Cecile Kyenge: Divers recovered 49 more bodies after seas calmed enough to resume search operations after a two-day suspension, increasing the death toll to at least 160. About 200 others are presumed to be missing, trapped in the wreckage about 50 metres below the surface, according to The Star. Congolese-born integration minister Cecile Kyenge watched with the islands mayor as the bodies were lifted from boats on to trucks to be brought to a makeshift morgue at the airport and LAMPEDUSA, ITALY An Italian government minister born in Africa watched wordlessly Sunday as soldiers wearing face masks carried body bags containing migrants from her continent who perished when a fishing boat sank within sight of the tiny island of Lampedusa. Police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said the operation would continue as long as the sea is calm and there is light. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Conrad Black Mulroney: In a sneak preview from the first episode of "theZoomer" a new current affairs show on VisionTV co-hosted by Conrad Black Mulroney calls the controversy "needless.", according to Huffington Post. Mulroney said the charter sends a "negative, inappropriate signal" to immigrant communities that are bringing prosperity to Canada and Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has joined the chorus of critics slamming Quebec's controversial values charter. "If you want to build a dynamic, inclusive society, you have all the instruments at hand," he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

corporate income tax revenues: OTTAWA - Canada had bigger budget deficits in July and in the April-July period than it did in the same periods last year due to a sharp drop in corporate income tax revenues, which the government said would be reversed in August, according to Reuters. Revenues from corporate income taxes plunged 73.7 percent in July, down C$1.3 billion, "reflecting timing issues which lowered July revenues but are expected to raise August revenues," the government said and By Louise Egan The federal budget deficit widened to C$1.98 billion $1.92 billion in July, compared with a shortfall of C$1.35 billion in July 2012, the Department of Finance said on Friday in a monthly report. The government ran a C$158 million surplus in the month of June. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

debt ceiling: An even bigger worry than the shutdown of non-essential U.S. government services, which started Oct. 1, is the need for American political leaders to raise the U.S. government's debt ceiling, which will be reached Oct. 17, according to CTV. "If it looks like we are headed for a collision on the debt ceiling, which increasingly it does look like, that's the much more dangerous prospect for the markets," Porter said and TORONTO -- Markets are likely in for more volatility following last week's partial U.S. government shutdown -- one symptom of a political impasse that has the potential to slow growth in the world's biggest economy. "The second one is scary," said Doug Porter, chief economist at BMO Capital Markets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mental Health Commission of Canada: The Aspiring Workforce report, commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of Canada , delves into the challenges facing those Canadians, targeting all levels of government, businesses, policy-makers and the not-for-profit sector in addition to the attitudes of Canadians themselves towards those who suffer from mental illness, according to The Star. This report represents hope, it really does, for many people who are voiceless, Patrick Dion, vice-chairman of the commission, said in an interview. Its astonishing that 90 per cent of the mentally ill are unemployed. Our lives are a three-legged stool a home, a job and a friend and so if that job leg isnt there, the journey to recovery is made that much more difficult and OTTAWA Ninety per cent of Canadians with serious mental illnesses are unemployed due largely to prejudice about their conditions a startling state of affairs that costs the Canadian economy an estimated $50 billion a year, according to a sweeping new report. Obtained by The Canadian Press, the report conducted by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the University of Toronto and Queens University recommends collaboration between all sectors to find work for mentally ill Canadians, many of whom have training and skills. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Italy: Divers recovered 70 more bodies after seas calmed enough to resume search operations after a two-day suspension, increasing the death toll to at least 181. More than 150 others are presumed to be missing, trapped in the wreckage about 50 metres 165 feet below the surface, according to Times Colonist. Italy has been receiving signs of solidarity from its European partners. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso plans to visit the island Wednesday. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Europe must act to stem the migrant tragedy, adding that both France and Italy have asked that the subject be placed on the agenda of Tuesday's EU interior ministers' meeting and LAMPEDUSA, Italy - An Italian government minister born in Africa watched wordlessly Sunday as soldiers wearing face masks carried body bags containing migrants from her continent who perished when a fishing boat transporting 500 asylum seekers from Eritrea sank within sight of the tiny island of Lampedusa. Search operations will continue "as long as the sea is calm and there is light," police Maj. Leonardo Ricci said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers: TORONTO - The pace of growth in the Canadian manufacturing sector accelerated in September to its highest level in over a year, helped by a jump in new orders and exports, data showed on Tuesday, according to Reuters. A reading above 50 shows growth in the sector and By Leah Schnurr The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' index PMI , a gauge of manufacturing business conditions, rose to a seasonally adjusted 54.2 last month from 52.1 in August, making for the highest level since June 2012. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Halifax: Cyclists raised nearly $20,000 for charity Saturday in Halifaxs first ever Ride for Refuge, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Halifax mission was the main beneficiary of the ride, receiving $13,838 for its drop-in centre, which provides up to 100 hot lunches daily and Its amazing how one half day can have so much impact in our community, Michelle Porter, executive director of Souls Harbour Rescue Mission, said a day later. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rough waters: LAMPEDUSA, Italy - Divers searched rough waters off the coast of Sicily on Sunday for the bodies of hundreds of migrants whose dream of escaping violence, poverty and oppression for a new life in Europe ended when their boat caught fire and sank, according to Reuters. The coastguard said 70 corpses had been brought to the surface on Sunday, despite 28-mile-per-hour gusts of wind and a meter-high swell. Authorities searched for bodies in and around the sunken boat, which was carrying mainly Eritreans and Somalis and By Steve Scherer About 500 migrants were packed onto the boat, which capsized just a kilometer from their destination on Thursday, according to survivors. The Italian authorities say 181 bodies have been recovered and more than a hundred are still missing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Abu Anas al-Libi: The swift Delta Force operation in the streets of the Libyan capital that seized the militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi was one of two assaults Saturday that showed an American determination to move directly against terror suspects even in two nations mired in chaos where the U.S. has suffered deadly humiliations in the past, according to Times Colonist. "We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday at an economic summit in Indonesia. "Members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can't hide." A suspected Libyan al-Qaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the "kidnapping." Hours before the Libya raid, a Navy SEAL team swam ashore in the East African nation of Somalia and engaged in a fierce firefight, though it did not capture its target, a leading militant in the al-Qaida-linked group that carried out the recent Kenyan mall siege. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.