public — to voters — in a meaningful way, there’s something wrong. Governments are supposed to report to their constituents, and the media is often the conduit for that back-and-forth discourse. When a government gets in the habit of issuing diktats, it shows that it has no interest in opening or maintaining a conversation with those it was elected to serve. That’s lazy, entitled government.
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