greg abbott: After about 40 minutes, they began to cheer, drowning out the lawmakers below, according to Brandon Sun. Protesters also blew whistles and chanted Here to stay! and Hey, hey, ho, ho, SB4 has got to go, referring to the bill that Gov. Activists wearing red T-shirts reading Lucha, or Fight, quietly filled hundreds of gallery seats as proceedings began. Greg Abbott signed into law this month. The demonstration continued for about 20 minutes as officers led people out of the chamber peacefully in small groups. Some unfurled banners reading See you in court! and See you at the polls! State House leadership stopped the session and asked state troopers to clear the gallery. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

square miles: However, many in both countries are concerned about how the forces bolstered by the coalition will leverage their influence and arms once the militants are vanquished, according to Brandon Sun. Numerous Iraqi groups that benefited from the training and arms have been accused of human rights violations. Weapons, training and airstrikes by the coalition have aided ground forces in both Iraq and Syria, allowing Iraq's military, Iraqi Kurdish fighters and Syrian Kurdish fighters to retake some 55,000 square kilometres 21,235 square miles of territory from the Islamic State extremists in the nearly three-year fight. The Trump administration's decision to provide Syria's Kurds with more advanced weapons has raised concerns among the various players in Syria's complicated battlefield. Coalition spokesman Col. U.S. officials have said new weapons to be supplied would include heavy machine-guns, ammunition, mortars and possibly TOW anti-tank missiles. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

african americans: They openly make a reference that they are African and the others are black people, according to Huffington Post Canada. When I lived in the United States, I noticed that Caribbean people have a belief that they are better than African Americans because their culture is more connected to Africa. There are some people from Africa that believe they are different than people from the Caribbean. Some African Americans are less likely to have an interest in Africa or the Caribbean culture because their culture was taken from them by force during slavery. I have heard the stories of new African immigrants ridiculed by black people born in North America that have left some resenting those that were born here. Let's not forget some people that were not born in the continent of Africa, don't want to be connected to their original roots because of the negative images we see every day on television. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

age woman: They assume her father makes decisions for her, but it was her own decision to start wearing the hijab, a headscarf, at age 16, according to CBC. Woman don Muslim headscarves at 'Hijab for a Day' event Liberal MP's anti-Islamophobia motion set for debate on Wednesday They assume she doesn't speak English, when in fact she speaks it well. They assume she is a submissive woman but she regularly stands up for herself in the face of discrimination. It gets worse when you're not just a Muslim; you're a woman, you're visibly Muslim, possibly you're an immigrant, she told CBC's Jason D'Souza. They assume all of these things, she said, in part because of her heritage and her headscarf. When all those identities intersect, she said, it just makes it a lot worse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ben fox: Luis Alonso Lugo / The Associated Press By Luis Alonso Lugo And Ben Fox The Associated Press Mon., May 29, 2017 WASHINGTON Nancy Vasquez left the turmoil in her native El Salvador behind and moved to the U.S., where she was able to support her family, buy a house and start a food-truck business catering to workers on the outskirts of Washington thanks to a temporary residency permit that has lasted for nearly 20 years, according to Toronto Star. But the seemingly stable life that Vasquez and several hundred thousand others have built under that legal residency program now appears to be on shaky ground. Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. Immigrants and their supporters fear U.S. President Donald Trump's skepticism about immigration means he will take a harder line than his predecessors on a program that began as a humanitarian gesture to temporarily defer deportations of people from countries that were considered too fragile to take them back especially Central American nations devastated by war or natural disasters. She also wonders what she would do with her 11-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen by birth. Read the latest news on U.S. President Donald Trump Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

council officer: He was bilingual growing up, thanks to his French-Canadian mom, according to Hamilton Spectator. And before he hit the big time on Saturday Night Live, the criminology and sociology major worked for the federal government at the Department of Public Works, with the Canadian Penitentiary Service, and Royal Mail Canada. The Oscar-nominated comedy star was born on Canada Day July 1, 1952 in Ottawa, no less. His father, an engineer from London, Ont., also worked for the federal government and was a Privy Council officer for then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau. I am thoroughly, through and through, a Canadian, the Emmy Award-winning actor, comedian, writer, producer and businessman said in a recent phone interview. And his grandfather was a Royal Canadian Mounted Police staff sergeant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

