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Guns for hire are on the increase in Canada. Motives for a crime may be split among the shooter, recruiter, payer, ideological ecosystem and sometimes a foreign or transnational criminal sponsor. (Max Kleinen/Unsplash)

Shooters for hire: What’s fuelling the Canadian increase in outsourced violence?

Shooters are becoming freelance contractors. Their target’s ideology is entirely irrelevant to them and their involvement is purely transactional.
A barista prepares drinks at Qahwah House in Dearborn, Mich. Valaurian Waller for The Conversation

The rise of Yemeni coffeehouses in Dearborn and beyond

Yemeni coffeehouses have gained culinary prominence in recent years, offering brews of coffee and tea seasoned with cardamom, ginger, cloves and other ingredients.
Diaspora distress is the psychological burden carried by people living in one country while their homeland — and the family, friends and memories embedded there — are under active geopolitical threat. (Vitaly Gariev/Unsplash)

Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office

Millions of employees are living in two worlds. Researchers are only beginning to understand what that costs.
A child wears and holds Ukrainian flags during a rally on Parliament Hill to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Diaspora communities carry the burden of watching war from afar

Distance does not necessarily protect immigrants from wars happening abroad. Instead, global connectivity embeds the stress and strain of these conflict zones in their daily lives.
Hurricane Melissa’s 185 mph winds and storm surge tore apart buildings and left streets strewn with debris in Black River, Jamaica, on Oct. 28, 2025. Ricardo Makyn/AFP via Getty Images

4 urgent lessons for Jamaica from Puerto Rico’s troubled hurricane recovery – and how the Jamaican diaspora could help after Melissa

Disaster recovery is much harder on isolated islands, and people may migrate away if it’s too slow. Support from Jamaicans in the US, UK and Canada to rebuild for a better future can help.

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