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Canada: Many readers cited Toronto for a bunch of reasons, as you'll see below . We'll profile some other top picks in the days ahead, according to Huffington Post. We asked a href "http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/06/13/canadas-new-capital-city n 3378577.html" target " blank" what city, town or village should be the new capital of Canada /a . These are the most popular of your picks. strong VOTE NOW by "Liking" your favourites /strong . We'll put the top 8 choices up for a national vote leading up to Canada Day. VANCOUVER Readers of The Canada responded in the hundreds to our hypothetical question: If you had to choose a new capital city for Canada, what would it be and why ? Agree? Disagree? VOTE NOW on our top reader picks and we'll put your Top 8 choices up for a face-off leading up to Canada Day. Just 'Like' the cities in the gallery below if you want to see them in the finals: Loading Slideshow 'LIKE' your favourites (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Calgary Housing: Belanger, who recently gave birth to a daughter, has to be out of the apartment, which belongs to her mother, by Tuesday night, as the building only allows adults as tenants, according to CTV. Calgary Housing says employment and having a child are factors in deciding who gets housing, but they are not the only factors and I'm very scared because I don't know what's going to happen from this point, says Belanger. I dont feel like I have a lot of options available. Belanger is unemployed and, with a new baby, thought she'd qualify for low-income housing, but she's been listed as low priority and joins thousands of people on the waiting list. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Corporate Research Associates: When asked about the requirement that claimants must accept jobs within an hours commute of their homes, 56 per cent opposed the change. About the same number mostly or completely oppose claimants being required to accept employment in different fields than their previous jobs, according to CBC. The level of opposition to some of the specific EI changes reflects the challenges faced by the region to modernize our economy, said Don Mills, the chief executive officer of CRA and Atlantic Canadians oppose many recent Employment Insurance policy changes, according to the latest survey conducted by Corporate Research Associates. And 67 per cent of Atlantic Canadians mostly or completely oppose the requirement to accept jobs and a lower salary than a previous job. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Julian Assange: He's still there and now says he won't emerge even if Sweden drops the case that triggered the strange diplomatic standoff, according to Times Colonist. "If I walk out the front door I could be arrested in relation to the United States," Assange said in an interview with a small group of journalists to mark Wednesday's one-year anniversary of his embassy stay and LONDON - A year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, the WikiLeaks founder took refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London. In comments that appear to put a resolution farther off than ever, Assange said his fear of U.S.-ordered arrest for his secret-spilling activities means that "if the Swedish government immediately drops their request tomorrow, I still cannot leave this embassy." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Justin Trudeau: Trudeau, who had a highly successful public-speaking business for several years before being elected in 2008, said he would reimburse only the organizations he billed from the time when he first became an MP to early last summer, when he made the decision to run for the Liberal leadership and ended his paid public-speaking career, according to CBC. "My view is that what is not appropriate I, you know, as someone who is paid by the public, I get good remuneration from the taxpayers of Canada as a public servant. I don't think it's appropriate for me to then take money from charity. I give money to charity, I don't take money from charity. So that is my view about what is appropriate and what is not appropriate under those circumstances." Most of the 17 charitable and other organizations that have paid speaking fees to Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau during his time as an MP say they aren't interested in having their fees returned, despite Trudeau's offer on the weekend to reimburse any organization unhappy with his services. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speaking to reporters Tuesday in Northern Ireland where he was attending G8 meetings, said he could only talk about his own "comportment" when asked about Trudeau's speaking fees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Sharon Wang: Katie Szetos tiny body is dwarfed by the high-school-sized desk shes sitting at. At nine, shes one of the youngest in her class, but also the one who most consistently raises her hand with the right answer when teacher Sharon Wang flips through a Mandarin picture book, asking the students to translate words into English. The Brampton Diaries: A five-part series, according to Globe and Mail. Part 1 How Brampton demonstrates the new vision of Canada This is part of a series on how the diverse and growing city of Brampton, Ont., provides lessons for Canada's future. Interactive A window to Canada #039;s future: how Brampton became a city to watch (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Laszlo Csatary: Laszlo Csatary, who lived for years in Montreal, was chief of an internment camp for 12,000 Jews at a brick factory in Kosice -- a Slovak city then part of Hungary -- in May 1944, they said, according to CTV. Csatary "wilfully assisted in the unlawful execution and torture of the Jews deported from Kosice to concentration camps in territories occupied by the Germans," the prosecution said in a statement and BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 98-year-old former police officer, who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship, with torturing Jews and assisting in their deportation to Nazi death camps. He is accused of beating and whipping his victims, and of refusing to allow ventilation holes to be cut into the walls of a railcar crammed with 80 Jews being deported. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: More than 45.2 million people either fled their own countries or were internally displaced in 2012, compared to 42.5 million the year before, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said in its annual global trends report. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "These truly are alarming numbers. They reflect individual suffering on a huge scale and they reflect the difficulties of the international community in preventing conflicts and promoting timely solutions for them," Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees and head of UNHCR, said in a statement. OTTAWA - Refugee numbers around the world are at their highest level since 1994, the United Nations refugee agency reported Tuesday in a sobering look at global displacement. War remained the dominant reason for displacement 55 per cent of all refugees came from five war-affected countries: Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Syria and Sudan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Laszlo Csatary: Csatary, 98, worked as an art dealer in Canada for several decades but left in 1997 before a deportation hearing, the Associated Press reports. His Canadian citizenship was later revoked, according to Huffington Post. "With his actions, Laszlo Csatary... deliberately provided help to the unlawful executions and torture committed against Jews deported to concentration camps," the prosecutor's statement reads and Laszlo Csatary, a Hungarian who lived in Canada for several decades, has been indicted by Hungarian prosecutors for Nazi-era war crimes, including sending Jews to Auschwitz and running an internment camp. The Hungarian allegedly served in the Nazi police in Kosice, now in Slovakia. Csatary denies the charges. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Oswaldo Paya: Rosa Maria Paya said she and her family have been the subject of threats, harassment and increased vigilance since her father's death last year and following her return to Cuba in April, according to Times Colonist. Paya, 24, is the daughter of the late Oswaldo Paya, the lead organizer of the Varela Project, a signature-gathering drive regarded as the largest nonviolent campaign to change the system Fidel Castro established in 1959. The petition asked authorities for a referendum on guaranteeing rights such as freedom of speech and assembly in Cuba and MIAMI - One of several Cuban dissidents recently allowed to visit Europe and the U.S. after Cuba changed its travel laws said Tuesday she decided to seek refuge in Miami after facing continued repression on the island. "We wanted to rest a bit from the persecution we faced in Cuba," Paya said, "and continue working on the opposition's proposals for change and transition to democracy." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.