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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) alleged one of the men arrested on Saturday night was vice-president of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle club’s Brisbane chapter. Biker gangs are notorious in Australia for their drug violence, with more than 1,000 shootings recorded since the 1980s.
Systemic workplace ageism continues to derail employment for many older workers before they are eligible for government benefits. A 2022 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research revealed workplace age discrimination as a leading indicator of financial instability and heightened poverty risk.
Make no mistake: this new law protects tenants, as the screams of outrage from their predators attest.
In today’s Europe, an inverted trend of coercive assimilation is emerging in northern nations grappling with high levels of immigration. As a part of what has been described as both “ethnic engineering” and among the “harshest immigration policies” in the world, Denmark is forcibly uprooting people from neighborhoods they call “ghettos” and redirecting them to alternative housing. In neighboring Sweden, politicians have expressed a desire to pursue similar plans.
Maison de Lauberivière, a Quebec City shelter, will serve as the site for the expanded PRISM program…. Mayor Bruno Marchand said the new program is a welcome step, but isn’t enough to address what has become a major problem in his city, and others across the province.