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Canada goes groveling back to Saudi Arabia.,
Money trumps human rights in Canada’s foreign policy.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/gulf-news/saudi-arabia/2023/05/24/saudi-arabia-and-canada-to-restore-full-ties-following-2018-dispute/
Saudi Arabia expelled Canada’s ambassador in 2018, recalled its own ambassador from Ottawa and froze all new trade.
The decision came after Canada’s embassy in Riyadh published a tweet in Arabic calling for the immediate release of women’s rights activists held by Saudi Arabia.
At the time of the fallout, Canada was receiving at least 10 per cent of its imported crude oil from Saudi Arabia while bilateral trade between the two nations averaged $3 billion a year.
The freezing of diplomatic and trade relations also affected Saudis who were studying in Canada.
Saudi Arabia suspended all educational exchange programmes with Canada and moved Saudi scholarship recipients there to other countries.
Money has always trumped human rights in New Zealand foreign policy.
New Zealand has never stopped sucking up to the Saudi regime, even benefitted from some of the spillover from the Canada snub
When it comes to groveling to human rights abusers NZ raises the bar.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/flag-tribute-to-late-saudi-king-abdullah-a-bridge-too-far-for-many/WGU47BZCAE5GEOIOM2BQ65WA34/
I was deeply saddened to see the faces of the four middle aged men who died at the Newton Loafers accommodation just around the corner from where I work in Wellington. It seems these men fell on hard time as many people do. On a good note, I see they all had caring whanau who loved them. In fact, this horrid event enforces how important it is for all people to have somewhere safe and decent to live and we all need to remember this cause too many NZers have become bitter, nasty and judgmental and this needs to stop.
Good bit of news cip. Wellington City Mission is pushing ahead with a ‘wet house’ for alcoholics, drug?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018891639/nz-s-first-wet-house-to-finally-open-in-wellington
The country’s first ‘wet house’ is about to open in Wellington – it’s a shelter for homeless alcoholics that still allows them to drink on site.
Te Pa Maru has been decades in the making, bedevilled by community opposition and a lack of funding but now the City Mission is promising it’s here to stay.
and
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/490647/wellington-gets-nz-s-first-wet-house-to-help-alcohol-addicted-homeless
Note: Search on RNZ under health alcoholics does not bring up a piece done yesterday!!
Had to know precise detail to find – knew it was Wellington City Mission but otherwise would I have found it without a spade?
A catchphrase from an English radio show was ‘The answer lies in the soil’ said in a knowledgeable voice. Probably it is true in real life. This sounds interesting.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/
audio/2018891321/the-complexities-of-soil
[Professor Amanda Black] is the director of the Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence. Formerly known as the Bio-Protection Research Centre, it was re-funded in July 2021 with a new approach in mind for how to tackle the tricky job of protecting New Zealand’s productive landscapes.
Her own research has led her from investigating how movement between landscapes affects the kauri dieback pathogen, to re-establishing land-sea connections in the hopes of increasing soil resilience to this disease.
Based at Lincoln University, Amanda was one of the visiting speakers to the 2023 Wild Dunedin Festival of Nature. In its eighth year, the theme for this year’s festival was whenua. More than 120 events across ten days celebrated the land and soils.
Same method, different locations, result poor people disadvantaged by quick-buck speculators. That’s business folks. The financial system working against us not as a tool for advancing society or its government.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2305/S00039/the-deplorable-work-conditions-behind-harrods-7000-ambootia-snow-mist-darjeeling-tea.htm
“In fact, this horrid event enforces how important it is for all people to have somewhere safe and decent to live and we all need to remember this cause too many NZers have become bitter, nasty and judgmental and this needs to stop.”
AMEN to that @cip.
Unfortunately it may take a while.