🇨🇦 🇭🇰 A rising trend of immigrants leaving Canada risks undermining one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's signature policies, which granted permanent residency to a record 2.5 million people in just eight years

🔶️ Hong Kong people and other immigrants are fleeing Canada because of the high cost of living. In just the first six months of 2023, about 42,000 individuals of various origins left the country, the Canadian government reported. This was on top of 93,818 people who left in 2022 and 85,927 who headed for the exit in 2021, said Statistics Canada.

🔶️ Reuters interviewed a Hong Kong woman named Cara, 25, who came to Canada in 2022. She pays C$650 (US$474 or HK$3,700) in monthly rent for a single-room basement apartment in Scarborough, north of Toronto, which is about 30 per cent of her monthly take-home salary. “I never realized that living in a Western country, you can only afford renting a room in the basement,” she said.

📎 Reuters

#Pakistan 🇵🇰 / #Balochistan: A new photo posted by Balochistan Liberation Army (#BLA) shows a fighter wearing a hat with 'Che Guevara' patch.

The fighter is also carrying an M4A1 carbine with ATPIAL and Tan mag; which was supplied by #NATO/#USA to #Afganistan and later smuggled.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1735273932607873445

#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: A quite interesting photo of a fighter of Ta'ang National Liberation Army (#TNLA) in #Shan State.

The fighter is using a rare 12.7x108mm Zijiang M99 anti-materiel rifle; originally made by #China 🇨🇳 and likely seized from Tatmadaw.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1735589035530194958