Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil and Ensaf Haidar

Saudi Arabia: Badawi, 31, is not a Canadian citizen, although his wife and children fled Saudi Arabia in 2012 and settled in Sherbrooke, Que., in 2013, according to CTV. Ensaf Haidar, Badawi wife, took to Twitter on Friday to call again for an end to her husband punishment. "I repeat my appeal to his majesty King Salman to pardon my husband ... and stop his flogging," she wrote. It was feared his punishment would resume after the Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia upheld the sentence imposed on the blogger, but the Amnesty International office in Paris said it had received confirmation the punishment was postponed. Quebec Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil said the province will give Badawi an immigration selection certificate on humanitarian grounds. Weil was accompanied by members of all provincial parties in announcing the measure. Badawi would still need to apply for permanent residency federally, but the Quebec certificate would make the case a priority. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.