campbell: Three days before that, word had come that four-year-old Becky was sick, according to CTV. I was worried, of course, says Campbell. Rebecca Campbell received word on Feb. 22 that she was finally able to bring her adopted daughter home from Sierra Leone. I was determined to leave for Africa whether or not she has her citizenship. Campbell says she'll never forget seeing Becky when she arrived to bring her home. So on my birthday, the 28th of February, I left. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

games: Manager Scott Servais made the announcement Saturday, according to Hamilton Spectator. He said the batting order he used in Saturday's 1-all tie with Colorado in the spring training finale would probably be his lineup for the Monday opener at Houston. Seattle newcomers Jean Segura and Mitch Haniger are set to bat at the top of the Mariners' lineup to start the season. Segura hit .319 last season with the Arizona Diamondbacks, leading off in 147 games. Haniger concluded spring training with a .385 average. The shortstop batted .341 in spring training, including two three-hit games in his final four games. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

incites violence: They argued that Trump didn't intend for his supporters to use force, according to CTV. Two women and a man say they were shoved and punched by audience members at Trump's command. Trump's lawyers sought to dismiss the lawsuit by three protesters who say they were roughed up by his supporters at a March 1, 2016 rally in Louisville, Kentucky. Much of it was captured on video and widely broadcast during the campaign, showing Trump pointing at the protesters and repeating get them out. Hale found ample facts supporting allegations that the protesters' injuries were a direct and proximate result of Trump's actions, and noted that the Supreme Court has ruled out constitutional protections for speech that incites violence. Judge David J. Hale in Louisville ruled Friday that the suit against Trump, his campaign and three of his supporters can proceed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

games: He said the batting order he used in Saturday's 1-all tie with Colorado in the spring training finale would probably be his lineup for the Monday opener at Houston, according to Brandon Sun. Segura hit .319 last season with the Arizona Diamondbacks, leading off in 147 games. Manager Scott Servais made the announcement Saturday. The shortstop batted .341 in spring training, including two three-hit games in his final four games. The rookie right fielder also came from Arizona in a five-player trade in November. Haniger concluded spring training with a .385 average. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

aid services: Legal Aid Ontario, which threatened to reduce services for refugee clients last year amid a budget crisis, received 13.7 million from Ottawa in 2016, but will see its share in 2017 reduced to 8.6 million, said Toronto lawyer Raoul Boulakia, who sits on Legal Aid Ontario's refugee law advisory committee, according to Hamilton Spectator. Ensuring adequate funding for legal aid is a shared provincial and federal responsibility. In its 2017 budget announced last week, the federal government said it would provide 62.9 million over five years or 12.6 million annually until 2022 for provincial legal aid services across the country to assist with asylum claims, with the budget falling back to 11.5 million a year thereafter. The governments of Canada and Ontario should not allow legal aid funding to fall short of what is really needed, said Boulakia. Over the last few years, Ontario received 7 million a year from Ottawa to cover refugee legal aid services accounting for one-third of the province's spending on refugee legal services. The funding required to ensure legal aid services is a tiny fraction of any government's budget, but the impact on the people who need these services is enormous. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

application process: The group also said changes are being made to the application process, making it harder to reunite families, according to CTV. Now, they want to put restrictions on family reunification, which we think adds a lot of burden on the immigrants that want to come to the province. A small group gathered on the steps of the Manitoba Legislative Building Friday morning to protest a 500 fee the provincial government is tacking on to applications to the skilled worker stream of the MPNP, starting Saturday. And also the ones that want to being their families here, said Lizeth Adila of the Save MPNP Coalition. The MPNP was introduced in 1998 to bring skilled workers and investors to Manitoba, the province said in the statement. In a statement emailed to CTV News, the province said it is restoring the integrity of Manitoba's Provincial Nominee Program by ensuring processing times are respectful and nominations merit based. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

boxing ring: Patrick Brazeau, according to Toronto Star. Trudeau won so convincingly that he began his rise to power. Peter McCabe By Declan Hill Special to the Star Fri., March 31, 2017 Five years ago, Canadian politics changed inside a boxing ring, when then-Liberal MP Justin Trudeau fought then-Conservative Sen. To mark the anniversary of the fight, Toronto Star contributor Declan Hill who also fought that night jumped into the ring with the now-prime minister to check his boxing form and to interview him about the fight and the state of our nation. I blocked his blow and then, as I started a counterattack, realized something odd it is difficult to hit a prime minister. In the United States they have presidential press conferences; up here the prime minister tried to punch me in the jaw before an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

