benito floro: That is an absolutely outstanding international career, said Findlay, according to Hamilton Spectator. He's been a great servant for our country and our program. The 30-year-old defender-midfielder from the Vancouver Whitecaps is one of 18 players selected by interim Canadian coach Michael Findlay from a 27-man camp roster in Florida to travel to Bermuda. Marcel has provided a strong leadership example within this environment here and has been contributing both on the field and off the field in terms of what we're asking of him. He has played under six Canadian coaches Dale Mitchell, Stephen Hart, Tony Fonseca, Colin Miller, Benito Floro and Findlay. De Jong made his senior debut for Canada in November 2007 in a 0-0 tie with South Africa in Durban. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

british columbia: The Sun Sea left Thailand in July and arrived in B.C. waters five weeks later, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils intent on claiming refugee status, according to CTV. The Supreme Court of British Columbia heard that the vessel crossed the Pacific Ocean without a formal crew, despite being unseaworthy and designed only for coastal travel. The 12 jurors began their deliberations in the case of two Canadians and two Sri Lankans who have pleaded not guilty to organizing or assisting the 2010 voyage of MV Sun Sea. It is important that you consider the evidence in relation to each of the accused separately, Justice William Ehrcke told the jury in his final instructions. Mahendran and Rajaratnam are Canadian citizens who were not aboard the vessel. For each accused, ask yourselves, 'What evidence is there that that man did the things that the Crown alleges ' Kunarobinson Christhurajah, Lesly Emmanuel, Nadarajah Mahendran and Thampeernayagam Rajaratnam are each charged with violating the Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act by organizing, inducing, aiding or abetting the illegal entry of 10 or more people into Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

california casualty: Calling the decision the first California casualty of the Trump presidency, Sen, according to Metro News. Ricardo Lara said he doesn't trust the incoming administration to protect people's privacy and health. California officials on Wednesday withdrew their request to sell unsubsidized insurance policies to people who can't prove they're legally in the United States after learning the decision would fall to President-elect Donald Trump's administration. The Democrat from Bell Gardens wrote legislation seeking to waive a federal requirement that the Covered California insurance exchange only do business with citizens and legal U.S. residents. Trump, who has alarmed California Democrats with his rhetoric about immigrants and his pledge to step up deportations, takes office on Friday. Officials from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notified Covered California's executive director on Tuesday that there would be a one-month public comment period and a 180-day window to make a final decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

celebrity role: Movie bosses turned their attention instead to the former One Direction star and reworked the script to accommodate him and a string of A-list celebrities, including Rihanna, model Hailey Baldwin, tennis star Maria Sharapova and Kylie Jenner's rapper boyfriend Tyga, according to Hamilton Spectator. A source said Originally it was Kim Kardashian with the lead celebrity role. The 24-year-old singer is currently filming the star-studded blockbuster - which centres on a jewellery heist at a fake Met Gala event with Kim Kardashian West as the intended target - in New York City, but producers feared Kim would drop out after she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris last October. But after Paris producers didn't expect her to turn up, so the script was rewritten to accommodate other celebrities including Zayn. The source added to the Daily Star newspaper It's an old fashioned caper. The film also features a host of Hollywood stars, such as Olivia Munn, Sandra Bullock, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and Cate Blanchett. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bottom line: Inside the social media company, inclusion is a work in progress, according to The Waterloo Record. The people who frequent the service may hail from diverse backgrounds, yet employees of the social media company still do not. We strive to meet that spirit of inclusion in our workplace too, he wrote in a blog post Thursday. That's the bottom line from the latest report on the company's demographics. According to its year-end calculations, the overall percentage of African Americans and Latinos in the Twitter workforce has barely budged in more than a year. Under-represented minorities and women continue to lag at the company where nine of 10 employees are white or Asian and about two-thirds are men, according to the company's latest report on the demographics of its workers that Twitter released Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

british columbia: The Sun Sea left Thailand in July and arrived in B.C. waters five weeks later, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils intent on claiming refugee status, according to The Waterloo Record. The Supreme Court of British Columbia heard that the vessel crossed the Pacific Ocean without a formal crew, despite being unseaworthy and designed only for coastal travel. The 12 jurors began their deliberations in the case of two Canadians and two Sri Lankans who have pleaded not guilty to organizing or assisting the 2010 voyage of MV Sun Sea. It is important that you consider the evidence in relation to each of the accused separately, Justice William Ehrcke told the jury in his final instructions. Mahendran and Rajaratnam are Canadian citizens who were not aboard the vessel. For each accused, ask yourselves, 'What evidence is there that that man did the things that the Crown alleges ' Kunarobinson Christhurajah, Lesly Emmanuel, Nadarajah Mahendran and Thampeernayagam Rajaratnam are each charged with violating the Immigrant and Refugee Protection Act by organizing, inducing, aiding or abetting the illegal entry of 10 or more people into Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

