Marie Rose Place: Sister Lesley Sacouman right and resident Asel Diusheeva from Kyrgyzstan in front of the Holy Names House of Peace on Edmonton Street. WAYNE GLOWACKI / Photo Store , according to Winnipeg Free Press. In July 2014, the six-storey, 40-unit Marie Rose Place will welcome refugee and immigrant single moms and their children. Marie Rose Place will open next summer next to Holy Names House of Peace. ARTIST RENDERING Enlarge Image A new apartment building for some of Winnipeg's most vulnerable residents will open downtown next summer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Jason Kenney: Kenney initiated the fray by publicly naming and accusing Dr. Mark Tyndall chief of infectious diseases at the Ottawa Hospital , a critic of the cuts, of political grandstanding and irresponsible rhetoric. Over the past year, Kenney has alleged that doctors who have documented cases of harm flowing from the cuts have purposefully altered the facts and he labelled protesting doctors as militant leftists. After a 19-city National Day of Action on June 17 this year organized by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care CDRC , Kenney denounced the doctors for an irresponsible and shameful attempt to further their unreasonable demands, according to The Star. The doctors year-long protest is unprecedented in Canadian medical history but that is no surprise. Beyond the attacks on the character and motives of physicians and his refusal to meet with doctors, Kenney has continued to describe the cuts in terms that do not match the experience of front-line doctors treating refugees nor the official government documents that initially outlined the nature of the changes to refugee health-care coverage and It is a serious matter when a Minister of the Crown is in deep conflict with the health professions of Canada. Jason Kenney, minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, has engaged in an ongoing and increasingly nasty fight with doctors since May of 2012, shortly after cuts to health care for refugee claimants and privately sponsored refugees under the Interim Federal Health Program were announced that April. More than 20 national health associations have expressed concerns over the cuts, including the Canadian Medical Association and the Canadian Nurses Association. Eight of these associations have three times requested a meeting with Kenney to discuss the cuts. He has not officially responded for over a year except to indicate that he did not have time to fit such a meeting into his schedule. The CDRC submitted a proposal to him last year that met the ministers purported concern about equity between refugee claimants and Canadian citizens yet preserved care to most refugees. Kenney never responded. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Adly Mansour: Morsi, the nation's first democratically elected president, was dismissed by the Egyptian army Wednesday after weeks of massive protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. By Thursday morning, Adly Mansour, chief justice of Egypt's supreme court, had already been sworn in as Egypt's interim president, according to CTV. "I would think the majority of the Egyptian people believe it's a military intervention because of the way it started -- it started with the rebel campaign which was basically a popular movement to bring the people onto the streets and they succeeded," said Dina El Wakil, an Egyptian who spoke to Canada AM after taking part in the protests along with millions of other Egyptians and Some world leaders are choosing their words very carefully when discussing the ouster of Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday, with the descriptions of what happened ranging from a "coup" to a "military intervention," depending on who you're speaking with -- and who they support. But whether or not the militarys decision to remove Morsi was a coup d'etat is an important question that remains to be answered. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ALISTAIR BURT: But Northern Province, which includes the Jaffna peninsula, has been under military control since the end of the war and the government had resisted requests by the West to pull out the army. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. ALISTAIR BURT From past British conflicts, a lesson in unity for Sri Lanka Sri Lanka will hold provincial elections in the former northern war zone in September for the first time in 25 years, officials said on Friday, a move long demanded by the United Nations since the end of three decades of conflict in 2009. FRANCES HARRISON Sri Lankas atrocity against the Tamils is no longer in doubt (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

