Progress Party: The two-party coalition is expected to tighten immigration policies. Many in Norway, which is widely considered to be a tolerant, liberal country have called for a reduction in immigration, and the Progress Party has capitalized on that, according to 660 News. Now the Conservatives and the Progress Party start real negotiations on the government platform. This is the start of a committed relationship, Solberg told reporters in Parliament and STAVANGER, Norway The leader of Norways Conservative Party announced on Monday that she is forming a right-wing minority government, the first in the oil-rich country to ever include the anti-immigration Progress Party. Erna Solberg, whose Conservatives finished second in this months parliamentary election, will team up with the Progress Party, which came in third. Solberg praised her partys co-operation with the Progress Party but left the door open for the two smaller centre-right parties the Christian Democrats and Liberals to join the coalition, saying she is eager to work with them, too. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Harper, declined an invitation to address the UN General Assembly last week, sending Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to represent Canada there instead, according to CTV. "He had the opportunity to speak and address the world at the UN General Assembly and he refused to do it," Dewar said, adding that he has "no idea" why Harper declined again, given that he was in New York City at the time and Critics say Prime Minister Stephen Harper's decision to skip the opening of United Nations General Assembly for a second-straight year hurts Canada's international reputation, while his defenders say the absence is "absolutely normal." NDP Foreign Affairs critic Paul Dewar told 's Question period that Harper is conducting "empty-chair diplomacy." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Eda Marie Agueci: This case is about deception, said OSC lawyer Cullen Price as he began his opening statement Monday in a hearing involving Eda Marie Agueci, who is facing charges along with eight others. Agueci worked in the mining group in the investment banking arm of GMP Securities, according to The Star. It is deception in the market where they purchased securities with an informational advantage, he said, adding OSC staff believe they were also misled by Agueci and Wing during the investigation. Agueci is also accused of warning others about the OSC investigation itself and An executive assistant at a Toronto securities firm tipped friends and family to buy shares in certain mining companies that she learned were about to be bought, the Ontario Securities Commission has heard. Others named in the OSC case include her cousin Josephine Raponi, brother-in-law Santo Iacono, who is also known as Tino, friends Dennis Wing, who was a founding partner at First Marathon Securities, Kimberley Stephany, Henry Fiorillo, Joseph Fiorini, and John Serpa, Iaconos business partner. Jacob Gornitzki, a business advisor who frequently used GMPs offices, was also named. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Al Shabab: What happens when some of these prodigal militants return home? Canadian security forces, Muslim communities and indeed all Canadians have reason to be worried about that eventuality. The potential for such returnees to conduct attacks inside Canada, and to recruit others to their cause, is very real, according to The Star. Of course, not all Kenyan Al Shabab recruits leaving the Somalian battlefield come back as deserters; some are bringing with them their guns, grenades and ideas, likely intent on committing attacks within Kenya. As the disillusioned returnees point out, however, the Kenyan government is losing opportunities by aiming to kill all former Al Shabab fighters rather than taking steps to identify and rehabilitate those who want to renounce violence and Its getting to be a familiar theme that Canadians global origins and global mobility can intersect frighteningly with currents in Islamist terrorism. Two Canadians were killed in this months Al Shabab attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, and a Canadian teenager maimed in the attack is recovering in a Toronto hospital. Early rumours that some of the Kenyan militants were Canadian now appear to be unfounded. However, it is known that some Canadians perhaps up to 100 have travelled to Syria to join rebel forces fighting against the Assad government and one of the former Toronto 18 terrorist plotters has apparently died fighting there. That said, it is worth bearing in mind the possibility that some Islamist militants might return home thoroughly disillusioned by the disparity between the religious ideology they embraced and the brutal reality they saw. An article published earlier this year in Foreign Affairs recounts the experience of six Muslim Kenyan men who were recruited into Al Shabab, sent off to fight in Somalia and fled back to Kenya as deserters from the cause. Many other Kenyans who are still with Al Shabab in Somalia, the article reports, are disillusioned with the group. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Federal Court of Appeal Judge Marc Nadon: Harper announced Monday that Federal Court of Appeal Judge Marc Nadon, 64, would become his sixth appointment, and the fifth man Harper has named to the high court, according to The Star. Nadon had flagged rulings to the justice department in which he upheld the federal Conservative governments view in a number of high-profile cases. He was the dissenting judge to side with Ottawa in its refusal to seek Omar Khadrs repatriation; in upholding the right of Corrections Canada to ban smoking in prisons indoors and out; and in denying the full 35 weeks parental leave benefits to parents of twins and OTTAWA In picking another man to fill the latest vacancy on the Supreme Court of Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper skipped the ranks of the Quebec court of appeal, elevated a federal judge, and raised hackles among advocates for more gender balance on the countrys top court. An expert in maritime law who has spent the past 20 years hearing appeals in a range of areas like immigration, employment insurance, intellectual property and national security, Nadon is slated to take one of three seats allotted by law to Quebec, a vacancy left by the departing Justice Morris Fish. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Jim Dolmage: Two of the best examples are Marilyn and Jim Dolmage, who set out seven years ago to expose the atrocities that occurred at the Huronia Regional Centre for developmentally disabled children and get restitution for the residents who were still alive, according to The Star. It was Jims idea to launch the class-action lawsuit. It was Marilyns network of contacts, inside knowledge and ability to earn the trust of the vulnerable that made it possible and What motivates ordinary citizens to fight for justice when the odds are impossibly long, the obstacles seem insuperable and the quest drags on for years? The couple shuns the spotlight, always deflecting attention to the survivors of the hellish provincial institution. But without their advocacy, skill and staying power, last months historic $35-million settlement would never have happened. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Brookfield Office Properties Inc.: TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed lower Monday as hopes faded that an 11th-hour deal would emerge on a compromise budget bill that would prevent a partial shutdown of the U.S. government at midnight. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. A notable exception was the real estate sector, which ran ahead 1.9 per cent as Brookfield Property Partners LP TSX:BPY.UN announced it wants to buy out other shareholders of Brookfield Office Properties Inc. TSX:BPO in a stock-and-cash deal it valued at US$5 billion. The fading name on the building in Toronto that used to house the Toronto Stock Exchange is pictured on August 18 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim The S P/TSX composite index closed down 56.89 points to 12,787.19 as worry about the economic effect of such a shutdown depressed most sectors. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Eugene Kung: A group of tree planters, most of them immigrants or refugees of African origin, were found living in squalid conditions in a camp in Golden, B.C., in February 2010, according to Huffington Post. Eugene Kung, with the B.C. Public Interest Advocacy Centre, is the lawyer for the 50 workers who complained to the tribunal about the discrimination and VANCOUVER - Allegations of racism and sexism go before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal today against the owners of a tree planting business. They were employed by Khaira Enterprises Ltd., and its owners, Khalid Bajwa and Hardilpreet Sidhu, who were ordered by B.C.'s Employment Standards Branch to pay the workers almost $260,000 in back wages. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

economic development: BERLIN - The exodus of Syrians from their country threatens economic development throughout the Middle East because neighbouring nations cannot cope with the influx of refugees, a top U.N. official said Monday. A U.S. diplomat, meanwhile, called for an action plan to deal with the extraordinary refugee crisis. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Helen Clark, the head of the U.N. development agency, told a gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, that aside from being a humanitarian crisis, the refugee influx also threatens the economies of the various states in the region affecting trade, agriculture, tourism, employment and water use. A general view of the Kawergost refugee camp in Irbil, 350 km north of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Khalid Mohammed The conflict in the Arab state, which began as an uprising in March 2011 and has evolved into a civil war, has claimed more than 100,000 lives and driven another 7 million around a third of Syria's pre-war population from their homes. At least 2.1 million Syrians have fled the country entirely, and many are now in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, which are straining to aid the newcomers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Digby-Annapoliss Harold Junior Theriault: YARMOUTH BUREAU A new Digby County riding is being pursued by a new batch of political aspirants, according to The Chronicle Herald. Neither Clares Wayne Gaudet nor Digby-Annapoliss Harold Junior Theriault have reoffered and The Acadian constituency of Clare is gone. So is the former Digby-Annapolis riding. And so are the Liberal incumbents who once held sway. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.