clifford offer: He facilitated and funded moving 7,500 Doukhobors to Saskatchewan from Russia, a major immigration both for them and for Canada, according to Rabble. The immigrants were one-third of the existing members of the pacifist Doukhobor religion, which had enraged the Czar by their men's refusal to wear soldiers' uniforms or to fight. In 1899, Russian author Leo Tolstoy took up Clifford Sifton's offer of free land. Instead, the conscriptees stripped naked and piled up their rifles into giant bonfires. Many live in the Kootenay region of B.C., near where U.S. immigrants also have settled. In the 21st century, about 25,000 Doukhobor descendants live in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, with about one-third still practicing their religion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

debt dates: To bring jobs and money, they built correctional centres with hundreds and sometimes more than a thousand beds that could be used to house inmates from other counties as well as prisoners for the state and federal governments, according to Metro News. In some cases, the strategy worked, at least for a while. The debt dates back to the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s, when some rural counties were losing employment prospects and population. But a decline in crime and an increase in alternative sentencing reduced the Texas prisoner population and created a glut of jail space. They can seek a federal contract to house some of the immigrants expected to be detained in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown. Now the debts, utility bills and maintenance are becoming so burdensome that counties are confronting a difficult choice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

explorer samuel: The premier said the history of Canada started three years earlier, when French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a settlement at Port Royal, N.S., now a national historic site in his riding, according to CTV. The history of Canada started in 1605 in Port Royal when Mi'kmaq Grand Chief Henri Membertou welcomed Champlain here in peace and friendship, the premier said Thursday after making an announcement in Fall River, N.S. It is unfortunate that people will try to rewrite history. Stephen McNeil said the CBC program, Canada The Story of Us, was wrong to assert that the country's first permanent European settlement was established in 1608 near what is now Quebec City. The fact of the matter is that Canada was founded here. The premier said Canada's public broadcaster should correct the mistake. Multicultural Canada began here in Port Royal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fee hike: The changes to the program, which is intended to attract skilled workers and businesspeople to the province, are set to come into force on April 1, according to CBC. That drew criticism from some of the attendees at the legislature this morning. Approximately 20 protesters at the Manitoba legislature shouted shame at the government and likened the fee to a head tax imposed on Chinese immigrants to Canada more than a century ago. 500 fee hike for immigrants called cash grab, head tax The group was scheduled to meet this morning with Ian Wishart, Manitoba's minister of immigration and training, but the minister's office postponed the meeting until next week. I think it represents the aloofness of this government the fact that they have this comfortable majority and they feel they can do whatever they want now, said University of Manitoba professor Henry Heller. University of Manitoba professor Henry Heller says the provincial government is displaying arrogance by postponing a meeting with opponents to changes to the provincial nominee program. They don't care what the citizens think or their response is. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

glow magazine: So finally, one Canadian fashion magazine decided it was time to share the stories of the diverse Canadian models changing the face of beauty in our country, according to Huffington Post Canada. And they did it in a big way. For many, there is an understanding that beauty is a celebration of individuality and differences, yet we don't see these things being praised enough. In their April 2017, Glow magazine featured Bali Kaur Bassi on their cover, making her the first Punjabi model to front a Canadian fashion magazine. Growing up, she watched Canada's Next Top Model and Fashion Television religiously, but never thought it would be possible for her, the daughter of conservative parents from a small village in Punjab, India, to make it in an industry with decidedly different standards of beauty. Born and raised in Toronto, Bassi is a first-generation Canadian. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

government numbers: Of that, the provincial government says about 120 Nova Scotia companies have submitted applications to participate in the program, which is the first phase in the process, according to The Chronicle Herald. Twelve employers have received official designation and another 50 are expected to be designated by the end of next week. According to government numbers, almost 200 employers have expressed interest in the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, with 50 being formally designated. This is a big opportunity for our province, said Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Lena Diab in an emailed statement. The program, announced in July as part of the Atlantic Growth Strategy and officially launched in March, aims to bring up to 2,000 primary immigrant applications and their families in 2017 with increased numbers in following years if the program performs well. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot is another tool employers can use to fill their labour gaps as they work to grow their businesses and the provincial economy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

half brother: And all in the same day, no less, according to The Chronicle Herald. The two bits of news may not exactly qualify as happy endings even for Pyongyang. Not only did North Korean officials manage to repatriate the body of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother and three North Korean citizens questioned in his assassination after a diplomatic standoff with Malaysia, but they also had the distinct pleasure of watching the humiliating arrest of their arch-enemy, South Korea's fallen president, Park Geun-hye. There's still a murder trial to be held in Malaysia that could be very embarrassing, and the fall of Park hardly ends the two Koreas' conflicts. The political demise of Park was one would imagine particularly sweet for Pyongyang. But coming just ahead of the North's biggest official festivities of the year, the April 15th celebrations of the birth anniversary of national founder and eternal president Kim Il Sung, they might be adding a little more pep to the leader gratitude being expressed within the regime these days. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