time allocation: While the government has allowed more time for meaningful debate, it is ready to limit it through a measure known as time allocation, according to Globe and Mail. After opposition parties refused to consider Liberal changes that would have provided more predictability for government legislation, Ms. The legislation was sent back to the House, which rejected the Senate's amendments, setting the stage for a standoff between the chambers. Chagger bit back, saying they should expect time allocation more often on government legislation in order to speed up the passage of government bills. The Harper government used time allocation 91 times on 56 bills during its last four years in office. According to the Liberals, the government has used time allocation only 14 times on nine bills during its mandate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hima u.s: The Department of Homeland Security has designated Cambodia as Lunn's country of origin but Cambodia has denied Lunn is a citizen, according to Metro News. Lunn was jailed in October on unarmed robbery charges but continued to be held even after the charges were ultimately dismissed. The man was released from jail May 25.A corrected version of the story is below Refugee freed as US continues to seek country to take himA U.S. refugee and convicted felon sitting in jail as federal immigration officials tried to find a country that would take him has been released, pending the resolution of the deportation issueA U.S. refugee and convicted felon sitting in jail as federal immigration officials tried to find a country that would take him has been released, pending the resolution of the deportation issue.A federal judge in Boston ordered Sreynuon Lunn, 32, released from the Suffolk County jail Thursday and placed under electronic monitoring, U.S. District Court records show. Lunn has a felony conviction from a prior case, and a judge ordered him held on a so-called Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer. He was legally allowed into the country as a refugee and given lawful permanent resident status. Lunn was born in a Thai refugee camp to Cambodian parents fleeing the Khmer Rouge and brought to the United States as a 7-month-old child. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

islamic terrorism: We will repeal it and we will defend the rights of provinces to not impose a carbon tax, Scheer said to loud applause, according to Huffington Post Canada. TAG START player CA Play In Place Autoplay for AOL Canada function commercial video var TAG END date 5/29/17 Chong also did not clap when Scheer said Conservatives realize that radical Islamic terrorism is a threat to all Canadians. Ontario MP Michael Chong, who ran on a platform to impose a revenue-neutral carbon tax arguing that the Conservatives need to address environmental concerns, sat with his hands in his lap as Scheer told his colleagues the Liberals' carbon tax is just a cash grab. He later told Huff Post Canada he is comfortable with the term and noted that he's used it before. Chong quit former prime minister Stephen Harper's cabinet in 2006 because he could not support a motion calling on the House of Commons to recognize Qu b cois as an independent nation within Canada. When asked before the speech how he would work with Scheer despite their different environment viewpoints, Chong told reporters I think my track record shows that I have always been a loyal Conservative, but always somebody who is willing to fight for the ideas that I believe in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

israeli army: They mobilized reserves to face Egyptian troops arrayed at the border, according to Metro News. They appointed the eyepatch-wearing military hero Moshe Dayan as minister of defence . They barricaded the streets with sacks of sand. For several weeks in 1967, the underdog Israelis genuinely feared that their young Jewish state would be wiped out, even with memories of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe still fresh. Then it was over in a shocking flash. Israel vastly expanded its territory, and was crowned a regional power. A pre-emptive airstrike on June 5 destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, and the Israeli army also pushed back Jordan and Syria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

middle ground: And that middle ground seems to be a very confined space in today's Canada, according to Hamilton Spectator. While the Tories resisted the populist tides sweeping much of the world, while they rejected far-right economics as well as far-right intolerance that would have rendered them both unpalatable and unelectable, they also said no to candidates who preached a more progressive brand of conservatism. But just barely. Out of this battle over the party's future, Scheer emerged from Saturday's leadership event in Toronto as the answered prayer of the party establishment and, all things considered, a reasonable compromise. He stands crowned as the rightful heir to Stephen Harper and will proudly carry on the Harper legacy. This is an achievement for which he deserves congratulations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nyansapo festival: In a new series of tweets on the topic, Hidalgo said her firm discussion with organizers had yielded a satisfactory clarification the parts of the festival held on property would be open to everyone and non-mixed workshops will be held elsewhere, in a strictly private setting, according to Metro News. MWASI, the Afro-feminist collective sponsoring the three-day event, responded to the mayor's latest comments by saying it hadn't changed the festival program an inch. Mayor Anne Hidalgo had strongly criticized and threatened to cancel the upcoming Nyansapo Festival a day earlier because it was forbidden to white people. That's what was planned from the beginning, the collective said of how the public and private spaces would be assigned. France defines itself as a country united under one common national identity, with laws against racial discrimination and to promote secularism to safeguard an ideal that began with the French Revolution. Anti-racism associations and far-right politicians in France both had criticized the event over the weekend for scheduling workshops limited to a single gender and race. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

