Pamela Wallin: EXPENSE AMOUNT TO BE PAID BACK CLAIMS FOUND INELIGIBLE April 11-18, 2009 $81.63, according to CBC. - Auditors did not find this to be Senate business as it was a fundraiser. June 15-18, 2009 $1,434.80 Here's a look at 10 of the expense claims Senator Pamela Wallin made from 2009 to 2012, which auditors have found to be ineligible and require reimbursement, including attending a Grey Cup Gala Dinner for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Calgary and the Juno Awards in Toronto. DATE - Wallin drove from Wadena to Saskatoon. She was the keynote speaker at a public event organized by the Conservative Party electoral district associations. The Conservative Party represented this event as a $100 per plate dinner. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

retail sales: The Commerce Department said Tuesday that retail sales increased 0.2 per cent in July from June. Sales had risen 0.6 per cent in June from May on a surge in auto sales, according to Times Colonist. Retail sales are closely watched because they're the government's first report each month on consumer spending, which accounts for 70 per cent of U.S. economic activity and WASHINGTON - U.S. retail sales edged up in July despite a drop in auto sales. A category of purchases that excludes the most volatile areas rose by the most in seven months, a sign that consumer spending could boost economic growth in coming months. "Core" retail sales, which exclude the volatile auto, gas and building supply categories, rose 0.5 per cent in July. It was the biggest such gain since a similar increase in December. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Vancouver International Airport: The airport quickly stressed that a strike vote is a routine step in labour negotiations, citing the facility's long history of labour peace to assure the travelling public there is at least, for now no immediate threat to operations, according to Huffington Post. The workers held a vote last Thursday, with 83 per cent casting ballots in favour of a strike. The vote automatically triggers a 21-day cooling-off period, said union vice-president Dave Clark, meaning the earliest the workers or employer could trigger a strike or lockout would be just before Labour Day and VANCOUVER - Hundreds of unionized workers at Vancouver International Airport have voted in favour of a strike, with the union warning that such a walkout could happen as early as the Labour Day long weekend. The dispute involves about 300 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, who provide services such as emergency response, international arrivals customer care, passenger loading, runway maintenance and lighting, general maintenance, and administration. The workers are members of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees, a division of the public service alliance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Bob Muldoon: The outlaw romance "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" is a lyrical, sepia-toned folk tale, awash in 1970s filmmaking and the kind of stylized folksiness that pickling Brooklyn hipsters with handlebar moustaches will positively drool over. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. But it also, in every moment, bears an unmistakable sense of artful pretense that drains "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" of the naturalism it aspires to. There's plenty Terrence Malick-like magic-hour photography and after Affleck's Bob Muldoon is imprisoned a number of poignant love letters between Muldoon and Mara's Ruth Guthrie read aloud for old-timey effect. This film image released by IFC Films shows Ben Foster in a scene from "Ain't Them Bodies Saints." AP Photo/IFC Films It deserves some of that drool: David Lowery's film, starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara as entwined, young Texas bandits in the '70s, is an elegiac tone poem, beautifully shot by cinematographer Bradford Young, memorably scored with strings and handclaps by Daniel Hart and enlivened by a distinct rhythm unusual for such a well-trod genre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Russia: Chris Alexander said Monday in Surrey, B.C., that Russia has taken the wrong path in restricting the fundamental rights of its gay community, and that any refugee claims related to this particular issue will of course be looked at very seriously by our very generous system. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Harper joins controversy over Russia #039;s anti-gay law Canadas refugee board is likely to look favourably on claims of persecution by gay asylum-seekers from Russia, the Immigration Minister says. Baird talks international relations on Latin America tour (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Laszlo Csatary: Csatary, who lived for years in Montreal, died Saturday of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital, said his lawyer, Gabor Horvath B, according to The Star. They accused him of beating the factory workers with his bare hands and a dog whip regularly and without reason and BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and indicted by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps, has died. He was 98. Hungarian authorities claimed earlier this year that Csatary was the chief of an internment camp set up in a brick factory in 1944 for around 12,000 Jews in Kosice a Slovak city then part of Hungary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

International Human Rights: Jillian Siskind, president of the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights, said the rhetoric from Russian officials toward the LBGT community has been "quite terrifying.", according to CTV. "The police seem disinterested in helping whenever these violent incidents do happen and it is increasing." As the backlash over Russia's anti-gay laws continues to grow, fuelling anger that is overshadowing preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Canadian lawyers say there may be an increasing number of gay Russians seeking refugee status in Canada. "There's a certain element of dehumanization of the LGBT community, which only helps to spur on a very negative public discourse and certainly violence," Siskind told 's Canada AM on Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Olympic Organizing Committee: New Zealand speed skater Blake Skjellerup, homosexual and activist, will wear the Rainbow Pin created by the London 2012 Olympic Organizing Committee to promote diversity, according to The Star. I defy any Russian government authority to drag an athlete off the medal podium or a lesbian personality out of the broadcast booth for the crime of making a pro-gay gesture or statement and American figure skater Johnny Weir intends to be his flamboyant gay self at the Sochi Olympics. BBC presenter Clare Balding, best in show for sports commentary at those Games, will anchor 100 hours of Olympic coverage undoubtedly as knowledgeable and frank as ever. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Laszlo Csatary: Laszlo Csatary, a former police officer who was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and indicted by Hungarian authorities for abusing Jews and contributing to their deportation to Nazi death camps, has died. He was 98, according to The Chronicle Herald. Hungarian authorities claimed earlier this year that Csatary was the chief of an internment camp set up in a brick factory in 1944 for around 12,000 Jews in Kosice a Slovak city then part of Hungary and Csatary, who lived for years in Montreal, died Saturday of pneumonia in a Budapest hospital, said his lawyer, Gabor Horvath B. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita: Soumaila Ciss 's concession averts a protracted election fight, allowing Mali to move ahead with establishing a democratically elected government, one of the international community's caveats for unlocking some $4 billion in promised aid, according to CBC. Ciss paid a visit to Keita's home late Monday along with his wife and family. In an exchange broadcast on the private Malian television station Africable, Ciss told Keita he had come "to congratulate you and wish you all the success you deserve; a success for our country so that you can have the strength to take up the enormous challenges that await you." Former Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won Mali's presidency after his opponent conceded defeat in an election aimed at restoring stability to a country wracked by a rebellion, a coup and an Islamic insurgency. Keita, who is known by his initials "IBK," had been expected to win the runoff easily, having pulled nearly 40 per cent of the vote in the first round. Most of the other candidates from the first round had given their endorsements to Keita, who has had a long career in Malian government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.