High Court: The 4-1 decision from the High Court said the womans employer did not induce or encourage her to participate in the sex, so the federal governments insurer, Comcare, was not liable to compensate her. A lower court had said the woman was injured in the course of her employment and should be compensated, according to 660 News. The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was a federal civil servant in her 30s when she was hospitalized for the injury in 2007. She and a man were having sex in her motel room when a glass light fixture above the bed fell onto her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government and CANBERRA, Australia Australias highest court on Wednesday denied workers compensation to a government employee who was injured while having sex in a motel room during a business trip. The High Courts ruling is final and could have ramifications for other federal employees who claim compensation for unconventional work-related mishaps. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Elmira District Secondary School: His students at Elmira District Secondary School had always heard whispers their strict, buttoned-down English teacher was also the singer in a loud, weird band in London, Ont. on weekends, according to The Star. The worlds arent so different. Just as the Nihilist Spasm Band developed a cult following for its avant-garde noise music and dissonant charm, so did Mr. Exley for his high standards and eccentricities and Once he retired after 34 years of teaching, Bill Exley was able to stop living a double life. He never spoke about it to them. That was before YouTube, so many former students still may not realize the man who was so exacting about grammar and punctuation is big in Japan, or that he wore his sweater vests onstage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

census contents: Its a typical tale of immigrant life in Toronto. But this one is set in 1921, according to The Star. The census was released this summer by Library and Archives Canada theres a 92-year waiting period before census contents become public but the searchable version was just released Tuesday at Ancestry.ca. Its free for Canadians to search, although registration is required and The Grossmans and the Glionnis were neighbours on Edward Street. They came from different cultures but shared much in common: both took in extended relatives; both pooled incomes from several low-paying jobs to make ends meet. And now, with that years census fully indexed and searchable online , its easier than ever to get a glimpse into what life was like at the time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Federal Reserve: WASHINGTON - U.S. private-sector employers hired the fewest workers in six months in October while tepid domestic demand kept inflation benign last month, suggesting the economy was still in need of stimulus from the Federal Reserve, according to Reuters. Fed officials stuck to their monthly $85 billion bond-buying pace at the end of a two-day meeting on Wednesday and said fiscal policy was restraining economic growth and By Lucia Mutikani The slowdown in private job growth was the latest signal that the labor market has taken a step back in recent months and the clearest indication yet that a 16-day federal government shutdown weighed on economic activity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

legal profession: Published in 1993, Touchstones for Change: Equality, Diversity and Accountability, found that one of the barriers faced by women was the failure to accommodate the child-bearing and child-rearing, according to The Chronicle Herald. In the report, minority groups across Canada also told the task force that the legal profession has been, since its inception, a white, male, elitist one and Twenty years have passed since a Canadian Bar Association task force published a ground-breaking report that addressed many of the barriers faced by women in the legal profession. At the time, most law firms did not perceive this as discrimination. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Angus Reid: The Angus Reid Global Survey released Wednesday exclusively to The says 52 per cent of Canadians who voted Conservative in the last election said they believe Snowden is a hero for revealing classified U.S. documents about its spying activities, according to Huffington Post. Theres no question that he has become the catalyst and the concrete manifestation of an issue that otherwise seems to be very abstract and vague, said Angus Reid, chairman of Angus Reid Public Opinion and A new poll suggests nearly seven in ten Canadians support Edward Snowden, the man at the eye of a gathering storm over global electronic surveillance. But that support varies between Canadians of different political stripes. But that number rose to 67 per cent for Liberals and 78 per cent for New Democrat voters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

National Capital Region: And the Senate expense scandal is recorded in another obscure line item that cites a $315,000 loss involving four unidentified cases "due to claims for living allowance in the National Capital Region and-or travel expenses.", according to CTV. The missing money and absent items are outlined in an annual report to Parliament, tabled late Wednesday and OTTAWA -- Hundreds of weapons, BlackBerrys, laptops and iPads have gone missing or been stolen or destroyed, according to the federal government's annual accounting of its property. The biggest reported losses are related to tax and employment-insurance frauds, amounting to millions of dollars. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Rob Ford: You have to pay for stuff in this life, nothings for free ... even some of the poorest people, they can afford a dollar, two dollars, Ford said outside his office, according to The Star. Ford added that Toronto has the lowest fees around and Toronto cant afford to abolish fees for recreational services and lose out on the $30 million or $40 million in revenue they generate, Mayor Rob Ford said Tuesday. He accused left-wing councillors who support the move, recommended by the development and recreation committee, of trying to get votes and challenged them to give up their office budgets or salaries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

CRTC: Starting on April 9, 2016, the CRTC said new telephone numbers assigned in Alberta could have the area code 825, according to CTV. Clearly the growth in wireless is a main driver in the assignment of new numbers across the region, Chris Seidl, Executive Director of the CRTC said in a phone interview from Ottawa and Eight years after the CRTC brought in a third area code for Alberta residents, the agency said a fourth area code will be introduced. The decision came after the Canadian Numbering Administrator informed the CRTC that the three existing area codes 403, 587, and 780 are expected to run out of numbers by July 2016. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Shane Buchan: An Annapolis Valley bus company is selling its student transportation and charter business to a Dartmouth rival, according to The Chronicle Herald. Shane Buchan, Perry Rands president and CEO, said Tuesday the family-owned business decided to sell the division after losing a contract in the spring with the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial. Stock landed the five-year deal to provide the service instead and Perry Rand Transportation Group Ltd. recently reached a deal to sell its transportation division to Stock Transportation . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.