A week after Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte threatened to “declare war” on Canada because of dozens of garbage containers near Manila, he has extended his deadline. Now, the firebrand leader says Canada has one more week before the Philippines dumps the trash on “Canada’s beautiful beaches.“The diplomatic spat is all over 103 containers of garbage sitting in a port near Manila. The containers arrived in Philippines in 2013 and 2014, and were inaccurately labelled as recycling. The flare up over the Canadian garbage comes soon after the South Korean government admitted in February that garbage shipped to the Philippines was actually illegal waste and not recyclables. Those containers, shipped in 2018, are being returned to Korea now.

Source: National Post April 30, 2019 19:07 UTC