Transmission Dept: Supreme Court justices are to hear two cases Wednesday appeals from the provinces of Manitoba and Quebec that hinge on the obligations of those with the virus that causes AIDS, according to The Chronicle Herald. Advocates supporting people with HIV argue that such thinking criminalizes carriers of the virus and doesn t acknowledge the science that can determine the likelihood of transmission and wINNIPEG Canada s highest court is set to hear arguments over whether it s a crime for people with HIV to keep their condition from their sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low. Prosecutors argue people carrying HIV must always inform their partners regardless of the risks of transmission. That way partners can decide if they want to run the risk of contracting the virus. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Question Period Dept: Under fire during question period after departmental emails detailing the hoax surfaced, Kenney ignored opposition requests to apologize for the ruse, blamed it on public servants in his department and urged Canadians to look past it, according to Montreal Gazette. "It turns out in the ceremony in question ... some of the people invited didn't arrive. I think the response to that was poorly handled.I regret that, but we shouldn't allow it to undermine the important value of these special citizenship and reaffirmation ceremonies." A fake citizenship ceremony broadcast last fall on Sun News was the result of "logistical problems," Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday in the House of Commons, amid much laughter. "The department organizes dozens of special citizenship and reaffirmation ceremonies every year which, I think, are a great way of highlighting the value of Canadian citizenship," he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Qi Zhala, The Communist Party Chief Dept: Qi Zhala, the Communist party chief in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, said in a statement on Tuesday that security forces are to "step up registration and inspection work along national roads, at key monasteries and among leading suspects.", according to Vancouver Sun. Six Tibetans have died and scores have been wounded, according to exile groups, in the past few days in clashes between security forces and demonstrators mostly in Tibetan areas of neighbouring Sichuan province and chinese authorities are beefing up security in Tibet and predominantly Tibetan regions of neighbouring provinces after violent unrest last week and ahead of emotionally significant dates in the Tibetan calendar. "Strive to realize the goal of 'no big incidents, no medium incidents, and not even small incidents'," Qi told police in the statement posted on the Lhasa government website. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Winston Blackmore Dept: The sisters are fourth-generation fundamentalist Mormons. Their grandfather, LeRoy, was one of the early presidents of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints FLDS , according to Vancouver Sun. "We came several times after that in the next two years. I was working and out of school and I wanted to get on with life," Marjorie said Wednesday. "I had a meeting with then-FLDS president Rulon Jeffs and told him I wanted to get on with my life get married and marjorie Johnson was 19 and her sister 20 when on the same day in 1990, they married Winston Blackmore, the bishop of Bountiful. Two years earlier, the sisters met Blackmore when they came to Canada from Hildale, Utah with their father, two mothers, 31 children and a few other relatives. They visited Bountiful and Rosemary, the Alberta town where their father had once lived. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Malaysia Dept: Winnipeg's globe-trotting human rights lawyer David Matas is trying to help thousands of Sri Lankan refugees stuck in limbo in Indonesia and Malaysia, including a dozen families hoping to come to Winnipeg, according to Winnipeg Free Press. DAVID Matas's report makes many recommendations including: The Johendran family at a recent meeting with officials in Malaysia. They fled Sri Lanka two years ago and are stuck in limbo. "If you had to start somewhere, I'd say get the kids out of jail and let them go to school," said Matas, who just returned from the southeast Asian countries where close to 5,000 Tamil refugees are stuck. What can be done? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Dept: It is unfortunate however, that the platitudinous recriminations proffered in s back to back editorial columns, as well as elsewhere in your paper, do little to assuage the trauma of shocked Canadian sensibilities. They in fact, serve to mislead members of our society into believing that this brand of imported domestic violence is a periodic aberration that can be adequately dealt with by Canada s courts of law, according to The Star. While your paper concerns itself with highlighting the depravity of the Shafia trio s role in perpetrating this wretched act, you appear somewhat content to merely question, as opposed to asserting, whether this might not be the result of misplaced respect for cultural differences . Indeed, I posit that the gravitas associated with crimes of this nature can be directly attributed to the lack of media leadership which has failed to initiate pertinent debate in this regard, and to a government too ready to trade the Canadian birthright for a mess of multicultural pottage and rosie DiManno is to be complimented for her dogged determination to provide compelling coverage of this domestic abuse case committed in the name of preserving family honour. The media tut-tutting and our government s lack of moral leadership have played their roles in helping foment the occurrence of such bizarre crimes in our backyard, crimes that once used to be the preserve of foreign news reporting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Sun News Dept: Six federal bureaucrats were drafted to pose as new Canadians for a ceremony telecast on Sun News. Jason Kenney above wouldn't take responsibility for the charade. CP, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Ottawa is aflutter with revelations the federal Immigration Department staged a phoney citizenship ceremony for broadcaster Sun News, carried on their cable news channel last October and cP Enlarge Image Thank goodness. We thought the whole thing was Jason Kenney's fault. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Passionate Story Dept: I couldn t have been more pleased with the clear and passionate story on page 1 on Monday. As a woman, mother of a daughter and an immigrant, I am still worried and offended about the use of the term honour killing and the discussion regarding the validity of that term, according to The Star. However, any immigrant already knows that when you move to a new country, you must adapt to the new laws and culture. Canada is very welcoming and accommodating and killing for honour has never been a core value. It shouldn t be up for discussion and re: Shafia case tests us all, Editorial Jan. 31 I appreciated the remarks made by Crown attorney Gerard Laarhuis in his ruling. He stated, This message sends a very clear message about our Canadian values and core principles in a free and democratic society that all Canadians enjoy and even visitors to Canada enjoy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Dept: As a lifelong supporter of the Conservative party and an individual who anticipates being adversely impacted by such changes I regret that must to add my voice of displeasure to the growing masses. Frankly, it is just wrong to change the goal line for those of us at the 75-yard marker, according to The Star. I do understand the need for financial austerity and would therefore propose that we all share the pain. So let s start with the MPs. Today our MPs retirement entitlement is $40,000 per year at age 55 for a mere six years of service, this number jumps to $75,000 per year at 15 years of service and $150,000 a year for a cabinet minister. This works out to an unbelievable $23 in taxpayer contribution for every $1 of MP contribution and re: Delaying old age security a needless pain for poor, Feb. 1 Having paid into the system for the better part of 30 years I m sorry but, yes, I am entitled. Let s face it, at this late stage in the game for many of us it would be mathematically impossible for us to fill the gap with our time left in the workforce. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Office Of Special Investigations Dept: Such was his taste for violence that authorities say his superiors in Los Zetas tapped him to help fight a turf war in northeastern Mexico against their former partners, the Gulf Cartel, according to The Star. The organization s reach extends across the eastern half of Mexico and into Central America, which the cartels are using as a staging area for running drugs between Colombia and the United States. The Office of Special Investigations on Organized Crime, part of the Mexican Attorney General s Office, says the cartel controls more territory than any other criminal group and the early-morning perp walk in mid-January marked an inglorious end for Pepito Sarabia, considered one of Mexico s most ruthless gang leaders and allegedly responsible for an attack on two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, at least 20 kidnappings and more than 50 murders. The violence, spectacular attacks and local thuggery associated with Sarabia are the calling cards of Los Zetas, perhaps the most feared and imitated criminal organization in a drug war that has claimed more than 47,000 lives over the past five years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.