quebec institute: The study found that Quebec is among the provinces with the great income inequality before government redistribution, according to CTV. But Quebec is also among the most egalitarian due to policies like progressive taxation, tax credits and generous benefits, said Jean-Guy Cot the institute's associate director. Is Quebec Equal is a survey of social mobility in the province conducted by the Quebec Institute, a partnership between HEC Montreal and the Conference Board of Canada. However, Cot said the effects of those policies are mostly short-term, in that they don't give citizens the tools to increase their income. Economists advocate more social investment to help the poorest reach a higher income level. The redistributive policies put in place in Quebec do not help the poorest households any more than in other Canadian provinces, according to the report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee camp: Both nations deny he's a citizen, according to Metro News. He was granted permanent U.S. residency in 1985. Lunn was born to Cambodian parents in a refugee camp in Thailand. He has been convicted of crimes, and immigration officials have unsuccessfully tried to deport him multiple times. Information from The Boston Globe, His lawyers say those failures demonstrate he wouldn't be removed in the foreseeable future, so it would be unlawful to keep him detained.A ICE spokesman declined comment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

school year: As I laughed along at the responses to this tone-deaf and callous couple including a tongue-in-cheek GoFund Me campaign it dawned on me that I'd once been the kind of tenant the writer joked about demolishing a house around, according to Huffington Post Canada. At the end of 1993, my parents sprang it on me that we were all moving to San Francisco. I hadn't thought about it in years, but then Twitter went crazy on Tuesday, responding to a story in Toronto Life, a first-person account called We Bought a Crackhouse. I fought this bitterly, mainly because I was crazy about a boy at my school, but I didn't tell them that. My mom knew Lillian Demko through friends. I argued I should finish up the school year, for the sake of my grades and graduation date. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tag player: Either Meilleur had discussed her potential appointment as commissioner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's principal secretary, Gerald Butts as she told MPs on May 18 or she had not, and Joly was right when she told the House Wednesday that Meilleur had never discussed the appointment with Butts or Trudeau's chief of staff, Katie Telford, according to Huffington Post Canada. Joly responded that Telford and Butts had never spoken to Meilleur about her appointment. TAG START player CA Play In Place Autoplay for AOL Canada function commercial video var TAG END date 6/1/17 Thomas Mulcair said Joly and Meilleur can't both be right. I would like to be precise in the fact that never was there any discussions relating to the fact that she could become the official languages commissioner, Joly said. Duly noted that the minister has just said that Madeleine Meilleur intentionally misled this Parliament, the NDP leader said. Aha! Mulcair, his head nodding up and down, had his opening. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

time band: The day is scheduled to get underway at 1 p.m. with up-and-coming pop-rock group Valley, which performed last weekend at the CBC Music Festival in Toronto and continues through the evening with Walk Off The Earth taking the stage at 7 30, according to Hamilton Spectator. Also performing are 80s synth-rock band The Spoons 4 30 p.m. country singer-songwriter Tebey 6 p.m. and Burlington party-rock stalwarts The Killin' Time Band 3 15 p.m. and the White Pine Dancers 1 45 p.m. . Festival executive director Dave Miller said he was particularly pleased that Walk Off The Earth was able to make it to the festival. The festival, in partnership with the city of Burlington, announced Thursday it is holding a special Canada 150 celebration at Spencer Smith Park on the downtown waterfront with an all-Burlington musical lineup. The June 11 concert will be the Burlington-based pop-rock band's first Sound of Music performance in five years. Last year, Walk off the Earth was named group of the year at the Juno Awards in Calgary. Since that time, the band has gained international recognitions, as well as seven Juno nominations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

kevin rebeck: We're very disappointed the government's not willing to negotiate at a bargaining table, according to Brandon Sun. They're choosing the heavy-handed approach of legislation to get their way, said Kevin Rebeck, president of the Manitoba Federation of Labour. The announcement came as the Progressive Conservative government was working to pass the bill through a final vote, along with about two dozen others, on the last day of the spring legislature sitting. Their intentions have been very clear, so we're working to make sure that we can launch a legal challenge in the coming weeks. We can't accept billion-dollar deficits any more. Premier Brian Pallister said the wage freeze is needed to bring the deficit under control, and his Progressive Conservative government was elected last year to get the province's finances in order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nazi-approved artwork: Trump himself has to be challenged, he said, according to Brandon Sun. You can recognize it's happening. In Israel for the opening of his first exhibition in the Mideast country, the controversial artist, whose work often deals with the grim side of human nature, said people are locked in an almost permanent battle with their leaders and governments. It's not so easy. He stood on his artwork titled Soft Ground, a hand woven 250-square-meter 2,700-square-foot carpet that replicates the floor of Munich's Haus der Kunst, the gallery where Nazi-approved artwork was displayed during the Third Reich. Ai spoke at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where his exhibit Maybe, Maybe Not, is to open on Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

