unemployment rate: The S P/TSX composite index slipped 24.14 points to 12,820.92 and the Canadian dollar surged almost a full US cent, according to The Chronicle Herald. But the growth was mainly for part-time employment as the unemployment rate fell to 7.1 per cent in August from 7.2 per cent the previous month and TORONTO The Toronto stock market closed slightly lower Friday amid nervousness about possible military intervention in the Syrian civil war and speculation about what the Federal Reserve might do about a key stimulus program in the wake of the latest employment data. The loonie found some support from a Canadian jobs report, which beat expectations. The currency was off the session highs but still ahead 0.89 of a cent to 96.07 cents US as Statistics Canada reported that the economy created 59,000 positions last month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

unemployment rate: TORONTO - The Canadian dollar spiked almost a full US cent Friday amid mixed jobs data released in Canada and the United States. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The unemployment rate fell to 7.1 per cent in August from 7.2 per cent in July. Canadian dollars coins are shown with U.S dollars bills April 6, 2010 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz The loonie jumped 0.89 cents to 96.07 cents US as the loonie found some support from Statistics Canada data showing that the economy created 59,000 jobs last month. That exceeded expectations of about 20,000 positions but the growth was mainly for part-time employment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Carmelita Del Rosario: Carmelita Del Rosario, a married mother of three, operated a Ponzi scheme between February 2009 and May 2012, luring investors with the promise of unusually high returns, according to CBC. Police say Del Rosarios 49 victims many of whom cashed in their savings, RESPs and RRSPs to invest the funds lost between $2,000 and $35,000 each in the scheme, thinking they were investing in the WCB and An Edmonton woman has been sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of fraud. As a former account clerk at the Workers Compensation Board, 42-year-old Del Rosario used her position of employment to set up the scheme, telling her victims they were investing in the WCB. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Darrell Dexter: Darrell Dexter has been careful not to show his hand on election timing, but the platforms release at a Halifax recreation centre filled with candidates and campaign workers suggests an election could be called as early as Saturday. That would likely mean voters will go to the polls on Oct. 8 in a 31-day campaign, according to 660 News. The last election was about change. The next election will be about the future, Dexter said and HALIFAX Nova Scotias NDP premier sent the clearest signal yet that hes about to call an election by releasing a party platform Friday that partly focuses on cutting costs for families by promising to make things like car seats and strollers exempt from the provinces harmonized sales tax. The party is basing its campaign on seven broad commitments that Dexter says would not cost the province more than $34.4 million annually. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter: HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's NDP premier sent the clearest signal yet that he's about to call an election by releasing a party platform Friday that partly focuses on cutting costs for families by promising to make things like car seats and strollers exempt from the province's harmonized sales tax. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The party is basing its campaign on seven broad commitments that Dexter says would not cost the province more than $34.4 million annually. Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter announces the NDP platform in Halifax on Friday, Sept. 6, 2013. Dexter, whose party has been in power for more than four years, wouldn't say when he is going to call an election. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan Darrell Dexter has been careful not to show his hand on election timing, but the platform's release at a Halifax recreation centre filled with candidates and campaign workers suggests an election could be called as early as Saturday. That would likely mean voters will go to the polls on Oct. 8 in a 31-day campaign. (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, Britains Guardian newspaper and the non-profit news website ProPublica. The reports describe how the NSA invested billions of dollars since 2000 to make nearly everyones secrets available for government consumption, according to 660 News. 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 NSAs 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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: Extradition would be impossible because Snowden "did not commit a crime on our territory", Putin told a news conference after a sit-down meeting lasting up to half an hour with Obama at a Group of 20 summit. , according to Reuters and ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday after meeting Barack Obama that the U.S. president did not request the extradition of former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, who has received temporary asylum in Russia. Reporting by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Steve Gutterman (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Cricket Australia: Ahmed received permission from Cricket Australia to not wear a beer company logo on his uniform due to his Muslim faith. Campese, retired after 101 rugby tests for Australia, said Ahmed should "go home" if he did not want to wear the sponsor's logo on his playing shirt, according to Times Colonist. Campese then wrote on Twitter: "Doug Walters tells Pakistan-born Fawad Ahmed: if you don't like the ... uniform, don't play for Australia Well said doug. Tell him to go home." SYDNEY - Rugby great David Campese was criticized for "bigoted" comments about Pakistan-born spin bowler Fawad Ahmed by Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland on Friday. Earlier, former test cricketer Doug Walters was quoted in Australian media as saying: "I think if he doesn't want to wear the team gear, he should not be part of the team." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga: According to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court, Mario Fabricio Ormachea Aliaga, 42, flew from La Paz, Bolivia to Miami on Aug. 29 to meet with Humberto Roca, who formerly ran Bolivia's AeroSur airline, according to Times Colonist. Before the meeting with Ormachea Aliaga whom Roca referred to as the "Colonel" Roca contacted the FBI on the advice of a lawyer. Agents monitored and recorded their meetings, during which Ormachea Aliaga the No. 2 official in the national police's anticorruption unit allegedly told Roca that in exchange for $30,000 "he would drop the charges against Roca and charge someone else instead," according to the FBI affidavit and FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A high-ranking Bolivian National Police official was sitting in a Florida jail Thursday on U.S. charges that he tried to extort thousands of dollars from the former owner of a Bolivian airline. Roca previously had fled to the U.S. to avoid Bolivian charges alleging he provided tickets to what authorities there called anti-government foreign mercenaries. The FBI affidavit said that Roca calls the charges politically motivated and is seeking asylum in the U.S. (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.