Avery Shenfeld: The job market hasnt been strong enough to generate high quality work for older people, CIBCs chief economist Avery Shenfeld wrote in the report, released Thursday. He said its among the reasons the jobless rate has climbed beyond 20 per cent for students 15 to 18 looking for part-time work, according to The Star. Karen Dorn, now 55, said a retail job was all she could find after countless interviews during an eight-month job search in 2010. I didnt really want to but I had bills to pay, she said and Older Canadians struggling to find work are being forced to take jobs traditionally reserved for students, pushing those younger people out of employment, according to a new CIBC World Markets report. The lack of higher paying work has forced parents into taking the kind of employment previously reserved for teenage students, Shenfeld said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

The Standard Poor: The Dow Jones industrial average was up 21 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 14,952 shortly before noon Thursday, according to Times Colonist. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week dropped to a five-year low. Also the payroll company ADP reported that private sector employment rose by 176,000 jobs last month and NEW YORK, N.Y. - Stocks are edging higher on Wall Street after some positive news about the U.S. jobs market and higher sales from major store chains. The Standard Poor's 500 index was up three points, or 0.2 per cent, at 1,656. The Nasdaq composite was up 11 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 3,660. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Obama: Obama on Thursday began a two-day visit to St. Petersburg for the Group of 20 economic summit, putting him in the same country as Edward Snowden for the first time since the American fugitive fled to Moscow earlier this year. Both Syria and Snowden have been sore points in an already strained U.S.-Russian relationship, fueling the notion that Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin just can't get along, according to Huffington Post. Still struggling to persuade dubious lawmakers at home on Syria, Obama in Russia will seek to win over world leaders reluctant to get drawn in to yet another U.S.-led sortie in a Mideast nation. Although Syria wasn't formally on the agenda for the economy-focused summit, U.S. officials were resigned to the fact that the bloody civil war there surely would overwhelm any talks about global economics and ST. PETERSBURG, Russia AP -- President Barack Obama is heading into the lion's den of Russia, confronting Syria's key patron as well as foreign leaders skeptical of his call for an international military strike against Bashar Assad's government. The White House went out of its way to say Obama, who arrived Thursday after a quick flight from Stockholm, would not meet one-on-one with the Russian leader while in St. Petersburg. But officials predicted the two would still have a chance to interact when they cross paths at various meetings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Of course, if you're a Canadian MP you don't have to return to Parliament Hill until October thanks to Prime Minister Stephen Harper 's decision to prorogue in August, according to Huffington Post. Harper, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau all hit the barbecue circuit, of course, meeting prospective voters before the 2015 election and With kids back at school, NFL football returning to our TVs and the leaves beginning to fall, it's clear that summer is pretty much over. But, much like the Grade 2 students across the country who must nervously tell their fellow classmates what they got up to this summer, now seems like an appropriate time to look back at what the three federal leaders accomplished over their break. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Raza Khan: I think Obama's actions are long overdue, said Dr. Raza Khan, who travelled to northern Jordan in June with his two teenage kids and two others as part of the Help 4 Syria project, according to CBC. But we can't just stand by, he said. Something just has to give and The U.S. absolutely needs to go to Syria and attempt to stop the bloody conflict raging across the region, says a Hamilton man who spent two weeks this summer giving aid and medical attention to Syrian refugees. The group raised $116,000 in southern Ontario to bring 3,045 aid packages to Irbid and Ramtha, two communities in Jordan where many Syrian refugees are staying. Khan says he understands the hesitation from some fronts to send troops into Syria, given the powder keg that's festering underneath the conflict. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Border Services Agency: Carmelo Bruzzese, 64, was ruled a flight risk after his arrest late last month by the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency, according to The Star. His lawyer, Guidy Mamann, was unavailable for comment and A Vaughan grandfather wanted in Italy on Mafia-related charges remains behind bars in Milton after being arrested on an immigration warrant. His detention review has lasted six days and is expected to last into next week. Detention reviews often last less than half an hour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

human trafficking: VANCOUVER - A woman accused of human trafficking and forcing a domestic servant to work in virtual servitude in her multimillion-dollar West Vancouver home simply brought a family friend from Tanzania to Canada, says her defence lawyer. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. But lawyer Eric Gottardi said the alleged victim was no servant and did not work in the Ladha home. Mumtaz Ladha waits to get into an elevator to go back into court from an underground parkade while trying to avoid having her photograph taken at the end of the first day of a human trafficking trial at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday September 4, 2013. A West Vancouver woman accused of enslaving a domestic worker has pleaded not guilty to one charge of human trafficking and three other offences under the Immigration Act in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck The trial began Wednesday for Mumtaz Ladha, accused of luring the 21-year-old woman to Canada with the promise of a job in a hair salon, only to force her to work up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week without pay in her mansion in the swanky British Properties neighbourhood. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Directional Aviation Capital: The S P/TSX composite index rose 87.25 points to 12,845.06 in a broad-based runup led by rising financials, according to Times Colonist. Bombardier was ahead 26 cents or 5.5 per cent to C$4.98 and TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed higher Thursday amid corporate dealmaking and some positive American employment news. U.S. private equity firm Directional Aviation Capital is buying Bombardiers TSX:BBD.B Flexjet fractional business aircraft ownership service for US$185 million. The new owners are also ordering up to 245 Bombardier aircraft in a deal that's valued up to US$5.2 billion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Obama: We've kind of hit a wall, Obama said of the United States' ties with Russia the day before he arrived in St. Petersburg for a global summit, according to The Star. Parsing the body language between Obama and Putin has become something of a geopolitical parlour game every time the two leaders meet. But there wasn't much to work with this time: Their exchange lasted 15 seconds and ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin shook hands, smiled and made small talk about the scenery on Thursday a public exchange of pleasantries belying a tense relationship that only seems to be getting worse. With tensions mounting over issues including Syria, National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, and human rights, Obama and Putin did not plan to hold a formal bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 gathering. A formal greeting outside St. Petersburg's Constantine Palace was their only planned one-on-one public appearance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: TORONTO - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may be holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, but he's very present at the Toronto International Film Festival. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. That was the opinion Assange dished out on the film in a video link in January in which he waved a supposed copy of the film's script. He has also called it the "anti-WikiLeaks movie." FILE - This is a Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. file photo of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks as he speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange has asked Swedish police to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him when he traveled from Sweden to Germany in 2010. Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, says he filed a criminal complaint with an affidavit by Assange to police at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport on Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File Opening this year's festival on Thursday was the premiere of Bill Condon's dramatization of Assange and WikiLeaks, "The Fifth Estate" a film with which Assange refused to co-operate. It's the only movie at Toronto that has the distinction of being called "a massive propaganda attack" by its primary subject. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.