Dr. James Kincaid: Dr. James Kincaid, standing with his wife, Nita, at the University of Toronto, defended himself following his keynote address about children and sexuality, according to The Star. Beaudoin and another Brampton woman, Tammy Toms, later carried placards outside the school, though no large protest materialized as an audience of about 50 people sat through Kincaids 45-minute address and A controversial U.S. professor who writes about children and sexuality shot down his critics Saturday by declaring that he is not an advocate for pedophilia. I ve already said I m not in favour of pedophilia. Period. Isnt that enough? he firmly told Linda Beaudoin, a sexual abuse survivor and advocate for childrens rights after she challenged him following his address. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Edward Snowden: WASHINGTON - The U.S. National Security Agency failed to install the most up-to-date anti-leak software at a site in Hawaii before contractor Edward Snowden went to work there and downloaded tens of thousands of highly classified documents, current and former U.S. officials told . , according to Reuters. The purpose of the software, which in the NSA's case is made by a division of Raytheon Co, is to block so-called "insider threats" - a response to an order by President Barack Obama to tighten up access controls for classified information in the wake of the leak of hundreds of thousands of Pentagon and State Department documents by an Army private to WikiLeaks website in 2010. By Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel Well before Snowden joined Booz Allen Hamilton last spring and was assigned to the NSA site as a systems administrator, other U.S. government facilities had begun to install software designed to spot attempts by unauthorized people to access or download data. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Congress: The American system of governance the president vs. Congress, Senate vs. the House, feds vs. the states was designed to encourage restraint and compromise. Lately it has produced the opposite, due principally to an excess of partisanship and special interests, according to The Star. Anti-Morsi forces were funded by billionaires and other undemocratic forces. American billionaires buy up politicians and groups to delegitimize and minimize government and The government shutdown in the United States has some parallels with Egypt and other places where democracy is thwarted, mostly by sabotaging the will of the voters and the rule of law. Many Republicans hate Barack Obama with the same intensity as the Egyptian secularists did Mohammed Morsi, the elected president they toppled. Despite Obamas convincing wins in 2008 and 2012, Republicans have been fixated on derailing his presidency no matter the cost to the country. In their latest manoeuvre , they held him hostage 17 days hoping to undermine Obamacare, passed by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

precarious employment: Steep prices and precarious employment can make it difficult for millenials to find suitable rentals or buy property. , according to Huffington Post. The average cost of a Canadian home has more than doubled since 2000, and youth underemployment is a growing problem. Some of Generation Y is rebelling against an uphill battle of purchasing affordable homes or securing reasonable rentals by moving into non-traditional alternatives like cars, boats and collective houses. "The housing market did not even feel like an option for me not even remotely," says Danica Brown, a 26-year-old professional who makes $36,000 annually and has no student loans. She lives on a boat she went into debt to purchase and hopes to pay it off in five years, resell it and use the funds as a down payment on a house. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Harper called the byelections on Sunday for Toronto Centre, the Montreal riding of Bourassa and the Manitoba ridings of Provencher and Brandon-Souris, according to Huffington Post. Both the Liberals and NDP are running star candidates in the two ridings and OTTAWA - The battle for opposition supremacy is on after Prime Minister Stephen Harper set Nov. 25 as the date for four federal byelections. Toronto-Centre and Bourassa are longtime Liberal strongholds, left vacant after the resignations of former interim leader Bob Rae and veteran MP Denis Coderre. However, New Democrats are making a concerted effort to snatch the two ridings away or, at least, make significant inroads. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Leonarda Dibrani: Leonarda Dibrani, however, said she would not return without her family, according to The Star. The uproar began earlier this week when it became public that 15-year-old Leonarda was detained by police as she got off a bus from a school trip. Schools are considered places of sanctuary, and many thought that principle had been breached. The story has since become more complicated, with the father admitting that he lied in his asylum application when he said the entire family fled Kosovo, where they were persecuted for being Roma. Leonarda and most of her siblings were born in Italy, though they do not have Italian citizenship and PARIS Under fire from the far left and members of his own party, Socialist President Fran ois Hollande said Saturday that a 15-year-old Roma girl who was detained in front of her classmates and expelled as an illegal immigrant can return to France. But the rest of the family cannot come with her. The deportation of the Dibrani family, whose requests for asylum were rejected, has lit a firestorm in France, where such expulsions arent rare but are always sensitive as the birthplace of the rights of man grapples with a flux of immigrants. Its an especially delicate issue for Hollande and the Socialists, who have tried to present a softer image of Frances immigration policies and distance themselves from former Nicolas Sarkozys tough stance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Rocco Galati: He is hostile toward any form of authority. This attitude comes out in his rudeness and indifference to teachers and peers. Rocco can be an excellent student but must direct his energy toward the positive rather than the negative, according to The Star. His mistrust of authority is the backbone of his successful law practice, which only takes on cases against the government and In order to succeed Rocco must change his attitude, the Grade 8 report card states. Forty years later, Rocco Galati is proud to say he hasnt changed one bit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Alice Munro: Last Thursday morn, Oct. 10, I guessed that Alice Munro had become Canadas first Nobel laureate in literature because a woman sitting across from me on my Frankfurt-Stockholm flight was reading a Munro book, according to The Chronicle Herald. Munros achievement also insists that we are not provincial anywhere anymore. Canada possesses, as Jewish-Canadian poet A.M. Klein saw 70 years ago, the absolute universal, made richly cosmopolitan by immigration from without and multiculturalism from within and Carp as we like at some Nobel choices a premature Peace Prize for a U.S. president who likes to ahem drone on and on , the lustre of a Nobel Prize illuminates nations. Munros triumph proclaims that CanLit is a must-read worldwide. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Jason Kenney: Kenney took to Twitter on Thursday to bluster at Green party Leader Elizabeth May after May tweeted about plans for a monument to the victims of communism. She noted that there were no plans for a monument to the victims of capitalism. , according to Times Colonist. Kenney, however, went into full apoplexy mode and said that 100 million people have been murdered by communist regimes in the last hundred years. Federal Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney is either feigning outrage to score political points or he is a zealot who cant take a joke. Either way, he should put his Twitter account back in its holster. As May, the MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said later, she was satirizing what could become the never-ending building of monuments to victims of the worlds many isms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

The Canadian Press: The Canadian Press archives Jeffrey Paul Delisle, a member of the Canadian military, is led from provincial court in Halifax in January 2012. CP Enlarge Image , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The Canadian Press archiveS Gerda Munsinger, in 1966. CP Enlarge Image The Canadian Press archives Igor Gouzenko left , the former Russian code clerk who revealed a Soviet spy ring operating in Canada at the end of the Second World War, is shown during an interview April 27, 1954. CP Enlarge Image The Canadian Press archive Winnipeg-born spymaster Sir William Stephenson. CP Enlarge Image (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.