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Nearly half a million Canadians accessing EI as unemployment surges
Aug 26, 2024
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows an increase in the number of working-age Canadians receiving unemployment benefits. In June, the number of men aged 25 to 54 receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits rose by nearly 13 percent compared to last year,...
Children of Russian spies posing as Argentinian citizens discovered they we …
Aug 12, 2024
A Russian spy couple, Artem Viktorovich Dultsev and Anna Valerevna Dultseva, and their children returned to Russia as part of the largest prisoner swap between the West and Russia since the Cold War. Posing as an Argentine couple in Slovenia, they were arrested for...
El Salvador’s Bitcoin City secures $1.6 billion investment
Aug 12, 2024
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele announced a $1.6 billion investment by Turkish company Yilport Holdings to upgrade two ports, Acajutla and La Unión, in what is the largest private investment in the country’s history. This initiative, forming part of the third...
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bad bunny assists with a purchase of a new home for Uvalde school shooting …
Sep 17, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - Bad Bunny met with Uvalde school shooting survivor Mayah Zamora backstage at his concert last week, less than a month after it was announced that his foundation was part of the efforts to...
MLB’s first all-latino lineup
Sep 16, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - Manager Kevin Cash didn’t realize until about halfway through the Rays’ 11-0 win over the Blue Jays that he’d made history with the lineup he wrote out this past Thursday afternoon. And it...
Disney giving us our first afro latina princess
Sep 16, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - Afro-Latina actress, Ariana DeBose, will star as Asha in Wish. Asha is a “17-year-old heroine who’s driven, incredibly smart and an optimist, a sharp-witted leader in the making who sees...
Chile loses appeal seeking ecuador’s place in world cup
Sep 16, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - Chile has lost its appeal to replace Ecuador at the World Cup in Qatar. FIFA dismissed Chile’s argument that Ecuador player Byron Castillo was actually Colombian and ineligible to play in...
bad bunny hosts family of uvalde victim at his concert in san antonio
Sep 14, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - Bad Bunny hosted the family of a child killed in the Robb Elementary School mass shooting to his sold-out concert at the Alamodome in San Antonio last week Wednesday. Steven Garcia and...
Ecuador local postal service has a massive letter and parcel backlog
Sep 14, 2022 | Community News
BARRIO - For years, Correos del Ecuador, the national postal service, was slow and unreliable. During the pandemic, it closed. Ecuador became one of only a few countries not to have a postal...
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