leitch: She is intelligent, compassionate, generous, and hard-working, according to Huffington Post Canada. Those are the words she uses to describe herself when asked. She's not mean, either. Over the course of a 90-minute lunch with The Huffington Post Canada, it is also clear Leitch is ambitious, strategic, protective of those close to her, and has a quick temper. The Conservative MP for Simcoe Grey has a packed schedule. Leitch arrives for lunch a few minutes late with her assistant, Nicole. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

man .,: It's at the end of Roxham Road that RCMP officers greet people entering the country illegally with a smile, handcuffs at the ready, according to CBC. It's this spot, with the possible exception of the frozen fields outside Emerson, Man., that's come to symbolize the plight of those who no longer feel welcome in the U.S. but know they cannot enter Canada through the front door. Yet the country lane lined with trailer homes that dead-ends at the Quebec-New York border is an easily recognized thoroughfare for asylum seekers leaving the uncertainty of Donald Trump's America for the welcoming unknown of Canada. Hear more on this story, Saturday on CBC Radio's The House Figures provided by the Canadian government show that in the first two months of the year, the RCMP intercepted 677 asylum seekers crossing into Quebec alone, according to The Canadian Press. An RCMP officer warns a man in New York state to stop or he'll be arrested for entering Canada illegally. Including numbers in Manitoba, B.C. and Saskatchewan brings the total to 1,134, compared to 2,464 in all of 2016, the Immigration Department said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

piece work: For decades, the work of their hands has gone, anonymously, into crafting high-end suits, the ultimate image of Western masculinity, according to CBC. Now the hands and labour and stories of those workers, in that monumental building, are at the heart of an art installation, Piece Work, on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Wave after wave of new immigrants to Hamilton have worked there, their stories woven into the fabric of the city and the company. The Coppley Apparel stone building on York Boulevard always intrigued artist Sara Angelucci, whose mom worked there in the 1950s and 1960s. Her parents and extended family emigrated from Italy in the 1950s. Kelly Bennett/CBC The artist, Hamilton native Sara Angelucci, first learned of the work inside from her mom, who sewed clothes there in the 1950s and 1960s. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

places courthouses: Sessions and Kelly sent the letter Wednesday to California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, saying state and city policies barring local law enforcement from turning over suspects for deportation have compelled federal agents to arrest immigrants at courthouses and other public places, according to Metro News. Courthouses are a safe place for federal agents to make the arrests because visitors are typically screened for weapons, the letter says. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly have defended federal agents who make immigration arrests at courthouses after California's top judge asked them to stop, according to a letter released Friday. While these law enforcement personnel will remain mindful of concerns by the public and governmental stakeholders regarding enforcement activities, they will continue to take prudent and reasonable actions within their lawful authority to achieve that mission, it says. Many counties and cities have refused to collaborate with immigration authorities after President Donald Trump signed executive orders to step up deportations. The response comes amid a feverish debate nationwide over the relationship between local law enforcement and immigration officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

prayer hall: Such protests aren't without risk of a backlash, especially in the politically heated atmosphere of France's upcoming presidential election, according to Hamilton Spectator. Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has previously decried street prayers, part of her anti-immigrant, anti-Islam outlook. The show of strength by throngs of worshippers in Clichy highlighted a long-standing issue for France's Muslim community, estimated at five million people a shortage of mosques. Clichy Muslims had been using a prayer hall rented from city hall. City hall refused to renew the three-year lease when it expired last June and, following a court battle, closed down the prayer hall last week with help from French police. But the town's mayor now wants to turn that space into a multimedia library for the town's 60,000 residents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

prosecution service: Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo By The Canadian Press Fri., March 31, 2017 HALIFAX The husband of Nova Scotia's immigration minister is undergoing a 45-day psychiatric assessment after being declared not criminally responsible for allegedly assaulting, threatening and choking his wife on New Year's Eve, according to Toronto Star. Chris Hansen of the Public Prosecution Service said Friday that Maroun Diab was deemed not criminally responsible after undergoing an earlier psychiatric evaluation. Maroun Diab was declared not criminally responsible for allegedly assaulting, threatening and choking his wife on New Year's Eve. The results of the current assessment will be provided to the Criminal Review Board, which will decide how to proceed, she said. Diab had been released on a series of conditions in January, including one prohibiting him from having any contact with his wife, Lena Diab, and two other people. He was sent for a 45-day assessment and then he will come back to the Criminal Review Board and they will decide the next steps, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

