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— International Women's Day — whether to change the 87-year-old document to remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist.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

Thursday, March 7, 2024

U.S to build temporary dock to allow aid into Gaza from ships

Packages attached to parachutes fall onto a city. Silhouettes of people standing and watching are visible in the foreground.

President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on Gaza's Mediterranean coast to receive humanitarian aid by sea, senior administration officials said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-aid-us-dock-pier-1.7136928?cmp=rss

Trudeau non-committal about restoring funding to Palestinian relief agency UNRWA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits outside the west doors of West Block in Ottawa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday his government isn't ready to announce it's restoring federal funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN agency that has been delivering aid to the people of Gaza.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-unrwa-funding-restore-1.7136924?cmp=rss