Canadian Politician Dept: The film, Travelling Light: A Journey with Ujjal Dosanjh, will premiere in New Delhi on Thursday during a visit by Mr. Dosanjh to his native country. Filmmaker Meera Dewan said the 46-minute production was inspired by the Canadian politician’s willingness to stand against extremism in his own community of Sikhs. “What struck me about him when I lived briefly in Vancouver is his courage,” Ms. Dewan said. “His has been the lone voice of sanity, speaking up against Sikh violence still brewing there.”, according to Globe And Mail. Many disagree with Mr. Dosanjh. In 1985, a man smashed his head with an iron bar after he criticized the notion of an independent Sikh homeland. He received death threats earlier this year after giving an interview to The in which he lamented the “politically correct” regime of multiculturalism that allows radicalism to fester in Canada’s immigrant groups and the rejection of violence as a political tool has been a key feature of Mr. Dosanjh’s career, which included stints as premier of British Columbia and federal health minister, and is a central idea in a new documentary about his life. Mr. Dosanjh acknowledges that “there was a time when I was younger that I did believe violence could bring about lasting political change.” In fact, after immigrating to Canada during his student years, he hung around for a time with Marxist-Leninists. But it was their espousal of violence that ultimately led him to take a different path. As reported in the news.
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Immigration Consultants Dept: In an interview with The , Mr. Kenney said he will also ask Indian officials to consider whether they may need a bill similar to one introduced in Parliament this June – the Cracking Down on Crooked Consultants Act – which would make it a crime for a person who is not a lawyer, notary or member of a recognized association of immigration consultants to accept a fee for providing immigration advice, according to Globe And Mail. “There’s a pretty sophisticated industry that produces these kinds of documents.’’ Immigration Minister Jason Kenney will spend three days this week in India, where he will ask officials to focus more law-enforcement resources and share more information with Canada on “immigration fraudsters’’ who often charge applicants thousands of dollars and use fake documents to bolster their cases. “In Chandigarh, in our consulate there, we have a wall of shame’ with some examples of the thousands of fraudulent documents that are generated by this industry – fake marriage certificates, death certificates, travel itineraries, banking statements, you name it,” Mr. Kenney said. As reported in the news.
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Oral Hygiene Dept: On Sunday, Maryam Amin, the division head of pediatric dentistry, took her mobile clinic to the Millwoods Sri Guru Singh Sabha Society to give free exams to preschool-aged kids of South Asian descent. While the youngsters were in the chair the researcher interviewed parents to better understand how social influences and cultural beliefs affect oral hygiene practices, according to CTV. Following the exam parents were given information on local dentists and health benefits and a University of Alberta professor in the faculty of medicine and dentistry is taking an innovative approach to improve the quality of early childhood health in immigrant communities. The purpose of the project is to improve the quality of oral health for children and to eliminate barriers immigrant families may perceive. As reported in the news.
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Irish Immigrants Dept: Marie Connolly was baptized at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa in 1853, Chicago retiree-turned-historian Rick Barrett has concluded after thee years of research, according to CBC. Her family were Irish immigrants and her father worked as a butcher in what is now called the Byward Market and an amateur historian in Chicago thinks the first U.S. policewoman was born and raised in Ottawa. He found her birth certificate buried among stacks of paper locked in a vault in the church's basement. As reported in the news.
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Oil Industry Dept: Delorie Walsh one of the first female land agents in the province's oil industry filed a complaint in 1991 claiming she had been treated unfairly by her employer, Mobil Oil Canada, now ExxonMobil, according to CBC. Then, after being fired from the oil company in 1995, Walsh filed another complaint, alleging the company let her go on the unjust grounds of retaliation. Complaints dismissed An Alberta woman has been awarded $650,000 as part of a 19-year human rights battle the longest running complaint in the province's history. Walsh alleged she was paid less than her male counterparts, was passed over for promotions and was harassed by her co-workers. As reported in the news.
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Vancouver Airport Dept: The Tamils were escorted into safe harbour, given food, medical attention, a place to sleep and seemingly prompt processing by Immigration authorities, presumably with an interpreter assisting, according to Calgary Herald. Seems to me that if he had been dealt with as promptly as the Tamils, Dziekanski would be alive and the RCMP might never have been involved and re: "Lack of charges leads to red carpet for refugees," Don Martin, Opinion, Sept. 2. I've always wondered why the Vancouver Airport Authority and Immigration Canada didn't render the same assistance to Robert Dziekanski, a legal visitor, before he blew his cool and was Tasered. As reported in the news.
@t calgary herald, immigration canada

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. As the culture of homegrown terrorism was coming into being, she undertook a study of the Indian province of Gujarat, where religious violence and an ambitious modernization of the educational system starkly exist side by side. “Gujarat is a classic place,” she says, “where schools have cut out all trace of critical thinking and the humanities, and placed a relentless focus on the technical training of people going into engineering and computer science and so on. I do think that is conducive to a culture where you blindly follow authority and respond to peer pressure. Lacking the empathy developed by a more critical kind of education, these tendencies reign unopposed.” 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. 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. As reported in the news.
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Nicolas Sarkozy Dept: Demonstrators opposed to measures including repatriation of Roma to eastern Europe waved flags and placards and chanted slogans including Stop repression and No to Sarkozy s inhumane policies. Bands and drums made the atmosphere friendly rather than combative, according to The Star. The president, who says the security measures are needed to combat crime, faces a bigger test on Tuesday when workers hold a countrywide strike and protests over the pension reforms, which he says are essential to help cut the budget deficit and pARIS Tens of thousands protested across France on Saturday against a clampdown on immigrants, launching a week of action over policies on which President Nicolas Sarkozy has staked his political reputation. Critics see expulsions of Roma gypsies as part of a drive by Sarkozy to revive his popularity before 2012 elections and divert attention from painful pension reforms and spending cuts. As reported in the news.
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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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