Neang Seap: Neang, now 59, tightens the towel that wraps about his waist, scrapes a chair across the parched hardwood and settles his sinewy frame. Once he was a rice farmer, before his land was taken away, before the music was taken away, before the books were taken away. His is one story, but thousands are identical. Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands, according to The Star. Read more: I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA Neang Seap and his wife, Em Mom, arrived in Phnom Penh bearing the lacerating wounds that mark Cambodias rural migrants. Evicted by the Khmer Rouge in the late 70s from his village in the countrys eastern zone, Neang was part of the long forced march west, ending up at the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, just across the Thai border. It was there that he met his 15-year-old bride-to-be. The couple married and brought five babies into the world before moving to the capital, where Em bore four more children. Related: One Cambodian factory strike gets ugly (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prince George: Copyright 2013, according to Times Colonist and A media campaign is urging new Canadians in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island to move to Prince George. The Consider Prince George campaign will use print media, TV ads, Facebook and Twitter to tell the stories of recent immigrants who came to Canada and built a new life in Prince George. The Prince George Chamber of Commerce is launching the campaign on Tuesday as part of a four-part campaign by local agencies to attract skilled workers to the city, chamber CEO Christie Ray said. "We're trying to plant the seed in people's heads to consider Prince George as a place to live and work," Ray said. "We're looking at people who are elegible to work in Canada ... who are unemployed or underemployed in the Lower Mainland and Island areas." In planning sessions with chamber members last year, businesses identified the lack of skilled workers in five key areas as a priority for recruitment, Ray said. Engineers and technologists, skilled tradespeople, heavy equipment operators, and business- and health-related fields were identified as areas employers were having trouble filling positions in. " Consider Prince George is certainly based on what the members have told us they are looking for," Ray said. The media campaign will include ads in English, Mandarin and Punjabi -Indo-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians are the two largest groups of new Canadians coming to B.C. -and run until the end of February, she added. However, she said, the chamber is hoping to attract skilled workers from a wide variety of backgrounds to take a look at what Prince George has to offer. The program is funded by the Immigrant Employment Council of B.C., which also funding Initiatives Prince George's second annual Prince George Online Job Fair on Nov. 19 and an industry-specific recruitment campaign by the Central Interior Logging Association. Ray said it made sense for the chamber to partner with Initiatives Prince George, and the Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society - which provides services for new immigrants settling in Prince George. Initiatives Prince George's Online Job Fair will allow skilled workers in the Lower Mainland area to connect with local employers. The first online job fair, held on June 4, drew 1,170 participants and 13 potential employers. "We expect additional interest in the second job fair as a result of the Consider Prince George campaign being launched in Metro Vancouver several weeks before..." Initiatives Prince George CEO Heather Oland said in a statement. The Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society will be hosting Prince George: Working to Attract New Canadians, an engagement session for businesses interested in hiring new Canadians, on Oct. 30. "IMSS, through the Welcome PG initiative, is hosting the business engagement session to provide an open forum for local employers to discuss and share challenges in finding skilled new Canadians, as well as their existing hiring practices," Welcome PG program coordinator Romana Pasca said in a written statement. "The session will also provide information about immigration issues and best strategies and examples of successful approaches to attracting, hiring and retaining immigrant employees." For more information about the Consider Prince George campaign go online to www.facebook.com/ConsiderPG or @ConsiderPG on Twitter. More information and registration details about the online job fair are available at www.pgonlinejobfair.com. Businesses interested in the IMSS presentation can contact Pasca at rom...@imss.ca or by calling 250-562-2900, ext. 20. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada Bread: The S P/TSX composite index rose 36.67 points to 13,172.76, led by gains in the mining sector, according to The Star. Maple Leaf Foods TSX:MFI is planning to sell its bakery business, which includes a 90 per cent interest in Canada Bread TSX:CBY , maker of Dempsters and other brands. Based on recent stock market values, Canada Bread had a value of about $1.6 billion prior to the announcement Monday. Maple Leaf shares jumped $1.26 or 9.47 per cent to $14.56 while Canada Break shares surged $6.09 or 9.94 per cent to $67.34 and The Toronto stock market was higher Monday, building on last weeks strong gains while crude oil moved below $100 U.S. for the first time since early July. The market also found support from big gains in the consumer sector. