Omar Hassan: Police in Somalia arrested Omar Hassan, 60, after the children, aged 11, 9, 7 and 6, were killed Monday, Qadro Addawe told The Canadian Press, according to Huffington Post. Speaking from Mogadishu, Addawe said Hassan was a taxi driver in Calgary and had returned home a few months ago and The mother of four young boys who were allegedly beheaded by their Somali-Canadian father says she doesn't know of any motive for the killings. The alleged slayings happened in the central town of Beledweyne, about 330 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Omar Hassan: Police in Somalia arrested Omar Hassan, 60, after the children, aged 11, 9, 7 and 6, were killed Monday, Qadro Addawe told The Canadian Press. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Speaking from Mogadishu, Addawe said Hassan was a taxi driver in Calgary and had returned home a few months ago. The mother of four young boys who were allegedly beheaded by their Somali-Canadian father says she doesn't know of any motive for the killings. The alleged slayings happened in the central town of Beledweyne, about 330 kilometres north of the capital Mogadishu. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

federal health program: These are three examples cited in a new study released Wednesday by the Toronto-based Wellesley Institute, which examined the impact of cuts Ottawa made to the federal health program for refugees in June 2012, according to The Star. Through online reporting by frontline health care providers across Canada, researchers documented cases of negative and avoidable health outcomes among refugees since the changes were implemented and A young sexual assault victim denied health care for her pregnancy. A woman with asthma with no access to medication, rushed to hospital. A child with pneumonia who could not get a chest x-ray. All because they were refugees. The new system creates confusion, lessens access to health care services among vulnerable populations, leads to inconsistency in care across Canada, and results in poorer health and avoidable illness for refugees and refugee claimants, says the 19-page report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Quadra Addawe: Local press is reporting the deaths occurred on Monday, according to 660 News. RBC Radio says Quadra Addawe learned of the crime by a neighbour in Mogadishu, 330 kilometres away and A small Somali town is in shock after learning a former Calgary cab driver beheaded his four young sons. The man accused is 60 year old Omar Shire Hassan, who had lived in Calgary up until a few months ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Syria: GENEVA - The United Nations is shifting its aid effort for Syria to prepare for long-term help to neighboring countries to cope with the humanitarian crisis, the head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. , according to Reuters. "The new approach is to combine the emergency with the long-term. For that, humanitarian agencies alone cannot do it," UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres told a news conference in Geneva. By Tom Miles More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria's 2-1/2-year conflict as rebels fight to oust President Bashar al-Assad. Over half of its 20 million people need aid and around 2 million have fled to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Obama: "They're going to be making sure that they keep an eye on inflation, that they're not encouraging some of the bubbles that we've seen in our economy that have resulted in busts," Obama said in an interview on CNBC, according to Reuters. The president said the budget standoff that has led to a government shutdown has not hindered the selection process and WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the person he selects to head the Federal Reserve when Chairman Ben Bernanke's term ends in January will prevent asset bubbles from forming and try to bring down the unemployment rate. "But they're also going to stay focused on the fact that our unemployment rate is still too high." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Christy Clark: Clark briefly addressed the RCMP investigation for the first time today during a press conference on skilled trades training in Toronto. , according to Times Colonist. The RCMP revealed the investigation last week after B.C.s criminal justice branch appointed a special prosecutor to assist the Mounties in reviewing the case and deciding if any charges should be laid. Premier Christy Clark said she knows little about an RCMP investigation into her governments multicultural outreach plan and pledged not to interfere with the probe. I have confidence that the RCMP are going to do the right job on this, investigate it thoroughly, and I certainly have no intention of interfering in anyway because we have a system in British Columbia where we ensure there is no political interference in the process of the investigation, said Clark. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Marc Nadon: But Nadon, 64, the son of a Quebec hockey player and a Ukrainian-born big band singer, defended his qualification for the countrys top court by dint of a nearly 40-year legal career, including the last 20 as a judge, according to The Star. Nadon said frankly he was hard-put to identify himself as anything but experienced at deciding cases with the impartiality and intellectual rigour expected of judges and OTTAWA Justice Marc Nadon, the governments surprising pick for the Supreme Court of Canada, admitted he didnt fill any gender, ethnic or diversity expectations for the high court bench. Liberal MP and justice critic Irwin Cotler, a former justice minister during a time that two women Rosalie Abella and Louise Charron were appointed to the high court, asked what element of diversity do you contribute to the bench? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Calgary Foundation Vital Signs: The city earned a B on this year's Calgary Foundation Vital Signs report card , despite weathering one of the largest natural disasters the province has seen, according to Huffington Post. The 2013 report card measures the vitality of the city and identifies trends and assigns grades to key issues by measuring perceptions from 846 residents and combining it with expert research and While Calgary is still not an A-student, the marks are improving and residents give the city a passing grade. The Vital Signs survey ran during the middle of the flood period and we were interested to see that there was virtually no change in grades from the pre-flood to post-flood respondents , Kerry Longpr , vice president communications at The Calgary Foundation, told CTV News. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Afghanistan: The report ranks the social and economic well-being of elders in 91 countries, with Sweden coming out on top and Afghanistan at the bottom, according to CTV. "In 2011, an estimated five million Canadians were 65 years of age or older, a number that is expected to double in the next 25 years," the report said and The world is aging so fast that most countries are not prepared to support their swelling numbers of elderly people, according to a global study being issued Tuesday by the United Nations and an elder rights group. Canada is at fifth place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.