The United States Supreme Court: The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. Queer Canadians are freely getting married and divorced. The LGBTQ community is taking increasingly prominent roles in politics and entertainment, according to CBC. Borderland is a reminder that advances to gay rights aren't happening worldwide. The one-man play is a story about being gay in a country where homosexuality can be punishable by death. Arranged marriages are common, a consenting homosexual relationship can result in imprisonment and members of the LGBTQ community often live in fear and For Izad Etemadi, if there's ever been a time to talk about being gay in Iran, that time is now. It's in this climate that Etemadi is bringing his one-man show, Borderland , to the Hamilton Fringe Festival . The play by the Victoria, BC-based actor and writer is one of a record 47 performances showing during the 10th annual festival, which runs from July 18 to 28. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Muhammed Morsi: The spokesman for Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, Gehad El-Haddad, speaking on Bloomberg Television, challenged those leaders, "Are you going to stick with democracy and support it or are you going to back and legitimize a military coup that just ousted the first ever democratically elected president of Egypt?", according to CBC. Here's a roundup from around the globe, starting in the Middle East. Turkey Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Egyptian President Muhammed Morsi had formed an emerging alliance, leading Turkey to slam the democratically elected Egyptian leader's overthrow by the military as 'unacceptable' and call for his release from house arrest. Associated Press World leaders have generally reacted with caution to the military coup in Egypt on Wednesday that overthrew President Mohammed Morsi. Most leaders avoided calling it a coup. Some Middle East powers came out in support of the military's action and some denounced it, while Israel did not take a position. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

poverty line: In Nova Scotia, we have had a minimum wage review committee since 2003. Minimum wage has gone from $6 an hour to $10.30 an hour and is tied to a low income cut-off, often referred as the poverty line. Higher minimum wages alone cannot alleviate poverty but are an important means of addressing it, according to The Chronicle Herald. It is recognized that more than one-third of working Canadians do not have permanent, full-time paid jobs. Many, often referred to as the precariously employed, fall below the poverty line due to low hourly wages and low hours of work, and/or not enough weeks of work in a year and Ask how to attack poverty and guaranteed annual income often comes up as the response or solution. While it has many positive facets, it alone is not the single answer. We do not believe there is one solution, but there is one goal guaranteed income security. SEE ALSO: RELIEVING POVERTY: N.S. should bring in new tax credit (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry: poetry Poet Phil Hall tests the boundaries of language, according to Globe and Mail. Fiction The Silent Wife: An extreme case of philanderer versus martyr Some readers may be surprised, on opening The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry , to find only 11 poets included. Newfoundland may be one of the smaller provinces; still, surely there are more than 11 poets writing there? But making up anthologies is always a tricky business, an attempt to walk a fine line between being underrepresentative and being over-inclusive. The editors, Mark Callanan and James Langer, surely have their reasons for choosing barely enough writers to make up a soccer team. More Related to this Story summer essay series Shelf awareness: Finding Canada in a forgotten corner of a Paris bookstore (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Brighter Future Party: Ogmundur Jonasson, whose liberal Left-Green Party is backing the proposal along with the Pirate Party and Brighter Future Party, put the issue before the Judicial Affairs Committee, but the idea received minimal support, according to CBC. But to apply for asylum in Iceland, Snowden would have to reach the island nation's soil. Icelandic citizenship helped Bobby Fischer escape U.S. prosecution in 2005. Yuriko Nakao/Reuters Icelandic lawmakers introduced a proposal in Parliament on Thursday to grant immediate citizenship to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, who admits to revealing key details of U.S. surveillance activities. Snowden is believed to be stuck in a Moscow airport transit area, seeking asylum from more than a dozen countries. At one point, he told the Guardian newspaper that he was inclined to seek asylum in a country that shared his values and that "the nation that most encompasses this is Iceland." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Evo Morales: Spains foreign minister insisted Friday that no apology was needed, insisting that Spanish airspace was never closed to Morales, according to 660 News. Morales again blamed Washington for pressuring European countries to refuse to allow his plane to fly through their airspace on Tuesday, forcing it to land in Vienna, Austria, in what he called a violation of international law. He had been returning from a summit in Russia during which he had suggested he would be willing to consider a request from Snowden for asylum and COCHABAMBA, Bolivia South Americas leftist leaders rallied to support Bolivian President Evo Morales after his plane was rerouted amid suspicions that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board and they demanded an apology from France, Italy, Portugal and Spain. The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay joined Morales in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba late Thursday to denounce the treatment of Morales, who warned that he would close the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia if necessary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.