Doug Saunders

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International-Affairs Columnist, The Globe and Mail. Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy. Author of Arrival City, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, Maximum Canada, etc. http://dougsaunders.net

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Spain wouldn’t have had that goal from the omnipresent football genius Nico Williams if his parents hadn’t travelled the trans-Saharan pathway from their home in Ghana and climbed the fence in Melilla. Talk about migrants filling a labour shortage! t.co/4qw9n8BetL

Along the trans-Saharan path, African migrants weigh the risks and rewards of heading to Europet.co The Globe joins West Africans along the desert route that carries hundreds of thousands through deadly perils and ignites political crises in Europe

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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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A story by @dougsaunders.bsky.social that gets everything right about Julian Assange. (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0597199...

Julian Assange was never a journalist or a whistle-blower. But they’re right to free himwww.theglobeandmail.com The WikiLeaks founder’s guilty plea for stealing government secrets gives him too much credit for his middleman role

If you're near beautiful Cobourg, Ontario (a 1.25-hour train from Toronto!) come see me this coming Thursday, April 4! I'll be giving a new presentation, drawn from the Undercurrents series and my work in Europe, on the forces changing global crisis migration Tickets here: www.connectnlc.ca

Northumberland Learning Connectionwww.connectnlc.ca Lifelong learning with the best speakers and most engaged audiences, one hour east of Toronto.

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I spent weeks crisscrossing Pakistan with some of the 1.6 million Afghans who fled after 2021. Zia Rehman and I found that Pakistan's expulsions have made many effectively stateless and many are considering dangerous westward journeys across Iran & Turkey t.co/sLqXmt0guR

Opinion: The Afghan refugee crisis is a migratory time bomb that may soon go offt.co It’s been nearly three years since the Taliban retook Afghanistan, but for those in exile in neighbouring Pakistan, lack of options means many may be forced to flee soon

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. @dougsaunders.bsky.social writing in the @theglobeandmail.com November 2021

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never been more convinced of a theory in my life

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

3 good things about Canada’s current high level of immigration: 1) The much-reported friction and economic problems are caused by excessive temporary and student immigration, which can and should be reduced without affecting the desirably elevated numbers of permanent immigrants

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“Strongman leaders no longer claim to be putting their muscle behind a superior economic or political system; today they merely claim to be strong.” I take the temperature of liberal democracy in this coming record-breaking year of elections www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Half the world is holding elections in 2024. Democracy’s future is riding on the outcomewww.theglobeandmail.com Billions of adults go to the polls next year, including in nations where democracy is in poor health. Will they slip further into illiberalism, or start climbing to freedom?

A friend sent along this truly excellent bumper sticker.

It’s time for Beverley McLachlin, former Canadian Chief Justice, to resign her position on the Hong Kong court of final appeal. What she oversees is no longer a justice system, but the punishment arm of a totalitarian regime www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Hong Kong court rejects request to dismiss sedition charges in Jimmy Lai trialwww.theglobeandmail.com Mr. Lai is accused of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to publish seditious publications

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The crises of starvation and malnutrition in Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East are directly caused by the actions of right-wing populist leaders in wealthier countries, I write www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Starving the world to win elections and warswww.theglobeandmail.com For the price of a few votes, millions of lives can be threatened

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In which I spend weeks with migrants on the trans-Saharan route, and see how European and African policies shape their decisions along the way www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... youtube.com/shorts/NueSF...

#shorts Along the trans-Saharan path, African migrants weigh risk and reward of heading to Europeyoutube.com The Globe joins West Africans like Khalifa Barry along the desert route that carries hundreds of thousands through deadly perils and ignites political crises...

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Authors and publishers take note. Something like this should now be a standard statement as part of the publishing details in any book.

Yes. This.

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"Using the trans-Saharan pathway, hundreds of thousands make their way up the continent, seeking work, permanent or temporary, in the more prosperous economies of North Africa." Part 3 in @dougsaunders.bsky.social's incredible series on global migration: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

De-Pluralize a movie title The Dirty One Catch-01 Dalmatian

De-pluralize a movie title. Ocean

My main thoughts are a) you shouldn’t have cheese in your fridge and b) it definitely shouldn’t be the oldest thing

I feel like I haven't yet shared on bluesky this slice-of-life poll question from 1991, which remains one of my absolute favorites: "Just off the top of your head, what's the oldest thing that's in your refrigerator now?"

I spent the week in the Atlas Mountain earthquake zone in Morocco, with families sleeping under the open stars beneath their ruined homes and wondering why their king hadn’t sent help (the king, for days after the quake, was relaxing in his Paris mansion) www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

After earthquake, Morocco’s trust in king and country is shaken by slow relief effortswww.theglobeandmail.com After disaster struck last week, many in this wealthy North African kingdom believed help would come soon. It did not

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Iran's regime agents have arrested prominent Iranian actress Hanieh Tavassoli at her house at 11:45 pm, Saturday night, transferring her to an unknown location, her sister wrote on Instagram, hours after Tavassoli posted a photo of #MahsaAmini on the anniversary of her death in police custody.

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Deplatforming — okay, but seriously folks, it works.

From prime time to lurid tales in a shed: the rapid descent of Tucker Carlsonwww.theguardian.com Carlson, once seen as a Republican powerbroker and even a presidential candidate, has grown more extreme and less relevant

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shout out to paleolithic people for petting those wolves

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Hello new subscribers! All you need to know is that posts here are called “bleats”

Save us from the hell that is interesting beer

your eye moves down this can and initially you think this must be one of those cans of gravy, or maybe even yorkshire pudding batter, then you see it might be apple crumble mix and then finally you realise it's a beer. what a rollercoaster ride of emotions, none of which make you wanna drink it.

Precisely

People who say California losing population is good because it will reduce housing costs have it backwards. Housing costs are suppressing CA's population growth, with catastrophic social, political, environmental and economic consequences to follow unless we do something.

Whichever generation thought the phrase “born between 1981 to 1996” is grammatically correct deserves some form of karmic punishment. So says gen-pedantic

we did it fam