families cbc: Grand Beach drowning victims David Medina and Jhonalyn Javier mourned Both children had immigrated to Canada from the Philippines with their families, according to CBC. CBC has not be able to confirm yet whether the children knew how to swim or whether they took swimming lessons. The drowning of two children, David Medina, 12, and Jhonalyn Javier, 11, at Grand Beach on Monday highlights how quickly peril can strike in the water. David Medina, left, and Jhonalyn Javier, right, are shown in this photo taken at Grand Beach on Monday, before they went missing. New Canadian tweens more likely than their peers to be unable to swim: study Chris Love, Lifesaving Society Manitoba water smart co-ordinator, said swim classes for immigrants are something that could help save lives. "We don't have that funding yet in Manitoba, and it is something that we continue to work towards," Love said. A 2016 report by the Lifesaving Society of Canada says new Canadians age 11 to 14 are five times more likely to not know how to swim compared to their Canadian-born counterparts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mel hurtig: The author, entrepreneur and political activist, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, left his father Edmonton fur shop in the mid-1950s to found first a chain of bookstores, then a publishing house and eventually a series of public projects all dedicated to promoting the ideas he held dear: that Canadians should be allowed to shape their own future and that prosperity should be fairly shared, according to Toronto Star. Hurtig was a passionate, progressive voice that attracted followers and ruffled feathers in roughly equal measure. Thu., Aug. 4, 2016 It a good thing for Canadians the furrier life did not appeal to Mel Hurtig. But neither ally nor enemy could reasonably deny his contribution to the defining Canadian debates of our time. After selling his publishing company, he became a key figure in the debates over free trade that divided the country in the 1980s. Hurtig first came to prominence as a publisher, most notably of the massive Canadian Encyclopedia, an ambitious project that hinted at the nationalism that would define his political life. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

news conference: The Coalition started off with a list of recommendations they want implemented to address Abdirahman Abdi death, according to CTV. But the news conference quickly became about what went wrong and who is to blame. They said he sending a clear message that black lives don't matter. And top of their list was Ottawa mayor. Now they are coming together as a coalition demanding answers and action. They have marched, they have mourned. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

olympics roll: But for Arthur Biyarslanov, it worth dusting it off and puffing it up, according to Metro News. For Canada only male boxer at the Rio Games, this really has been a journey unlike any of his fellow countrymen and women. The word 'journey' gets worn thin every four years when the Olympics roll around. The 21-year-old fighting nickname - the Chechen Wolf - gives a hint of his long, remarkable, wild winding road to Brazil. It usually comes in at nighttime before I go to sleep. I think about it almost every day - where I am today, what I have done, what I have been through, Biyarslanov tells Metro. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

protection care: The UN has declared it genocide, and the Canadian government has followed suit, according to Toronto Star. Two years after the attack, however, Ottawa response to the Yazidis' plight remains sluggish, as the immigration department struggles to meet its pledge to bring in and resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. Thu., Aug. 4, 2016 On Aug. 3, 2014, Iraq Yazidi minority was attacked by Daesh jihadists and subjected to some of the worst atrocities of the 21st century. Only a small trickle of Yazidis has been able to enter Canada. This is at a time when the UN commission investigating Daesh human rights abuses against the Yazidis has raised the alarm that the genocide is ongoing, and made an urgent plea for their rescue, protection and care. Although the department says it is putting plans in place to process government-assisted and privately sponsored refugee cases from northern Iraq -- where tens of thousands of vulnerable Yazidis are sheltering in precarious conditions -- its plans include only Syrian refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

province: I'm preparing to move to Victoria, B.C., where there appears to be a lot more job offerings than here in New Brunswick, says Nackawic resident Daniel Andrews, according to CTV. Born and raised in the province, Andrews says he hasn't been able to find a good job that he qualified for at home. Even with the plan in mind, many have already decided it too late. After the province cancelled the tuition rebate program, the enticement to stay has disappeared for him too. It really seems that, at the end of the day, the students and recent graduates of New Brunswick are shouldering the burden of the poor economic situation in the province, says Andrews. He decided to move his two degrees and his skills out west in just a couple of weeks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rachael bestard: Bestard, 24, is going to Europe in October, she hopes, which would be her first trip out of the country since she was a kid, according to Huffington Post Canada. That when she last had a passport. Hamilton native Rachael Bestard found that out the hard way when she applied for a passport this week. A passenger holds a Canadian passport before boarding a flight in Ottawa on Jan 23, 2007. The other required documentation is government-issue photo ID, which includes her name, date of birth and sex. She went through the usual motions — getting guarantor signatures, passport photos, and finding her birth certificate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

