San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship, and especially during Pride Month, when people gather to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Milk is a revered figure in San Francisco history, a former city supervisor and gay rights advocate who was fatally shot along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by disgruntled former supervisor Dan White. Just last month, California marked what would have been Milk's 95th birthday with proclamations heralding his authenticity, kindness and calls for unity.
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21 minutes ago
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Amid Trump bans, should Canadian students avoid U.S. universities?
The recent move by U.S. President Donald Trump to bar international students from attending Harvard University is 'concerning,' but experts who help Canadian students apply abroad say it shouldn't deter them from considering American schools. On Wednesday, Trump signed a proclamation to try and bar foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend the institution. Harvard retaliated, filing a court challenge that led to a federal judge placing a temporary pause on the proclamation. But while that pause is in place, the U.S. has moved to revoke the visas of international students, with those targeted studying under F-1 and J-1 visas. Canadians have so far been able to escape some of these, as visas are not required to study in the U.S., but those studying at Harvard are in a different situation. Story continues below advertisement The school has approximately 686 Canadians enrolled as of 2022, and it's yet to be seen what could happen to those studying or applying could also face difficulty. According to Global Affairs Canada, the most recent data shows that nearly 28,000 Canadian students headed to the U.S. for study in 2023. Canadian students should still apply, but be cautious Yet while there could be difficulty, it shouldn't necessarily deter you from making the jump. 'If they're really passionate about studying at a particular American institution, there's no reason right now that they should entirely abandon the country and its higher education system,' said Elizabeth Buckner, an associate professor of higher education at the University of Toronto. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Buckner said it doesn't mean Canadian students shouldn't still be cautious, noting that those potentially accepted to Harvard could face uncertainty if they have to leave the school in the middle of their degree. Story continues below advertisement When applying, students should be aware of what they need in order to study and take precautions given the uncertainty. 1:58 Trump administration moves to cut all remaining federal contracts with Harvard According to the U.S. Embassy in Canada, Canadian citizens don't need a visa to study or participate in an exchange program in the U.S., but they need to obtain an I20 certificate of eligibility from the school or exchange program they plan to attend. Once they've received the I-20, the student will be registered with SEVIS, the student tracking system, and required to pay a registration fee. On crossing the border to begin their program, the student must then provide a Canadian passport, the I-20 or DS-2019 certificate, proof the SEVIS fee has been paid, proof they can pay fees and living expenses in the U.S. and proof of ties to Canada. Story continues below advertisement It's why, Buckner said, Canadian students may need to think about potential circumstances that might not have come up in the past and may need to have a backup plan should they have to leave if more schools are told to limit international student attendance. 'If you suddenly can't continue enrolling in your same institution, you don't want to lose those one, two, three years of study without a degree, especially knowing how expensive the tuition is at American universities,' she said. She added that students may want to research whether their program could be transferred to a Canadian institution if such a shift were to occur. Consider Canadian universities or ones abroad Tejbir Singh, the owner of Toronto Education Consultants, told Global News it may be worth it for Canadians to consider schools at home or abroad to avoid the uncertainty south of the border. Story continues below advertisement 'They should trust Canadian universities that they're going to get the right education,' he said. But Singh added that while some may be after the programs at the U.S. schools, others may pursue the name — being able to say they studied at Harvard or Yale University. 'Instead of just going after the names, I would recommend them to go after the right quality education so they can actually learn something and then work in whatever field they are trying to prepare themselves for,' Singh said. 8:35 Students face uncertain future as Trump-Harvard litigation battle gets underway Singh's company assists Canadians, permanent residents and international students in their applications to schools both in and outside Canada, as well as providing career counselling. He noted that Canadians should also consider schools outside of Canada and the U.S. as another way to avoid uncertainty south of the border, which may give students a new opportunity. Story continues below advertisement 'Sometimes what happens is people or students, once they complete their college, they usually try to study abroad to actually feel that lifestyle of being a student and start their journey,' he said. Regardless of that uncertainty, both Singh and Buckner noted that Canadians shouldn't be discouraged from heading south to study overall, but can consider other schools if they want to limit risks. — with files from The Associated Press
Toronto Star
31 minutes ago
- Toronto Star
Mark Carney's bill to make Canada a ‘superpower' is unveiled
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's bid to Trump-proof and supercharge the Canadian economy was unveiled on Friday when the Liberal government tabled a bill to create a new process to fast-track 'nation-building' development projects and ease the flow of goods and workers within the country. The proposed 'One Canadian Economy' law opens a five-year window to conditionally approve specially-selected development projects upfront, so they can go through a streamlined process geared toward deciding how — rather than whether — they should get built.
