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Canada: Toronto’s housing market is so expensive, families earning $100,000 are now eligible for Habitat for Humanity help.

"People might have expected that with a combined income of $100,000, a family would be doing well.

The reality is, they aren’t."

thestar.com/business/toron…
Ontario mayor can’t afford to buy house in township she leads:

Despite earning around $90,000 a year as mayor, regional councillor and job at electric co., she can’t afford to buy a home in her own municipality

“I do live at home with my parents.”

kitchener.ctvnews.ca/ont-mayor-can-…
The Canadian govt is considering a cap on the number of international students to ease pressure on the housing market,Housing Minister Sean Fraser told reporters as the Liberal cabinet gathered.

Canada hosted over 800,000 international students last year

cbc.ca/news/politics/…

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Jun 5
Germany: Leipzig forbids fresh far-left demonstration after 2 nights of unrest:

Police arrested nearly 30 people during the weekend protests, which followed the conviction of a left-wing activist for physically attacking neo-Nazis.

dw.com/en/leipzig-for…
The underpinning legal rationale for the decision, they said, was a broader restriction for any protests in the city this weekend connected to the conviction earlier in the week of left-wing activist Lina E. for her part in violent physical assaults on neo-Nazis.
On Saturday, around 1,500 people turned up to the demonstration, even though several courts had refused to authorize it. Police first tried to accommodate the protest, but broke it up when officers came under attack.
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Jun 4
New York traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards issued to NYPD friends and family:

Mathew Bianchi claims superiors retaliated against him for writing tickets for people holding ‘corrupt’ courtesy cards.

theguardian.com/us-news/2023/j…
Bianchi was reprimanded for writing a ticket to a relative or parent of an officer; in others, his commanding officer reviewed body-camera footage to see if he was giving motorists with cards a “hard time”.
Bianchi’s service as a traffic cop ended last summer when he wrote a ticket to a friend of the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, the lawsuit states.
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Jun 3
Indonesia proposes demilitarised zone,UN referendum for Ukraine peace plan:

Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto proposed a multi-point plan including a ceasefire and establishing a demilitarised zone by withdrawing 15 km from each party's forward position.

reuters.com/world/indonesi…
The demilitarised zone should be observed and monitored by a peacekeeping force deployed by the UN, he said, adding that a UN referendum should be held "to ascertain objectively the wishes of the majority of the inhabitants of the various disputed areas".
Indonesia's proposal follows President Joko Widodo's visit last year to Moscow and Kyiv, where he offered to play peacebroker between their leaders and rekindle peace talks. He was chairman of the G20 group of major economies at the time.
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May 1
"It is not clear what the Zelensky regime, which has been at the receiving end of frequent accusations of Nazism even from friendly Western media [hoped] to achieve through an image that demeaned a Hindu article of faith, stigmatised Hindus and sought to normalise Hindu hatred." Image
"Despite its history of condemning India and voting against the country at the UN — not to speak of supplying weapons worth $1.6 billion to Pakistan — the Ukrainians have been demanding India’s support for Western sanctions against Russia & heaping moral opprobrium on New Delhi"
"Dmytro Kuleba, a former Ukrainian ambassador to India who is now the country’s foreign minister, had accused India of profiting from “Ukrainian blood” and tying it to Kyiv’s assistance in the evacuation of Indian students."
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Apr 30
"Introduced in 2009, Liberal Studies was one of the four core subjects in the senior secondary curriculum – meaning that every secondary school student had to sit an exam in it.

That changed in 2021, when the subject was revamped and renamed."

hongkongfp.com/2023/04/30/as-…
"The new Citizenship and Social Development course has a greater emphasis on national security and identity, half the teaching hours of Liberal Studies, a pass-fail assessment instead of a grading system, and a study trip to mainland China."
"Former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa – blamed the subject for encouraging students to take part in the 2019 pro-democracy protests and unrest.

In 2020, then chief executive Carrie Lam said that Liberal Studies’ “deviation” from its objectives would be rectified."
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Apr 29
A UN Security Council status update on efforts to achieve a final peace between Serbia and Kosovo turned into nearly four hours of name calling with accusations blaming each side for everything from ethnic cleansing to intentional diplomatic obstruction.

arabnews.com/node/2294286/w…
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic said efforts to achieve "normalization" are being sidelined by Kosovo's efforts to win independent statehood and EU membership wirthout addressing the suffering and losses by Serbian citizens of Kosovo who have been forced to leave.
Dacic noted that the Serbian population of Kosovo has been pushed out and no effort has been made to allow them to return to their homes or properties.

"Kosovo and Metohija in the past 20 years has turned from a multi-ethnic environment into an almost ethnically pure territory."
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