canadian funds: Israel has accused the agency of being biased, fuelling its conflict with the Palestinians and promoting hatred against the Jewish state, according to Vancouver Courier. Canada's foreign ministry says the new funds will help bring stability to the region by helping Palestinians cope with poverty, unemployment and food insecurity. The new Canadian funds announced today will be allocated over two years to assist the health and education efforts of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA.article continues below Trending Stories One fall foliage spot in Metro Vancouver you need to see Has Vancouver become a better place under Mayor Gregor Robertson The top Instagram fall photo spots in Vancouver Minimum wage increases go into effect June 1 across B.C. The Trump administration decided in August to withdraw US 300 million in support, ending the United States' status as the largest donor for an organization that had been trying to help more than five million Palestinian refugees. But it also says the money will assist UNRWA with its ongoing efforts to improve neutrality within the agency and its operations. Canada is earmarking 40 million towards the basic education, health and livelihood needs of millions of Palestinian refugees, especially women and children. This assistance demonstrates how Canada and UNRWA are working together to ensure respect for the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, operational independence and impartiality, said a statement from Global Affairs Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

u.s: An earlier charge of espionage was dropped.article continues below Trending Stories One fall foliage spot in Metro Vancouver you need to see Amanda Tapping on coping with miscarriage Tattoo artist slaps lawsuit on ink event Man shot in botched robbery may have had run-in with police in China Hours later, Brunson was transported to Izmir's airport and was flown out of Turkey, where he had lived for more than two decades, according to Vancouver Courier. He was to be flown to the U.S. military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, then on to Washington, where he was to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. The court near the western city of Izmir sentenced North Carolina native Andrew Brunson to just over three years in prison for allegedly helping terror groups, but let him go because the 50-year-old evangelical pastor had already spent nearly two years in detention. I love Jesus. He tearfully hugged his wife Norine Lyn as he awaited the court decision. I love Turkey, an emotional Brunson, who had maintained he was innocent of all charges, told the court during Friday's hearing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

business: This legislation is out of date, according to Vancouver Courier. One of the suggestions includes permitting realtors to disclose details about a competing offer to another bidder, if all sides involved agree. In a report Thursday, the group says the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act REBBA which was put in place in 2002, is in need of a revamp.article continues below Trending Stories The top Instagram fall photo spots in Vancouver Has Vancouver become a better place under Mayor Gregor Robertson UBC is on the World's Most Innovative Universities list Here's 11 Vancouver happy hours to check out in fall The average price of a home in 2002 was 275,000 in Toronto and most deals were closed by a fax machine, said Tim Hudak, chief executive of OREA, which has more than 70,000 members. This would include offer price, closing dates and any conditions. Currently, most buyers and sellers participate in a blind bidding process where buyers go in with an offer, in the hopes that they are not outbid. The group says doing so would result in a more transparent multi-offer process that would give buyers more information to make their best offer, and sellers the knowledge that they have received the best offer for a property. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

doctor: Where is the equity Where is the humanity Dr, according to Rabble. Michael Klein rejects the notion of the dispassionate doctor. It offers us access to a great deal of thoughtful, reliable and modern medicine and approaches and yet many would also agree that sometimes the person is not validated in a meaningful, helpful and healthy way within our current system. Face2Face host David Peck and Dr. They touch on role models, mentorship, healthcare, ambiguity and equity and why listening is the essence of family practice. Klein talk about his new book Dissident Doctor and why he has sometimes been called a lifelong gadfly. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ethnic-minority employees: She says too often ethnic minority employees feel they're hitting a brick wall when it comes to career progression, according to CTV. Last year the government told companies with 250 or more employees to disclose the difference in median wages between men and women. Prime Minister Theresa May says revealing the figures might uncover some uncomfortable truths. The government said Thursday that businesses including accountants KPMG, advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi and the civil service had signed up to a Race at Work Charter, promising to recruit more ethnic-minority employees and help their careers advance. The government will decide on mandatory reporting after a consultation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

francois legault: I know Mr, according to CTV. Trudeau disagrees with our proposal, but I think it's reasonable to say that we ban the wearing of religious signs but only by people in an authority position, said Francois Legault. The major sticking point will be the Coalition Avenir Quebec's proposal to ban the wearing of religious symbols by people in positions of authority. He said that the move is about imposing a secular state, although many critics have said it violates the Constitutional right for freedom of religion. Marine Le Pen or Mr. I think it's fair, and at the same time we make sure we don't have problems like Mrs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