safety officers: RCMP said the children went missing as the sun was setting, according to CBC. Their bodies were recovered a short time later by beach safety officers. Sustainable Development Minister Cathy Cox said the review will start as soon as possible. "We're going to review the entire program to see how effective it is in light of this enormous tragedy," Cox said Thursday. "We want to make sure something like this doesn't happen again on our beaches." Grand Beach drowning victims David Medina and Jhonalyn Javier mourned David Medina, 12, and Jhonalyn Javier, 11 — both newcomers who arrived with their families from the Philippines in recent years — drowned on Monday evening. Currently no lifeguards are on duty at Manitoba beaches. The safety officers are "highly trained individuals," said Cox. Instead beach safety officers, who have lifeguard certification, provide water safety tips to parents but do not supervise waters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wef reports: An immigrant investor program allows people to buy citizenship or residency for a "substantial investment," the WEF reports, according to Huffington Post Canada. The object of such a program is to drive business investment in a country. But how much does that privilege cost And how does it compare to other countries The International Monetary Fund outlined the cost of citizenship and residency in a chart published in December, that was recently reported on by the World Economic Forum . It shows that the cost of permanent residency in Canada ranks with either the most or least expensive countries, depending on whether you want to settle in Quebec or P.E.I., the two provinces that still take money in exchange for permanent residency. And there lots of money to be had. Foreign investor money made up as much as 25 per cent of the GDP in St. Every year, thousands of people spend as much as $2 billion every year obtaining a second or even third passport, BBC News reported in 2014. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian context: Over the past month, Malli has been getting some assistance bridging that divide from an Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia program that helps him translate his skills as a mechanic to the Canadian context, according to CBC. The Bridge to Work program connects newcomers who are trained in a trade with employers who need their skills, linking the two through on-site language classes and interpreters. But since he arrived in Nova Scotia in January, the language barrier was one problem that Malli, who is originally from Syria and most recently lived in Jordan, couldn't fix on his own. Adjusting to a new context For Malli, this has meant an assessment placement at Mac Phee Ford in Dartmouth, where he — along with three other mechanics, from Eritrea, Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria — will eventually undergo apprenticeships towards their red seal certifications. He was accustomed to working on Japanese cars in Syria, and had never worked on American vehicles before starting at Mac Phee. There are differences, Malli said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian: I miss my daughter, according to CTV. I love my daughter. Former mill worker Gurdev Dhillon told CTV News via Skype from a remote village in the Punjab region – where he makes $200 a month as a subsistence farmer – he wants to come home. I want to see her grow up and I miss that, Dhillon told CTV News. On Tuesday, Dhillon Canadian lawyers applied in B.C. Supreme Court for an injunction requiring the Canadian government to restore Dhillon permanent residency status and process his application for Canadian citizenship despite a 19-month delay. I want to come back to Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

company: The request for submissions, which closed last week, yielded 13 responses from various entities including several commercial and residential developers, a hotel company, a pharmaceutical company, an immigration law firm, and a company that develops manages casinos, according to The Chronicle Herald. Department spokesperson Brian Taylor said the staff will evaluate the submissions in the coming weeks , and from there, government will make a decision on next steps. The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal announced in mid-June that it was seeking submissions for innovative and creative ideas to develop the seven-storey Dennis Building site on Granville Street which includes the three-storey Hansard Building and the adjacent parking lot. Joe Ballard, President of the Historic Trust of Nova Scotia said the province should not have lumped the two buildings together in seeking proposals as it limits the number of developers that have the ability to seriously respond to projects of that scale. Ballard organization provided was one of the 13 that responded to the province, but he said the aim of the submission was to provide information to the province and outline their position. We know there are individuals that are interested in just one of the buildings, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

detention: Immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario began eating over the weekend, ending an 18-day hunger strike, according to Rabble. End Immigration Detention Network could not confirm if detainees at the Toronto East Detention Centre have continued the hunger strike. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Yesterday, approximately 30 people rallied outside the Lindsay facility to show their support for the detainees, who began refusing food on July 11 to demand an end to indefinite immigration detention and request a meeting with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. Over the past two weeks, solidarity protests were held in Regina, Peterborough, Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. The minister refused to meet with the detainees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