party lines: I am very excited about the prospect of delivering for the people of British Columbia what they voted for on May 9, and that was change, Horgan said, according to CTV. We can do great things when we work together. On Monday, John Horgan and Andrew Weaver announced their intention to use their parties' combined 44 seats in the provincial legislature to end Christy Clark's reign as premier and form an NDP minority government. We can do great things across party lines when we have a government in place that's anxious to do that. Few details of the NDP and Greens' plans have been shared yet, but the parties did confirm the agreement does not involve forming a coalition. Their announcement ends weeks of speculation that began after the election left Weaver and two other Green MLAs holding the balance of power, and ramped up significantly after the results were finalized by Elections B.C. last week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nova: For everyone else, here's a quick rundown of how you can vote If you are a Canadian citizen who is 18 years or older on election day and have lived in Nova Scotia for the six months or more before the day the election is called, then you have the right to vote, according to The Chronicle Herald. You can vote at your polling station from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day. Representatives from the Shannex and Northwood facilities say polling stations will be set up within their buildings. To find your polling station, phone Elections Nova Scotia, visit their website or check the Voter Information Cards you received in the mail. You will be asked for your Voter Information Card and to show your driver's licence or Nova Scvotia ID card. There will be wheelchair access at all stations, as well as volunteers to assist people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

president: Some show the leaders in a group, while others depict them in individual portraits, according to CTV. The paintings are part of Syrian-educated, Brussels-based artist Abdalla Al Omari's Vulnerability Series, which is currently on display at the Ayyam art gallery in Dubai. The paintings depict such figures as U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Syrian President Bashar al Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin as sad, destitute individuals facing the daily struggles of migrant life. I wanted to take away their power not to serve me and my pain, but to give those leaders back their humanity and to give the audience an insight into what the power of vulnerability can achieve, Al Omari said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau does not appear in any of the paintings posted online. Individual portraits in the series include a disheveled Trump holding a tired child and a family portrait, Germany's Angela Merkel surrounded by chickens, and former U.S. president Barack Obama dressed as a homeless man. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

radio today: We wanted to have something for everyone, said Mike McDaniel, CEO and President of the PNE. Our fair, very similar to a number of fairs in North America, these are the acts that are doing those circuits ... there are ones that will play these events, or they won't, according to CBC. People say, 'Why don't you get any artist that's on the radio today,' but it doesn't work like that. This year's summer concert series has something from every genre, according to organizers including Mother Mother for the indie rock crowd, Billy Currington for country music fans, and Colin James for those who love the blues. Country music artist Billy Currington is one of over a dozen artists appearing at the PNE this summer. McDaniel said there are multicultural acts also planned for other stages within the fair. Debby Wong/REX/Shutterstock The series' shows are at the amphitheatre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

residency program: Immigrants and their supporters fear President Donald Trump's skepticism about immigration means he will take a harder line than his predecessors on a program that began as a humanitarian gesture to temporarily defer deportations of people from countries that were considered too fragile to take them back especially Central American nations devastated by war or natural disasters, according to The Chronicle Herald. Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. But the seemingly stable life that Vasquez and several hundred thousand others have built under that legal residency program now appears to be on shaky ground. She also wonders what she would do with her 11-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen by birth. We would be left with no protection. Imagine what would happen, she said in an interview in Rockville, Maryland, after a day of driving her food truck to construction sites. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

saudi arabia: The 50-year-old Toronto man has worked as a truck driver in his native Syria, as well as Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, where his family had stayed for four years before they arrived in Toronto in 2016 as government-sponsored refugees under Ottawa's massive Syrian resettlement program, according to Toronto Star. My family is grateful to Canada. Bernard Weil / Toronto Star By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., May 29, 2017 Driving transport and dump trucks is all Ahmad Al Rasoul has known to make a living. We don't want to be a burden to the country. Everywhere I had been, I got my licence and worked right away. We just want to start working and support our family as soon as possible, Rasoul, who fled Homs in 2012 with his wife and six children, said through an Arabic interpreter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shonda rhimes: Still Star-Crossed, created by Heather Mitchell and produced by Shonda Rhimes, along with her production partner Betsy Beers, is glitzy and melodramatic the stuff Shondaland not to mention, summer TV dreams are made of, according to Hamilton Spectator. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet are the jumping off point for this period drama, based on the 2013 book by Melinda Taub and premi ring Monday on ABC. The doomed couple played by Clara Rugaard and Lucien Laviscount are around long enough to wed in secret and meet their tragic fates. So it's fitting that the latest Shondaland drama takes place in fair Verona. But we already know that story. As Verona descends into mournful chaos, Rosaline is ordered, along with Romeo's cousin Benvolio, to make a politically motivated sacrifice. Still-Star Crossed follows Juliet's cousin, Rosaline Lashana Lynch a minor character in Shakespeare's play. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

