Kennedy Heights printing plant: Soon to go on the market will be the Kennedy Heights printing plant in Surrey, B.C., and the Calgary Herald building, announced Postmedia TSX:PNC.B newspapers Monday, according to The Star. TC Transcontinental Printing will begin producing the Calgary Herald in November, and Postmedia said it has asked union representatives in Vancouver to develop alternatives to the Kennedy Heights plant and VANCOUVER The publisher of some of Canadas largest English-language daily newspapers says it plans to sell two properties in British Columbia and Alberta in a bid to reduce costs and pay down debt. The Kennedy Heights plant produces the Vancouver Sun and the Province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

TransCanada Corp: CALGARY, Alberta - TransCanada Corp TRP.TO: Quote said on Tuesday its planned C$12 billion Energy East pipeline would create an estimated 10,000 jobs during development and construction and more than C$10 billion in tax revenue, according to Reuters. Citing a commissioned study by accounting firm Deloitte Touche LLP, the company said the project would benefit the six Canadian provinces along the line's route and create as many as 1,000 jobs after construction is complete and By Scott Haggett As it waits on a long-delayed U.S. approval of its controversial Keystone XL project, TransCanada executives touted the benefits of the Energy East line. The pipeline, which would be North America's longest and most expensive, would move 1.1 million barrels per day of Alberta crude oil to Atlantic markets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nova Scotia: Aquaculture is the fastest growing food industry in the world and I believe that Nova Scotia is uniquely poised to play an exciting role in the expansion of sustainable aquaculture operations in Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. Nova Scotia is world-renowned for its seafood products; aquaculture continues to expand this production of high-quality seafood from our province and expands our niche in the market as a provider of high-quality products and The benefits to Nova Scotia are clear. Aquaculture employment is highest in rural, coastal communities, providing rural communities with valuable economic development opportunities. This economic development can and is being done in an environmentally sustainable way on many aquaculture sites within our province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

National Household Survey: OTTAWA Some of the numbers released to date from the 2011 census and National Household Survey: Canadas population in 2011 was 33,476,688, an increase of 5.9 per cent from 2006. For the first time, more people in Canada live west of Ontario 30.7 per cent than in Quebec and Atlantic Canada combined 30.6 per cent . Nearly seven of every 10 Canadians lived in one of Canadas 33 main urban centres in 2011. Of the 15 Canadian communities with the highest rates of growth, 10 were located in Alberta. Seniors accounted for a record high of 14.8 per cent of the Canadian population in 2011, up from 13.7 per cent five years earlier. The number of children aged 4 and under increased 11 per cent, the highest growth rate for that age group since the latter half of the baby boom between 1956 and 1961. In 2011, all large municipalities located west of Ontario had a lower proportion of people aged 65 and over than the national average of 14.8 per cent, except for the B.C. cities of Kelowna and Victoria. One in five Canadians reported speaking a language other than English at home; 191 distinct languages were identified as either a mother tongue or a home language. Same-sex marriage nearly tripled between 2006 and 2011, while stepfamilies comprised of 12.6 per cent of couples with children. The number of couples without children at home 44.5 per cent continued to outpace those couples with kids living at home 39.2 per cent . Canada was home to 6,775,800 immigrants in 2011, comprising about 20.6 per cent of the population more than ever before and the highest proportion of all G8 countries. More than 200 different ethnic origins were reported in the 2011 National Household Survey, with 13 of them representing more than a million people each. South Asians, Chinese and blacks accounted for 61.3 per cent of the visible minority population. 64.8 per cent of working-age women now have a post-secondary education, compared with 63.4 per cent of men the first time the percentage for women has bypassed that for men. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

humanitarian assistance: Assist, dont attack, according to The Chronicle Herald. Violence only begets violence. As a country, we need to show leadership as peacekeepers. Lets increase our humanitarian assistance to the region, help reunite Syrian-Canadians with their families, increase our diplomatic efforts to help find political solutions, but lets not use violence and I am very fearful that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will involve Canada in a U.S. military assault on Assad that will kill innocent Syrians and their families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mumtaz Ladha: The employer, Mumtaz Ladha, a 60-year-old Canadian citizen who split her time between West Vancouver and Tanzania, is now on trial for several human trafficking-related offences. She is accused of lying to immigration officials in Tanzania to bring the young woman to Canada and then employing her illegally after they arrived. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The young Tanzanian woman stayed at Ladha's home in a posh area of West Vancouver until she fled to a shelter in June 2009. VANCOUVER - A young woman who hailed from "humble beginnings" in the East African country of Tanzania left behind her home and a three-year-old child for the promise of earning $200 a month in a Vancouver-area salon, only to be forced into domestic servitude with no pay and little means of escape, the Crown alleged Tuesday at a human trafficking trial. Ladha and the young woman, whose name is covered by a publication ban, arrived in the Vancouver area in August 2008, when the Crown alleges the victim was handed a maid's outfit and set to work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

federal government: The federal minister for employment, social development and multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, told reporters that Ottawa is very concerned by any proposal that would limit the ability of any Canadians to participate in our society and that would affect the practice of their faith, according to CTV. Large crucifixes and other ostentatious religious symbols would also be prohibited and The federal government said Tuesday it is prepared to mount a legal challenge against a controversial plan to prevent public-sector workers in Quebec from wearing overt religious clothing and symbols. Quebecs minority Parti Quebecois government revealed its controversial values charter Tuesday. If adopted, it would ban public sector employees, including teachers, police officers, public daycare and hospital workers, from wearing hijabs, burkas, turbans and kippas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Julianne Ross Brooks: We anticipate a significant increase in hiring in the commercial construction sector during that period, Julianne Ross Brooks, with Manpower Canada in Halifax, said in an interview, according to The Chronicle Herald. That compares to last year when, during the same period, 21 per cent of the same firms polled indicated they expected a decrease in the number of people hired in the trade and The Halifax area will experience a surge of construction jobs in the fourth quarter of 2013, says a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released Tuesday. About 21 per cent of construction firms in the area indicated they expect to hire workers during the period, which runs from October to December, Ross Brooks said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tom Mulcair: The federal NDP leader was passionate in his opposition to the Parti Quebecois government's discussion paper outlining its plans to ban public servants from displaying religious head wear and other symbols. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "It has nothing to do with some high-sounding value. This has everything to do with the most base politics. It's undignified and we're going to fight it straight up," he said during a break from a two-day caucus retreat. SASKATOON - Tom Mulcair threw caution to the winds Tuesday as he categorically rejected Quebec's proposed charter of values. Describing the charter as a "dark cloud" hanging over multi-ethnic constituents in his own Montreal riding, Mulcair said it's those people who make him "emotional about somebody trying to use them for a political purpose." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Timothy Edwards: According to government data obtained by , the number of immigrant visas granted from May to July of this year has dropped 7.5 per cent, to 60,416 individuals. That compares to 65,255 in the same period last year and a whopping 22 per cent drop from the same three-month period in 2010, according to The Star. The processing of permanent resident visas has been ground to a standstill at a number of visa sections we targeted, said Timothy Edwards, president of the Professional Association of Foreign Services Officers PAFSO , whose members have implemented rotating strikes and work-to-rule at busy visa posts such as Beijing and Shanghai in China, Delhi and Chandigarh in India, Mexico City and Manila and Permanent residency applicants appear to be taking the biggest hit from ongoing job action by foreign affairs officers, prompting concerns about whether Ottawas 2013 immigration target can be met. The numbers appear to bolster claims by the foreign service workers union that staff are being diverted to process temporary resident visa applications for applicants like tourists and international students at the expense of permanent resident files, which the government denies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.