The Daily Shaarli
July 23, 2020
ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, with support from the Pulitzer Center, have for the first time modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what we found.
Chacko, the Justice at Work attorney, said that while physical strain and injury is commonplace in meat processing work, COVID-19 has created acute alarm for the Maid-Rite workers. “With COVID, they say that the danger is so much more real and severe, and now going into work feels like they are putting their lives on the line,” she said.
"Many presidents – including the nation’s first, George Washington – owned slaves. President Woodrow Wilson, the country’s 28th president, is having his name removed from Princeton University’s public policy school after recent protests against institutional racism and police brutality. Wilson, who served in the early 20th century, supported segregation and imposed it on several federal agencies."
"CBC’s Deadly Force database shows it has already been a particularly deadly year in terms of people killed in encounters with police in Canada."
"The officer's refusal marks the third case to come to light in recent weeks in which subject officers have chosen not to speak with the watchdog."
"The report notes that corporate use of tax havens has been steadily climbing for the past 20 years - up 135 per cent since 2009, and up a stagger 634 per cent since 1999. The Parliamentary Budget Officer notes that Canada loses as much as $25 billion to tax havens each year."
"The American base at Al-Tanf, which sits near southern Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq, is strategically located to block Iran from controlling a land route through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon."