Canada said in May it would bring in up to 5,000 Gazans - expanding on a pledge in December to take in 1,000 from the Palestinian enclave. Months later, just over 300 have arrived, with 698 applications approved out of over 4,200 submitted.

Reuters spoke with multiple applicants who said they have been waiting for months since submitting biometric information, dashing their hopes of a swift reunion with relatives in Canada.

Immigration lawyers say the wait for Gazans is longer than those faced by other groups fleeing conflict or disaster, and that the small numbers approved contrast with hundreds of thousands of visas granted to Ukrainians under a similar program offering temporary status.

Commenting on the latest aggressions against the country, a senior Yemeni source told Al Mayadeen that the country has been hit by more than 860 US, British, and Israeli raids over the past year, 39 of which were conducted this week alone.

“Thither Bibi repaired for a while, and it may or may not be a coincidence but I am told that later, when they were doing a regular sweep for bugs, they found a listening device in the thunderbox,” Johnson writes as he recalls a meeting.

Ford does understand the importance of bike lanes, or at least he used to: "You're nervous when there's not bike lanes, at least I was," he told TVO in 2017 after trying out cycling near Queen's Park. He also campaigned on promises to put money back in people's pockets, and biking is one of the cheapest ways to get around, requiring no fare or fuel.

So why is Ford doing this now? Maybe it's because bike lanes have become an ideological wedge that he hopes will win him another election. Maybe because real solutions to traffic are complicated and often unpopular

like congestion pricing, which is proven to work.

The evidence is clear: Canada's housing crisis is not a simple supply and demand problem. It is a problem of who owns our homes and why. By focusing almost exclusively on expanding supply through the private sector the NHS has given our housing system over to predaceous investors while deeply indebting everyday Canadians.

Non-paywall link: [ https://archive.is/1XjBq ]