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Canada and the United States waited a year before announcing a new deal to turn asylum seekers away at unofficial border crossings, such as Roxham Road between Quebec and New York, to avoid a rush of migrants before the new rules could be enforced, the two countries said Sunday.
U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Cohen told The Globe the governments feared that a premature announcement “would stimulate a large influx of migrants trying to get to Canada before that change went into place.”
News of a policy change did not deter some people, including one couple who say they fled political persecution in their home country of Venezuela. “I don’t have anywhere to go back to,” Jose Mendoza said in Spanish, as he carried a small white suitcase.
Migrants arrive at the unofficial border crossing at Roxham Road on March 24, before the new rules took effect.Roger Lemoyne/The Globe and Mail
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Israeli PM Netanayhu to suspend judiciary overhaul amid violent protests, sources say
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition plunged into chaos on Monday, after mass protests piled pressure on the government to halt its bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary.
Netanyahu had been expected to make a televised statement on Monday morning announcing the plans, which he says are needed to restore balance to the system of government and which critics see as a threat to democracy. The statement was postponed.
A source in Netanyahu’s Likud party and another source closely involved in the legislation said Netanyahu would suspend the overhaul.
In the Knesset, the opposition held a no-confidence vote, which was defeated.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of protesters returned to the streets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, many waving the blue and white Israeli flags that have been become an emblem of the protests.
Sixteen-year-old Toronto boy dead after ‘unprovoked’ subway stabbing, police say
A man has been charged with first-degree murder after a teenager was stabbed to death in a Toronto subway station in what police are calling an “unprovoked attack.”
“We don’t know why the suspect attacked the victim. It wasn’t like they knew each other. The suspect and the victim were strangers,” said Constable Sinderela Chung, a spokeswoman for the Toronto Police Service.
The 16-year-old victim, Gabriel Magalhaes, was sitting on a bench on the lower level of Keele subway station just before 9 p.m. on Saturday when he was approached by a man and stabbed, police said. He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Hours later, Toronto police tweeted that they responded to reports of a stabbing aboard a TTC bus at Keele Street and Donald Avenue.
Police say a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries and the suspect fled the scene.
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Also on our radar
Ukraine demands emergency UN meeting: Kyiv urged UN Security Council members to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus.
Saskatchewan Indigenous groups sound alarm on crime wave: An Indigenous leader in Saskatchewan says the province’s First Nations are struggling to confront a crime wave as they await legislation and government funding to bolster policing.
Recovery under way in tornado-devastated Mississippi: Crews began digging through the wreckage after a deadly tornado cut a devastating path for more than an hour across a long swath of Mississippi, leaving at least 25 people dead and dozens injured.
CRTC-mandated rate cut won’t lower internet bills, independent ISPs say: Consumers should not expect to see their bills to go down despite the telecom regulator’s move to impose a 10-per-cent reduction on certain network rates, independent providers say.
Morning markets
Bank deal eases market jitters: Global shares moved higher after First Citizens soothed fragile markets on Monday by saying that it would take the deposits and loans of failed Silicon Valley Bank. Around 5:30 a.m. ET, Britain’s FTSE 100 rose 0.57 per cent. Germany’s DAX and France’s CAC 40 were up 1.02 per cent and 0.89 per cent, respectively. In Asia, Japan’s Nikkei added 0.33 per cent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.75 per cent. New York futures were up. The Canadian dollar was higher at 72.84 US cents.
What everyone’s talking about
In a world propped up by cheap money, this banking crisis is only the beginning
“Much of the wealth we imagined we’d created over the past decade, in stocks, bonds, property, crypto or you name it, was illusory. Central banks had flooded the economy with money, bidding up the prices of assets. But now that the effect of a weakening currency has begun to show up in the real economy, in the form of consumer price inflation, central banks are having to ask for the money back.” - John Rapley
If NHL stars want in on the next Olympics, they should say so now
“If enough hockey players who matter say it, Canada will demand it. If Canada demands it, the NHL will eventually have to agree to it. Of course, that work has to be done now. You can’t make the Olympics your priority six weeks before Milan/Cortina starts. Do it now when there is three years of runway, and if you keep at it, it will happen.” - Cathal Kelly
Today’s editorial cartoon
Editorial cartoon by David Parkins published March 27, 2023. DEFENCE SPENDING.Illustration by David Parkins
Living better
Canadians are still eating too much sodium, WHO warns. Here’s how to cut back
Despite Health Canada’s voluntary measures to curb sodium intake, most Canadians (six out of 10) are still consuming more than what’s advised – an average of 2,760 mg per day, when it should be no more than 2,300 mg.
The majority of sodium that we consume – 77 per cent – comes from packaged foods and restaurant meals, not the saltshaker, writes Leslie Beck. She shares tips on how we can reduce our sodium intake, including cutting back on store-bought bakery goods and reading nutrition labels on packaged and prepared foods.
Moment in time: Maple syrup’s sweet future
Marc Picard looks over the maple syrup boilers at the Au Pieds de Cochon sugar shack, March 1, 2012, in St. Benoit de Mirabel, Que.Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press
For more than 100 years, photographers and photo editors working for The Globe and Mail have preserved an extraordinary collection of news photography. Every Monday, The Globe features one of these images. This month, we’re looking at maple syrup.
Like the trees that provide their liquid gold lifeblood, the billion-dollar maple syrup industry continues to grow. Modern sugar producers, such as the Au Pied de Cochon sugar shack in Mirabel, Que., above, use vacuum pumps to collect the sap and reverse-osmosis systems to produce the syrup. In Quebec last year, more than 8,000 producers used more than 50 million taps to generate 211,000,000 pounds of syrup, which provided 94 per cent of Canada’s supply and 72 per cent of the world’s supply. (Syrup is exported to more than 70 countries.) However, climate change is affecting the industry, as sap runs are now starting earlier and ending earlier, and shortening the season in the northeastern United States even more. But it’s a growing, sustainable business in Canada – it is estimated that producers may be able to double their output in a few years to meet the growing demand for more maple-flavoured products – everything from food to liquor to energy drinks. Philip King
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