press show: The map was included in a 2015 application to the EB-5 visa program that allows overseas investors to obtain U.S. residency in exchange for investments of 500,000 or more in rural areas or those with high unemployment, according to Brandon Sun. The maps are legal, and many other developers engage in the practice. Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that the family of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner placed its 65 Bay Street building in Jersey City in a map stringing together two dozen other areas, some with high unemployment. But the practice is one of the reasons the EB-5 visa program has come under criticism from both Democrats and Republicans. The Kushner property is co-owned with developer KABR Group. James Yolles, a spokesman for the Kushner Cos., declined to comment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

african country: Greg Janzen was reacting to the death of Mavis Otuteye, a 57-year-old woman believed to be from the African country of Ghana, whose body was found late last week near Noyes, Minn, according to Huffington Post Canada. We were always expecting to find someone in the ditch when the snow melted, which we never did,'' he said. It was just a matter of time until an asylum seeker died trying to illegally cross the border into Canada, the reeve of Emerson, Man., said Tuesday. Then the Red River didn't flood nearly as much as we expected so we thought it would be clear sailing, but now we have this.'' The Kittson County sheriff's department said an initial autopsy concluded the cause of death was possible hypothermia, though a final autopsy is still pending. Photo Lyle Stafford/Reuters The police said they believe Otuteye had been heading to Emerson, which is just across the border from Noyes. A sign post for the small border town of Emerson, near the Canada-U.S border crossing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anti-immigrant messages: Scott said the anti-immigrant messages accuse him of giving away Canadian jobs to immigrants and also single out his wife who was born in Taiwan, according to CBC. Rachel Notley Alberta's most threatened premier Female politicians speak out about sexist, violent cyberbullying One of the notes accuses Scott of trying to flood Fort McMurray with temporary foreign workers, calling the workers scabs. Scott said he has received four messages; two in notes posted on his law firm's doors and two in voicemails on his phone. The note also describes Scott as being married to a woman from Red China. I consider these to be racist attacks and there is no place for it. It's an attack on my family, Scott said, adding he's very concerned. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

u.s: I think Canadian law is to be held responsible for that woman's death for that innocent woman's death, according to CBC. Body of woman, 57, found near Manitoba border believed to be asylum seeker, U.S. police say Manitoba Ghanaians want to help after border crosser found dead Otuteye was a 57-year-old who police believe was a citizen of Ghana. The Canada-U.S. Safe Third Countries Agreement, which took effect Dec. 29, 2004 sealed her fate, said Bashir Khan on Wednesday. Officials think she died of hypothermia last week as she made her way through Minnesota toward Canada. Winnipeg immigration lawyer Bashir Khan blames the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S. for the death of a 57-year-old presumed asylum seeker. Investigators in the U.S. are still looking into the death. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

brandi carlile: Returning favourites include fiddler Ashley Mac Isaac, country singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell and Foy Vance, a singer-songwriter from Northern Ireland, according to CBC. The lineup is more than 60 acts deep. Headliners for the Aug. 10-13 event include City and Colour, Leon Bridges, Brandi Carlile and The Decemberists. That's always the mix how many are going to come back, how many are going to be new, Wickham said. Someone said to me, 'How do you get young people to come down to the festival ' And I said, 'You book young acts that they like.' And that's what's happened. We probably tended to be a little bit overly loyal up 'til five years ago, and then we said, 'Well, we'd better get hold of this generation.' City and Colour is slated to play Sunday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

budget: If approved by Congress, the 2018 budget blueprint would lower overall refugee funding to 2.7 billion from 3.1 billion a 13 per cent drop, according to Metro News. That includes U.S. contributions to international aid groups helping refugees in other countries. The latest effort comes through Trump's federal budget proposal, which calls for a 25 per cent cut in funds for resettling refugees on American soil. But the funds specifically earmarked for U.S. refugee admissions would face a steeper reduction, to 410 million from 544.7 million as recently as 2016. The budget request also eliminates the separate emergency refugee and migration funds that Congress allocated 50 million to in the 2017 appropriations bill. Figures for the current fiscal year, which ends in September, aren't available yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cancer: In fact, a study done by Case Western Reserve University in Ohio found that black people who do develop skin cancer are more likely to die than white, Hispanic, or East Asian patients, according to Huffington Post Canada. I think awareness and myths about skin cancer play a large role in this, Seemal R. Desai, a clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre told Allure in 2016. And while having more melanin does provide some protection, anyone who's had prolonged exposure to the sun is at an increased risk of getting a sunburn or even skin cancer, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Patients with darker skin tones think, 'I can't get skin cancer; I have tanned skin.' But that is actually not true. In addition, I think access to care and minority health issues play a role as well. If patients think they can't get skin cancer, they don't look for suspicious lesions and, thus, get a delay in diagnosis and subsequent treatment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

