Doctors Without Borders: Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French initials as MSF, said the decision is the result of "extreme attacks on its staff in an environment where armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly support, tolerate, or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting of humanitarian aid workers.", according to Huffington Post. "In choosing to kill, attack, and abduct humanitarian aid workers, these armed groups, and the civilian authorities who tolerate their actions, have sealed the fate of countless lives in Somalia," said Dr. Unni Karunakara, MSF's international president. "We are ending our programs in Somalia because the situation in the country has created an untenable imbalance between the risks and compromises our staff must make, and our ability to provide assistance to the Somali people." NAIROBI, Kenya - The aid group Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday it is pulling out Somalia after 22 years of work there because of attacks on its staff. The pull-out comes about a month after the release of two Spanish women who were MSF employees and who were abducted in a Kenyan refugee camp and held in Somalia for nearly two years. The group said the pull-out will cut off hundreds of thousands of Somali civilians from humanitarian aid. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

European Union: Eurozone's longest-ever recession comes to an end , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office, said the 17 European Union countries that use the euro saw their collective economic output grow by 0.3 per cent in the April to June period from the previous quarter. BRUSSELS AP The recession in the eurozone came to an end in the second quarter of the year, official figures confirmed Wednesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Cory Monteith: The "Glee" actor will also star in "All The Wrong Reasons" , also premiering at TIFF, according to Huffington Post. The publicity photo for "McCanick" shows a scruffy, long-haired Monteith, one very different than audiences are used to seeing on "Glee" and Cory Monteith's last film, "McCanick" , will join this year's Toronto International Film Festival TIFF lineup, organizers announced Tuesday. In "McCanick", Monteith plays a drug addict who is sent to jail for murder. David Morse plays the cop who chases him down after he is paroled. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

gross domestic product: Finance Minister P. Chidambaram also reiterated his pledge to narrow the current account deficit the main source of the rupees weakness to 3.8 per cent of gross domestic product this fiscal year and said the currency would not be allowed to slide into free fall. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. India names ex-IMF heavyweight to head central bank as rupee hits new low India imposed restrictions on foreign exchange outflows and gold imports on Wednesday in a new attempt to prop up the rupee, as a spike in inflation added pressure on policy makers to curb a crippling external deficit. India chooses Rajan to restore stability to battered economy (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Sucker Creek Women's Shelter: It's knowing that we have done something positive out there and we have made a difference in the families we work with, said Darlene Lightning-Mattson, executive director of the Sucker Creek Women's Shelter in northern Alberta, according to CBC. Five shelters participated in the project, which employed an outreach worker to follow up with the children of women who have reported domestic problems to shelter staff and A program on Albertas reserves which aims to help those hurt by family violence is showing strong results, advocates say. Walking the Path Together gives one-on-one help to children whose mothers have visited womens shelters on First Nations reserves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Border Services Agency: Huo Youjin and four women were detained at Vancouvers airport last month as they tried to return to China, according to CBC. The cash was concealed between the pages of magazines, in the lining of suitcases and inserted inside feminine hygiene products and Immigration officials say a Chinese citizen, who travelled to Canada on a tourists visa, may have spent his time in this country scamming seniors. Canada Border Services Agency say they were carrying $148,000 in cash between them, as well as a large amount of jewelry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Kim Warren: It was 4:11 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003, and Warren was the manager of the main control centre for Ontarios power grid, according to The Star. It just seemed odd, he said in an interview. He ducked back into the control room to a scene he wont forget and Ten years after the fact, Kim Warren can still tell you to the minute when the lights went out in Ontario. He was in the hallway just outside the control room, talking to some co-workers, when the lights flickered. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Eric Holder: If the Harper government needs more evidence it is heading in the wrong direction on marijuana laws, it was provided Monday by the U.S. attorney general, who conceded America's drug laws have been a failure and have wrongly punished and injured millions of young people. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. It's a startling turnaround for a country that declared war on drugs in the 1980s, even though it already had some of the toughest laws in the western world. Federal prisons are overflowing with 220,000 inmates, nearly half for drug offences. DALE CUMMINGS / Eric Holder told the American Bar Association the Obama administration wants to move away from a policy of handing out harsh sentences for many drug-related crimes. Low-level, non-violent drug offenders, in particular, should no longer be charged with offences that impose mandatory minimum sentences, Holder said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

lengthy period: As the regional plan review proceeds through its lengthy period of comment and reflection, it is unlikely that one factor will be considered. That is whether or not the whole edifice is built on faulty foundations, according to The Chronicle Herald. But is the concept of the concentric form correct for Halifax? The answer is probably not and Underlying the plan is the concept that HRM follows the traditional concentric form, with a primary hub of commerce at its centre and a wide ring of suburbs spreading from the inner-city zones to the urban fringe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Pamela Wallin: The Senate committee that ordered the independent audit confirmed Tuesday that it would refer the matter to the RCMP as it unveiled a report that listed dozens of travel claims Ms. Wallin made to the Senate for trips auditors said were related to personal and partisan events. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. How Pamela Wallin claimed over $100,000 in travel expenses The release of a detailed audit of Pamela Wallins expense claims is deepening political problems for the Harper government, with the Saskatchewan senator accused of billing more than $121,000 in questionable expenses since taking office. Opinion If Wallin wants to be an activist, she should run for office (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.