An Amber Alert has been issued for a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from North Battleford, Sask.
RCMP believes Emma O’Keefe was abducted from the strip mall at 11204 Railway Avenue in North Battleford.
Police do not have a description of the suspect, but they believe the suspect is believed to be driving a dark grey 2010 Mercedes Benz GL350 Bluetec SUV with Saskatchewan plate 897 HMX. They do not know which way the suspect vehicle is traveling.
Emma is described as 3’6” tall, weighing 44 pounds. She has brown chin length hair. She was last seen wearing a navy blue long sleeve shirt, black jeans, pink socks, and no shoes.
Emma has epilepsy and autism. She is non-verbal, and she does not walk.
Anyone with information should call police.
Date of article: Published Sunday, September 16, 2018 7:38PM CST
Saudi students speaking to CBC News on the condition of anonymity said they defied their government’s orders to leave Canada by the end of August because they fear they’ll be jailed upon their return.
More than 8,000 Saudi students at Canadian universities had their lives upended in early August when they were told to pack their bags by the end of the month as a result of a diplomatic feud between Saudi Arabia and Canada. Now, at least 20 Saudi students are applying for asylum in Canada in the hope that they won’t be sent back.
One student, a man in his early 20s who is studying at a university in Ontario, said he’s still torn between whether he should apply for asylum or try to stay in Canada via other means.
“I will do whatever it takes to stay in Canada, because I truly fear for my life,” he said, adding that since he left Saudi Arabia, he’s been critical of the government on his Twitter account.
“I discovered the meaning of what it’s like to be a human being here. I can’t just leave.”
A second student, a man in his late 20s working toward a master’s degree at a Quebec university, said he’s chosen to apply for asylum in Canada because he fears that if he returns to Saudi Arabia, he’ll be jailed for his social media activism.
“I feel so nervous and so scared, I can’t sleep,” he said.
Armstrong’s name would become widely known throughout the Black Canadian community over the course of his decades-long career in civil rights and labour activism. He helped to found the Jamaican Canadian Association, the Black Business and Professionals Association (with which I’ve served as a board member and consultant), the Black Action Defense Committee (which successfully pressured Ontario into create the Special Investigations Unit oversight branch, for police incidents involving injury, death, and sexual assault of civilians), and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations.
For his tireless work, Armstrong was granted a seat on the Ontario Human Rights Commission, as well as admission to the Order of Ontario, and the Order of Canada. And after a life lived in service to the communities he loved, Bromley Armstrong passed away on Aug. 17, at the age of 92.
And yet, outside of labour websites and Facebook tributes from small-press Black publications in Toronto like Share Magazine and Pride News, media coverage of his death was nonexistent. While activists like Bromley Armstrong helped end the segregation of Canada’s public spaces, his story has been deeply segregated from public knowledge.
By Aug. 22, Black journalists (including myself) began to make noise on social media, arguing that it was unacceptable that the passing of someone with such a rich legacy, and whose work helped drag Canada into civil-rights modernity, would go unremarked upon by the mainstream media. It wasn’t until a week after his death, on Aug. 24, that CBC’s “As It Happens” picked up the story—and even then, in the original published draft, Armstrong was incorrectly reported to have died the previous Saturday.
Bromley Armstrong’s life, and his work, matters. Within the Black community, this is incontrovertible fact. But in our classrooms, almost 30 years after I first set foot in Higher Marks, his name is still absent from the textbooks. And in our newsrooms, where Black journalists regularly watch our colleagues take cameras and laptops out to our neighbourhoods to report tragedies in our community, and convert our blood into copy, clicks, and revenue, our history might as well be that of some small, unremarkable country overseas.
Y’all , we gotta stop pretending Canada doesn’t have a fuck ton of its own problems. Like it’s easy to get wrapped up in American politics because they’re so GODDAMN LOUD and run most of the media we consume. But my god, if you’re Canadian, please , please make sure you know as much about our politics as you do theirs.
I’m going to use this opportunity to say that if you are unaware of the issues going on in Canada and want to learn more about Canadian Politics, here are some resources on tumblr. I understand it can be hard to keep up with Canadian news because tumblr, the internet at large and the media is dominated by the American media.
Here are some blogs and hashtags to follow to keep up with all the important stuff going on in Canada:
@allthecanadianpolitics: My blog, and the most active and most popular cdnpoli blog on tumblr.
Also please everyone use and browse the following hashtags, as its one of the only ways that Canadians can find Canadian content on this site:
#cdnpoli
#canpoli
#canadian politics
#canadian news
I track all these tags daily and share a lot of them here with my 50,000+ followers, so the chances of your post getting noticed is going to be a lot higher if you use these tags.
I was actually gonna scroll past this but no. Everyone needs to see and reblog this. I will never be desensitized to this act against humanity…40 CHILDREN…not on this Earth anymore…because of the United States
The bomb dropped on a school bus in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition warplane was sold to Riyadh by the US, according to reports based on analysis of the debris.
The 9 August attack killed 40 boys aged from six to 11 who were being taken on a school trip. Eleven adults also died. Local authorities said that 79 people were wounded, 56 of them children.
The death toll keeps going up btw this is a specific type of missile that they’re using, they first started using this during the Obama administration, but he put a block on them, during the election the Saudi government donated millions to Trump and when he became president he agreed to sell them 120 billion dollars worth of weapons so that they could up the massacre on the Yemeni people
Friendly reminder that Canada is complicit in this inhumane crisis in Yemen too:
When Global Affairs Canada announced another aid package to war-torn Yemen in January, it boasted that Ottawa had given a total of $65 million to help ease what the United Nations has called “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time.”
What Justin Trudeau’s government did not mention in its news release is that since 2015, Canada has also approved more than $284 million in exports of Canadian weapons and military goods to the countries bombing Yemen.
“It’s a bit like helping pay for somebody’s crutches after you’ve helped break their legs,” said Cesar Jaramillo, executive director of Project Ploughshares, a research and advocacy organization that studies Canada’s arms trade.
Jaramillo calls Canada’s position “blatantly contradictory,” saying the government can’t claim to be a champion of human rights while arming the world’s worst offenders. “The problem is Canada also wants the sweet multibillion-dollar deals, so it cuts corners on human rights.”
The Canadian government is the seller in some of these transactions. In others, they broker and approve deals for Canadian companies. Government officials could not say whether weapons exported from Canada have been used in Yemen.
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