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A NOVEMBER 2014 PHOTO SHOWING CUSTOMS OFFICIALS AT MANILA PORT INSPECTING CONTAINERS CONTAINING TONNES OF RUBBISH SHIPPED BY CANADA [BAN TOXICS/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS]
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THE PHILIPPINES IS SENDING 69 CONTAINER LOADS OF WASTE BACK TO CANADA AFTER IT WAS IMPORTED INTO THE COUNTRY.
IT'S NOT KNOWN HOW THESE ITEMS ENDED UP WITH THE WASTE SENT TO MALAYSIA, WHICH HAS JUST 50 LICENSED PLASTIC RECYCLERS. THOSE LICENSED OPERATORS ARE ALLOWED TO IMPORT CONTAINERS FULL OF PLASTIC FROM COUNTRIES LIKE CANADA, AND ARE REQUIRED TO ADHERE TO SPECIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS.
“PRESIDENT TRUMP AND I BELIEVE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA HAS NEVER BEEN STRONGER,” PENCE TOLD PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU. “AND THAT IS A REFLECTION OF HIS LEADERSHIP, YOUR LEADERSHIP AND THE BONDS THAT HAVE BEEN FORGED THROUGH THE GENERATIONS BY THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED IN UNIFORM, SHOULDER TO SHOULDER.”
HIS COUNTRY IS PREPARING TO SEND AS MUCH AS 3000 TONNES OF PLASTIC WASTE BACK TO THE COUNTRIES IT CAME FROM, INCLUDING AUSTRALIA.
CANADA INSISTED ON WEDNESDAY THAT IT WAS MAINTAINING DISCUSSIONS WITH FILIPINO OFFICIALS, SAYING THAT FOREIGN MINISTER CHRYSTIA FREELAND HAD SPOKEN WITH HER PHILIPPINE COUNTERPART, TEODORO LOCSIN, TO “REITERATE CANADA’S FIRM COMMITMENT TO PROMPTLY REPATRIATE THE WASTE TO CANADA.”
AT LEAST 103 CONTAINERS OF HOUSEHOLD TRASH, INCLUDING PLASTIC BOTTLES AND BAGS, NEWSPAPERS AND DIAPERS, WERE SHIPPED IN BATCHES FROM CANADA TO THE PHILIPPINES FROM 2013 TO 2014. MOST OF THE SHIPPING CONTAINERS REMAIN IN TWO PORTS IN MANILA AND NORTHERN SUBIC FREEPORT, SPARKING PROTESTS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS. PHILIPPINE OFFICIALS SAY THEY WERE FALSELY DECLARED BY A PRIVATE FIRM AS RECYCLABLE PLASTIC SCRAPS AND HAVE ASKED CANADA TO TAKE BACK THE GARBAGE.
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—FOLLOWING A THREAT FROM MALACANANG THAT MANILA WOULD CUT DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH OTTAWA, CANADA MADE GOOD ON ITS PROMISE TO REPATRIATE TONS OF CANADIAN WASTE ILLEGALLY EXPORTED TO THE PHILIPPINES ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO WHEN A SHIP THAT WOULD HAUL THEM BACK ARRIVED ON THURSDAY AT SUBIC BAY FREEPORT TO LOAD THE CARGO.
"IF THE RAPTORS WIN," SAID DAVID COOPER, THE HEAD COACH AT GTA (GREATER TORONTO AREA) PREP, "I BELIEVE IT WILL FOREVER IN HISTORY CHANGE BASKETBALL IN CANADA."
THAT STOPPED WHEN LOCAL ENVIRONMENT GROUPS OBJECTED. THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT INHERITED THE PROBLEM IN NOVEMBER 2015 AND SPENT THE LAST THREE-AND-A-HALF YEARS ALSO TRYING TO FIND AN ALTERNATIVE TO BRINGING IT THE GARBAGE THE WAY BACK TO CANADA. IN APRIL, WHEN DUTERTE KICKED UP THE HEAT ON THE MATTER WITH HIS HYPERBOLIC WAR THREATS, CANADA BACKED DOWN AND AGREED TO BRING THE CONTAINERS" CONTENTS HOME AND PAY ALL THE COSTS.
"OUR AMBASSADOR WILL CONTINUE TO ATTEND THESE TRIALS AND WILL CONTINUE TO RAISE OUR CONCERNS WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR, INCLUDING WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. CANADA WILL CONTINUE TO EXPRESS THE IMPORTANCE OF ENSURING WOMEN HAVE ACCESS TO JUSTICE," SAID GEOFFROI MONTPETIT, MONSEF'S CHIEF OF STAFF.
THE CANADIAN COMPANY THAT SHIPPED THE WASTE, CHRONIC INC., HAS SINCE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS; WHILE OFFICIALS SAY THEY WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO GO AFTER IT TO GET SOME OF THE COSTS BACK, THAT IS PROVING DIFFICULT. CHRONIC INC. IS NOT BELIEVED TO HAVE VIOLATED ANY CANADIANS LAWS WHEN IT SHIPPED THE WASTE.
REYNALDO SAN JUAN, DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF BAN TOXICS, SAID THE CANADIAN TRASH WAS JUST ONE OF SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF TRASH BEING DUMPED IN THE PHILIPPINES. IN 2018, ABOUT 1,400 TONS OF HOUSEHOLD WASTE FROM SOUTH KOREA WERE SHIPPED BACK TO THEIR ORIGIN AFTER AN OUTCRY.
MAHATHIR'S COMMENTS DURING HIS VISIT TO TOKYO CAME DAYS AFTER HIS GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED PLANS TO RETURN THOUSANDS OF TONNES OF IMPORTED PLASTIC WASTE BACK TO WHERE IT WAS ORIGINALLY SHIPPED.
“WE BELIEVE THE MAIN RISK TO OUR NEUTRAL RATING IS THAT CANADA GOOSE’S CHINA EXPANSION CONTINUES TO EXCEED EXPECTATIONS,” WROTE ANALYSTS LED BY ROBERT OHMES. “CHINA IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST LUXURY MARKET AND CANADA GOOSE IS IN EARLY-STAGE GROWTH WITH TWO STORES (BEIJING AND HONG KONG) AND E-COMMERCE OPERATIONS ON TMALL OPENED IN [FISCAL THIRD QUARTER 2019] WITH THREE ADDITIONAL STORE OPENINGS PLANNED FOR [FISCAL 2020].”
“OVER TIME, WE’VE MADE LESS AND LESS EFFORTS TO SEND HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS -- JUST PLASTICS OR JUST THE PAPER THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR -- AND OTHER MATERIALS GOT MIXED IN,” SHE SAID, WHICH MEANT DESTINATION COUNTRIES HAD TO ADD EXTRA LABOUR TO SORT OUT MATERIALS. “NOW THEY’RE PUSHING BACK.”
HEARTBROKEN MOTHER REVEALS HOW HER EX SNATCHED THEIR BRITISH-BORN DAUGHTER, 7, AND TOOK HER TO THE CZECH REPUBLIC – AND SHE HAS NO LEGAL RIGHT TO BRING HER BACK TO THE UK
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