Calgary Herald Dept: More than 20 employers will be taking part in a four-day hiring fair to fill hundreds of jobs resulting from that expansion, according to Calgary Herald. The fairs run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on those four dates at the Labour Market Information Centre at Fisher Park Place, 6712 Fisher St. S.E and chinook Centre's major expansion is set for its grand opening later this month and that will create numerous new retail jobs in the city. Alberta Employment and Immigration is partnering with Cadillac Fairview to host the event on Sept. 9, 10, 14 and 15. As reported in the news.
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Colombian Woman Dept: Despite pleas for a reprieve from friends and community organizers in Verdun who fear for her life, Gloria Patricia Uribe must report to Trudeau airport Thursday at 8 a.m., under yesterday's ruling by Justice Richard Mosley, according to Montreal Gazette. The Verdun mother of two collapsed in tears after learning her 11th-hour plea to stay in Canada was denied and a federal court judge has refused to halt the deportation of a Colombian woman who says she has received death threats from the paramilitary gang that killed her cousin and uncle. "It's tragic. She will be in great danger," said John Bradley, a Verdun resident who is inviting community members to a meeting today to rally support for Uribe. As reported in the news.
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Montreal Gazette Dept: It was approaching 5 p.m. and I'd set off to the hardware store for a last-minute item, according to Montreal Gazette. Sitting in the semi-circles of chairs arranged at the foot of the open stage, waves of life rippled through the park. First: the voices of the Quebec City band La tourelle orkestra trumpet, guitars, clarinet, sounds in French, Spanish, Yiddish and English, all to a klezmer beat . Then: the people, from the toddling young dancer crossing back and forth in front of the rounded stage to her mother's consternation to a good number of white heads, some tapping, some swaying and i had one of those Montreal moments last Sunday. Turning onto St. Dominique St., from Rachel St., my eye was drawn to the tents of some festival in the corner park. I made a note to look in on my way back. By that time, klezmer music was emanating from Le Parc des Ameriques and the call to sit down for a moment at this free concert in the Montreal Jewish Music Festival was louder than the call to finish painting my balcony. As reported in the news.
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Baraca Dept: Her name was Catherine Baraca. She belonged to Dominique Gaudet, a merchant of Montreal and Lachine. Gaudet owned her parents, too, Pierre Baraca and Marie-Anne, as he had owned her sister, Marthe, who had died five years before Catherine was born at Lachine on March 17, 1746, according to Montreal Gazette. There was a provisional British military government, but it would be another couple of years before a peace treaty Feb. 10, 1763 would settle the question of whether the colony would remain British or revert to France. Slavery went on another 40-odd years in what is now Quebec, petering out in the first decade of the 19th century, largely as a result of a string of court rulings and few people in the history of Montreal can have sacrificed more for love than Louis Antoine. A Haitian immigrant in his 20s, he sold himself into slavery in 1761 in order to be able to marry the girl of his dreams. It was wartime when they married, just six months after the military surrender of New France to the British at Montreal on Sept. 8, 1760. The town was a mess, the future uncertain. As reported in the news.
@t montreal gazette, girl of his dreams

Stapler Dept: There is a police video that may have caught some of the incident though not the shooting, and, separately, an audio recording; the police have not seen fit to make those public. It was a bystander’s video that exploded the falsehoods told by the RCMP about the supposed violent action of Mr. Dziekanski, which turned out to be that he was harmlessly holding an office stapler, though not brandishing it. The police should release any video and audio they have. The Seattle police are investigating themselves, and that is not a recipe for an impartial or effective investigation. As reported in the news.
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Eiffel Tower Dept: But whether they come for love, money or adventure, more than 400 years after the French first landed on the shores of the New World, they are again invading Quebec in increasing numbers and calling it home. All over Le Plateau, the city's trendiest quarter, and downtown, shops are staffed with clerks happily speaking broken English and a definitely un-Quebecois brand of French, according to The Star. If you think about nature, you think about Canada and Quebec, she says. Ask her if she'll stay when her visa is up and she says: Why not and mONTREAL They come for love. They come for work. They come for the wide-open spaces or as the French like to dream ma cabane au Canada and they come for the two-letter word tu. Most are the PVTistes, young people from France who have invaded Quebec under a Canada-France program called Programme Vacances Travail PVT or Work Holiday Visa, which allows 18-35 year-olds to work, travel and live in Canada for up to a year. After that, they can apply for permanent resident status. Since I was a kid I dreamed of Canada, says 23-year-old Julie Hedouen, who arrived in January as a PVTiste and now sells pastry in a fancy shop with a symbol of the Eiffel Tower on the door, just off the long and increasingly hip shopping corridor of Mont-Royal Blvd. Hedouen says she grew up seeing Canada on TV and learning a bit about it in school. As reported in the news.