childcare providers: Immigrant welfare advocates celebrated the failure of the bills, which they said would have caused further physical and psychological harm to children, according to Metro News. Still, the federal government continues to hold some families long past the allotted time. The proposals that died in the legislative session would have licensed the immigrant detention facilities as childcare providers to avoid a requirement stipulating minors can be held no longer than 20 days. The failure of the bill as good of news as that is doesn't seem to have done these families any good, said Cristina Parker, immigration programs co-ordinator for the Austin-based non-profit Grassroots Leadership. The family had operated schools in Afghanistan with a western-style curriculum, one of which the Taliban destroyed. Hakimi, her two young sons, sister-in-law and baby nephew are seeking political asylum from the Taliban. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

circuit court: President Trump has claimed that his immigration policies would target the bad hombres,' 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt said, according to Toronto Star. The government's decision to remove Magana Ortiz shows that even the good hombres' are not safe. Eric Risberg / The associated Press file photo By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press Tues., May 30, 2017 SAN FRANCISCO A Trump administration order to deport a man who entered the country illegally nearly three decades ago and became a respected businessman in Hawaii was inhumane and contrary to the values of the country and its legal system, a federal judge wrote Tuesday in an unusually impassioned opinion. Reinhardt said the 9th Circuit lacked authority to block the March order to deport Ortiz to Mexico. Read the latest news by U.S. President Donald Trump Reinhardt said Ortiz, who came to the U.S. in 1989, was well-established in Hawaii's coffee farming industry, paid his taxes and had three U.S. citizen children from whom he would be torn away. Still, he said it was difficult to see how the order was consistent with President Donald Trump's promise of an immigration system with heart. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fraud allegations: Charles is the father of Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, according to Hamilton Spectator. His prolonged quarrel with Murray has sparked fraud allegations, newspaper comparisons to biblical fury, lawsuits and a revenge plot that landed Charles in prison. One thing now unites the brothers Both have had projects promoted to Chinese investors by playing the White House card. Yet early this month, a Jersey City apartment project being developed by Murray's company, the KRE Group, was pitched to investors in China with a promotion that includes images of Jared, his wife Ivanka Trump and the president. It told the investors that by putting 500,000 in the planned apartment tower at 235 Grand Street, they could qualify for a U.S. resident visa through a program known as EB-5, aimed at attracting foreign funds to help develop neglected areas and promote jobs. Work hand-in-hand with Trump son-in-law Kushner, said the pitch, which hasn't previously been reported. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

minnesota pallister: Mavis Otuteye, 57, was found roughly one kilometre south of the border near Noyes in a remote part of northwestern Minnesota, according to The Chronicle Herald. Pallister said the President Donald Trump's crackdown is driving people to sneak across the border and risk their lives. A woman who authorities believe was originally from Ghana was found dead from apparent hypothermia near the U.S.-Manitoba border on Friday. We need to address the root cause of this ... the desperation people clearly are feeling combined with the hope they feel as they pursue a better life and come from the United States to Canada and to Manitoba, Pallister said Wednesday. I haven't any evidence that our federal government has attempted to persuade the president of the need for him to change his approach. In the absence of any rational arguments to persuade people, they tend not to change their mind. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rights issues: The UN is in vogue again, and the government is making efforts to restore Canada's place on the world stage, according to Huffington Post Canada. What hasn't changed yet is how the federal government is handling one of our most pressing human rights issues holding Canadian companies accountable, both here at home and when they operate overseas. Photo Oxfam Canada by Ian Thompson A UN-appointed human rights expert on an official visit to Canada can expect to receive a warmer welcome from the Trudeau government than from its predecessor. The problem is not a small one. The Canada Brand report by Osgoode Hall Law School published in 2016 found that over the past 15 years, Canadian mining operations in Latin America have been associated with 44 deaths, 30 of which were classified as targeted. Mining companies headquartered in Canada have been implicated in human rights violations around the world, some involving egregious abuses like sexual violence, forced displacement and extrajudicial killings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sherpa climbers: But the high-risk expedition, financed with about 92,000 from the Indian state of West Bengal, has sparked heated debate in the mountaineering community about the morality of risking more lives to retrieve bodies from one of the most unforgiving places on Earth, according to Hamilton Spectator. It was a very dangerous operation, West Bengal state official Sayeed Ahmed Baba acknowledged. The body had been left on the mountain for a year until last week, when a team of Sherpa climbers managed to recover it along with two others. It was difficult to find Sherpas who were willing to go. On the helipad Sunday in Kathmandu, Debashish Ghosh felt relief as he watched the Indian team unload the three bodies from the back of the chopper. But we had to do it for the families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

