Trudeau tells Philippines’ Duterte he’ll get rid of rotting Canadian trash in Manila
TORONTO STAR
MANILA, PHILIPPINES—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he reassured Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that Ottawa is searching for a way to dispose of thousands of tons of Canadian trash languishing in the port of Manila.
The household waste, which includes soiled diapers, has been rotting in about 100 shipping containers at the port for four years.
The stranded Canadian garbage is a well-known concern in the Philippines — it’s been making headlines for years and has even been the subject of protests by environmental groups.
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Life on hold: Algonquin students on what they have gained and lost during the strike
OTTAWA CITIZEN
For Algonquin College students, a faculty strike now entering its fifth week has affected job prospects, their ability to earn part-time money, and even their holiday plans.
But students have also learned some lessons. Among them: how to budget when part-time work is uncertain, how to make plans on the fly and the true meaning of self-directed learning.
Some students have turned a disaster into an opportunity to learn on their own. But for others, the strike has meant a life in limbo, cut off from planned job placements and frustrated by a lack of information about when they will get back to class, what will happen when they do get back and how they will be compensated for the in-class time they missed.
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HOW TO LOCK DOWN YOUR FACEBOOK PRIVACY SETTINGS
WIRED
Facebook deserves a lot of the flack it gets, be it for providing Russian propaganda with a platform or gradually eroding privacy norms. Still, it has some genuine usefulness. And while the single best way to keep your privacy safe on Facebook is to delete your account, taking these simple steps in the settings is the next best thing.
Remember, it’s not just friends of friends you need to think about hiding from; it’s an army of advertisers looking to target you not just on Facebook itself, but around the web, using Facebook’s ad platform. In the video above and the post below, we’ll show you how to deal with both.
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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
— Albert Einstein