celebrity role: Movie bosses turned their attention instead to the former One Direction star and reworked the script to accommodate him and a string of A-list celebrities, including Rihanna, model Hailey Baldwin, tennis star Maria Sharapova and Kylie Jenner's rapper boyfriend Tyga, according to The Waterloo Record. A source said Originally it was Kim Kardashian with the lead celebrity role. The 24-year-old singer is currently filming the star-studded blockbuster - which centres on a jewellery heist at a fake Met Gala event with Kim Kardashian West as the intended target - in New York City, but producers feared Kim would drop out after she was robbed at gunpoint in Paris last October. But after Paris producers didn't expect her to turn up, so the script was rewritten to accommodate other celebrities including Zayn. The source added to the Daily Star newspaper It's an old fashioned caper. The film also features a host of Hollywood stars, such as Olivia Munn, Sandra Bullock, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, and Cate Blanchett. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

executive director: Ricardo Lara said he doesn't trust the incoming administration to protect people's privacy and health, according to Brandon Sun. The Democrat from Bell Gardens wrote legislation seeking to waive a federal requirement that the Covered California insurance exchange only do business with citizens and legal U.S. residents. Calling the decision the first California casualty of the Trump presidency, Sen. Officials from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notified Covered California's executive director on Tuesday that there would be a one-month public comment period and a 180-day window to make a final decision. California is committed to a healthier future for all, and we will continue to seek ways to expand health coverage even as Republicans in Washington move to take it away, Lara said in a statement, referring to GOP efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. Trump, who has alarmed California Democrats with his rhetoric about immigrants and his pledge to step up deportations, takes office on Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

glen pye: You're getting a guy who is pretty colourful and says lots of crazy things, he said, according to Guelph Mercury. It certainly upsets the status quo. For Glen Pye, a Toronto business owner, it's a historic event made even more appealing by Trump's persona. Pye, 64, plans to gather with colleagues at The Longest Yard, an eatery in the city's west end that will be broadcasting the inauguration. You can't have someone like that forever but once every 100 years maybe it's good to have someone come in like that, he said. While he doesn't call himself a Trump supporter, Pye said he's intrigued by the president-elect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dickinson: Dickinson made that abundantly clear when she appeared on CBC News Wednesday, just hours after her former colleague announced his leadership bid, according to Huffington Post Canada. I will have a drink with Kevin O'Leary that doesn't mean I think he should be a leader of our country, she said during the interview. The Canadian businesswoman, who frequently sparred with Kevin O'Leary on the CBC show, is still not a fan of the latest Conservative leadership candidate. Arlene Dickinson on a red carpet in Toronto in 2014. Dickinson also described the candidate as lacking compassion a quality she said he has in common with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Photo Courtney Greenberg/The Canadian Press O'Leary is an opportunistic guy Dickinson added, saying she thinks his leadership bid has a lot to do with seeking fame and attention. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

donald trump: Donald Trump speaks at a news conference in New York on Jan. 11, according to Huffington Post Canada. Photo Evan Vucci/AP via CP According to a survey of 1,500 Americans released Thursday by the Angus Reid Institute, eight-in-10 want Trump to approach Canada as a valued partner and ally 57 per cent or on friendly terms 23 per cent . The numbers suggest Canada has a better reputation among Americans than the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, France, and Germany. It's a much different picture for the United States' neighbour to the south. Though much has been made of the contrasts between Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it turns out supporters of the brash Republican may hold a slightly more positive view of Canada than those who voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton. But it seems Americans are looking to Mexico with more caution. Eighty-six per cent of Trump supporters told the firm they want his administration to be on friendly terms with its northern ally, compared to 81 per cent of Clinton supporters who said the same. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

founder: It starts right now, O'Leary told CTV's Your Morning, moments after the announcement online, according to CTV. I'm in. O'Leary, chair of O'Leary Financial Group and founder of O'Leary Funds, made it official Wednesday on Facebook, after months of publicly speculating about what he might do if he were prime minister. O'Leary enters the fray one day after the Conservatives' first French-language leadership debate, in which all 13 other candidates participated. However, he says he spoke French up until the age of seven, when he was a boy growing up in Montreal. O'Leary does not speak fluent French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

