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Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

“Hello Eeyore,” said Pooh.

“Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet,” said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice.

“We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, “because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.”

Eeyore was silent for a moment. “Am I okay?” he asked, eventually. “Well, I don’t know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That’s what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven’t bothered you. Because you wouldn’t want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now.”

Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. “What are you doing?”

“We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.”

“Oh,” said Eeyore. “Oh.” And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

~ Kathryn Wallace

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Former journalist of Ukrainian descent was banned by Moscow in 2014 and stance on Russia is likely to be at odds with Trump administration in US

Canada has named a prominent critic of Russia who was banned by Moscow in 2014 as its new minister of foreign affairs, as the Canadian government prepares for what could be a radical recast of its relationship with the United States under the incoming Trump administration.

Chrystia Freeland was sworn in as Canada’s top diplomat on Tuesday, as part of a wide-ranging cabinet shuffle that also saw Ahmed Hussen, a Somali-Canadian who arrived in Canada as a 16-year-old refugee, appointed as Canada’s immigration minister.

Freeland, whose tenure as trade minister was marked by her efforts to push forward the trade agreement between Canada and the European Union, will also continue to be responsible for Canada-US trade.

The shakeup to cabinet comes less than two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Senior Canadian officials have met several times with Trump’s advisers in an effort to build bridges with the incoming administration, Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, told reporters on Tuesday. “Obviously, the new administration to the south will present … both opportunities and challenges, as well as a shifting global context,” he said.

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Hussen came to Canada from war-torn Somalia when he was 16, and now takes over immigration and refugee file for Justin Trudeau.

In 2004, Ahmed Hussen was proclaimed a “Person to Watch” in the country’s biggest city for his community work in Regent Park. He told the Star at the time: “I don’t think I could handle the life of a politician … I don’t want to be front and centre.”

Flash forward to Tuesday, and there was Hussen, front and slightly to the right, swearing an oath to serve the Queen in front of a cluster of clicking cameras as he officially joined the reshuffled Liberal cabinet of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The rookie MP for York-South Weston has leapt from the backbench of the party to become Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, a position made all the more noteworthy for Hussen’s own story. He came to this country as a refugee from war-torn Somalia, settling on his own in a foreign land as a 16-year-old in 1993.

Just hours after formally assuming his new post, Hussen — who has been a lawyer, human rights advocate and community activist — said the trajectory of his life would affect how he approaches the job, just like it would for anyone else.

“I am extremely proud of our country’s history as a place of asylum, a place that opens its doors and hearts to new immigrants and refugees, and I’m especially proud today to be the minister in charge of that file,” Hussen told reporters outside the House of Commons on Tuesday.

“The story of Canada is the story of immigration, and I’m especially proud and humbled that the prime minister would task me with this important role.”

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There are a lot of problems with a study that a bunch of Canadian media outlets were quick to publish.

Another day, another sketchy report alleging Canada’s mosques are a hotbed for extremism.

On Tuesday, the Canadian Press published a story reporting that “many mosques and Islamic schools in Canada are placing young people at risk by espousing—or at least not condemning—extremist teachings.”

The story was published in the National Post with the headline: “Extremist literature common in many mosques and Islamic school libraries in Canada, study says.”

That study—which was purchased by VICE Canada for the outlandish price of $7—claims that “direct evidence shows that extremist ideology and radicalization are being advanced in Canada in mosques and Islamic associations.”

The story says the co-authors “base their findings on research conducted quietly in mosque libraries and Islamic schools.”

The report, called “The Lovers of Death?” says it “takes the reader inside the mosques [In Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto] and other forums to see the messages being put forward which are driving the youth into fighting for ISIS, dying as martyrs in Algeria or blowing themselves up as suicide bombers in Iraq or working against Canadian democracy and values.”

The co-authors’ strategy was to creep into mosques and take photos of bookshelves. The report doesn’t include any interviews with Muslims, young or otherwise.

However, that didn’t stop them from concluding that: “Many of those present during the visits to the libraries seemed sullen and sometimes angry. The traditional greetings of friendship were absent. This is consistent with the increasing general angriness of Islamist/extremist views being advanced in some local mosques.”

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