Xu Zhiyong: Xu is a law professor with a reputation as one of China's most meticulously courteous and law-abiding activists, according to CBC. "Of course, if people as moderate and reasonable as me cannot escape being locked up in prison, so be it." Xu wrote about his three days of police interrogation just before his arrest. "It's the misfortune of the Chinese people, and I will surrender myself to my destiny." Xu Zhiyong had been locked down under house arrest for three months when the police marched through the cordon of security agents surrounding his home last week to charge him with "assembling a crowd to disrupt order in a public place." His real crime in the eyes of the ruling Communist Party and the security apparatus is not whipping up a crowd while home alone in an apartment surrounded by cops. It is his persistence in arguing that China should be governed by its laws and constitution. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nathan Jacobson: Nathan Jacobson, a prominent businessman in Canada and Israel, was led through Pearson International Airport in handcuffs on Wednesday before being put on a flight to San Diego, Calif., where he is expected to be sentenced to several years in prison for his role in an online pharmacy that sold drugs to people without proper prescriptions, according to CTV. In 2008, Jacobson pleaded guilty to laundering $46 million through his Tel Aviv company for payments linked to Affpower, his online pharmacy and Just a few weeks after surrendering to authorities in Canada, a millionaire philanthropist who admitted to money laundering was shipped back to the United States on Wednesday. In 2006, Jacobson was one of a dozen people named in a U.S. federal indictment for the scheme, which netted more than $120 million. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Krista Melanson: A Dartmouth woman is heartbroken and worried after her common-law partner was whisked away by Canada Border Services Agency officials to face deportation, according to The Chronicle Herald. The situation began to unfold in the wee hours of Monday, when the couple got into an argument and Melanson called the police and Krista Melanson is unsure of the whereabouts of Nigel Pask, her partner of four years, because the agencys privacy rules wont allow them to tell her if hes in their custody and, if so, where. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Statistics Canada: The premiers convened this week in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., to discuss a number of pressing issues, including the need to ensure funding for health care when the current health accord winds down in 2014. There are compelling reasons why they should also call on the federal government to step up to the plate on other social programs that affect the health of Canadians especially people living in poverty, according to The Chronicle Herald. ALSO SEE: Health changes violate constitution Across Canada, according to Statistics Canada, 4.2 million people, including 967,000 children and their families, live in poverty. Thats about 13 per cent of Canadians, or one in eight people, who are living in dire straits in our wealthy land. Poverty rates are even higher among historically disadvantaged groups, including women, people with disabilities, immigrants, racialized and Aboriginal Peoples. That 40 per cent of aboriginal children in Canada live in poverty is one troubling example of the scope of poverty among particular groups. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harpers: Prime Minister Stephen Harpers proposed Canada Job Grant was panned by the nations provincial and territorial leaders at the annual Council of the Federation meeting , according to The Star. A number of provinces say they do not believe it will work and will not take part, she told reporters and NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONT. The federal governments new $900 million skills training scheme is getting the pink slip from Canadas premiers. We are unanimous in wanting this program to be changed. We all agreed there would be damage to programs in our communities, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Hassan El Hajj Hassan: The Bulgarian Interior Ministry, which previously said the two suspects were dual nationals based in Lebanon, identified them on Thursday as 25-year-old Canadian Hassan El Hajj Hassan and 32-year-old Australian Meliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Justice Amnesty International to intercede on detained Canadians behalf Bulgaria has released the names and images of two fugitives, including a Canadian, who are alleged to have plotted the bombing a year ago of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in the Black Sea resort of Burgas. Bandit with ties to al-Qaeda charged by RCMP for abducting diplomats (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Ann Fudge Schormans: But as McMaster University researcher Ann Fudge Schormans has discovered, the outgoing 29-year-old is very much engaged in his city, according to The Star. He regularly eats out in restaurants in Little India on Gerrard St. E.; attends literacy classes at Frontier College near Yonge and St. Clair; and volunteers at St. Johns Mission near Broadview and Queen St. E and Sean Rowley lives with his mother in a modest brick home near Torontos Eglinton West subway station. A typical week includes delivering baked goods via public transit for his part-time job with Lemon Allspice Cookery in Leaside; boarding the College streetcar to his Bollywood dance lessons at the National Ballet Schools Jarvis St. studios and zipping down the University subway to attend self-advocacy meetings at a midtown community centre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Porter Fischer: In an interview broadcast Thursday on ESPN's "Outside the Lines," Porter Fischer also said an additional dozen athletes from different sports whose names have not been made public were involved in the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Others were later implicated in media reports, including Milwaukee outfielder Ryan Braun, who agreed this week to a 65-game suspension. Baseball's probe of other players is ongoing. BRISTOL, Conn. - A former associate of Biogenesis head Tony Bosch said he turned down a $125,000 offer from Major League Baseball for documents said to implicate players in the use of performance-enhancing drugs. Fischer, 49, admitted giving documents to the Miami News Times, which published a story in January detailing the alleged purchase of performance-enhancing drugs by Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, 2012 All-Star game MVP Melky Cabrera, 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Bartolo Colon and 2011 AL championship series MVP Nelson Cruz. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Labour Market Survey: Statistics Canada said on Thursday that nonfarm payrolls were up 8,500 in May. That is less than one tenth the number of jobs that the agency's Labour Market Survey, released in early June, said were created in the same month, according to Reuters. The Labour Force Survey, Canada's most timely employment report, showed a gain of 95,000 jobs in May, a huge figure that shocked markets. The increase would be roughly equivalent to the creation of 850,000 jobs in the far bigger U.S. market and OTTAWA - There's a huge discrepancy in two sets of government figures on growth in Canada's labor market in May, but both point to a slower pace of hiring that could signal bumps on the economic road ahead. Statscan analyst Emmanuelle Bourbeau said there are many differences in the way the two reports measure the jobs market, but there is at least one similarity in the results: "Employment growth is slowing down in both surveys," she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Hassan El Hajj Hassan: The first alleged terrorist is identified as Meliad Farah, also known as Hussein Hussein, an Australian citizen born Nov. 5, 1980. The second is Hassan El Hajj Hassan, a Canadian citizen born March 22, 1988, according to a statement of the Interior Ministry, according to Times Colonist. In February, Jason Kenney, Canadian immigration minister at the time, said one of the suspects in the Bulgarian attack was born in Lebanon, came to Canada at age eight, became a Canadian citizen and then left at age 12. He said he assumed the man was a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen and SOFIA, Bulgaria - Bulgarian authorities distributed on Thursday the names and images of two suspects one of them Canadian who are wanted in connection with a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver last year. The ministry asked people who might have seen them to report to the nearest police station. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.