Corporate Tax Policy Dept: How can an analysis of the contributing factors to Ontario s deficit/debt be valid when the loss of billions of dollars to the province s coffers from Dalton McGuinty s failed corporate tax policy are ignored? The answer is simple: the analysis is not valid, according to The Star. Starving government of revenue and the resulting reduced role of government plays well with the same crowd that benefits most from Mr. McGuinty s failed corporate tax policy and re: How we got into this mess, Feb. 18 Don Drummond stays true to the parameters set out by Mr. McGuinty and frames the problem as strictly an expenditure problem. Ignoring the revenue side of the equation provides adequate political cover for Mr. McGunity to push forward with a predetermined privatization and deregulation agenda. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Linspiration Dept: Linsanity is ephemeral, but Linspiration is eternal, according to The Star. The insanity, or Linsanity he has created, will fizzle sooner or later. But not so for the inspiration, call it Linspiration if you will, that many of his fans would find in this 23-year-old star of Chinese or Taiwanese heritage and re: Race and Linsanity, Editorial Feb. 17 That s because Jeremy Lin, the new supernova of the New York Knicks who has been on a roll for the past two weeks, won t be able to keep his team s winning streak unbroken forever. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Refugee Dept: Yet Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says Ottawa must to do more crack down on bogus refugees who are clogging up the system and costing taxpayers too much money, according to The Star. The minister tried this before. In March 2010, he brought in a bill almost identical to the one introduced last week. It would have done a relatively good job of filtering out would-be refugees who were not fleeing persecution or seeking asylum from violence, torture or cruel treatment. It would also have served as a deterrent to fraudsters hoping to manipulate Canada s refugee system. But it contained too few safeguards for applicants rejected after a cursory hearing and since the Conservatives took power six years ago, fewer of the immigrants arriving in Canada are coming as refugees. As a share of all newcomers, refugees have gone down from 13.7 per cent to 9.2 per cent. He is proposing legislation that would rapidly deport two types of refugee claimants: those who come to Canada as part of a part of an irregular arrival any vehicle or network suspected of smuggling people and those who come from countries he considers safe such as Hungary . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

London Dept: It turns out that rushing in order to reach a bathroom is a well-used reason to drive at emergency speed. There s no indication as to whether this works in avoiding a penalty, or if a resulting ticket only adds to the woes of those already, ahem, under pressure, according to The Star. One London driver, running low on fuel, said he was rushing to reach a gas station. Another blamed his new car and the fact he wasn t used to driving it. A third said he was hurrying home to help his dying father. That turned out to be a lie. And one bold motorist explained he blew past a police cruiser, at high speed, only because he didn t want to bother officers by tailgating them and police in London, Ont., this past week released a light-hearted list of frequently feeble excuses motorists give for speeding. Its contents are instructive. Other excuses seem even less likely to generate sympathy from a ticket-writing officer or the public at large. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Border Services Agency Dept: The Canada Border Services Agency confirms that Clato CLAY'-toe Mabior MAH'-bee-ohr was sent back to South Sudan on Wednesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Four of the convictions were overturned by the Manitoba Court of Appeal and wINNIPEG - A Winnipeg immigrant convicted for failing to tell his sex partners he was HIV-positive has been deported. Mabior was ordered deported in December 2010 after being convicted two years earlier on six counts of aggravated sexual assault. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Retirement Dept: The trouble is not that increases in expenditures for OAS are unsustainable as the baby boomers begin to reach retirement age. Rather it is that Canadians are starting their working lives later than ever, living longer than ever and wish to retire with lots of money while in their late 50s or early 60s, according to The Star. Making sure that Canadian workers can retire in comfort is possible in only two ways: Require workers to contribute more of their employment income to pension plans, or require workers to stay employed longer. Neither will be popular, but there is no magic bullet and the proposal by the federal government to increase the age of eligibility for Old Age Security from age 65 fails to address the problem facing Canadians. Making clear that this is the predicament shifts the debate from the OAS to the Canada Pension Plan. After all, it is the CPP that provides workers with a significant amount of retirement income. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prenatal Testing Dept: But the former Pennsylvania senator has always been a culture warrior at heart. Santo-rum's weekend musings about limiting access to prenatal testing for pregnant women, and his accusations that President Barack Obama adheres to a "phoney theology," gave Americans a fresh glimpse of the polarizing style of politics that has long been central to his career, according to Vancouver Sun. Speaking to Tea Party activists in Columbus, Ohio, Santo-rum suggested Obama favoured increased abortions of disabled babies because of requirements in his new health care law that women receive free prenatal testing and rick Santorum climbed to the top of the Republican presidential heap on a ladder forged from blue-collar conservatism - wooing working-class Republicans with tales of his own family's coal-mining history and an economic message rooted in the need to revive American manufacturing. The sudden pivot to social issues also underscores Santorum's calculation that the Republican nomination can be won by appealing to "guns and Bible" Republicans, voters who feel economically disenfranchised and culturally alienated from East Coast elites. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Sex Slaves Dept: Instead many are forced to become "sex slaves" to pay off travel fees and other costs, totalling as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they may die if they quit, apparently by collecting samples of their hair and fingernails, according to Winnipeg Free Press. And Ugandan officials say it is hard to cripple a highly organized syndicate that preys on educated but vulnerable women, and then intimidates them into the kind of silence that hampers investigations and kAMPALA, Uganda - Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda's capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Authorities say nearly all of the prostituted girls have college degrees but have failed to find jobs in Uganda, where unemployment is high. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Dept: Accused in Kazakhstan of fraud, counterfeiting and organized crime, Rustem Tursunbayev s life on the run ended when Toronto police and the Canada Border Services Agency arrested him on an immigration warrant Feb. 10, according to The Star. Tursunbayev, 49, is believed to have lived in the GTA since he entered Canada as a permanent resident in July 2009, police said and a Kazakh fugitive accused of embezzling about $20 million from his homeland was living in a lavish King City mansion until his recent arrest. He is believed to be inadmissible to Canada under the organized criminality sections of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA spokeswoman Antonella DiGirolamo wrote in an email. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Uganda Dept: Instead many are forced to become sex slaves to pay off travel fees and other costs, totalling as much as $7,000. The traffickers brainwash their victims into believing they may die if they quit, apparently by collecting samples of their hair and fingernails, according to The Star. And Ugandan officials say it is hard to cripple a highly organized syndicate that preys on educated but vulnerable women, and then intimidates them into the kind of silence that hampers investigations and kAMPALA, UGANDA Advertisements pinned on the walls of shopping malls in Uganda s capital promise young women a free ticket to a well-paying job in Malaysia as a nanny, maid or bartender. Authorities say nearly all of the prostituted girls have college degrees but have failed to find jobs in Uganda, where unemployment is high. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.