flavourful cooking: The next morning, she set up her shoot in her bedroom with a wooden cutting board, curry powder, black pepper, bay leaves, a zesty slice of lemon and a pair of elephant earrings from Uganda for her first-place shot, according to Toronto Star. As someone who has recently moved out on her own, this shot reminds me of my parents and where they came from. The night before the submission deadline loomed, a light bulb went off in her head. Now that I live downtown, I find myself trying to emulate their flavourful cooking, said the 25-year-old graphic designer, born in Toronto to Ugandan parents from Kampala. Though they are only a bus ride away from me, home for them is much farther. What I have learned to cook has come from watching, smelling and tasting the magic they have created in the kitchen for the last 24 years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

halifax-born hayes: Hayes, who died in hospital this week at age 92, was an advocate for Christian unity and interfaith conversation, as well as a proponent of liturgical renewal, according to The Chronicle Herald. Speaking to The Canadian Press, David Dean, a Roman Catholic teacher at the Atlantic School of Theology, described Hayes as a Pope Francis-style figure, prior to Pope Francis. Archbishop emeritus James Hayes, retired archbishop of Halifax, was widely respected for his liturgical leadership and deeply loved for his pastoral care. He was a common man with a common touch. Halifax-born Hayes was ordained a priest in 1947 at age 23. During his time it was far less common than it is today. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration experts: Although the meetings are by invitation only — more are coming in August — the public can submit ideas by email to the minister, according to Metro News. Since early July, more than 2,500 online submissions have been received. Since the beginning of the summer, Immigration Minister John McCallum and his parliamentary secretary, Arif Virani, have held more than two dozen roundtable meetings across Canada with settlement services organizations, businesses and community groups to get their thoughts. Submissions end Aug. 5. While the final report won't be ready till at least the fall, Torstar News Service interviewed a group of immigration experts to weigh in on the national dialogue by identifying gaps in the system and offering solutions. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will be reviewing the feedback from Canadians to help guide decisions on how many people we will welcome in the coming years and the future of immigration in Canada, said a department spokesperson. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

insight july: Louis: a black mark on Canada history, Insight July 23The negative aspects of Canada 1930s immigration policies related by Nova Scotia author Allison Lawlor , must be contrasted with Canada response half a century earlier to the desperate Jews who were fleeing anti-Semitic pogroms following the 1881 assassination of Czar Alexander II. After joining the broadly based Mansion House Committee in London, High Commissioner Alexander Tilloch Galt with the approval of Sir John A. Macdonald quickly arranged for some 340 impoverished Russian Jews to come to Winnipeg in 1882, according to Toronto Star. There were fewer than 2,500 Jews in the country at the time, and it was an astonishing rescue effort. Louis: a black mark on Canada history, Insight July 23The MS St. Article Continued Below Bernard M.L. Katz, Toronto The Morning Headlines Newsletter Delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up react-empty: 141 (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

job openings: According to the study, nearly 110,000 jobs will open up in 52 transportation and construction occupations across the province by 2025, including management and regular positions in the construction, logistics, marine, rail and trucking sectors, according to Toronto Star. Findings of the Asia-Pacific Gateway Skills Table study show retiring workers are the main reason for the vacancies, but continued expansion of the corridor also plays a role. By The Canadian Press Wed., Aug. 3, 2016 VANCOUVER—A new study shows British Columbia will require thousands of skilled workers over the next decade, just to maintain the needs of the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative. The report warns Lower Mainland and northern B.C. employers to expect ongoing difficulties filling job openings, but the challenge will be especially pronounced between 2019 and 2023. Article Continued Below The federal government website says the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor was created as the best transportation network for trade between North America and Asia and is a growing and vital part of the national economy. The initiative is a non-profit, regional partnership between labour, business, education and training institutions, with a goal of ensuring the Asia-Pacific Gateway has the right workers at the right time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

justices: Ranjan Agarwal, president of the South Asian Bar Association of Toronto and a partner at Bennett Jones LLP, told Metro Morning that the problem is Supreme Court justices tend to come from provincial Courts of Appeal and there are few diverse candidates to choose from at that level, according to CBC. Justin Trudeau outlines selection process for new Supreme Court justices Diversity, he said, must start with the appointment of diverse judges at lower court levels. Not yet, anyway. Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. For the most part, our Supreme Court justices are elevated from the provincial Courts of Appeal. He acknowledged that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who ultimately makes the appointment, is making an effort to encourage diversity. "You have to remember one structural fact. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

