Tharu Fernando: Yilan Zhang

Settlement Services Dept: Non-profit agencies helping newcomers settle in Manitoba are wondering how the federal government plans to take over settlement services, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Welcome Place just signed a one-year contract with Citizenship and Immigration to provide settlement services until March 31 next year, she said and jOE BRYKSA / Yilan Zhang with son Tharu Fernando at Winnipeg s Barbara Mitchell Family Resource Centre, whose Family Foundations program assists newcomer mothers. "There was no indication this is what they were thinking of doing," Wanda Yamamoto, executive director of Manitoba's largest refugee-settlement agency, said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.