Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Greg Mercer, Andrea Woo, Photography by Fred Lum
Publication Date: February 1, 2025 - 06:00
Canada’s border cities, bursting at the seams with asylum seekers, brace for more amid Trump turmoil
February 1, 2025
Some hotels in Niagara Falls, Ont., are unusually full for the middle of the winter off-season, when many visitors stay home. Normally that would make the mayor of a tourist city happy – but not Jim Diodati.His community, which says it has more asylum seekers per capita than any other municipality in the country, is ground-zero in Canada’s efforts to house thousands of refugee claimants in hotels while they wait for their claims to be processed. The mayor, who can see the United States from his perch at city hall, is worried it’s about to get a lot worse.
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Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste says his decision to drop out of the federal Liberal leadership race was partly motivated by a lack of money.The Indigenous politician from Cape Breton said Friday that raising enough cash to cover the $350,000 deposit required by the party by Feb. 17 would have been a huge challenge.
February 1, 2025 - 07:42 | Michael MacDonald | The Globe and Mail
'I do think their ideology is definitely not pacifist... they're willing to do violence. There were times when they believed violence was justified when normal people would not'
February 1, 2025 - 07:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
The sentence for first-degree murder – 25 years in jail without the chance of parole – faces a legal reckoning after a judge in British Columbia this week ruled the law’s inflexibility violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.The B.C. Supreme Court ruling from Justice David Crossin, published Wednesday, reopens a national debate and potentially sparks a years-long legal odyssey over one of the country’s longest-standing mandatory minimum criminal punishments.
February 1, 2025 - 07:00 | David Ebner | The Globe and Mail
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