progress: Zinn says it's always one step forward, two back, according to Toronto Star. So does progress happen For native peoples, it's been pretty retrograde during the 500 years since Columbus. A neighbour passing the porch said she'd been reading Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. But as someone else said, they tend to have a less linear notion of time than we newcomers. As Peter Capaldi said in his final episode as the Doctor, just before regenerating into Jodi Whitaker which counts as progress in the conventional sense Silly old universe. If you relax the grid, you can go backward and forward simultaneously, or weave around. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

home province: Her vice-regal performance, despite a few hiccups, lived up to the hype - particularly when she was called upon to save the Stephen Harper government from a Liberal-led coalition by granting him a vote-dodging prorogation, according to CTV. What happened to that Michaelle Jean is now a major international mystery. Incredibly bright and charismatic with an instant connection to average Canadians, Michaelle Jean checked every box on a list to shake up the staid image of a Canadian Governor General. Abandoned by her country and her home province of Quebec, she is about to be cast adrift as one-term secretary general of La Francophonie, a coalition of 54 countries with a loose French-language connection. That the heir apparent has connections to the Rwandan genocide is apparently of little concern. Officially, she's the wrong citizenship for an organization that is determined to elevate an African member's representative to the top job. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

minority employees: It comes after the government began requiring large companies to report pay disparities between men and women, according to Toronto Star. Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May said that too often ethnic minority employees feel they're hitting a brick wall when it comes to career progression. The idea is a response to a study published last year that showed significant pay disparities between ethnic minorities and their white counterparts in Britain. HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Too often ethnic minority employees feel they're hitting a brick wall when it comes to career progression, May said in a statement. The audit found that the unemployment rate for Black, Asian and other ethnic-minority people, at 8 per cent, was nearly double that of white British adults, at 4.6 per cent. The Race Disparity Audit, a survey of 24,000 workers last year, found that white British adults were much more likely to be employed and to own their own homes than people from ethnic minorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

program areas: Even though they're the ones creating the crisis US of A, we're looking at you . Today's rabble radio features an interview with Cesar Jaramillo, Executive Director of Project Ploughshares, based in Waterloo, according to Rabble. It was done by David Kattenburg of The Green Blues Show, a production of The Green Planet Monitor, a social website and radio program based in Winnipeg. The same countries that are 'up in arms' about refugees are also the ones which are working the hardest to discourage refugees from coming to their country. Cesar Jaramillo's work has focused on such program areas as nuclear disarmament, outer space security and conventional weapons control. Prior to joining Project Ploughshares, Cesar held a fellowship at the Centre for International Governance Innovation CIGI . Image Pixabay - Alexas Fotos - Child Refugee photo. As an international civil society representative, he has addressed, among others, the UN General Assembly First Committee Disarmament and International Security and the UN Conference on Disarmament, and the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space COPUOS . He's an occasional columnist on matters of disarmament and international security, and graduated from the University of Waterloo with an MA in global governance and has bachelor's degrees in honours political science and in journalism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

vote: Vote for your preferred candidate and risk splitting the vote, according to Rabble. However, if you shift your vote and lose, you've now removed your support and the symbolic value it carries from a progressive candidate whose ideas could help the city move forward. Our flawed electoral system leads progressives to face this decision regularly at all levels of government. It's a difficult calculation. The result, as James writes, has been mediocrity, at best. In a recent Toronto Star op-ed under the headline Toronto deserves better than timid, lukewarm Tory, Royson James observes that strategic voting brought Toronto Mayor John Tory to power four years ago Many voters abandoned their preferred candidate in Olivia Chow because of the credible fear that votes split between Chow and Tory would dilute the opposition to madcap Ford. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fall: The Army began booting out those enlistees last year without explanation .article continues below Trending Stories The top Instagram fall photo spots in Vancouver Has Vancouver become a better place under Mayor Gregor Robertson UBC is on the World's Most Innovative Universities list Here's 11 Vancouver happy hours to check out in fall The AP has interviewed more than a dozen recruits from countries such as Brazil, Pakistan, Iran, China and Mongolia who all said they were devastated by their unexpected discharges or cancelled contracts, according to Vancouver Courier. Until now, it's been unclear how many were discharged and for what reason because the Army has refused to discuss specific cases. The decade-old Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest recruiting program was put on hold in 2016 amid concerns that immigrant recruits were not being screened sufficiently. But the Army's own list, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last month, says 502 service members who enlisted under MAVNI were discharged between July 2017 and July 2018. That is the reason given for 35 per cent of enlistee discharges Army-wide, according to a research study posted on a Defence Department website. The list, which was unsealed this week after a request from the AP, offers refuse to enlist as the reason for expelling two-thirds of the recruits. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