prosecution service: The results of the current assessment will be provided to the Criminal Review Board, which will decide how to proceed, she said, according to CTV. He was sent for a 45-day assessment and then he will come back to the Criminal Review Board and they will decide the next steps, she said. Chris Hansen of the Public Prosecution Service said Friday that Maroun Diab was deemed not criminally responsible after undergoing an earlier psychiatric evaluation. Diab had been released on a series of conditions in January, including one prohibiting him from having any contact with his wife, Lena Diab, and two other people. He also faced two counts of threatening two other people. His lawyer, Mark Knox, said at the time that he was later admitted to hospital under the province's Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sanctuary: While it makes a great political statement, its also a divisive tactic used by Americans, according to Huffington Post Canada. The Us versus Them model. President Donald Trump has stirred a lot of enthusiasm in Canada for sanctuary cities. When a person is escaping war or simply wants to immigrate to Canada, the driving force is the idea that Canada is an inclusive, safe country of multiculturalism. Declaring a city a sanctuary city is a slap in the face of Canadians because a sanctuary city tells the world that somehow the rest of Canada is not a safe place for refugees and immigrants. There's no thought that a single city in Canada is somehow a sanctuary while the rest of Canada isn't. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

society: The event displayed symbolically that antagonists could come together and march in unison thereby demonstrating that tolerance for each other is the best way forward, according to Toronto Star. Cole is also right to object to other agents of society currently defining the conflict. That's why Toronto's acceptance of Pride and its rainbow coalition was such a major social achievement. That's why Black Lives Matter Toronto is losing the public's good will for its cause by excluding the police from Pride. Article Continued Below Cole should acknowledge that principled thinking matters but so does strategic thinking. But Cole is wrong to think it's not necessary for the group to co-opt the hearts and minds of society. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

communities brinton: The appointments come just two months after the province appointed the first Mi'kmaq woman, Catherine Benton, and the third black woman, Ronda van der Hoek, to the provincial and family courts after years of lobbying for greater judicial diversity from the province's black and indigenous communities, according to Brandon Sun. Brinton is a black woman who has worked in legal aid for 15 years, while Sakalauskas, who is gay, is a Department of Justice lawyer who most recently practised in the child protection field and has worked nationally on LGBTQ issues. Premier Stephen McNeil announced the appointments Friday of Rickcola Brinton, Amy Sakalauskas, Samuel Moreau and Rosalind Michie, bringing the number of full-time provincial and family court judges to 38, of which 18 are women and five are black. Moreau is a black man who works with Nova Scotia Legal Aid's Port Hawkesbury office and has practised law for 18 years, and Michie has been a Crown counsel with the public prosecution service for 16 years. It's an important step in reconciliation. The premier said in an interview that it was important to him when he took office in 2013 to mould a judiciary that better reflects the province's diversity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

half brother: And all in the same day, no less, according to Brandon Sun. The two bits of news may not exactly qualify as happy endings even for Pyongyang. Not only did North Korean officials manage to repatriate the body of leader Kim Jong Un's estranged half brother and three North Korean citizens questioned in his assassination after a diplomatic standoff with Malaysia, but they also had the distinct pleasure of watching the humiliating arrest of their arch-enemy, South Korea's fallen president, Park Geun-hye. There's still a murder trial to be held in Malaysia that could be very embarrassing, and the fall of Park hardly ends the two Koreas' conflicts. The political demise of Park was one would imagine particularly sweet for Pyongyang. But coming just ahead of the North's biggest official festivities of the year, the April 15th celebrations of the birth anniversary of national founder and eternal president Kim Il Sung, they might be adding a little more pep to the leader gratitude being expressed within the regime these days. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

prosecution service: The results of the current assessment will be provided to the Criminal Review Board, which will decide how to proceed, she said, according to Brandon Sun. He was sent for a 45-day assessment and then he will come back to the Criminal Review Board and they will decide the next steps, she said. Chris Hansen of the Public Prosecution Service said Friday that Maroun Diab was deemed not criminally responsible after undergoing an earlier psychiatric evaluation. Diab had been released on a series of conditions in January, including one prohibiting him from having any contact with his wife, Lena Diab, and two other people. He also faced two counts of threatening two other people. His lawyer, Mark Knox, said at the time that he was later admitted to hospital under the province's Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Act. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.