Alberta Serious Incident Response Team: The report by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, known as ASIRT, says the officers were lawfully trying to restrain the 34-year-old man after his arrest April 11, 2012, on criminal driving charges, according to Huffington Post. Purvis says the man pushed away and ran from staff, leapt over a 1-1/2-metre barrier, stood on a desk and threw TV monitors at officers. He was pulled to the floor where additional officers tried to control him and "eventually they were able to apply handcuffs and ankle restraints." EDMONTON - An investigation has concluded that two police officers did not cause the death of a man who was Tasered during a struggle while in custody. ASIRT executive director Clifton Purvis says the man was in custody at the detainee management unit at Edmonton police headquarters and refused to be handcuffed for a trip to his bail hearing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Federal Reserve: PORTLAND, Ore/LA CROSSE, WI - One top Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday he was open-minded about reducing stimulus this month, as investors largely expect the central bank to do, while another policymaker said the U.S. central bank should actually do more for the economy. , according to Reuters. The quantitative easing program, known as QE3 because it is the Fed's third such massive effort to boost growth and employment since the Great Recession, was launched a year ago. U.S. unemployment was 7.4 percent in July, down from 8.2 percent a year earlier, suggesting to many economists that the Fed is ready to reduce the pace of buying. By Ann Saphir and David Bailey The comments by San Francisco Fed President John Williams and Narayana Kocherlakota, his counterpart in Minneapolis, reflect the uncertainty that lingers over financial markets two weeks before the Fed's 19 policymakers meet to decide whether to adjust a $85-billion monthly bond-buying program. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission: Elsworth Bottomley complained to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission that a number of racial incidents occured during his two years working at the Burnside store. , according to Huffington Post. He also said a Leon's manager told him he never sends two black delivery drivers to a job because that would intimidate customers and raise fears of robbery. A former Leons furniture employee is alleging racial discrimination after he says a statue was lynched in effigy at a store in Burnside, N.S. Bottomley, who is African Nova Scotian, said a fellow driver sent him a text message making comments about the intelligence of black people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Putin: 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 660 News. Parsing the body language between Obama and Putin has become something of a geopolitical parlour game every time the two leaders meet. But there wasnt 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. Petersburgs Constantine Palace was their only planned one-on-one public appearance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada: In a letter submitted with the woman's application for a visitor's visa, Mumtaz Ladha said she suffered from vertigo and osteo-arthritis, and needed to bring her longtime employee. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Letter from Canadian citizen employer on file states principal applicant has worked for her for five years. Employer states owns hair dresser salon and is a resident of Tanzania," Jessica Poon, a citizenship officer for Citizenship and Immigration Canada read in court from the woman's immigration file. VANCOUVER - A British Columbia woman accused of human trafficking told immigration officials she was bringing her Tanzanian caregiver to Canada because she needed her help during a two-month visit, the woman's trial heard Thursday. The application submitted to the Canadian embassy in Dar es-Salaam said the single, 23-year-old mother of one would be staying with her and would be supported by her for the duration of the visit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Terry Forsyth: Yulia Burch-Forsyth travelled to her native Russia in early August for a family medical emergency with her husband Terry Forsyth and their baby, according to CBC. She was assured it would only take three days to process and A mother has been reunited with her Calgary family after she forced to remain in Russia for several weeks waiting for the paperwork she needed get home. Burch-Forsyth lost her permanent resident card before leaving Canada , but was told by officials she could apply for a travel document from the Canadian embassy in Moscow. Sophia Forsyth, 9, waits for her mother to arrive home in Calgary after being delayed in Russia for almost a month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mumtaz Ladha: 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, according to CTV. "This person was a companion who came with Mrs. Ladha and basically was treated like a member of the family," Gottardi said outside the court following the first day of the trial. "The issue of work and what is work and who was doing what around the house -- those will be some of the issues at trial." 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. But lawyer Eric Gottardi said the alleged victim was no servant and did not work in the Ladha home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

NSA: The NSA has bypassed or altogether cracked much of the digital encryption used by businesses and everyday web users, according to reports in the New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and the non-profit news website ProPublica. The reports describe how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyone's secrets available for government consumption, according to Times Colonist. "For the past decade, NSA has led an aggressive, multipronged effort to break widely used Internet encryption technologies," according to a 2010 briefing document about the NSA's accomplishments meant for its UK counterpart, Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. Security experts told the news organizations such a code-breaking practice would ultimately undermine Internet security and leave everyday Web users vulnerable to hackers and WASHINGTON - The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unravelling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and confidential data safe from prying eyes, according to published reports Thursday based on internal U.S. government documents. In doing so, the NSA built powerful supercomputers to break encryption codes and partnered with unnamed technology companies to insert "back doors" into their software, the reports said. Such a practice would give the government access to users' digital information before it was encrypted and sent over the Internet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

human trafficking: Mumtaz Ladha, 57, has pleaded not guilty to one count of human trafficking, two counts of misrepresentation, and an employment violation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, according to CBC. But defence lawyer Eric Gottardi says the alleged victim whose identity is now protected by a publication ban issued on Thursday was a companion of Ladha and was treated like a member of the family and Immigration and border-services officials are expected to testify Thursday during the trial of a West Vancouver woman charged with human trafficking. Read about the first day of the human trafficking trial She is accused of luring a 21-year-old woman from Tanzania to Canada with the promise of a job in a hair salon but then forcing her to work up to 18 hours a day, seven days a week without pay. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Barack Obama: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - A brief photo-op on Thursday between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin spoke volumes, limited mostly to tight smiles and a businesslike handshake between U.S. and Russian leaders bitterly divided by the crisis in Syria, according to Reuters. Obama and Putin have never had anything close to personal chemistry, and there was hardly any on display as the armored limousine carrying the U.S. president pulled up to where Putin waited to greet arriving world leaders and By Matt Spetalnick and Steve Holland Their sparse encounter outside a tsarist palace in St. Petersburg at the start of a Group of 20 G20 economic summit underscored the dismal state of U.S.-Russia relations, with tensions mounting over Obama's threatened military strike against Syria, a Russian ally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.