World Food Program: NAIROBI, Kenya After early delays caused by massive infrastructure damage, the World Food Program is now providing food to three million typhoon victims in the Philippines, but the needs there and in Syria mean Somali refugees in Kenya are seeing food assistance cut by 20 per cent, WFPs top official said Friday, according to The Chronicle Herald. If I m a mother and I cant feed my child, my only statement to journalists is I need food, and thats what gets reported. And while we can talk about bridges and debris and planes and trucks what they want to hear is how fast is the food going to get to me, Cousin said and Ertharin Cousin said the loss of key bridges across many islands in the Philippines from typhoon Haiyan has complicated aid response, but food deliveries are ramping up. The island nations geography combined with destroyed bridges and washed-out roads has left isolated communities in need, leading to criticism of the time lag from residents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Annie Dookhan: Annie Dookhan changed her plea Friday in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with evidence. She was sentenced to three to five years in prison, followed by two years probation. Defence attorney Nicolas Gordon asked for a one-year sentence for his client, who has no previous criminal record, according to The Star. Her attorney did not comment after the hearing, and her parents left without speaking to reporters and BOSTON A former chemist at a Massachusetts drug lab who admitted faking test results in criminal cases pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced to prison in a scandal that has jeopardized thousands of convictions. The diminutive Dookhan showed no emotion during the hearing and did not address the court. She answered guilty and replied to a series of routine questions from the judge in a barely audible voice. She was led away in handcuffs and will begin serving her sentence immediately. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Khatab Ismail: Immigration officials have attempted to deport Khatab Ismail but Ismail fears a return to his homeland would put his life in jeopardy. Iraq does not want him returned and is refusing to issue travel documents, according to CTV. Representatives with the Calgary Police Service say they are extremely concerned by the possibility Khatab Ismail, a man who has been deemed an untreated sex offender and a danger to the public if released and An Iraqi refugee who repeatedly molested a young boy in Canada over a two year span has served his sentence for the crime but remains in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency. If Ismail does not voluntarily agree to be deported, immigration officials may decide to release him into Canadian society next month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Diane Francis: Every 20 years or so, this wacky idea rolls around: Lets merge the United States and Canada. Now beating this trans-border drum is Diane Francis, a journalist and management professor at Ryerson University in Toronto. Francis has just published 'Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country.', according to The Chronicle Herald. Writing on the New Yorker web site, the all-but-Canadian Adam Gopnik went to McGill; must be smart warmed to Franciss proposed merger with Snow Mexico: 'Match American gee-whiz with Canadian let s-see, and it will produce a super country, Gopnik wrote, rather like a marriage between a dull, stable person who owns a nice chunk of land and a slightly crazed but still attractive one who needs some stability after a wild stretch and Well, why not? Canadians could enjoy some balmy weather for a change, and Americans could get some decent health care, without worrying about a kludgey website that may or may not be up and running by the next election cycle. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Federal Reserve: LONDON - World shares were set to end a volatile week firmer on Friday and the dollar hovered near a 4-month high against the yen as worry dissipated about an early Fed move to start winding down its stimulus policy. , according to Reuters. The volatility has cooled as more investors realize that a Federal Reserve move to scale back its bond-buying program, which will probably begin in the first quarter of next year, does not necessarily mean official interest rates will rise soon afterwards. By Richard Hubbard U.S. stock index futures signaled that Wall Street was unlikely to advance much further after the Dow Jones closed above 16,000 for the first time ever on Thursday. .N (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Atlantic Canada: Canadian workers are migrating to other provinces in record numbers in search of work, to the detriment of Atlantic Canada, says a new Bank of Montreal report, according to The Chronicle Herald. Outward migration is highest in Atlantic Canada, with an annual flow of 11,000 people choosing to leave the region for employment reasons, or 0.5 per cent of the population and Interprovincial migration is at its highest point in almost 25 years, with many choosing to settle in Alberta and Saskatchewan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

business activity: LONDON/NEW YORK - U.S. factory output rebounded this month but hiring remained sluggish, while business activity across the euro zone and at China's manufacturers slowed, surveys showed on Thursday, according to Reuters. Manufacturing activity and output rebounded in the United States this month, according to the Markit "flash," or preliminary U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index, after hitting a one-year low in October and By Jonathan Cable and Steven C. Johnson The data underscored the fragile nature of the global recovery and the difficulties still facing the world's biggest economies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

John F. Kennedy: Five decades on, as the world recalls the distant trauma of Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, that judgment stands the test of time. For many of that era Kennedy epitomized courage and idealism, the promise of a brighter future and the high call to public service. His inaugural address Ask not what your country can do for you was a summons to a New Frontier of active citizenship that still resonates. It was a nobler sentiment than the greed is good ethic that consumes so many today, and which helped shape Wall Streets 2008 bonfire of the vanities and the economic crisis that followed, according to The Star. He was Americas boyish hero, the youngest U.S. president, the first Roman Catholic, the first to master the powerful new medium of television, the first to inspire the postwar generation with his energy, wit and eloquence. Americans wonder to this day what he might have accomplished, surrounded by the best and the brightest, had he not been cut down by an assassins bullet and then dissected by endless biographers and conspiracy theorists and When John F. Kennedy was gunned down 50 years ago today, the Toronto Daily Star mourned him as a charismatic champion of American power and idealism who swept into office like a fresh breeze and challenged his nation to reach for the moon and social justice, even as he guided it through the Cuban missile and Berlin Wall crises, its darkest hours since the Second World War. Of course, some American historians would be less charitable in their judgment as presidential records were gradually opened. But for a thousand days, he seemed to defy the claim that there is no new thing under the sun. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Janet Churnin: Thats why the 79-year-old refused to fill out the short form census in 2011, according to The Star. On Friday, Churnin will go to trial for contravening the Statistics Act, a criminal offence that carries a potential $500 fine and/or three months in jail and Janet Churnin loves the long-form census. It helps society figure out how to spend its money, to plan transit and deal with the plight of the marginalized. Well, its just useless, Churnin said in her downtown Toronto apartment Tuesday. They never should have gotten rid of the long-form census. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

OTTAWA Statistics Canada: OTTAWA Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving regular employment insurance benefits decreased in September by 1.4 per cent compared with the previous month, according to The Chronicle Herald. Before the small decline, the number of EI beneficiaries had been relatively unchanged for three months and It says the number of beneficiaries was 503,800, about 7,100 fewer than in August and down 8.8 per cent compared with September 2012. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.