32 minutes ago
Musk vs. Trump: A power couple tumbles into a messy divorce
Début du widget Widget. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ? It's splitsville for a global power couple. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are tumbling into a messy public divorce, with unusual political fallout. Tension between the erstwhile Oval Office buds bubbled into open view Thursday, as they exchanged digs in public and on their own social media sites. It got ugly, quickly. Within hours, Musk appeared to call for Trump's impeachment. Meanwhile, Tesla stock had plunged, as the market feared the president might punish Musk businesses. The official cause of the breakup between the world's most powerful elected politician and its richest man was the hefty U.S. federal budget deficit. Musk has been disparaging the president's signature budget bill since leaving his government role last week, fuming recently that the legislation will plunge the U.S. deeper into its debt hole (new window) . He called it a disgusting abomination. Trump's reply: Musk is just bitter. He suggests Musk is unhappy with parts of the bill that hurt his electric-vehicle business. He also suggests the Tesla billionaire misses the action in the White House. And because this is Donald Trump's Washington, the chancellor of Germany happened to be seated in the room, witness to one side of the feud. Elon and I had a great relationship. I don't know if we will anymore, Trump told reporters during a lengthy photo op Thursday in the Oval Office with Friedrich Merz. He's not the first. People leave my administration and they love us. And then at some point, they miss it so badly.... I don't know what it is. It's sort of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I guess they call it, he said. They leave, and they wake up in the morning, and the glamour's gone, the whole world is different — and they become hostile. I don't know what it is. It degenerated from there. Trump continued the dispute on his own social-media site. On Thursday afternoon, he posted on his social-media platform Musk was wearing thin, and suggested he'd fired him. I asked him to leave, Trump wrote on Truth Social, to which Musk responded on X, formerly Twitter, Such an obvious lie. So sad. The president also uttered a thinly veiled threat: Trump wrote that one easy way to trim the federal budget is to cancel government contracts with Musk's companies, worth billions (new window) . I was always surprised that Biden didn't do it! Tesla stock plunged abruptly, dropping (new window) 14 per cent within a couple of hours. 'Without me, Trump would have lost' Musk, meanwhile, has been using X, the enormous online megaphone he owns, to rail at the administration. He's disputing that his own business interests soured him on the budget bill. The legislation, which has passed the House but faces an uncertain path in the Senate, eliminates an EV tax credit. And he's demanding a little more gratitude after he dumped the equivalent of nearly $400 million Cdn into electing Trump and his allies. Début du widget Twitter. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Twitter. Retourner au début du widget ? Without me, Trump would have lost the election, Musk posted Thursday on X. [Democrats] would control the House and the Republicans would be 51-49 in the Senate. He later replied, Yes, to a tweet calling for Trump's impeachment. Musk also predicted (new window) Trump's tariffs will cause a recession. And in an eye-poppingly personal (new window) string of tweets (new window) , Musk referred several (new window) times to Trump's encounters with the late sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein, offering no evidence or detail to buttress his ominous insinuations. Hints of trouble in political paradise It's an abrupt plot twist: The pair were all smiles and praise for each other just last week, as Musk announced his departure from Washington. But there were hints of trouble in political paradise. There were occasional reports of blowups between Musk and other members of the administration, and the New York Times reported (new window) that sources were concerned about Musk's frequent use of different drugs, including, allegedly, so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder. Musk denied it. WATCH | Musk's time in the Trump administration comes to an end: Début du widget Widget. Passer le widget ? Fin du widget Widget. Retourner au début du widget ? Elon Musk gets Oval Office send-off from Trump U.S. President Donald Trump lauded billionaire Elon Musk's time heading the Department of Government Efficiency during an event marking the end of Musk's controversial tenure in the Trump administration. Now Musk has gone from White House consigliere to chief heckler in under a week — a speed record even for D.C. As is custom in Trump-era Washington, the human-resources gossip risks overshadowing the substantive challenges of the U.S. government. With American debt levels ballooning, and the cost of servicing the $36 trillion (new window) national debt recently outpacing even military spending, Musk was tasked with controlling finances. He slashed countless offices, programs, research initiatives, and even the entire agency that oversaw U.S. international aid. Still, it put only a modest dent in federal spending. Musk's DOGE project has eliminated an estimated $170 billion US, less than one-10th of the annual budget deficit (new window) . Musk's uncertain legacy in government If anything, the initiative demonstrated that actually halting the growth of the national debt would require real sacrifices from Americans: Either popular programs get cut or taxes go up. Even if Musk had eliminated all U.S. foreign aid, he could do it 25 times over (new window) , and the U.S. would still have a deficit, and the debt would keep growing. That's because the vast majority (new window) of U.S. federal spending is on pensions, the military, public health, income support, and paying past debt. But some of Musk's critics say his legacy in government can't be counted solely in terms of public finances. The co-author of a report titled Corruption In Plain Sight (new window) said at least 32 federal investigations into Musk companies might have vanished during his months in politics — in part, because the investigating agencies were defunded or the investigators were fired. Musk's legacy under DOGE is something that has benefited him, largely, said Margaret Poydock of the Economic Policy Institute, a group focused (new window) on fighting inequality that's funded (new window) mostly by union or left-of-centre donors. She cited several examples, like the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which screens federal contractors for workplace bias and racial discrimination, and can fine and punish offenders. It was auditing (new window) Tesla, but it was gutted (new window) quickly after Trump's inauguration. The U.S. Agency for International Development, meanwhile, had been investigating (new window) Musk's company Starlink over its service of satellites supplied to Ukraine (new window) ; he eliminated the agency. I think that's pretty egregious, Poydock said. Thursday's stock-market plunge, however, illustrated Musk's dalliance with politics also included downside risks. Unlike some (new window) relationships with (new window) Donald Trump, this one didn't come with a prenup. Alexander Panetta (new window) · CBC News