officer i: Phoenix Falling Public servants share stories of pay system pain Phoenix public service pay problems could last until October She said her work, which involves monitoring murderers, sex offenders and gang members at a medium security prison in Grande Cache, Alta., isn't worth the danger if she being underpaid, according to CBC. I could be killed ... I do not want to risk my life for the rate of pay that is reflected on my pay stub"- Bogna Betkowski, correctional officer "I could be taken hostage," said Betkowski, who has been a correctional officer for eight years. "I could be raped. Bogna Betkowski, 50, calls it a "slap in the face" to receive less than half of her usual pay over the past month because of the payroll mess affecting more than 80,000 federal public servants. I could be slashed. She cleaned hotels to make a living back then. "Going to work for $5 or $11 dollars an hour — that not right," said Betkowski. "That absolutely unacceptable. I could be killed...I do not want to risk my life for the rate of pay that is reflected on my pay stub." Due to an error on her paycheques, Betkowski said she brings home the same pay as when she arrived in Canada as a Polish immigrant in 1991. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

olympic games: The 11-year-old kid signed up to run the next day, according to Metro News. Fifteen years later, Kaba is heading to Rio to represent Canada at his first Olympic Games. It wasn't until his family immigrated to Ypsilanti, Mich., that he first saw high school hurdlers training at a track facility. It means a great deal to be able to represent this great country that took me in, says the elite hurdler, who trains at the Ottawa Lions Track and Field Club. As a newly landed immigrant with no English, he was bullied as a kid. But it has been a bumpy road to Rio for Kaba. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

program: Each year up to 400 mostly Mexican workers come to Manitoba under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program to work on local farms, according to Rabble. They perform physically strenuous work on vegetable farms and in greenhouses for up to eight months, year after year. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Workers regularly toil 12 hours per day, six to seven days a week, and they live socially isolated from Canadian society. As such, 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the program which was initially created to temporarily assist farmers in obtaining the workers required to cultivate their crops. The SAWP is the longest-standing Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada, dating back to 1966. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shakespeare monologue: The urgency is actually old and recycled, according to Metro News. It contained in anti-immigration calls over centuries, addressed in a Shakespeare monologue that calls for an angry mob to put itself in the foreigner shoes, exemplified by discrimination and hatred shown to Irish, Italians and Polish in North America in decades past. Common, but deceptive. The urgency is apocalyptic. It promises the end is pretty much already nigh, the fears already realized. It signals a swift-stalking doom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

stephen harper: Perhaps this is because they have had so much practice, according to The Chronicle Herald. By my count, Bains is the fourth industry minister to launch an innovation agenda since the turn of the century. Have you submitted yours yet Bains added a link to the website for the federal government Innovation Agenda, which features a one-minute video assuring visitors that, indeed, Canada is a nation of innovators. Jean Chrétien minister Allan Rock had one. Then he appointed a panel on innovation, and then, noticing several years later that he was still prime minister, he appointed another. Stephen Harper sought to contrast with the Liberals by refusing to mention innovation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

party nominee: And if the disaster cannot be stopped, Canada must prepare for the worst, according to The Waterloo Record. Let unpack this. With 100 days to go until the United States presidential election, it is now time for Canada government to consider whether it can do anything to help stop Donald Trump election. The Democratic convention was a methodical display of strategy as theatre. They were more genuinely eager to see the party nominee elected. Its speakers were more prominent than those who spoke at the Republican convention a week earlier in Cleveland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

re: Altogether, the City of Coquitlam said, 86 residents have been displaced. "They have spent the last six months building the household that they need for their children," Stewart said. "So we're working hard with them now to put them back on their feet." The families are temporarily being housed at Simon Fraser University in some vacant townhouses, but only for a few more days, according to CBC. Immigrant Services Society of B.C. has taken on the responsibility of finding them housing, but the mayor is still asking for help from "We're putting out a call today to our residents for an unused basement suite or any number of other options, two bedrooms, three bedrooms — those kinds of things. Twelve families lost their homes — ten of them were recently arrived Syrian refugees. A bachelor suite doesn't work really well for a family of four." Stewart said cash is also needed, and anyone who wishes to donate can find more information on the City of Coquitlam website. The mayor said he was able to secure emergency funding from the province to help with the accommodation. A firefighter surveys damage to an Coquitlam, B.C. apartment after a fire on Thursday, July 28. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.