Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, both of them Quebec MPs, returned to their criticism after the Bloc warned them to steer clear, according to 660 News. I m an elected official in Quebec, Mulcair said in Montreal. I am leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament but at the same time Mr. Paille has to understand that all Quebecers are involved in this debate and MONTREAL Two federal party leaders weighed in on Quebecs controversial religion plan Wednesday despite an admonition by the Bloc Quebecois that they had no business in the debate. Mulcair said he wont be silenced on the issue, after Bloc Leader Daniel Paille said federal politicians should butt out and leave the matter to Quebecers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian government: "Your Canadian government has all of the facilities that the American government has, no more, no less," he says, in light of recent leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to CTV. Ten months ago McAfee, 67, was a fugitive from the Belize government, wanted for questioning in the mysterious death of his neighbour Gregory Viant Faull, 52 and MONTREAL -- American software mogul John McAfee appears relaxed at a downtown restaurant as he digs into a bowl of poutine, but says even the safe haven of Canada isn't immune from government spying. "If you think that the Canadian government is somehow morally or ethically or in any other way superior, you're wrong." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

American Airlines: The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that airlines employed the equivalent of 381,441 workers in June, down 2.4 per cent from the same month last year. It's the 10th straight month of decline compared with a year earlier, according to Times Colonist. American parent AMR Corp., which is trying to merge with US Airways, has recently returned to profitability. This week it reported a record one-month adjusted profit of $352 million for July. The airline plans to hire 1,500 entry-level flight attendants to replace some of the roughly 2,200 experienced ones who took severance offers to leave last year and Airline employment has dropped from last summer because of job cuts at American Airlines and regional carriers that use smaller planes. The DOT said that American cut about 5,400 jobs, or 8.4 per cent of its workforce, as it slashed costs during bankruptcy. American had the equivalent of 59,163 full-time workers in June. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Vancouver Airport Authority: Travellers flying to or from Vancouver may face significant delays or even cancellations if the workers go on strike, but no updates on the progress of negotiations are available due to a media blackout, according to Huffington Post. The notice came just weeks after 83 per cent of the union's members voted in favour of a strike and VANCOUVER - A second day of talks is underway between the Vancouver Airport Authority and almost 350 unionized workers in an attempt to avoid a strike that could begin as early as midnight. The Public Service Alliance of Canada issued a 72-hour strike notice Tuesday morning, warning passengers to contact the airport or airlines and plan accordingly in the event of job action. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

debt collectors: Canadas garbage collectors, debt collectors, call centre operators and temp agency workers are among the people seeing the biggest wage hikes in the country, according to StatsCans latest data on payroll employment, earnings and hours , according to Huffington Post. That sector includes garbage collection and hazardous waste removal, but also includes numerous other businesses that support other businesses, such as call centres, debt collection agencies, and even janitorial and landscaping services and Now might be the right time to get into the garbage collecting business or the debt collecting business. The agency says people in the broad business sector known as administrative and support, waste management and remediation services saw wage hikes of more than eight per cent, on average, in the past year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Bashar Assad: Advocates of intervention prod the world with pictures of dying children, while opponents of intervention smugly issue lists of things that should not be done, but say little about what should be done. Its always easier to warn than to plan. It should be no wonder that the results of this rhetorical war of pointless truisms has not amounted to much more than anger, sanctimony and intellectual paralysis, according to The Star. Although the question of intervention was mired in false choices, it has now been overtaken by events. The next question is how to intervene, and what goals might be attained by military strikes and Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has used chemical weapons against his own people, and so the Syrian civil war has now become an international crisis. Unfortunately, like all crises played out in the public eye, the Syria debate has settled into the trench warfare of binary and false choices: invade Syria or do nothing. Let Assad win or help Al Qaeda. Add to this the generic, painfully obvious, and not particularly useful caveats about military action routinely issued by ever-cautious retired generals and policy wonks: we cant do everything, there are no good guys. The reality, however, is that there is no longer a choice about military action in Syria. Weapons of mass destruction have been used against civilians, and whatever activists and partisans of either side might wish to believe, no U.S. president of either party or for that matter, no British prime minister or French chief executive would have had any other choice but to act against such ghastly transgressions of the few rules still left in the 21st century conduct of war. Syrias actions constitute a moral obscenity, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has rightly called it, and Assad has now left the West no alternative. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Basem Farid Awaad: A Bedford man is facing immigration fraud charges as part of a scheme that allegedly misrepresented the status of foreign nationals living in Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. Awaad faces two charges of counselling misrepresentation and two charges of false representation and Basem Farid Awaad, 42, is alleged to have counselled and helped foreign nationals through fraudulent means, the RCMP said in a news release issued Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Federal Labor Agency: The Federal Labor Agency said Thursday that 32,000 more people were unemployed in August compared with July, due largely to seasonal factors; the total number of registered jobless was 2.946 million. Summer vacations typically produce a rise as students register as unemployed, according to Times Colonist. Unemployment in Germany remains far lower than many European countries, where some have rates of more than 25 per cent. Among the 17 countries that use the euro, the rate is a record 12.1 per cent and BERLIN - The number of jobless Germans ticked up slightly in August but not enough to alter the unemployment rate, which remained stable at a healthy 6.8 per cent the last employment figures before the country's general elections. The German economy's health and the country's low jobless rate have been a major asset for the conservative Merkel ahead of parliamentary elections on Sept. 22, making it hard for rivals to generate any momentum for change. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Alejandro Chung: Alejandro Chung, 46, claims the Immigration and Refugee Board IRB failed in its duty to treat him fairly and its decision to remove him back to his native Chile late last year should be overturned. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The federal government's decision to pursue his deportation came weeks after Chung successfully fought a major drug case where a court found his rights were seriously trampled by Winnipeg police when they illegally entered and searched Chung's La Mota head shop on Portage Avenue. A former Winnipeg head shop owner who was recently deported due to his past association with the Manitoba Hells Angels presented a case in federal court Thursday morning in hopes it could pave him a road back into Canada. He was not present in court. Immigration lawyer David Matas spoke on his behalf. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The prime minister said he wanted to comment cautiously because the Parti Quebecois government had not even made its plan public yet, according to CTV. "We know that the separatist government in Quebec would love to pick fights with Ottawa," Harper told a Toronto news conference and Prime Minister Stephen Harper waded carefully into the emotional debate over Quebec's values charter with a promise Thursday to protect minority rights. He also expressed reluctance to get sucked into a fight on the PQ's chosen battlefield. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.