texas legislature: Matt Rinaldi told Democrats he called U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents about demonstrators in the gallery holding signs that read I am illegal and here to stay, according to Metro News. Hundreds of immigrant-rights activists many of whom were Hispanic had jammed the state capitol on the final day before the Texas Legislature adjourned until 2019. Tensions erupted on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives on Monday when Republican state Rep. Some came from as far as Arizona to protest a sanctuary city crackdown that will allow police starting September to ask people during routine stops whether they're in the U.S. legally. Poncho Nevarez did not deny pushing Rinaldi, who wrote on Facebook that he told Nevarez after being threatened that I would shoot him in self- defence . Nevarez said he was sick of the attitudes toward Hispanics in the Legislature and was taking a stand. Democratic state Rep. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

toronto magazine: The city's white-hot real estate market was a popular talking point particularly a local realtor's study that suggests priced-out Toronto residents were responsible for a quarter of Hamilton home sales in the first three months of the year, according to Hamilton Spectator. But well-known GTA developer Brad Lamb, an event panellist who has pitched a 600-unit, two-tower condo project on the former CHCH property, found himself clarifying quotes attributed to him in a Toronto magazine declaring Hamilton is destined to become a suburb to Toronto. The sensitive topic came up repeatedly on the first day of the cheekily named Hamilton Consulate event on Queen Street West, which is using panel discussions, music, fashion showcases and even business-oriented speed dating to rebrand the city in the eyes of Toronto investors. The self-proclaimed Toronto condo king told concerned Hamilton boosters he was taken out of context. I don't develop in bedroom communities I like Hamilton because it's a city, said Lamb, who added he is considering four possible Hamilton condo and rental projects in the downtown worth more than 1 billion, including at least one 300-unit tower on Main Street. I would never call Hamilton a bedroom community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian flag: The sun came out just in time for the kids to unroll the flag for an audience of trustees, principals, teachers and community members, marking a successful project that started in Calgary, according to Brandon Sun. In October, Youth Revolution was chosen by West Jet Cares for Kids to attend We Day in Calgary, and about 13 Vincent Massey students flew to the festivities. Youth Revolution students from Vincent Massey High School and J.R. Reid School unveiled their custom designed Canadian flag on Tuesday, decorated with visual reminders of the different acts of citizenship they took part in together. While we were there, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi was onstage and he said to the whole stadium, I really encourage all of you to do acts of citizenship in honour of Canada's 150,' and it really resonated with our group, said Patricia Redekop, Vincent Massey teacher and Youth Revolution teacher-leader. We talked about reconciliation, youth, environment, diversity and inclusion and what that all means, Redekop said. The students decided to pair up with their neighbouring school, J.R. Reid, walking over every couple of weeks to partner with the younger students and talk about what citizenship means. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mavis otuteye: Pallister said the President Donald Trump's crackdown is driving people to sneak across the border and risk their lives, according to Brandon Sun. We need to address the root cause of this ... the desperation people clearly are feeling combined with the hope they feel as they pursue a better life and come from the United States to Canada and to Manitoba, Pallister said Wednesday. Mavis Otuteye, 57, was found roughly one kilometre south of the border near Noyes in a remote part of northwestern Minnesota. In the absence of any rational arguments to persuade people, they tend not to change their mind. Pallister also said the federal government has not listened to his request to talk to immigrant communities in cities such as Minneapolis to dissuade people from making the journey across fields and ditches into Canada. I haven't any evidence that our federal government has attempted to persuade the president of the need for him to change his approach. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sherpa climbers: But the high-risk expedition, financed with about 92,000 from the Indian state of West Bengal, has sparked heated debate in the mountaineering community about the morality of risking more lives to retrieve bodies from one of the most unforgiving places on Earth, according to Brandon Sun. It was a very dangerous operation, West Bengal state official Sayeed Ahmed Baba acknowledged. The body had been left on the mountain for a year until last week, when a team of Sherpa climbers managed to recover it along with two others. It was difficult to find Sherpas who were willing to go. On the helipad Sunday in Kathmandu, Debashish Ghosh felt relief as he watched the Indian team unload the three bodies from the back of the chopper. But we had to do it for the families. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

leon: Instead, her family wound up in an unheated house in Oregon with no indoor plumbing, eking out a living by picking strawberries, according to Metro News. It is all the more remarkable, then, that Alonso Leon became one of the first people brought to the U.S. illegally to become a lawmaker in America when she was elected last November to Oregon's Legislature. Teresa Alonso Leon envisioned a better life in a promised land when she was brought from Mexico to America as a young girl. Alonso Leon's victory shows that human potential does not know immigration status, and that among America's immigrants, especially those who have come here as children and benefited from the right to education, their potential offers leadership for the country, said Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. We didn't get our woman president that we were hoping for, but they got me as a legislator, Alonso Leon said with a laugh in her small office in the Oregon Capitol. The irony that Alonso Leon was elected the same day that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton is not lost on her. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.