january: She replaces Albert Schultz, who resigned in January after four female company members came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment, according to NOW Magazine. The women's civil cases against Soulpepper and Schultz were settled out of court in the summer. Gifted director Weyni Mengesha is the new artistic director of the city's largest not-for-profit theatre company. Mengesha's hiring comes a month and a half after the company brought on a new executive director, Emma Stenning, who replaced Leslie Lester who also resigned in January, and is Schultz's wife . Mengesha, who takes on her new role in January 2019, has a long history with the company. This means a lot to me, since it's like a homecoming, and I think Soulpepper is really well positioned for growth, said Mengesha in an interview earlier this week. She was part of its inaugural Soulpepper Academy, in 2006, and has directed some of its most acclaimed productions, including Kim's Convenience, A Raisin In The Sun and Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts I, II, III which won a Dora last year for best production. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

peacekeepers: That is reflected in the fact that while the Canadian military's primary task in Mali is to evacuate injured UN peacekeepers by helicopter, they have so far only conducted two such missions, both on Sept. 11, according to National Observer. Guterres nonetheless painted a picture of a country at war with itself as various ethnic and extremist groups targeted each other as well as the Malian military, international forces and even civilians. The assessment by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres coincides with the presence of Canadian peacekeepers in Mali, and suggests the country is in many ways worse off now than when they first arrived in June. ; Not that there haven't been some hopeful signs, including successful presidential elections in July and August and a marked decline in the number of peacekeepers killed or wounded despite continuing attacks by armed groups. The result was the largest number of civilians killed 287 in one three-month period since UN peacekeepers first arrived in the country in 2013, while thousands more have been forced to flee their homes to escape the violence. Intercommunal conflict, exacerbated by violent extremist groups, is fraying an already fragile social fabric and is deeply concerning, Guterres wrote. Much of the fighting was between members of two different ethnic communities in the centre of the country, while groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State were also responsible for a great deal of violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

technology sector: Toronto is a global technology powerhouse, according to NOW Magazine. Toronto has created more jobs in tech in the last year than New York City and San Francisco's Silicon Valley combined. Toronto is having a special moment. These are phrases familiar to anyone in this city's technology sector, which came together for a massive celebration and marketing bonanza at the recent Elevate Tech Fest, billed by organizers as Canada's Tech Week. But as excited industry types in hoodies and suits took selfies and exchanged Linked In profiles, I couldn't help but think about some of the other ways Toronto is having a special moment. The event, which featured the theatre of a choreographed stock market countdown, provided a space for the tech sector to demonstrate its contributions to the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

alliance isa: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, attends the inaugural General Assembly of the International Solar Alliance ISA and the Global Re-investment summit on renewable energy in New Delhi, India, Oct. 2, according to Toronto Star. Guterres says the security situation in Mali has sharply deteriorated over the past three months while the need for more foreign aid to help provide food and other urgent humanitarian assistance has skyrocketed. The time period covered by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's assessment coincides with the first three months of Canada's year-long peacekeeping mission in Mali, though the report notes that the actual number of peacekeepers killed or wounded in attacks had markedly declined. The Associated Press Guterres nonetheless paints a picture of a Mali at war with itself, particularly in the centre of the country, as various ethnic groups and extremist groups targeted each other as well as the Malian military, international forces and civilians leaving hundreds dead and thousands displaced. Making matters even worse were severe floods in some areas and drought in others that, when combined with the fighting, had doubled the number of internally displaced people and left one in four Malians needing humanitarian aid the largest number in years. The human rights situation was similarly worse due to hundreds of reported extrajudicial killings, disappearances, tortures and rapes across different parts of the country with the Malian military itself implicated in at least one mass killing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