glen pye: You're getting a guy who is pretty colourful and says lots of crazy things, he said, according to CTV. It certainly upsets the status quo. For Glen Pye, a Toronto business owner, it's a historic event made even more appealing by Trump's persona. Pye, 64, plans to gather with colleagues at The Longest Yard, an eatery in the city's west end that will be broadcasting the inauguration. You can't have someone like that forever but once every 100 years maybe it's good to have someone come in like that, he said. While he doesn't call himself a Trump supporter, Pye said he's intrigued by the president-elect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

identity document: The identity document, which allows her to return to her job in Canada, was approved and issued, and then lost in the mail, according to Toronto Star. It was reprinted twice upon requests for a replacement, but those replacements didn't come either. Salma Sultana By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., Jan. 19, 2017 Salma Sultana has been waiting for her work permit since she graduated from an MBA program in Canada last February. Being unable to get that piece of paper prevented her from visiting her ill mother back in India, and she worries it has exposed her to the threat of identity theft. You felt totally powerless. Although the Immigration Department's records show she is authorized to work in the country she has worked as a marketing manager for a software company in Vancouver she said she wasn't able to travel outside Canada without the permit attached to her passport. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

one-trick pony: If he lived in a Donald Trump-like world full of walls, he wouldn't be who he is today, so he's all for a wide-open, diverse Canada, according to Hamilton Spectator. Fair enough. His main defence against the Trump-like observations He says his mother was Lebanese-Canadian. But the Trumpian comparisons aren't going to go away that easily. O'Leary, who vaulted to top spot in the leadership race thanks to his notoriety, is proudly a one-trick pony. It's true that he has not played into identity politics and bigotry, like Kellie Leitch and some other leadership contenders have. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

paul street: Paul Street, and is scheduled to open on Monday, according to CBC. Syrian refugee family has Thunder Bay connections Syrian refugees get cold weather, but a warm welcome, in northern Ontario Toubaji was determined to open the restaurant within his first twelve months in the city, in order to show his gratitude to those who had helped his family, said Hamza Hatoum, a relative who translated for Toubaji during an interview with CBC Thunder Bay's Superior Morning. Damascus Donair, named for the Syrian capital city where owner Zaher Toubaji was born, will be located on St. He just wanted to show everybody that before the year is up, before the sponsorship's up that, you know, 'I'm going to be on my own two feet,' said Hatoum. Redwood Refugee Support Circle / Facebook Toubaji arrived with his wife and daughters in Thunder Bay last February as a privately sponsored refugee supported by Redwood Park Church. Toubaji was determined to open the restaurant within his first twelve months in the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rights: The letter was also sent to the premier, the province's justice minister and police complaints commissioner, among others, according to CBC. The group wants SIRT and the human rights commission to investigate the practice and ask for police to immediately halt street checks, which they say violates citizens' individual rights under the Constitution. The group, which includes social workers and lawyers, has written a letter the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission and the Serious Incident Response Team SIRT the province's police watchdog. Police collected street check data Statistics collected by the Halifax Regional Police going back 11 years reveal police are three times more likely to stop and check people who are black than white individuals. Social worker Robert Wright was one of the people who wrote the letter, along with Dalhousie law professor Michelle Williams, lawyer Shawna Hoyte and Rev. In the first 10 months of 2016, 41 per cent of street checks done by the RCMP around Halifax involved people identified by officers as black. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump supporter: You're getting a guy who is pretty colourful and says lots of crazy things, he said, according to The Chronicle Herald. It certainly upsets the status quo. For Glen Pye, a Toronto business owner, it's a historic event made even more appealing by Trump's persona. Pye, 64, plans to gather with colleagues at The Longest Yard, an eatery in the city's west end that will be broadcasting the inauguration. You can't have someone like that forever but once every 100 years maybe it's good to have someone come in like that, he said. Trump sweeps into Washington with a wave and a salute While he doesn't call himself a Trump supporter, Pye said he's intrigued by the president-elect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

youth award: This year, on the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary, one winner each will be recognized for our Youth award and the RBC Entrepreneur award, according to CBC. If you know of an immigrant who has made a positive impact or is an inspiration to others, click here to nominate them. This program recognizes their achievements and accomplishments, and uncovers and celebrates their stories. Nominations close on Monday, February 27th, 2017. CBC Toronto is a proud media sponsor. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

i hope: Dear friend, The last time I wrote a letter of concern to someone in position of power outside India was to appeal to Adolf Hitler to work for peace, according to Guelph Mercury. Unfortunately, my letter was never delivered. He wrote the following commentary in the form of letters that Gandhi himself had written. I hope my letter to you will fare better and that you read it and act on it. President John F. Kennedy's role in the Cuban Missile Crisis comes to mind as an example of the former; Hitler's in the Second World War as an example of the latter. There are moments in history when a leader finds himself or herself in a position that can make or break the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

