Carbon taxes driving food prices higher | Asian Pacific Post | Chinese newspaper -Vancouver, Richmond, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, North York, Montreal

Pakistan cracks down on Afghan refugees | South Asian Post | Indo Canadian newspaper - Vancouver, Surrey, Calgary, Toronto, Brampton, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal

By Amel Ghani The New Humanitarian Despite the worsening economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, the Pakistani government is intensifying its crackdown on Afghan refugees, adding a string of new movement restrictions on top of a wave of detentions and deportations. Last Saturday, some 331 Afghans were returned from Pakistan, including 70 who had been imprisoned for lacking documentation – just the latest to be sent home as Pakistan d…

Carbon taxes driving food prices higher | Asian Pacific Post | Chinese newspaper -Vancouver, Richmond, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, North York, Montreal

Commentary By Sylvain Charlebois On April 1, the carbon tax will be set at $65 per metric tonne. We are slowly marching towards a carbon tax of $170 per metric tonne by 2030, more than double what it is today. Yet, so far, not one study has looked at how the carbon tax will impact food affordability in Canada. Not one. Ottawa is currently considering Bill C-234, which would offer farmers a desperately needed carbon-tax exemption for grain drying…