Stefanik, Chamber call on U.S. to unilaterally reopen Canada border
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U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, citing Canada s lack of urgency, on Thursday called on the United States to unilaterally open the U.S. border to Canadians.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, citing Canada s lack of urgency, on Thursday called on the United States to unilaterally open the U.S. border to Canadians.
“As Co-Chair of the Northern Border Caucus, I have worked with my colleagues across the aisle, our Canadian counterparts, the North Country Chamber of Commerce, and essentially anyone who will listen over the past several months to establish a bilateral, metrics-based plan to reopen the northern border, but the Canadian Government continues to lack the urgency this situation demands, Stefanik said in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Enough is enough – the United States needs to do what’s best for the American people and small businesses and reopen th
Trudeau lays flowers at memorial for indigenous students
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June 2, 2021
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of parliament for 215 indigenous students whose remains were discovered last week at a former boarding school.
Trudeau observed several minutes of silence and knelt before the heaps of children’s shoes and toys left at the Centennial Flame, before speaking briefly with an indigenous passerby. Among the tributes were messages of condolences, and one that read: Every child matters.
The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc tribe in Canada’s westernmost British Columbia province announced last week it had used ground-penetrating radar to confirm the remains of the students who attended a school near the city of Kamloops.
This week in Jewish history | MS St. Louis denied access to disembark in Florida 02 Jun 2021 share this on
(c) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, waits in the port of Hamburg. The Cuban government denied the passengers entry. Hamburg, Germany, 1939
On 4 June 1939, the MS. St. Louis, a boat carrying over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, was refused access to disembark in Florida, United States.
The German transatlantic liner left Hamburg, Germany, on 13 May 1939, shortly after the Nazis’ annexation of Austria in March 1938, which had led to increased personal assaults against Jews during the spring and summer, followed by the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in November, and the seizure of Jewish-owned property.
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The remains of 215 children were found in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of a former school. It is the kind of atrocity one would expect to read about in a news story by a correspondent covering the war in Syria or the aftermath of an ISIS attack on a town in Iraq.
But it is not. It happened in Canada, a result of a systemic effort amounting to genocide that had a singular aim – to wipe out indigenous culture. And it continued to within living memory.
The discovery was announced late last week by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation, which was investigating the site of a former residential school in British Columbia using groundbreaking radar technology – work that began around 20 years ago. More than 130 residential schools existed in Canada under a system that began in the late 1800s, with the last one closed down as recently as 1996.