Volunteer Coordinator Dept: Wherever the Dalai Lama goes, they do the preparation, said Salden Kunga, a volunteer coordinator for the Dalai Lama visit, as he waited for the monks at Pearson airport on Sunday. They are like the entourage, according to The Star. When they applied for their visas, they got it half an hour later, Nangsetsang said Sunday, clarifying an earlier statement that said the monks had trouble getting their visas. There was no problem from Canadian Immigration and always a few steps ahead of the Dalai Lama, two advance monks from northern India have finally arrived in Toronto to help prepare Canada s first Tibetan cultural centre for the leader s arrival. Namgyal Nangsetsang, a Tibetan Cultural Centre spokeswoman, said the busy monks are about a week behind schedule. As reported in the news.
@t dalai lama, canadian immigration

Sun Sea Dept: The break and enter is believed to have taken place between 6:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. Sunday at the office, located on Progress Ave. in Scarborough. There were forced signs of entry, according to The Star. Poopalapillai is worried that the identities of the 492 Sri Lankan immigrants smuggled into Canada off the coast of British Columbia last month aboard the MV Sun Sea were on the computer. The identities of the migrant s families still living in the fragile Asian nation also could have been taken and police are investigating after the Toronto headquarters of the Canadian Tamil Congress was broken into and a computer that may contain sensitive information including the names of the recent wave of migrants and their families was stolen. David Poopalapillai, a spokesperson for the Tamil Congress, said some rooms in the office were ransacked and computers and telephones were left on the floor. The computer at the main reception desk was taken. As reported in the news.
@t reception desk, asian nation

Parents Dept: Vakhtang Makhniashvili believes his missing daughter is dead and says the possibility that she s alive is quite slim, according to The Star. The meek and demure Lela Tabidze shakes her head, fights back tears and pipes up and a year later, the parents of Mariam Makhniashvili say they are divided in their fears, but united in grief. Hearing his words, although soft-spoken I fear the worst his wife becomes choked up. As reported in the news.
@t pipes, fears

Richard Moon Dept: Emily Carasco, a longtime law professor at the university, was one of two candidates shortlisted for the top law-school job -- before the university decided in the spring not to appoint either as dean, and to start the search anew, according to Montreal Gazette. In her first complaint to the tribunal, on July 14, she also asked for $60,000 in compensation from the school, and $15,000 from fellow law Prof. Richard Moon -- who brought up the allegations of plagiarism -- "for injury to dignity." A University of Windsor law professor on Friday asked the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to suspend the search for a new law dean on campus, arguing that she was denied the position through racism, sexism and a false allegation of plagiarism. She still wants the human rights tribunal to grant her previous, possibly precedent-setting request: to force the University of Windsor to appoint her the dean of law for a five-year renewable term. As reported in the news.
@t human rights tribunal, law dean

Friday Night Dept: With an election "in the realm of possibility", it's time to begin rallying the troops, Liberal MP Bob Rae said Friday night at a fundraising dinner in Montreal's east end. "Whether it comes this fall or whether it comes next year, we've certainly got to be ready for it," said Rae, MP for Toronto-Centre. As reported in the news.
@t toronto centre, fundraising dinner

Retirement Savings Dept: Within a week, Wall Street was unrecognizable, its marquee firms gone, swallowed or radically transformed in an effort to survive, according to Globe And Mail. There are many ways to tally the casualties of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression: hundreds of failed banks; millions of people out of work; trillions of dollars in home values and retirement savings vaporized and the result was chaos. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 4.4 per cent in a day. By Tuesday, the bread-and-butter funds used by Americans as a substitute for bank accounts threatened to collapse. The same day, the government rescued the giant insurer American International Group, as it, too, tottered on the edge. On Wednesday, the stock market plunged again, by almost 5 per cent. By the end of September, some of the nation's largest banks had begun to crumple. As reported in the news.
@t globe and mail, american international group

Sound Structures Dept: "He's gone to the new market with the rest of them," says the vendor at Mary's Bread Basket, according to Montreal Gazette. Mary's Bread Basket, famous for its delicious cinnamon rolls and strawberry cream cheese croissants, is one of a reported 70 outlets out of 200 that will remain at the original Halifax market location and angela Cochrane mostly misses the musician who used to stand by her Halifax bakery -guitar in hand -while singing playful renditions of Puff the Magic Dragon. Cochrane is referring to the brand new and much-anticipated Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market, which - aside from being touted as one of the most ecologically sound structures in Canada - is almost twice the size of its predecessor. As reported in the news.
@t montreal gazette, strawberry cream

Genuine Relationship Dept: Now, the incidence of office relationships, once the primary source of couples meeting, have swung back toward a historic mean. Nevertheless, with the development of sexual harassment and negligence law, they are replete with problems, fodder for litigation and even extortion, according to Montreal Gazette. But what constitutes harassment in the workplace when the relationship involves consenting adults? Canadian courts have outlined examples: At one extreme, it can be difficult for a vulnerable new immigrant, a single mother with little command of the language or knowledge of the law, to resist persistent overtures from the person who evaluates and, potentially, promotes her and whether a romantic liaison, an extramarital affair, a tool to ascend the career ladder or a serious and genuine relationship, office romances are back in the workplace, after a brief hiatus occasioned by widely publicized harassment complaints and resultant corporate vigilance. Employers must bear the burden of ensuring a harassment-free workplace. But that is far from easy, considering there is often little separation between "work" and "lifestyle," especially for successful professionals. Employers ill-equipped to address the issue of intimacy between employees could find themselves a target for very public harassment claims. As reported in the news.
@t harassment in the workplace, negligence law

Action Democratique Dept: A note to the 15,000 people of Saint Laurent who voted for demerger in 2004: You outnumbered the other side 3-1 that day, but lost anyway. Now Jean-Marc Fournier, the man who rigged that vote against you, wants to be your member of the National Assembly, according to Montreal Gazette. Refusing to vote, or spoiling your ballot, is not enough. We invite you to vote for Action democratique candidate Jose Fiorilo, an immigrant, family man, and small businessman who lives in the riding unlike Fournier speaks several of the riding's numerous languages unlike Fournier , and is not in the Liberal elite that takes allophones and francophones for granted unlike Fournier and send Fournier a message By voting against him in Monday's byelection, you can repudiate him personally and send a message of discontent to Premier Jean Charest as well. As reported in the news.
@t marc fournier, montreal gazette

Village Pond Dept: Apparently the only way that failed refugee claimant Gloria Patricia Uribe can satisfy Immigration Canada she and her toddlers face mortal peril in narcocontrolled Columbia is to be deported and get herself and her Canadian-born kids killed. They wouldn't be the first rejected claimants to be returned to their homelands only to meet violent deaths, according to Montreal Gazette. I thought we could do better. Apparently not and re: "Potential deportee appeals for asylum," Gazette, Sept. 8 . This reminds me of the old forensic test for identifying witches. The accused woman would be dunked in the village pond. If she floated, clearly she was a witch to be burned or hanged. If she drowned, well, too bad, but she had at least demonstrated her innocence. As reported in the news.
@t violent deaths, montreal gazette