Il Canada lascia Kabul. Tre ore dopo, la strage: 60 morti, uccisi 12 soldati Usa

TORONTO – Tempismo perfetto. Alle ore 8 di ieri, il capo delle Forze Armate canadesi, generale Wayne Eyre, annuncia che “gli sforzi di evacuazione del Canada in Afghanistan sono terminati”: il personale canadese ha lasciato Kabul “otto ore fa”. Meno di tre ore dopo, all’aeroporto di Kabul un attentatore suicida (due secondo fonti americane e russe) si fa esplodere: almeno 60 morti (anche bambini tra le vittime) e più di 140 feriti. Restano uccisi anche alcuni militari americani (dodici, secondo l’ultimo bilancio diffuso mentre scriviamo – aggiornamento delle ore 8.37 am, ora di Toronto, del 27 agosto: oltre 100 i morti, uccisi 13 militari Usa), come confermato su Twitter dal portavoce del Pentagono, John Kirby. Poche ore dopo, nel pomeriggio, altre due esplosioni in diverse zone della città… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Status update of Covid-19 cases worldwide

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Here we provide a daily update of the data available for select countries and jurisdictions as of August 26, 2021, at 6:45pm EST.

On Thursday, health officials in the UK logged 38,281 new infections, pushing the total number of confirmed positive cases passed 6.6 million. Of the cumulative total, 79.3% are considered recovered. In the last 24-hours, Covid-related deaths increased by 140, bringing the total number of fatalities to 132,143.

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Mandatory vaccines at the TDSB, the catholic school board is silent

TORONTO – Toronto’s public school superintendent tightens up Covid-19 vaccination rules. The Catholic one, on the other hand, at the moment makes a silent scene while the first day of school is approaching by giant strides. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) voted unanimously to introduce vaccination duty for staff, trustees and visitors. To make the announcement yesterday was the school board: “the school trustees during the meeting Wednesday evening decided to make the anti-Covid-19 vaccination mandatory”. And considering that there are only eleven days left before the reopening of schools and that the TDSB intends to implement the procedure before the children return to class, there is no time to lose. Continue reading→

১ অক্টোবর ঢাবির আবাসিক হল খুলছে

(Shomporko সম্পর্ক) ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের আবাসিক হল আগামী ১ অক্টোবর খোলার সিদ্ধান্ত নিয়েছে কতৃূপক্ষ। মঙ্গলবার (২৪ আগস্ট) বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের প্রভোস্ট কমিটির এক বৈঠকে এমন সিদ্ধান্ত নেওয়া হয়। বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের প্রক্টর অধ্যাপক ড. গোলাম রাব্বানি এমন তথ্য নিশ্চিত করেন … Read More in Shomporko >>> 

Conservatives take the lead: poll

TORONTO – Breakthrough in the race for the federal vote on September 20. Today, for the first time since the start of the election campaign, a poll certified that the Conservative Party overtook the Liberal Party. According to the nanos research survey, in fact, at this moment the party led by Erin O’Toole would collect 34.4 percent of the vote (an increase of 1.7 percent compared to the previous poll) while the liberals of outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would fall to 33.6 percent (minus 2.3 percent). Continue reading→

Canada leaves Kabul. Three hours later, the massacre

TORONTO – Perfect timing. At 8 am today, the head of the Canadian Armed Forces, General Wayne Eyre, announced that “Canada’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan have ended”: Canadian personnel left Kabul “eight hours ago”. Less than three hours later, at the Kabul airport a suicide bomber (two, according to American and Russian sources) blows himself up: forty dead (including children) and dozens of wounded. Among the victims, also US Marines, as confirmed on Twitter by John Kirby from the Pentagon Press Secretary.

Just in time, one might say, despite the “push and pull” of recent days, in which on the one hand Prime Minister Justin Trudeau affirmed that Canada would remain in Afghanistan after the date set by the Taliban with their ultimatum (“everyone out by August 31”) and on the other “his” ministers denied him by stating that the Canadian evacuation operations would be completed before the end of the month,”as the United States decided”, as underlined by the Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan in the press conference two days ago, the same one in which the Minister of Women, Maryam Monsef, called the Taliban “our brothers”. Continue reading→

Ontario, cases continue to rise: today nearly 700

TORONTO – The escalation continues: after the 486 cases on Tuesday and 660 on Wednesday, Ontario today recorded 678 new cases of Covid-19, of which 395 were found in unvaccinated people, 82 in partially vaccinated people and 141 in people fully vaccinated (for the remaining people the vaccination status is unknown). Of the new cases, 144 were recorded in Toronto, 102 in the Peel region, 97 in the York region, 78 in Windsor-Essex and 51 in the Durham region. All other local health units reported fewer than 50 new cases.  Continue reading→