Hello Australia!! - A top official warns that Europe is breaking down over mass migration - Five are killed in a school shooting in a country where gun violence is rare - Tokyo turns to authoritarianism to stifle criticism of dolphin hunting - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Canadian officials say five people were killed and two more are in a critical condition after a school shooting.  In Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the "country's heart is breaking" over "every parents' worst nightmare" in La Loche, a First Nations community in northern Saskatchewan, about 400 kilometers away from the nearest city.  A suspect is in custody.

Another desperate scene at the door of Europe as 20 children are among the 44 people who drowned when their flimsy boats got into trouble between Turkey and Greece in the Aegean Sea.  The first boat struck rocks near the Greek island of Farmakonisi, while the second overturned near Kalolimnos.  Thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers, and migrants have drowned during failed crossings of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas in the current crisis.  More than a million refugees made it into Europe, rapidly overloading nations' abilities to provide for them, and sparking xenophobic reactions from increasing numbers of people whose heads were already up their arses.

France's Prime Minister is warning that the European Union cannot take all of the refugees from the wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, lest EU altruism cause "our societies will be totally destabilized".  Manuel Valls said it's past time to close Europe's open door:  "If Europe is not capable of protecting its own borders, it's the very idea of Europe that will be questioned."  He cited the New Year's Eve debacle in Cologne, Germany in which asylum seekers sexually harassed and raped women while police hemmed and hawed as just one example on how the continent is failing to integrate its more than 1,000,000 new residents.  The Dublin Agreement to keep migrants in their first port of entry isn't being observed, and the Schengen agreement to keep internal borders open is falling apart. 

Manuel Valls made his comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where at least some of the soldiers ostensibly protecting it were high as kites!  Twelve tested positive for marijuana use and five more were buzzed on cocaine, and were therefore sent home.  Although, who wouldn't hit the drugs pretty hard if they had to listen to a bunch of billionaires paying lip service to the world's problems knowing that the moment they leave they'd instantly return to sucking the world's middle class dry, destroying the environment through polluting and burning up resources, and profiting off of the "new normal" of perpetual war?

Haiti is now postponing this weekend's planned presidential election runoff.  The opposition and many other critics say the process is biased towards the ruling party's choice, and growing dissatisfaction has stirred up widening street protests.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy extended the country's political uncertainty by turning down King Felipe's offer to form a new government.  The conservative leader of the now-ironically-named Popular Party acknowledged he doesn't have the votes to win a confidence vote after last year's election in which he failed to win majority in parliament.  It is expected that Felipe will turn to the leader of the second-place Socialists (PSOE) Pedro Sanchez, who recently backed the idea of entering into a Leftist coalition with the upstart Podemos Party.  A PSOE-Podemos coalition would still fall short of the 161 seats needed for a majority, so they would need to bring in at least one minor party to clear the hump.

The US is expanding its travel warnings related to the Zika Virus, which is causing a health crisis in Brazil.  Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) is cautioning pregnant women to "exercise particular caution" when traveling to Brazil because of the mosquito-borne disease which has caused almost 4,000 cases of Microcephaly in newborn infants, a disease that affects the development of the skull and brain.  But the US travel alert now covers pretty much all of tropical South America and the Caribbean; Cape Verde in Africa; and Tonga in Oz's neighborhood.  There's no cure for Zika.  Scientists are rushing to come up with a Zika vaccine, but as of now the only way to combat it is to clear standing water where the Aedes aegypti mosquito breeds (btw, the little bloodsucker also lives in Australia).  Brazil is expecting hundreds of thousands of tourists for the Summer Olympics in August.

Japan is deporting American animal rights activist Ric O'Barry, star of the anti-Dolphin hunting film "The Cove" which documented the barbaric slaughter of the cetaceans in a cove near Taiji, Wakayama prefecture.  After detaining him and barring his entry through Narita Airport, Tokyo ruled that Mr. O'Barry is not a tourist based on his past activism in documenting the gruesome and bloody drive hunt that most Japanese don't even know about because of an unspoken media blackout (you probably won't find a lot about this story in Japan's media, either).  Officials also accused him of having links to the Sea Shepherd group.  The 76-year old former trainer on the 1960s US TV series "Flipper" denies it and says he was going to observe dolphins as a tourist.