Friday, March 8, 2024

Uvalde shooting parents 'dumbfounded' after report exonerates police officers

A woman with a long black ponytails stands at a podium speaking into a microphone while crying.

Veronica Mata says she can’t understand how the police officers who stood in a school hallway for more than an hour while children and teachers were being slaughtered in a classroom could possibly have been doing their jobs in good faith. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/uvalde-city-report-1.7138603?cmp=rss

U.S. aid policy on Gaza 'absurd' given its military support for Israel, UN food expert says

Aid packagers are parachuted down over a city with destroyed buildings.

Amid warnings of looming famine five months into Israel's campaign against the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, the U.S. military has carried out airdrops of meals into Gaza and plans a temporary port for aid imports on its Mediterranean coast.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-port-israel-airdrop-1.7138395?cmp=rss

A woman's place is in the home? That's what Ireland's Constitution still says, but it may change

A button that says 'yes' is pinned to a pink material

According to Ireland's Constitution, a woman's place is in the home. Voters will decide on Friday — International Women's Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ireland-referendum-constitution-women-1.7137831?cmp=rss