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Migration Policy Institute: Sound like a resum of woes afflicting Canadas immigration policy? Actually, its a partial slice of New Zealands experience with Chinese migrants during the past two decades, topped with a gloss of public reaction to those trends. As a 2012 report from the U.S.-based Migration Policy Institute outlines, Chinese migrants to New Zealand are presenting researchers with a striking new phenomenon to study: migrant families that move and relocate according to the specific needs of their members at various stages of their life cycle. Families from Hong Kong, Taiwan and now mainland China are coming and going from the country as dictated by the needs of career, childcare, education, elder care and retirement. In so doing, they are provoking outraged charges of disloyalty from longer-established Kiwis, according to The Star. It may be that some migrants to Canada, though their subsequent international movements, end up drawing on social benefits and protections that seem disproportionate to their commitment and contributions and The disloyalty is shocking. Waves of migrants arrive at a countrys shores seeking economic opportunity, a higher quality of life for themselves and their children, or refuge from political uncertainty only to return to their home countries or move on to other ones while retaining open-ended rights of return and access to social benefits. As followers of citizenship matters in Canada well know, those migration patterns, and the alarm they can cause, are much the same here. Like New Zealand and Australia, we have the luxury of not having to face the crises of human trafficking and criminal smuggling that European countries are grappling with, particularly in the wake of recent high-casualty migrant shipwrecks on the Italian coast. For that reason, migration angst in our three countries comes almost entirely from people we let enter and then accuse of opportunism and disloyalty based on their subsequent actions. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Justin Trudeau: Stephen Harper is back in town, brandishing Friday's mostly well-received trade deal with the European Union and spoiling for a fight with his New Democrat and Liberal counterparts as the first full week of Parliament's fall sitting gets underway, according to CTV. With Nov. 25 now byelection day in two traditional but vulnerable Liberal strongholds in Montreal and Toronto, the NDP is keen to burnish its credentials as a government-in-waiting at Trudeau's expense and OTTAWA -- The signing is done. Now comes the sales job. Rivals Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, are sure to have no shortage of questions for the prime minister this week -- expect 'what did he know about Wright/Duffy and when' to figure prominently -- as the battle for opposition supremacy gets underway in earnest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Colombia: Astrid Hurtado is seeking $15 million in damages, according to Times Colonist. Her job was to impersonate a money launderer in Colombia and provide information to the U.S. In return, she received a percentage of money seized by the United States and WASHINGTON - A former confidential informant working for the United States in Colombia claims in a lawsuit that the U.S. government abandoned her when she got into legal trouble for her undercover operations, and she wound up spending three years in a Colombian jail. Hurtado, 52, first worked as an informant for the U.S. tax agency in 1997-1998, then for the "El Dorado Task Force," a premier U.S. government unit established by the then-U.S. Customs Service to investigate money laundering. (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 and 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.

Edward Jones: The S P/TSX composite index rose 50.44 points to 13,186.53. Related Items Articles BlackBerry says its BBM app is ready for iPhone, Android devices , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "We seem to have broken a little bit of this underperformance trend that has been existing for the majority of the year," said Craig Fehr, Canadian markets specialist at Edward Jones in St. Louis. TORONTO - The Toronto stock market closed higher Monday, building on last week's strong gains amid a major corporate development in the consumer sector and growing confidence that the TSX has turned a corner and is on the way to a positive year. The rise followed a jump of almost two per cent last week, and leaves the TSX up about six per cent year to date. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Communications Ministry: Under an order drafted by the Communications Ministry, providers would have to install equipment that would record and save all internet traffic for at least 12 hours and grant the security services exclusive access to the data. , according to Reuters. The draft order, made public on Monday, is likely to deepen concerns over tighter surveillance of the Internet, where debate is much freer than in Russia's conventional media and which security officials have said should be better controlled. MOSCOW - Russian authorities are moving to expand surveillance of the Internet by requiring service providers to store all traffic temporarily and make it available to the top domestic intelligence agency. President Vladimir Putin has tightened his grip over Russia since his election to a third term in March 2012 amid a wave of opposition protests, and security is being stepped up further before the Winter Olympics in Sochi. (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.