Syria: Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo and other embattled parts of northern Syria began pouring into the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq last Thursday, taking advantage of a new pontoon bridge along the largely closed border, it said. , according to Reuters. The new figure includes some 20,000 now believed to have crossed over on Thursday and Saturday last week as well as 6,000 on Sunday and about 3,000 on Monday morning, he said. GENEVA - An estimated 29,000 Syrian refugees have entered northern Iraq since Thursday in one of the largest crossings in Syria's two-year-old conflict and the influx is continuing, the United Nations said on Monday. "It is a massive movement of people," said Dan McNorton, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Sima Samar: VANCOUVER - An international human rights group, an Indian corruption fighter and a campaigner for Afghan women's rights are the finalists for a $100,000 human-rights prize to be handed out by the University of British Columbia's law school. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Among the three finalists announced Monday is the group Global Witness. Sima Samar, president of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, looks on during a press conference at the end of the first day of the International Conference on Violence against Women, at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. Dr. Sima Samar is one of three finalists for the first-ever Allard Prize for International Integrity, from the UBC Law School. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Riccardo De Luca It is the inaugural Allard Prize for International Integrity, which will be one of the largest awards in the world given out for efforts to combat corruption and promote human rights. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Grand Delta Hotel: Bacon was fatally shot Aug. 14, 2011, outside the Grand Delta Hotel and Resort in Kelowna during a daylight attack that also wounded two other gang members and two women, according to Huffington Post. The lawyer representing Hadden-Watts, Angela Rinaldis, said the lawsuit isn't about whether Hadden-Watts should have known better and KELOWNA, B.C. - A woman paralyzed in a shooting that killed one of British Columbia's most-notorious gang leaders claims in a lawsuit she wasn't aware the people she was with had links to crime, despite years of headlines documenting a bloody gang war and warnings from police that anyone associating with Jonathan Bacon or his brothers were putting their lives at risk. One of those women, Leah Hadden-Watts, has filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court, targeting Jujhar Singh Khun-Khun, Jason Thomas McBride and Michael Kerry Jones, the men charged in the shooting, as well as the hotel for not providing enough security. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Edward Snowden: RIO DE JANEIRO - The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will "regret" detaining his partner for nine hours, according to Reuters. Miranda, 28, a Brazilian citizen, said he was questioned for nine hours before being released without charge, minus his laptop, cellphone and memory sticks, which were seized and By Pedro Fonseca British authorities used anti-terrorism laws on Sunday to detain David Miranda, partner of U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, as he passed through London's Heathrow airport. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

desperate conditions: The sudden exodus of around 30,000 Syrians amid the summer heat has created desperate conditions and left aid agencies and the regional government struggling to accommodate them, illustrating the huge strain the 2 1/2-year-old Syrian conflict has put on neighbouring countries, according to 660 News. This is an unprecedented influx of refugees, and the main concern is that so many of them are stuck out in the open at the border or in emergency reception areas with limited, if any, access to basic services, said Alan Paul, emergency team leader for the Britain-based charity Save the Children and BAGHDAD Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighbouring Iraqs northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday. The mostly Kurdish men, women and children who made the trek join some 1.9 million Syrians who already have found refuge abroad from Syrias relentless carnage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Massoud Barzani: BAGHDAD/PESHKHABOUR, Iraq - A sudden mass influx of 30,000 Kurdish refugees from Syria into Iraq increases the likelihood that Iraq's Kurdish region will act to protect its kin across the border, an adviser to Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said on Monday, according to Reuters. "It is a massive movement of people," Dan McNorton, spokesman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR , told on Monday and By Suadad al-Salhy and Murad Talaat The United Nations said nearly 30,000 refugees had crossed in the past few days, making it one of the biggest single outward migrations of a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and driven millions from their homes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

President Bashar Assad: BAGHDAD - Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds swarmed across a bridge into neighbouring Iraq's northern self-ruled Kurdish region over the past few days in one of the biggest waves of refugees since the rebellion against President Bashar Assad began, U.N. officials said Monday. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The mostly Kurdish men, women and children who made the trek join some 1.9 million Syrians who already have found refuge abroad from Syria's relentless carnage. Syrian refugees wait for buses after crossing the border toward Iraq at Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles 430 kilometers northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR has set up an emergency transit camp in Irbil, where around 2,000 refugees are camping out and UNHCR officials say some thousands of Syrians have been streaming into northern Iraq, many coming across a newly-constructed pontoon bridge over the Tigris River at Peshkhabour. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban The sudden exodus of around 30,000 Syrians amid the summer heat has created desperate conditions and left aid agencies and the regional government struggling to accommodate them, illustrating the huge strain the 2 1/2-year-old Syrian conflict has put on neighbouring countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Glenn Greenwald: London police detained David Miranda under anti-terror legislation as he arrived at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday. Miranda, who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with the journalist, according to Times Colonist. "I'm going to publish many more things about England, as well," he said in Portuguese at Rio's international airport when Miranda arrived. "I have many documents about England's espionage system, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they'll regret what they've done." RIO DE JANEIRO - An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervour after British authorities detained his partner. A defiant Greenwald, who reports for the Guardian newspaper in Britain, promised he was going "to write much more aggressively than before" about government snooping. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Glenn Greenwald: London police detained David Miranda , who is in a civil union with reporter Glenn Greenwald, under anti-terror legislation at Heathrow Airport in London airport Sunday. Miranda arrived Monday in Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with Greenwald, according to CBC. "I'm going to publish many more things about England, as well," he said in Portuguese at Rio's international airport when Miranda arrived. "I have many documents about England's espionage system, and now my focus will be there, too. I think they'll regret what they've done." An American journalist who has written stories based on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden said Monday he'll publish with more fervor after British authorities detained his partner. A defiant Greenwald promised he was going "to write much more aggressively than before" about government snooping. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Gulf Islanders: Nor does it amaze you to learn that Vancouver Island in general skews relatively high in opposition to the devices. , according to Times Colonist. More than 18 per cent of Hydros Gulf Islands customers have refused to allow installation. Gulf Islanders are 15 times as likely to reject smart meters as are Vancouverites, and you are not surprised. The statistics come from B.C. Hydro and Chad Skelton, the data-mining guru at the Vancouver Sun. They looked at Hydros 60 billing areas and found more opposition to smart meters in the Gulf Islands than anywhere else in the province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.