Republican Presidential Hopeful Rick Santorum Dept: Obama's agenda is "not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phoney ideal, some phoney theology not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology," the former Pennsylvania senator told a Tea Party gathering in Columbus, Ohio, according to CBC. "If the president says he s a Christian, he s a Christian and republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum courted conservative voters in the U.S. Midwest on Saturday with wide-ranging attacks on President Barack Obama and leadership opponent Mitt Romney. He offered no details on what he thought that theology might be, though he later tried to clarify his remarks, saying "obviously we all know in the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity. I m just saying he s imposing his values on the church and I think that s wrong." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Pat Dept: Pat Lotz was neither the writer nor the editor, although she was skilled in both. She was the subject. Her husband Jim penned the piece, which dealt in part with the challenges of caring for Pat as she battled Alzheimer s disease, according to The Chronicle Herald. She was constantly renewing her interests and reinventing her career long before the working world demanded this of us all and last month, as part of our ongoing Opinions section series on health reform, we featured an article on the crucial yet largely overlooked contribution made by home-care workers. It is with sadness that we note the passing of Pat Lotz last week. Dementia robbed her of her spirit over the past five years, but in one small act of restitution, we d like to remember that spirit here today. As her obituary illustrated, she was an accomplished woman: librarian, public servant, researcher, journalist, published author, but most of all, a life-long learner. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tyronne Candappa Dept: The 36-year-old residential developer, in court for allegedly shooting a man said to be one of his buyers, addressed the judge briefly before rushing out to a different room to face yet another of the many civil cases piling up against him, according to Montreal Gazette. Buyers still don't know what happened to the $1.5 million in deposits they left for condos at his unbuilt 14-storey Tysel Tower project in Brossard and tyronne Candappa sat hunched over in the back row of the Longueuil courtroom, his hands cupping his visibly strained face. This week, Candappa and his companies Tysel Construction and Renovation, and Tyarm Development, were ordered into bankruptcy by a Quebec Superior Court judge. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Dept: Each presents a facet of the Second World War as seen by a young first-person narrator. Torn Apart and Behind Enemy Lines are attractively designed hard covers in the Dear Canada and I Am Canada series respectively, the first aimed at girls, the other at boys. Making Bombs for Hitler is a paperback sequel to Stolen Child, an earlier war story by its author, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch. All of them have a Canadian connection, according to Montreal Gazette. Mary begins her account in May 1941, when - despite the fact that Canada is at war in Europe - her life on Vancouver's Oxford St. revolves around her family, best friends, school, Girl Guide meetings and grass-hockey games and betrayal, persecution, brutality, hunger - it must be a challenge for a writer to dramatize the horrors of war for children. All three of these excellent novels from Scholastic Canada target readers in the 8-to-12 age range. All three have fictional protagonists, but are based on carefully researched historical events. For most Canadian readers, the most recognizable of these accounts will be Susan Aihoshi's Torn Apart, which examines the evacuation and displacement of Japanese Canadians from the west coast to internment camps in the B.C. interior beginning in 1942. But though the outlines of the story may seem sadly familiar, they are chilling when revisited in the diary of 12-year-old Mary Kobayashi. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Rick Santorum Dept: Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign so he can focus on the allegations against him. We support his decision, Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said in a statement, according to Globe and Mail. The allegations come as Mr. Romney is fighting to win the Feb. 28 primary in Arizona. He is the only candidate who is making a strong play in the state, although rival Rick Santorum and his allies have spent some money on TV ads. The GOP contenders are slated to debate in the state next week and mr. Babeu held a press conference Saturday and acknowledged he is gay. He denied the allegations of misconduct against him. Mr. Babeu, who has risen to national prominence with his strong opposition to illegal immigration, campaigned with Mr. Romney and was featured in robocalls in Iowa attacking Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was then seeking the GOP nomination. He said he would continue his congressional campaign in Arizona. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

