Madame Marois: Misogynists wont grant women individual sovereignty. Nor does Madame Marois, according to The Star. Some Catholics insist on saving pregnant women from abortion. Marois is out to save Muslim women from the scarf and The Afghan Taliban and the Iranian ayatollahs force women to wear the hijab or the niqab. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois is forcing Muslim women not to. Ostensibly a lefty liberal feminist, she, too, makes the maddening assumption that Muslim women, including the Canadian-born and highly educated ones, are incapable of deciding for themselves. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Tammy Bishop: The Dartmouth furniture stores general manager, Tammy Bishop, testified during the half-day hearing that Garnetta Cromwell was once suspended for a day for not showing up for work and was issued a written warning on a second occasion for disappearing from work without permission, according to The Chronicle Herald. Cromwell worked for Leons from 2004 until 2008 and A former Leons employee who claims she was unfairly disciplined and subjected to racist comments had problems with her attendance at work, a human rights board of inquiry heard Wednesday. We had talked to Garnetta a few times regarding her commitment, Bishop said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Lakeridge Health: TORONTO - Paging Quebec's doctors and nurses: if you're worried about the proposed restrictions on religious clothing in your home province, an Ontario hospital group is looking to hire. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. It released a cheeky ad Thursday on social media, asking Quebec doctors and nurses to consider a move to Ontario. A poster for Lakeridge Health is shown in this undated handout photo. One Ontario hospital is turning Quebec's proposed restrictions on religious clothing in the public sector into an opportunity to recruit nurses and doctors. Lakeridge Health in Oshawa, Ont., is putting out an ad on social media and in Montreal's McGill student newspaper seeking health-care professionals. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Lakeridge Health Lakeridge Health, which runs four hospitals east of Toronto, is turning the controversy over Quebec's "values charter" into a recruiting drive for health-care professionals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Statistics Canada: OTTAWA For all the growing diversity the 2011 census and related surveys have portrayed in Canada, Wednesdays final release revealed a contrasting constant: the richest of the rich in Canada are married, middle-aged white men, according to The Chronicle Herald. Statistics Canada has published the final batch of data from its new and controversial National Household Survey the survey meant to stand in for the long-form census scrapped by the Conservatives in 2010. The release was delayed for a month due to a glitch in the agencys formulae and The rest of us are up to our eyeballs in mortgage debt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Bloc Quebecois: OTTAWA - The separatist Bloc Quebecois kicked one of its five members of Parliament out of its caucus on Thursday after she took a strong stand against a proposal by Quebec's separatist government to ban public workers from wearing most religious symbols, according to Reuters. The Bloc Quebecois runs separatists in elections for the Canadian House of Commons, and Bloc leader Daniel Paille said Mourani had irreconcilable differences with the Bloc and By Randall Palmer Demonstrating how the controversial proposal has caused divisions even among those who want Quebec to leave Canada, legislator Maria Mourani and a group of other separatists said the Parti Quebecois government was making a big error with its proposed Charter of Quebec Values in a bid for short-term gains. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

economic calendar: TORONTO The Toronto stock market ended the trading day flat Wednesday as worries surrounding the Syrian crisis eased and there was little news on the economic calendar, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Canadian dollar jumped 0.31 of a cent to 96.95 cents US and The S P/TSX composite index recovered from negative territory in the final minutes to post a small gain of 0.97 of a point at 12,825.42. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

compulsory fees: Average fees, in current dollars, have increased from $1,464 in 1990-91 to $6,348 in 2012-13, and they are expected to climb to $7,437 in 2016-17. This fall, they are predicted to be $6,610, according to a report released Wednesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, according to CBC. Provincial tuition and compulsory fees for full-time undergrads from 1990-91 and projected for 2016-17. The national average is weighted based on enrolment per province, so isn't based solely on provincial averages, according to a spokesman for the centre. Canada: $2,243 to $6,842 N.L.: $2,059 to $2,655. P.E.I.: $2,871 to $6,710. N.S.: $2,974 to $6,969. N.B.: $2,949 to $6,527. Que.: $1,385 to $3,759. Ont.: $2,574 to $8,756. Man.: $2,316 to $4,086. Sask.: $2,367 to $7,280. Alta.: $1,970 to $7,431. B.C.: $2,770 to $5,639 and The cost of a university degree in Canada is getting steeper, with tuition and other compulsory fees expected to have about tripled from 1990 to 2017, and students in Ontario are paying most, according to research by a policy think-tank. Read about the burden on students who work free while paying for university Adjusted for inflation, fees across the country were $2,243 in 1990-91, and are predicted to rise to $6,842 in 2016-17, according to the centre. University fees by province (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Emanuel Jaques: They all stood up and they clapped, he said in an interview, sitting in an office that looms above the city hes lived in all his life. And then after that boy, did they listen, according to 660 News. In the summer of 1977, 12-year-old Portuguese shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques went missing on the Yonge Street Strip, then a dodgy cesspool. His body was later found mangled, the victim of a sexual assault, in a plastic bag on the roof of a sex shop and TORONTO Anthony De Sa is a man with a mighty memory. He vividly remembers, for example, the reception from his students when he returned to Torontos Michael Power/St. Joseph High School, where he taught English, after attending the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala as a finalist. Being nominated for one of Canadas most prestigious literary awards for his debut will do that. Now, five years after Barnacle Love, an interconnected collection of short stories about a Portuguese-Canadian family, hes exploring his community even more deeply with Kicking the Sky, a novel inspired by a murder that De Sa says marked an indelible end to the era of Toronto the Good. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

English subtitles: NOTE: Click the "CC" button on the videos to enable English subtitles, according to Huffington Post. Two new parody ads feature a young girl who is forced to give up her snowsuit because it too closely resembles a burka and told not to use plus signs because they evoke the Christian cross and The Quebec government's proposal for a charter of values that would ban public servants from wearing certain religious symbols at work has now officially been reduced to absurdity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

investors flock: Housing prices have soared, wages are up, unemployment is down and restaurants and bars are among the country's busiest. Once considered a fiscal basket case, the province leads economic growth forecasts this year as investors flock to the Rock, according to CTV. Houses valued five years ago at about $150,000 are selling for almost twice as much, while the typical price for a three-bedroom bungalow is now in the neighbourhood of $329,000 or higher, Stacey said and ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- Offshore oil and major construction projects have sparked an economic boom in St. John's and other parts of Newfoundland and Labrador that has never been seen here before. "It has a lot to do with the oil boom, which is continuing," said Al Stacey, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Realtors. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.