toronto aerie: As if a smile will make much difference!Well, you have to give it to whatever is left of Canada's elite media -- conservatives all, presumably, to a man and woman -- their faith in the notion the Canadian electorate is pretty dull and easy to fool is boundless, according to Rabble. These are, after all, the media corporations that before the 2015 federal election sent orders to their supposedly independent local franchises to run editorials supporting Harper or whoever the local Conservative was, or which, like The Globe and Mail, advised B.C. readers from its new Toronto aerie high above King Street East to hold their noses and vote for Christy Clark. The way most corporate media outfits summed up the change atop the Conservative Party of Canada was that Scheer, the Saskatchewan MP and former Speaker of the House of Commons chosen by the Tories after several hours of faux suspense the night before, is Harper with a smile. The results Not that effective. Never mind that in October 2015, the same voters sent the grimly self-righteous Harper and his neoliberal government packing, presumably fed up with its harsh tone, destructive market fundamentalism, and anti-science, anti-labour, anti-immigrant and anti-social policy agenda. So the thought that a new Stephen Harper with a human face will fix everything, restoring God to His heaven, order to His universe and Tories to Ottawa is a bit of a reach, even for them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

typhus fever: What is now a parking lot was a mass grave in the 1800s for 6,000 Irish immigrants killed by typhus fever in 1847, according to CTV. The annual procession marks the darkest time in the Irish community's history. The giant tombstone sits near the Victoria Bridge and commemorates the site of a burial ground. Today it also marked a turning point in a battle to have it properly recognized. Many say the sacred ground has been ignored for far too long. For five years, members of the community have been fighting for a memorial park and museum that would replace the parking lot, but recently learned Hydro Quebec is buying the land. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

year fight: The Associated Press file photo By Dan Perry The Associated Press Mon., May 29, 2017 JERUSALEM It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic victory for Israel in six days it stunned the world by vanquishing several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a deeply corrosive 50-year fight with the Palestinians for the Holy Land, according to Toronto Star. For several weeks in 1967, the underdog Israelis genuinely feared that their young Jewish state would be wiped out, even with memories of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe still fresh. It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic victory for Israel a six-day war in which it vanquished several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a 50-year fight with the Palestinians for the Holy Land. They mobilized reserves to face Egyptian troops arrayed at the border. They barricaded the streets with sacks of sand. They appointed the eyepatch-wearing military hero Moshe Dayan as minister of defence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

israeli army: They mobilized reserves to face Egyptian troops arrayed at the border, according to Brandon Sun. They appointed the eyepatch-wearing military hero Moshe Dayan as minister of defence. For several weeks in 1967, the underdog Israelis genuinely feared that their young Jewish state would be wiped out, even with memories of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe still fresh. They barricaded the streets with sacks of sand. A pre-emptive airstrike on June 5 destroyed the Egyptian air force on the ground, and the Israeli army also pushed back Jordan and Syria. Then it was over in a shocking flash. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nyansapo festival: In a new series of tweets on the topic, Hidalgo said her firm discussion with organizers had yielded a satisfactory clarification the parts of the festival held on property would be open to everyone and non-mixed workshops will be held elsewhere, in a strictly private setting, according to Brandon Sun. MWASI, the Afro-feminist collective sponsoring the three-day event, responded to the mayor's latest comments by saying it hadn't changed the festival program an inch. Mayor Anne Hidalgo had strongly criticized and threatened to cancel the upcoming Nyansapo Festival a day earlier because it was forbidden to white people. That's what was planned from the beginning, the collective said of how the public and private spaces would be assigned. France defines itself as a country united under one common national identity, with laws against racial discrimination and to promote secularism to safeguard an ideal that began with the French Revolution. Anti-racism associations and far-right politicians in France both had criticized the event over the weekend for scheduling workshops limited to a single gender and race. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

residency program: Immigrants and their supporters fear President Donald Trump's skepticism about immigration means he will take a harder line than his predecessors on a program that began as a humanitarian gesture to temporarily defer deportations of people from countries that were considered too fragile to take them back especially Central American nations devastated by war or natural disasters, according to Brandon Sun. Vasquez said she is thinking about how she would sell her property and move back home. But the seemingly stable life that Vasquez and several hundred thousand others have built under that legal residency program now appears to be on shaky ground. She also wonders what she would do with her 11-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen by birth. We would be left with no protection. Imagine what would happen, she said in an interview in Rockville, Maryland, after a day of driving her food truck to construction sites. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border cities: DARRYL DYCK / THE CANADIAN PRESS By Tiffany Gooch Sun., May 28, 2017 Marijuana legalization was a key pillar of the Liberal platform in the 2015 election and the successful implementation of this promise will be a defining moment for the Trudeau government and its legacy, according to Toronto Star. The definition of success for this mammoth policy file varies greatly depending on who is being consulted. While amnesty was not among the promises made in the Liberal platform, it's simply the right thing to do. Businesses large and small are jockeying for influence in the new cannabis economy. Border cities are grappling with the tourism implications. Provincial governments are watching closely to identify their own steps forward. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.