Canada Border Services Agency Dept: The Australian-born Peters says he's been told he'll have to go before the Canada Border Services Agency on Feb. 28 to see if he's still admissible, according to CTV. Peters worked as a bodyguard for al-Saadi Gadhafi and helped get him out of Libya and into Niger amid the Libyan uprising and but Gary Peters insists he's done nothing wrong. He hasn't been told why, he says, other than it has to do with "recent events." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Ottawa Dept: Those airports are in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, according to CTV. "We had these lines, but not for U.S.A.," Lebel told reporters at the Ottawa airport and transport Minister Denis Lebel announced Tuesday that starting Wednesday, Nexus members can use their cards for faster screening at airports in eight Canadian cities. The minister says this will cut waiting times. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship Judge Harold Gilleshammer Dept: The event will take place at 1:30 p.m. in Room 200 of the Manitoba Legislature, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Citizenship Judge Harold Gilleshammer will preside and wINNIPEG -- Forty newcomers will become Canadian citizens today after taking the Oath of Citizenship. Special guests include Premier Greg Selinger and Christine Melnick, minister of immigration and multiculturalism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Ontario Government Dept: That's because many of the things Drummond is expected to recommend from cuts to health care and other public services to revamping the way government operates depend on how he sees the outlook for Ontario's troubled economy over the next few years, according to Winnipeg Free Press. And in the coming years, slower growth will erode government tax revenue from consumers and businesses and make it even harder for the cash-strapped province to balance the books and when former Big Bank economist Don Drummond releases his long awaited review of Ontario government finances at a media lockup Wednesday, he will be looking over his shoulder at the 800-pound gorilla in the room. The former engine of Canada's economy still packs a wallop accounting for 40 per cent of Canada's national economy. But it is slowly losing its punch as Canadian economic growth migrates to the resource-rich western provinces. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Valentine's Day Dept: Men intending to propose - it's a popular day to do that - will have spent several thousand dollars on a ring. Canadians everywhere can mark on a new website - canadakissmap. com - the street, park or hilltop where they first kissed their beloved, according to Montreal Gazette. Society as a whole can use a similar kind of time-out for reflection on how it can encourage its members to work together toward common goals, or simply coexist in harmony and it's Valentine's Day. Canadian men will be outspending Canadian women by a ratio of $3 to $1 today on flowers, chocolate and cards. The popularity of Valentine's Day is not accidental. Every couple needs a moment out to focus on what ties them together, to celebrate what it is they do that makes their relationship work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

China Dept: Lack of easy access to information in Mandarin about investment, education and immigration in Canada is weakening our relationship with China. The result is missed jobs, missed connections and missed profits, according to Globe and Mail. In the space of a decade, China s netizens, as Internet users are called, have swelled to 457 million from 22 million. Put another way, the number of Chinese people online today is about equal to the population of 13 Canadas and type in the Mandarin words for invest and Canada into the popular search engine Baidu, and an official Canadian government website doesn t appear until the 25th link. By comparison, a search for invest and Australia leads directly to a government website slickly tailored for exporters, buyers and investors. Consider that, in the immigration industry alone, mainland China has an estimated 400 private consultant firms with multimillion-dollar revenues. While the rise of this business is complex, it s fed in part by the dearth of Mandarin language resources. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Melissa Gorrie Dept: "We've really tried to move this as fast as we can to get it into the court system, because we realize if we don't act now, there won't be any birds left once it actually gets to a hearing," said Melissa Gorrie, a lawyer for Ecojustice, which filed an application Tuesday in Federal Court on behalf of an environmental coalition, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Coalition members are now asking a Federal Court to force Kent to issue that order and to block any further development on grouse habitat over the objections of provincial governments and eDMONTON - Environmentalists who have taken Ottawa to court over what they call its failure to protect the vanishing sage grouse hope their case will be heard before the distinctive southern prairie bird disappears from Alberta. Last fall, a similar coalition told federal Environment Minister Peter Kent that it planned legal action if he didn't issue an emergency protection order for the birds as required by the Species At Risk Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Children In Foster Care Dept: Charles married a Canadian 15 years ago but her former husband never sponsored her for citizenship, according to CBC. Charles is hoping an 11th hour hearing will permit her to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds and supporters of Lucene Charles say the single mother will have to leave three of her four children in foster care, if she is deported to St. Vincent on Feb. 20. Now Charles is devastated she may have to leave Canada, and leave her three Canadian-born children behind. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Dept: Since 2010, fewer foreign live-in caregivers have been admitted to Canada, partly due to the declining applications by Canadian families who are now required to pay for all recruitment fees incurred and partly a result of Ottawa s slower processing and tighter screening, according to The Star. The open work permits allow nannies to work outside of an employer s home and in the field they choose, and many have since given their two-weeks notice and left their jobs and these days, it scares Jodi Kaplan to let her live-in caregiver, Rose Pablico, out of her sight because of the rampant nanny poaching across Canada, especially in Greater Toronto. The shortage of live-in caregivers has been exacerbated since mid-December when the federal government issued 14,000 open work permits to nannies who met the employment hours to apply for permanent residency. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

West Coast Dept: And because of an agreement Harper signed while in China - though negotiated over the past several years - West Coast can expect to export a lot more of one of its main products to that country by the end of the year, according to Vancouver Sun. Before 2003, China had been Canada's largest export market for tallow, Glotman said. But when some Canadian cows were hit with bovine spongiform encephalopathy BSE that year, China stopped buying Canadian tallow. At the time, West Coast was selling about 80,000 tonnes of tallow a year to China, which today would be worth about $80 million, Glotman said and west Coast Reduction president and CEO Barry Glotman says he's not political at all. Yet he was part of Stephen Harper's four-day China mission last week and came away impressed. While overseas he met with many Chinese businessmen, some of whom he hopes will become customers. West Coast is in the business of buying the non-edible parts of animals from farmers and turning them into a variety of products, such as protein meals used in animal feed, animal fats and tallow - a product used, among other things, in the production of soaps and cosmetics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.