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Campaign Material Dept: The mayoral debate at University of Toronto's Hart House took a controversial turn on Thursday night before the candidates even took the podium. According to reports, a young volunteer for Rossi's campaign attempted to give Smitherman campaign material as he entered the debate. She claims he then swore at her, according to CTV. "You come onto me rudely, I'm going to come right back at you rudely." he told afterwards, adding "the way she confronted me warranted a similar response." Mayoral candidate George Smitherman has been accused of swearing at a volunteer for rival Rocco Rossi's campaign during what he calls a rude confrontation on Thursday night. According to Smitherman, the volunteer had no visible campaign identification and was trying to hand him "misinformation" that wasn't clearly affiliated with any candidate. As reported in the news.
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Fast Food Dept: Dennis Salvador arrived in Canada two years ago. He says he is trained in medical promotions in the Philippines, but now works at an Edmonton fast food outlet, according to CTV. He says he sends his earning back home to support his wife and two daughters. This man recalls that adjusting to life here was difficult at first and the provincial government is giving $850,000 to agencies that provide services for temporary foreign workers as they adjust to life in Alberta. "Back home the salary wasn't competitive enough," he said. As reported in the news.
@t that provide services, two daughters

Global Financial Crisis Dept: And while these very public events naturally captured the headlines, they represent only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of the “global drivers of change” that are now reshaping economies, societies and politics. There are four core structural trends driving this change: globalization, demographics, the information revolution and climate change. These, together with the events of the past decade, are inexorably changing the world order, according to Globe And Mail. Without this pervasive globalization, the global financial crisis would have been an American banking crisis. Without this pervasive globalization, the United States would not have been able to live beyond its means at no apparent cost for the past decade, nor would China have been able to export its way to two decades of double-digit growth. Without this globalization, supply chains would still be national rather than worldwide, and costs would be higher and clearly, the first decade of the new millennium will cast a long shadow over the 21st century. It was a decade marked by jarring and unsettling events: Y2K; terrorist attacks; Enron and a host of other corporate debacles; horrific natural disasters showcased by the digital information age; the invasion of Iraq and the absence of weapons of mass destruction; the dot-com bust; and the global financial crisis. Cumulatively, these events have sapped public trust in leadership. Overwhelmingly, they have changed the public’s expectations for their governments. Paradoxically, they have created gaping fissures in the body politic about how best to meet these changed public expectations. So, what shape will this new world order take? Let’s start with globalization. Today’s pervasive globalization has been made possible by the information revolution. It is bound together through global supply chains, global capital markets, the global Internet and unprecedented movements of people. We now inhabit a flatter, more interconnected, more wired and more competitive world than was imaginable just a decade ago. As reported in the news.
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Former Engineering Dept: But the more this good life is repositioned and redefined as material goods, where objects have become more intrinsically human than people themselves, the faster the liberal arts have fallen out of favour – in the academy, the economy and society at large, where a doctor, an X-ray technician and a former engineering student are now charged with wanting to bomb us into oblivion, according to Globe And Mail. Clearly jihadists are the sworn enemies of liberal democracy, but can there be a connection between the disappearance of the liberal arts and the rise of homegrown terrorism? Or put another way, can we deter violence by teaching young people to think more clearly and compassionately than they now do in a technology-obsessed society where democracy is too often defined by its unthinking excesses? Prof. Nussbaum believes so and we don't do this instinctively – it takes training. Animals might be collective by nature, but they are hierarchical in their attitudes toward self-preservation and exceedingly narrow in their range of sympathetic feelings. Authoritarian cultures and regimes exploit this us-and-them survival impulse to their advantage, but a democracy glories in achieving the best version yet of the good life thanks to what are traditionally called liberal arts – the broad-based critical education that freed people from all-knowing authority and allowed them to see both themselves and others as fully human. Tammy Hoy/The Canadian Press A combination of courtroom sketches. From left: Misbahuddin Ahmed, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh, both of Ottawa; and Khurram Syed Sher, of London, Ont. As reported in the news.
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