Jack Hourigan: Jack Hourigan, a writer and parenting expert whose daughter Tess was born unexpectedly at 27 weeks, says there are still a lot of myths about what it means to raise a child who was born premature, according to CTV. Most babies born prematurely develop well. However, some can develop problems later in life, including delayed language development, visual or hearing impairments or learning disabilities and In Canada, one in every 10 babies is born prematurely, and yet many parents who've watched their children enter the world too early say it is an isolating experience that fellow parents really don't understand. "People think once you leave the NICU neonatal intensive care unit , then everything's fine, that you head home and the story's over. But the repercussions of prematurity continue," she told 's Canada AM Monday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Teresa Giudice: Giuseppe Joe Giudice, 43, and Teresa Giudice, 41, were each indicted Monday on one count of bank fraud and one count of loan application fraud, according to 660 News. Mondays charges are in addition to a 39-count indictment handed down in July, charging the couple with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud and NEWARK, N.J. Two stars of The Real Housewives of New Jersey are facing additional federal fraud charges. Authorities allege the couple prepared a mortgage loan application stating that Teresa Giudice worked as a real estate agent and made $15,000 a month. In reality, authorities said, she was not employed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

job satisfaction: The survey found that 24 per cent of Canadians love their job so much they d do it for free and 40 per cent say enjoy what they do, but "could like it more." About 29 per cent said they like it "well enough for now." , according to Huffington Post. Only two per cent of Canadians said they hate their job and another five per cent answered that they dont like it. That compares to 15 per cent of U.S. respondents who said they hate or dont like their jobs. In the U.S., the number satisfied with their jobs is about 53 per cent. Canadian workers are among the happiest in the world, with nearly two-thirds saying they love or like their job a lot, according a study for job website Monster.ca. That level of job satisfaction was well ahead of workers in the Netherlands, India, the U.S., U.K, France and Germany. Workers in the Netherlands were the next happiest nation, with 57 per cent saying they either love or like their employment (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

President Bashar Assad: The death of Abdul-Qadir Saleh, founder of the Tawhid Brigade, followed advances by President Bashar Assad's troops against rebels on two key fronts: the capture of a string of opposition-held suburbs south of Damascus and the taking of two towns and a military base outside the northern city of Aleppo, according to Times Colonist. The Tawhid Brigade is one of Syria's best known and powerful rebel groups, with an estimated 10,000 fighters, and is particularly strong in Aleppo province. Under Saleh's command, the group last year spearheaded a rebel push that seized large sections of the provincial capital Aleppo and BEIRUT - The leader of one of Syria's most prominent rebel units died early Monday of wounds sustained during a strike by government forces last week, his group said, dealing another blow to fighters reeling from a series of recent battlefield losses. An ongoing offensive meanwhile is driving hundreds of refugees into neighbouring Lebanon, as government forces seek to dislodge rebels from a mountainous area that stretches north of the Syrian capital. A total of 6,000 have crossed to a Lebanese border town over the last three days, the U.N. says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the increase Monday during a visit to a Toronto Catholic parish where he met members of the Filipino-Canadian community, according to Huffington Post. He said the money will go to a range of relief efforts and OTTAWA - Canada will contribute another $15 million for humanitarian relief in the Philippines, bringing the total Canadian government contribution to $20 million. "Our government has taken decisive action to address the ravages of the typhoon by working closely with the Filipino-Canadian community, relief agencies and the government of the Philippines to provide ongoing support to those who need it most," Harper said in a statement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Roselin Leyson: For many Filipino-Canadians, the hope is to get their loved ones out of the affected areas and onto Canadian soil. Roselin Leyson and her sister Archeli are both nannies from the Philippines, working with families in Ottawa. Roselin is hoping to fast track her 10 year old daughter, mother and sister to the safety of this country, according to CTV. The devastating typhoon 10 days ago hit about an hour away from the village that Roselyn and her sister call home and The Canadian government is adding another $15 million dollars to help the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, bringing the total contribution to $20 million dollars. It has promised to match individual contributions until December 9 th . With all that happened back home, they're scared, says Leyson, they're having a trauma. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Lebanon: AMMAN/ARSAL, Lebanon - President Bashar al-Assad's forces fired rocket and artillery barrages on a besieged mountain town near Lebanon on Monday in a push to capture the strategic area following advances against rebels in Damascus and in the north of Syria, according to Reuters. Heavy bombardments hit Qara, 80 km 50 miles north of Damascus in the Qalamoun mountains, as rebels hid in the rocky terrain, refugees and opposition activists said. Located near the highway linking the capital to Aleppo, Syria's biggest city, the region has been used by rebels to cross from Lebanon and By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans In a separate setback for the fighters, a prominent rebel leader died overnight in a Turkish hospital of wounds suffered in an air raid on Aleppo. Abdelqader Saleh, head of the Qatar-backed Sunni Islamist al-Tawhid Brigades, had been working on regrouping fighters in Aleppo before he was killed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canada: Hundreds held in Canadas immigration cells, Nov. 18, according to The Star. Canada has 585 people locked up without charge, 60 of them for over a year, two of these for more than five years. Although our cells are reputedly more sanitary and our interrogations more benign, from the other side of the looking glass, Canada looks increasingly like those countries we profess to despise and Re: Hundreds held in Canadas immigration cells, Nov. 18 Earlier this year, Egypt jailed Canadians John Greyson and Tarek Loubani for more than six weeks without charge. Our objections to their detention were largely dismissed by the Egyptian authorities as a matter for their own police and courts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian banks: For at least some Canadian banks, those efforts to send cash from Canada to the Philippines promise to generate millions of dollars worth of profit, according to The Star. More from thestar.com: For victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, money wired from friends and family abroad will be crucial as they struggle to repair lives blown apart by the deadly tropical cyclone. Every year, Canadians send $2 billion to the Philippines, according to World Bank estimates, and for each transaction, banks charge a so-called remittance fee to process the cash wire transfer. Canadian banks generate an estimated $5.8 million every month in remittance fees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

company directors: Not holdings, projects or commodities, but ranks, as in workers, supervisors, company directors, according to The Star. Its a challenge the 38-year-old mother of three children makes not as an outsider and OTTAWA Zo Yujnovich has a challenge for the Canadian mining industry: diversify. Hire more women, more aboriginals and more immigrant workers to improve the bottom line. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.