Vancouver Dept: Speaking at the YWCA in Vancouver, Rae said the relationship of governments with aboriginal people is a great example of truly unfinished, unreconciled business in the country. , according to The Chronicle Herald. Rae said many of Canada s largest cities now include aboriginal ghettos where the anger fuelled by inequality has led to suicide and crime and vANCOUVER Interim Liberal Party Leader Bob Rae says the gaps in education, health care and housing between First Nations communities and other Canadians are an embarrassment and must be addressed. The wave of aboriginal immigration from reserves during the last 50 years means the poverty they face is no longer hidden, he said Saturday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

John Loye Dept: - Gazette, Monday, Jan. 24, 1944, according to Montreal Gazette. That said, a January 1944 story he wrote for The Gazette about St. Ann's Boys' School undeniably plays a little loose with dates and among the many schools whose names are of long association with the city of Montreal, that of the St. Anne's Boys' School on Young St. is one of the most locally famous. It would be churlish to question the late John Loye's grasp of Griffintown's history. The neighbourhood was the heart of Irish Montreal for more than a century, and in Loye, who died in 1962, it arguably has had no more ardent a chronicler. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Retirement Dept: Starting Monday, Stephen Harper pulls back the curtain, according to The Star. That retirement for which you have meticulously planned will be different and oTTAWA No longer dealing with a backlog from the minority years, this Parliamentary session will reveal what life means to Canadians under majority Conservative rule. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Berrington Dept: For many immigrants who come to America to seek a better life, it s an almost sacred ceremony, something like being born again, says Berrington, 42, who came to the U.S. from Britain in 1997, according to The Star. It was unexpectedly moving, observes Berrington, a graduate student at Tufts University, a lovely thing, really. It was a chill January day last year when Lucy Berrington and 400 other immigrants from around the world gathered in Boston s famed Faneuil Hall the nation s cradle of liberty on the historic Freedom Trail to take an oath and become citizens of the United States. Despite a wintry New England day, she found warmth in the words of the presiding judge, she says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Border Services Agency Dept: The man and woman, who were arrested last week, face three counts under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, according to CBC. Officials said the pair came to Canada in 2008 as visitors and then made successful applications to stay here under different identities a year later and two Calgary area residents have been charged with immigration fraud, officials said on Monday. The charges follow an 18-month investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Language Skills Dept: Manitoba's rapid rise of immigration has resulted, heavily, from an aggressive provincial nominee program that allows it to tailor recruitment to its needs. The federal study found the immigrants recruited here find jobs almost equally as rapidly as those in the hot job markets of more westerly provinces. Their earnings are much lower, however, and far fewer land a job equal to their skills, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The U of W-led study also found that while the vast majority are putting down roots, those surveyed also continue to complain their credentials and pre-immigration job experience is not recognized when they arrive and begin looking for jobs here. Spouses of the principal applicants have numerous difficulties, especially in language skills and somewhat in integration into the community and ottawa wants to tighten the rules for who comes into Canada under provincial selection programs, stressing English-language skills and a better match to the needs of the labour market. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney launched a study after scandals and fraud erupted in the programs on the East Coast, but his proposed fixes will cut into the numbers of newcomers streaming into Manitoba as well. This is somewhat at odds with other studies of the Manitoba program that found higher success rates for immigrants in their fields or related ones, but that is likely because of small sampling -- 100 immigrants -- through personal interviews by the University of Winnipeg researchers. Further, the province believes the disparity in incomes and job classification is because Manitoba recruits not for specific professions or trades, but to fill a wider variety of jobs when its economy was growing pre-2010. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Davos, Switzerland Dept: The prime minister's pension bombshell dropped at the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland this week is set to spark a war of words when lawmakers return to Parliament on Monday. The rhetoric has been ramping up since Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a speech at the World Economic Forum Thursday, that an overhaul may be necessary as a growing population ages making supplements like Old Age Security economically unsustainable. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Otis Wood Dept: Then there is Hubert Green, who ran a crew of about 40 street-level dealers in southeast Scarborough, supplying them with cocaine to sell and guns to arm themselves, according to The Star. I take responsibility for breaking the law and I know I must be punished, read a statement dictated by Wood and read out in court by his lawyer, Rudy Koch and meet Otis Wood, a churchgoing family man. They are the same, remorseful man, his sentencing hearing in Superior Court was told Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

YWCA Dept: The wave of aboriginal "immigration" from reserves during the last 50 years means the poverty they face is no longer hidden, he said Saturday, according to CTV. "Toronto has been described, quite rightly, as the largest reserve in the country," he said. "This problem is no longer out there, this problem is right here and speaking at the YWCA in Vancouver, Rae said the relationship of governments with aboriginal people "is a great example of truly unfinished, unreconciled business in the country." Rae said many of Canada's largest cities now include "aboriginal ghettos" where the anger fuelled by inequality has led to suicide and crime. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Ontario Law Dept: Unaware of tenants rights under Ontario law, new immigrants like Islam are being asked by landlords to pay as much as a full year of rent upfront to secure their first home because they have no Canadian employment or credit history, according to The Star. Sad to say, there is a subset of landlords who prey on newcomers lack of education of the law and lack of understanding of the rental situation, said Geordie Dent, of the Federation of Metro Tenants Association and rafiqul Islam paid his landlord $8,600 of rent upfront for a bachelor apartment in Mississauga. Housing advocates say such demands are illegal and the exploitation of immigrants has become all too common, due to loopholes in the Ontario Residential Tenancies Act, as well as weak provincial enforcement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.