WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: LONDON - Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and will disclose on Wednesday who controls the device, its foreign minister said, according to Reuters. The Foreign Office in London declined to comment immediately on the allegation and Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman said he did not comment on security issues and By Estelle Shirbon Ricardo Patino said the microphone was found inside the office of the Ecuadorean ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ana Alban, at the time of a visit to the embassy by Patino to meet with Assange on June 16. Assange lives and works in a different room within the embassy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tim Blackborow: Max Aicher North America MANA locked out its workers at midnight on Saturday, but Tim Blackborow, chair of the United Steelworkers Local 1005's MANA unit says workers would much rather be inside doing their jobs, according to CBC. The picketing is the latest in a complex saga between MANA and roughly 118 steelworkers. The company purchased idled bar and bloom mills from U.S. Steel in November 2010 with much fanfare and the promise of new jobs for the city's struggling steel industry and A group of Hamilton steelworkers started picketing in front of the Max Aicher North America plant Wednesday, though they're doing so begrudgingly, a union rep says. We all want to be in there working. We don't want to turn around and be out here, he told Hamilton Wednesday morning. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court: Lt.-Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi announced on state television that Morsi will be replaced by Adly Mansour, chief justice of Egypts Supreme Constitutional Court until new elections are held. He also said the military will install a temporary civilian government to run the country for an unspecified period of time, but also called for early presidential elections, according to CTV. A statement posted to the Egyptian presidential Twitter account quoted Morsi as saying the developments amounted to a full coup categorically rejected by all the free men of our nation and Fireworks exploded over Cairos Tahrir Square Wednesday evening as Egypts military announced it is suspending the countrys constitution and will replace embattled President Mohammed Morsi. Muslim Brotherhood party spokesperson Gehad el-Haddad said Morsi was being kept under house arrest at a Presidential Guard facility where he had been residing. A travel ban has also been placed on Morsi and other top members of the Muslim Brotherhood. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Don Mattrick: SAN FRANCISCO - Don Mattrick, the head of Microsoft Corp's Xbox business who will replace Zynga Inc founder Mark Pincus as chief executive next week, will get a hefty, largely stock-based compensation package of about $50 million in coming years, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday, according to Reuters. To compensate for shares he lost in leaving Microsoft, Mattrick will receive a make-whole grant of $25 million, or about 9 million restricted stock units that will vest over the next three years. These shares are currently valued at over $30.5 million and By Malathi Nayak In his first year, Mattrick will receive a base salary of $1 million, a sign-on cash bonus of $5 million and a 2013 bonus of $2 million, or the average bonus of Zynga's other executives, the company said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Evo Morales: The plane carrying President Evo Morales home from Moscow was rerouted to Austria Tuesday night, in a new twist to the international diplomatic drama over Snowden and the widespread U.S. surveillance that he revealed, according to Huffington Post. Officials in both Austria and Bolivia said that Snowden was not on the plane, which was taking Morales home from a summit in Russia, where he had suggested that his government would be willing to consider granting asylum to the American. Snowden is believed to be in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from one of more than a dozen countries and PARIS - French officials denied Wednesday that France refused to let the Bolivian president's plane cross over its airspace amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was aboard. Spain, too, said the plane was free to cross its territory. Bolivian officials said that France, Portugal, Spain and Italy blocked the plane from flying over their territories, and angrily demanded explanation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tammy Junghans: "Its run by students for students," said UMSU Campus Garden co-ordinator Tammy Junghans. "But we do allow others to garden with us. So we have students, faculty and a few community members who do garden with us." , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We ve got single moms from refugee camps that have come and gardened alongside us, and they bring their kids as well, so the kids are running around. Its a great time," said Junghans. USMU are looking for sponsors to raise money for multicoloured picnic tables in the garden. The University of Manitoba Students Union welcomes new Canadians with a green thumb. The UMSU community garden welcomes students and the community to garden with them at the north corner of Pembina Highway and Chancellor Matheson Road. The garden started a special side project on June 6 aimed at welcoming new immigrants to Winnipeg. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Pro Bono Law Alberta: The sessions will allow victims access to brief legal consultations with members of Calgary Legal Guidance, Pro Bono Law Alberta, Legal Aid Alberta, Pro Bono Students Canada and Student Legal Assistance, according to CTV. With many people displaced from their homes due to the flooding, questions related to landlord-tenant, employment, mortgage, family and insurance laws have come up, says Leung. We want to help people understand what laws apply and what they can do from a legal standpoint and A group of University of Calgary law students have coordinated a series of pro bono legal sessions in Okotoks and Calgary for victims of recent flooding in southern Alberta. The sessions are being organized by Ben Leung student director-Student Legal Assistance U of C , Kevin Stenner president Society of Law Students and Eleanor Carlson program co-ordinator Pro Bono Students Canada . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Child poverty in Ontario: Child poverty in Ontario has dropped for a third consecutive year. According to the latest figures just released by Statistics Canada, Ontarios child poverty rate of 13.8 per cent in 2011 was down from 15.2 per cent three years earlier, according to The Star. As Ontario sets out to consult regarding its next five-year anti-poverty strategy, the past strategy provides five important lessons and By Greg deGroot-Maggetti, Margaret Hancock and Heather McGregor While the reductions in child poverty in Ontario appear to be trending behind the governments five-year target for a 25-per-cent reduction by 2013 , the fact that poverty has fallen at the same time as a major economic downturn speaks volumes about the return on investment so far of the provinces poverty reduction strategy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Doris Frankel: n" - Options market investors are preparing for a bumpy ride in case of a surprise - be it a good or bad number - from the June U.S. jobs report due out on Friday, according to Reuters. The anxiety is exacerbated by the July 4 U.S. Independence Day holiday. While U.S. financial markets are open for a full day on Friday, many traders and investors tend to take the day off and enjoy a long weekend and By Doris Frankel The stock market's wild swings have receded somewhat after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke roiled investors with talk on June 19 of a pullback in monetary stimulus, but the nerves of investors and traders remain frayed after those events. Given that the jobs report is the most important monthly U.S. economic release, and could alter expectations for the Fed's actions, this could be a big test of the markets' confidence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

HRM: I take issue with his statement that Halifax Regional Municipality spends $150 million dollars a year building subdivisions it doesnt need, according to The Chronicle Herald. In addition, HRM makes significant income from a suburban subdivision. For example, lets use a 40-hectare vacant parcel of land in the Fall River area. Taxes on this parcel might be approximately $1,000 per year. When a developer builds a subdivision on this land, the economy on those 100 acres changes markedly and An opinion piece titled Wild growth: The math is proof of HRMs madness June 19 by chartered accountant Andrew Murphy quotes a questionable report from Stantec. HRM does not build subdivisions. Developers build subdivisions with their own money, not public funds. Developers build the roads, pay for the installation of electricity and pay for the parkland and all other expenses related to building a suburban subdivision. HRM charges the developers major fees for permits. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.