beams pasini: Gianpaolo Pasini is happy to finally be a Canadian citizen after living here for six years, according to CTV. Very thankful to the country for granting me this beautiful thing to become a Canadian so thank you Canada, beams Pasini. The event was part of Citizenship Week celebrations being held across the country. Ryan Mohamed Mohamed Ahmed moved to Canada from Egypt. It's multicultural and I'm really happy to be here, says Ahmed. This is like the most peaceful country in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

defame unions: Strategy No. 3 Disparage teachers, according to Rabble. Expect the UCP to do all three. Strategy No. 2 Defame unions. After all, the Alberta Teachers Association ATA union for the province's 43,000 public, Catholic and francophone school teachers and administrators, has invited the prominent B.C. environmentalist known for her opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline to a meeting near Edmonton on Saturday. And, yes, the Soldiers were invited, Kenney's tweeted denials notwithstanding. So we can count on the UCP to be even more vocal than usual in its denunciations of Berman, teachers and, by association with both, the NDP. Expect the full-meal deal -- red meat, not vegan or even gluten-free -- as UCP leader Jason Kenney tries desperately to get Albertans to forget about how all three of his party's candidates in the Edmonton-Henday West Riding invited members of the Soldiers of Odin vigilante group to their Friday night festivities and hung around for selfies with them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

marquee ballroom: Allegations were first emerging at that time that frontman Jacob Hoggard had committed sexual misconduct with young fans, according to Toronto Star. From left Neon Dreams' Frank Kadillac, Adrian Morris and Matt Gats are bringing their evolved sound to the Marquee Ballroom in a hometown show on Friday. The Halifax pop group performs at the Marquee Ballroom this Friday, their first big hometown show since they pulled out of Hedley's national tour this winter. Haley Ryan / Star Metro For Neon Dreams consisting of frontman and singer Frank Kadillac, drummer Adrian Morris and Matt Gats on guitar getting a slot on that tour and playing big stadiums was a huge break, but the decision to walk away was a simple one. The situation was about the victims' voices coming out and having a platform to speak on, Morris said Wednesday in Warner Music Canada's Halifax office above the Brewery Farmers' Market. That tour was like a dream tour for us, but at the time we realized it wasn't about us anymore. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

peacekeepers: Not that there haven't been some hopeful signs, including successful presidential elections in July and August and a marked decline in the number of peacekeepers killed or wounded despite continuing attacks by armed groups, according to CTV. That is reflected in the fact that while the Canadian military's primary task in Mali is to evacuate injured UN peacekeepers by helicopter, they have so far only conducted two such missions, both on Sept. 11. The assessment by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres coincides with the presence of Canadian peacekeepers in Mali, and suggests the country is in many ways worse off now than when they first arrived in June. Guterres nonetheless painted a picture of a country at war with itself as various ethnic and extremist groups targeted each other as well as the Malian military, international forces and even civilians. Much of the fighting was between members of two different ethnic communities in the centre of the country, while groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State were also responsible for a great deal of violence. The result was the largest number of civilians killed -- 287 -- in one three-month period since UN peacekeepers first arrived in the country in 2013, while thousands more have been forced to flee their homes to escape the violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

percentage point: African-Americans directed 13 per cent of series TV in 2017-18, unchanged from the previous season, the study found, according to CTV. Asian-Americans at 6 per cent and Latinos at 5 per cent were up one percentage point each from 2016-17. Women directed a record 25 per cent of episodic television in the 2017-18 season, an increase of 4 per cent from the previous season, according to the Directors Guild of America study released Wednesday. The bright spot here is that the doors are finally opening wider for women, who are seeing more opportunities to direct television, guild President Thomas Schlamme said in a statement. The series SMILF, One Day at a Time and Queen Sugar were among the standouts for inclusiveness in their directing ranks. But it's disappointing the same can't be said for directors of colour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

