October, 2018
Canada just legalized marijuana. That has big implications for US drug policy.
October 24, 2018 · By German Lopez for www.vox.com
Canada has become the first wealthy nation in the world to fully legalize marijuana. The Senate approved Bill C-45, also known as the Cannabis Act, on Tuesday. The measure was already approved by the House of Commons, so the Senate’s approval means it’s now set to become law. The measure legalizes marijuana possession, home growing, and sales for adults. […]
Read More...Poor families’ inflation up 8% in August due to high food prices
October 24, 2018 · By Ben O. de Vera - Reporter for business.inquirer.net
High food prices pushed up inflation among the country’s poorest families to 8 percent year-on-year in August, the government reported Monday. The rate of increase in prices of basic goods among those belonging to the bottom 30 percent income households rose from 7.3 percent last July and 3 percent in August last year, the latest Philippine […]
Read More...Drilon: Ruling on Trillanes case restores ‘perception of stability’ in courts
October 24, 2018 · By Christia Marie Ramos - Reporter for newsinfo.inquirer.net
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon is relieved by the decision of the Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 148 not to issue an arrest warrant on Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV for his coup d’etat case, saying that the resolution of the case would “help restore the perception of stability in our courts.” Judge Andres Soriano […]
Read More...Australia sexual abuse: National apology delivered to victims
October 23, 2018 · By www.bbc.com
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. Hundreds of people gathered in Canberra on Monday to hear Mr Morrison deliver the emotional address in parliament. It follows a five-year inquiry which found tens of thousands of children had suffered abuse in the nation’s institutions over decades. […]
Read More...Activists demand Filipino poll candidates put poor first
October 23, 2018 · By Jose Torres Jr., Manila for www.ucanews.com
Food security and land rights activists marched in Manila on Oct. 16 to urge candidates in next year’s mid-term elections to make sure basic issues that affect the poor are included in their campaign platforms. The march was part of a World Food Day observance by farmers, workers, and advocacy groups under the #Vote4FoodSecurity campaign. Maria Rosario […]
Read More...Philippine congregation decries ‘red tagging’ of nun
October 22, 2018 · By Bong S. Sarmiento, Cotabato for www.ucanews.com
The Society of Oblates of Notre Dame, a congregation of women religious in the southern Philippines, decried what it called as the “red tagging” of one of its members by the military. A social media post, believed uploaded by the military, last month accused Sister Susan Bolanio of being a communist rebel. The nun, who is […]
Read More...Lack of progress fighting hunger is shameful, pope says
October 22, 2018 · By Anne Condodina Catholic News Service for www.catholicnews.com
ROME (CNS) — At a time of technological and scientific progress, “we ought to feel shame” for not having advanced in “humanity and solidarity” enough to feed the world’s poor, Pope Francis said. “Neither can we console ourselves simply for having faced emergencies and desperate situations of those most in need. We are all called […]
Read More...The human trafficking scourge
October 22, 2018 · By WIN ZAR NI AUNG | FRONTIER for frontiermyanmar.net
Despite rising criminal prosecutions, human trafficking remains rife in Myanmar and is fuelled by widespread poverty. By WIN ZAR NI AUNG | FRONTIER “They killed her because she refused to work as a prostitute.” Ko Min Zaw said he saw about half a dozen men beat Ma Moe to death in a forest in Thailand’s […]
Read More...The Man Who Said, “You Shall not Kill”
October 19, 2018 ·
The Man Who Said, “You Shall not Kill” Fr. Shay Cullen 17 October 2018 He was born the son of poor farm workers and he grew up hungry and deprived and he was like the millions of poor who don’t know the root causes of their rural poverty. The poor struggle to overcome those sufferings and hardships as they bury […]
Read More...Polish Church no longer spared from sex abuse scandals
October 19, 2018 · By international.la-croix.com
Demonstrators in Warsaw on Oct. 7 holding a “map” of alleged sexual abuse cases in the Polish Church. (Photo by Janek Skarzynski/AFP) The Polish Catholic Church has faced a difficult period since summer after a series of highly publicized child sex abuse cases involving priests and the attitude of the hierarchy to the issue emerged into […]
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