months: You can't believe this kind of stuff on a day-by-day basis is sustainable, according to National Observer. In the months since Trump's historic presidential victory, a candidate for Conservative leadership in Canada has proposed a Trump-style immigration screening policy and been accused of xenophobia by her colleagues. Trump over the last two weeks, said Frank Graves, president and founder of EKOS Research Associates. Racist rhetoric in Canada has spiked, evidenced through a number of shocking confrontations, and Americans crashed the Canadian immigration website at least five times. That doesn't mean the sky is falling, said Graves, a regular political commentator in Ottawa, but it does mean justification for Canadians who feel panic as the Republican businessman and reality TV star enters the White House. South of the border, the Mexican peso has tanked, equity markets have soared, and early efforts to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA already appear to be well underway. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rd year: It's kind of amazing, according to Guelph Mercury. Now heading into its 33rd year, actor-director Robert Redford started Sundance to showcase independent film and over time the festival developed a reputation for highlighting breakout movies that go on to bigger things, like Oscar-touted Manchester by the Sea, which premiered there a year ago. I think that's what Sundance can offer, a platform not only for stories to get out but also filmmakers to have a future career, said Latimer. Whiplash, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Little Miss Sunshine also showed first at Sundance. Nine Canadian works are on the Sundance slate and three are from indigenous producers music documentary Rumble The Indians Who Rocked the World from Montreal's Rezolution Pictures written and directed by Catherine Bainbridge and Alfonso Maiorana ; Heather Condo's short film My Father's Tools; and Latimer's Rise, a nine-part documentary series for Rogers Media's Viceland TV about native American environmental activism. This year's festival in the mountain town of Park City, Utah, not far from Salt Lake City, kicks off Thursday and runs through Jan. 29. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

romero house: My parents were two of them, says the novelist The Book Of Negroes, The Illegal set to read and lecture about his work in a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Romero House for refugees, according to NOW Magazine. Romero House offers essential services to people escaping brutal conditions in their home countries. Free. romerohouse.org Lawrence Hill wants us to embrace all newcomers to Canada, not only bona fide refugees, but people who are just pissed off at their home country like, say, the United States. His parents came as American immigrants for political reasons from DC to Toronto in 1953 and never went back. They became our most passionate engaged citizens, and we've benefitted socially and politically in every way. In the 60s, when Pierre Trudeau opened the door to Vietnam War resisters, we rolled out the welcome mat, and war resisters came here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trade scheme: While you were cursing the extra bourbons you swilled at the close of a notoriously crummy year, Conservative pundits were already penning copy blaming their New Year's headaches on Ontario's latest green policy resolutions, according to NOW Magazine. The province's new cap and trade scheme kicked in January 1, slapping a price on carbon pollution for most major greenhouse gas emitters and critics in the press are howling that we'll now be paying through the nose to drive to work, heat our homes, buy food and keep the lights on. Toronto, ON Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne speaks to the media after the televised Ontario Leadership Election Debate held at the CBC studios in Toronto. Ontario's plan destroy jobs, save the planet, screamed Margaret Wente's headline in the Globe. Pollsters suggest hydro bills have already dethroned the Wynne government, whose approval ratings have hit record lows hovering around 15 per cent . To help quell voter discontent, the province has axed the 8 per cent HST on hydro bills effective January 1 and cancelled billions in new green energy projects, all while pumping some 32 billion into what many have deemed unnecessary nuclear plant refurbishments. It'll be catastrophic, threatened others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian parents: Donald Trump has young, undocumented immigrants living in fear Are Americans really going to flee to Canada after Trump win Of those people, Green said there's a big variety in who they are and why they are interested in moving north, according to CBC. He broke it down into four categories. We're probably doing two or three consultations a day, said Evan Green of Green and Spiegel on CBC Radio's Metro Morning. The 'wayward Canadians' Wayward Canadians are people who live in the United States but are either from Canada or have Canadian parents or grandparents. With that group, we're seeing action. Green said calls from this group are the most serious, with people trying to get their ducks in order to come. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

chance: The tribunal is supposed to be immigrants' last resort as the Parliament has given it the discretionary power to give immigrants a second chance if they breach the law, said immigration lawyer Lawrence Wong, who obtained the data through an access to information request, according to Metro News. But that second chance in reality is hard to come by. Although these newcomers can appeal to a tribunal to restore their permanent resident status under humanitarian considerations, only one in 10 succeeds in the process, according to government data. The national sentiment is pretty much the same. If you do, we want to see you kicked out. If you are an immigrant, don't make a mistake. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.