region: It would call on Trump to press his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to close the political re-education camps immediately, according to Toronto Star. Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region in November 2017. The group proposed legislation on Wednesday that would urge Trump to condemn gross violations of human rights in the Xinjiang region, where the U.N. estimates that as many as 1 million Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities are being held in arbitrary detention. China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has revised legislation to allow the detention of suspected extremists in education and training centers. Ng Han Guan / The Associated Press The legislation, proposed by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, would also support an existing push for sanctions against Xinjiang Communist Party chief Chen Quanguo and other officials under the Magnitsky Act, which would prevent Chen from entering the U.S. and freeze any assets he has in U.S. banks. The revisions come amid rising international concern over a harsh crackdown in Xinjiang that has led to as many as one million of China's Uighurs and other Muslim minorities being held in internment camps. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bell media: She alleges the broadcaster later refunded her money and refused to run the clip, without providing an explanation for its decision, according to Vancouver Courier. The allegations have not been proven in court and Bell Media did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Faith Goldy, a former journalist who is now a fringe candidate in Toronto's municipal election, wants the court to order the broadcaster to run the ad until the Oct. 22 vote.article continues below Trending Stories Here's 11 Vancouver happy hours to check out in fall Vancouver weather sunshine forecast for the next 14 days The League Vancouver's newest dating app aimed at would-be power couples'VPD officer assaulted during routine traffic stop on Granville Strip VIDEO In documents filed this week, Goldy alleges Bell Media initially agreed to air her campaign ad on its television station CP24 and accepted a deposit of more than 13,000. Goldy, whose campaign includes anti-immigrant policies, once penned an article suggesting there was white genocide in Canada. Her lawyer, Clayton Ruby, said Wednesday there is nothing in the ad itself that the broadcaster could object to, calling it utterly innocuous. Vote Faith Goldy for mayor and Toronto ceases to be a Sharia safe space, she said in a recent tweet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

doors pm: I was hungry, according to NOW Magazine. I'm hungry still. They don't take advantage of the days they have to make their shit happen, says Jessie Reyez. JESSIE REYEZ with Savannah R at the Danforth Music Hall 147 Danforth December 3 & 4, doors 7 pm, all ages. 25- 30. ticketmaster.ca. Sitting on the small covered patio of Perola's, a Latin American grocery store in Kensington Market that's been there since the 1960s, she rips open the tin foil of a freshly made papusa and dumps a pile of hot sauce on her plate. Jessie Reyez is hungry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration law: Justice Stephen Breyer seemed perhaps the most sympathetic to the arguments of immigrants in the case, according to Vancouver Courier. The immigrants, mostly green-card holders, say they should get hearings where they can argue for their release while deportation proceedings against them are ongoing. Several justices expressed concerns with the government's reading of immigration law. Breyer noted that the United States gives every triple axe murderer a bail hearing. article continues below Trending Stories Here's 11 Vancouver happy hours to check out in fall Vancouver weather sunshine forecast for the next 14 days The League Vancouver's newest dating app aimed at would-be power couples'Vancouver woman attacked on night bus questions transit security VIDEO While members of the court's conservative majority seemed more inclined than its liberal members to back the government, both of President Donald Trump's appointees asked questions that made it less clear how they might ultimately rule. Immigration law tells the government to pick those people up when they are released from federal or state prisons and jails and then hold them without bond hearings while an immigration court decides whether they should be deported. The issue in the case before the justices has to do with the detention of noncitizens who have committed a broad range of crimes that make them deportable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rohingya woman: Her parents were among a wave of 250,000 Rohingya Muslims who escaped forced labour, religious persecution and violent attacks from Buddhist mobs in Myanmar during the early 1990s, according to Vancouver Courier. She sees education as her ticket out of the camp. From the refugee camp in southern Bangladesh where she was born, Akter, a 19-year-old with a confident smile who goes by the name Khushi, says she aspires to become the most educated Rohingya woman in the world.article continues below Trending Stories Here's 11 Vancouver happy hours to check out in fall Vancouver weather sunshine forecast for the next 14 days The League Vancouver's newest dating app aimed at would-be power couples'Vancouver woman attacked on night bus questions transit security VIDEO Akter was born and has lived her whole life in the camp, a makeshift settlement of bamboo and tarpaulin huts spread out over rolling hills that were once protected forestland. If we take education then we will be able to lead our life as a life, she said. The U.N. has called for Myanmar's top military generals to be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity. Akter has supplemented her family's income by working as a translator for aid groups and journalists responding to a new influx of Rohingya refugees who have flooded the camp since August 2017, when the Myanmar military and Buddhist mobs began clearance operations against Rohingya in retaliation for insurgent attacks on security posts in Myanmar's Rakhine state.A United Nations fact-finding mission reported last month that at least 10,000 Rohingya are believed to have died in the violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.