William Notman Dept: A Scottish immigrant who arrived in Montreal in 1856 harbouring a secret, Notman became the first Canadian photographer of international renown. His subjects ranged from royalty, Governors General and the Fathers of Confederation, to Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Anna of Anna and the King of Siam fame. His studio immortalized the faces of the merchant princes of Montreal's legendary Square Mile - the Molsons, Redpaths, Drummonds, Allans, and Van Hornes. He didn't only portray them and their families, but also their ornate habitats, recording the lavish trappings of the high-Victorian era: the conservatories, coffered ceilings, vast fireplaces and portraitdecked walls, according to Montreal Gazette. By 1860, four years after his arrival in Canada, Notman had a team of artists and apprentices working for him, so that after that date his insignia on a photo didn't necessarily mean that he was the one behind the camera. Yet there was a distinctive Notman style and vision, no matter who the actual photographer was. Stanley Triggs, a 20th-century curator who rescued the Notman name from oblivion and is the author of several books about him, characterized this style as simple, direct and stately. Triggs has written that Notman "imbued his subjects with an aura of greatness equal to the challenge of the raw new world." If you've ever seen vintage PHOTOS of Victorian Montreal and its citizens, there's a good chance those landmarks and faces were captured by the lens of William Notman. And as for those evocative 19th-century Montreal winter scenes - ice jams, pirouetting skaters, tobogganers whooshing down hillsides - they, too, were the work of his studio. But Notman was much more than a society photographer. A rare combination of artist and shrewd businessman, he kept his rates modest enough for ordinary individuals to sit for him. And he went out of his way to invite into his studio people whose trade, garb, or features caught his eye: a Jewish herb doctor with his basket, for instance, or a mustachioed carter sporting a buffalo fur coat tied with a ceinture fl ch e. Sometimes he took their pictures for free, at others he paid them a fee. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

John Robarts Dept: A province not notably given to paying homage to its history will take a small step to doing better. Among those who might spare a moment for reflection is the man who holds that office now, Premier Dalton McGuinty, according to The Star. Come the Robarts commemoration, McGuinty might find cause to muse on the different trials and opportunities that fate puts in any generation s path, and the similarities and differences between what Robarts and he found in their respective time and place and on March 1 at St. James Cathedral, the Ontario Heritage Trust is to unveil a marker commemorating the St. James Cemetery gravesite of former Ontario premier John Robarts, who governed the province from 1961 to 1971. In quiet moments, McGuinty has observed how leaders who ve passed from the spotlight in Canada are often scarce remembered or remarked on. He recalled seeing former prime minister John Turner, a neighbour in Toronto, walking his dog, sitting alone at a bench in a local parkette smoking a cigar just another old guy alone with his memories and regrets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Donna MacDonald Dept: The federal government said the shutdown will take place in March 2014, resulting in 28 job losses, according to CBC. "It's jobs, it's P.E.I. jobs, that we're concerned with and that the people are concerned with," she said and about 200 people turned out in Montague, P.E.I., Saturday to protest the closure of the Island's only Employment Insurance processing centre. Donna MacDonald, national vice-president of the Canada Employment and Immigration union, said the proposed closure will affect many Islanders. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Balwinder Dhillon Dept: Kamaljit Kaur, 39, was found dead in her living room in The Hague on Feb. 1. Before she died, she brought her three kids -- a daughter and two sons ranging in age from five to 14 -- to B.C, according to CTV. Dhillon's best friend has been arrested in connection with Kaur's murder and the British Columbia family of a woman murdered in the Netherlands is fighting to keep her traumatized children in Canada. Kaur wanted to give them a fresh start after her husband, Balwinder Dhillon, allegedly tried to kill her last year. He was in a Dutch prison at the time of her death and the couple was in the midst of a messy divorce. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Property Insurance Dept: That was after spending roughly six decades selling insurance and sometimes real estate, mostly from the family storefront in Kerrisdale, according to Vancouver Sun. Adrian Dix, the 47-year-old B.C. NDP leader, has never sold auto or property insurance. Instead, when he wasn't executive director of Canadian Parents for French in B.C./Yukon, he has mostly toiled in politics, including as the chief of staff to former premier Glen Clark and ken Dix, the father of the leader of B.C.'s New Democratic Party opposition, sold his business and retired last November. He was 81. The father of Adrian Dix had emigrated from Dublin to Sudbury, Ont. in the 1950s, and later met his British-born immigrant wife, Hilda. After moving to Vancouver in 1969, the couple ended up running Dix Insurance Agency Ltd. on West 41st. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.