pasha malla: Brian Hughes / Toronto Star Fugue States, by Pasha Malla, Knopf Canada, 368 pages, 32, according to Toronto Star. Knopf Canada Pasha Malla, author of Fugue States. Illustration by Brian Hughes. Lucas Oleniuk / The Toronto Star By Dene Moore Special to the Star Fri., June 2, 2017 Fugue A disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed according to the Merriam Webster dictionary . Alternatively, it can mean a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and interweaving voice parts. Malla's sophomore novel interweaves the voices of two opposite but equally strange including one who literally suffers a fugue state. In the case of Pasha Malla's Fugue States, it is both. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

police officers: Police said about 350 people, mainly families, would go to a camp in Thebes, about 70 kilometres 45 miles northwest of Athens, while the remainder of mainly single people would go to Derveni, about 140 kilometres 85 miles west of the capital, according to Metro News. No violence was reported during the evacuation, which was assisted by the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration. Access to the Hellenikon airport site was blocked off in the morning, and dozens of police officers and riot police stood by as the roughly 600 migrants collected their belongings and boarded buses to refugee camps elsewhere in Greece. The facilities at the old airport are a holdover from the initial stage of the crisis, when thousands of people were reaching our islands, Yiannis Balafas, deputy minister for migration, said on state-run ERT television. Migrants and Greek activists have held several demonstrations at Hellenikon to protest living conditions there over the past few months. So this was something that remained from that time, and now they will go to more suitable facilities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

role model: Suddenly, golf was cool, according to Hamilton Spectator. Today, some of those same people who were among Woods' most loyal fans are watching his downfall with sadness after his recent DUI arrest . They're still playing and watching his sport, but they see a man who appears broken and never really embraced the part of an ethnic and racial role model. Tiger Woods inspired a generation of minority golfers when he burst on to the scene as a charismatic young star who won tournaments with laser-like focus and power. Debert Cook, publisher of the African American Golfer's Digest said the clubhouse talk among her and other black golfers sometimes turns to Woods and his convoluted legacy. He's one of us but he's not one of us. People really have said they are disappointed in his performance, and there's even a lot of push back upon why should we even consider this brother part of our community when he has not really been involved, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tea room: Rent a kayak to paddle the bays or select a waterfall and hike to it, according to The Chronicle Herald. When you're driving through a community looking for a place to eat, roll down your window so the fiddles can guide you to the best spot. You can easily spend a week, or the rest of your life, exploring the offroads from the majestic Cabot Trail. Hear another strand of our musical history by catching a Men of the Deep show. If Working Man lodges in your mind, stop by Rita's Tea Room for a great meal in the former home of the late, great singer, Rita Mac Neil. The Cape Breton-based group is North America's only coal miners' chorus. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

women: The piece speculates this is because allergies as a whole are more common in women, but also acknowledges the results could be credited to women reporting their allergies more often, according to Huffington Post Canada. The research also noted peanuts were the exception men were more often allergic to them than women. According to a new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, women are more likely to have food allergies than men. The study also stated people of Asian backgrounds are more likely to have food allergies compared to their counterparts in other races, and this could be due to differences in food preparation. This inconsistency may be partially attributable to the different preparation of peanuts; in Asian countries peanuts are primarily boiled whereas in Western countries they are roasted, a preparation that increases the allergenicity of the peanut. The higher prevalence documented among Asians was similar to that in previous studies in Western nations, but higher than that reported among Asian nations and Asian-born immigrants, the study said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

brother part: Today, some of those same people who were among Woods' most loyal fans are watching his downfall with sadness after his recent DUI arrest . They're still playing and watching his sport, but they see a man who appears broken and never really embraced the part of an ethnic and racial role model, according to Brandon Sun. Debert Cook, publisher of the African American Golfer's Digest said the clubhouse talk among her and other black golfers sometimes turns to Woods and his convoluted legacy. Suddenly, golf was cool. People really have said they are disappointed in his performance, and there's even a lot of push back upon why should we even consider this brother part of our community when he has not really been involved, she said. Woods' late father Earl was African-American, American Indian and Chinese; his mother Kultida is a native of Thailand who has Chinese and Dutch ancestry. He's one of us but he's not one of us. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

front office: The former 49ers quarterback was in Seattle last week to meet with the front office but left still unemployed, according to Brandon Sun. While Seattle has seemed the most logical destination from its style of offence to the outspokenness of its locker room Kaepernick won't be signing with the Seahawks at this time. It just won't be in Seattle Carroll had high praise for Kaepernick on Friday as the Seahawks wrapped up their first week of OTAs. Colin has been a fantastic football player and he's going to continue to be. He's a starter in this league. At this time, we didn't do anything with it, but we know where he is and who he is, and we had a chance to understand him much more so, Carrol said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

gift shop: Still under construction are 50,000 square-feet about 4,600 square-meters of new galleries opening in 2019, bringing MoMA's total art-filled space to 175,000 square-feet about 16,000 square-meters on six floors, according to Brandon Sun. The expansion will allow more of the museum's collection of nearly 200,000 works to be displayed. Spread over three floors of the art mecca off Fifth Avenue are 15,000 square-feet about 1,400 square-meters of reconfigured galleries, a new, second gift shop, a redesigned cafe and espresso bar and, facing the sculpture garden, two lounges graced with black marble quarried in France. The project also will provide 25 per cent more space for visitors to relax or have a sit-down meal. The complex fuses original architecture by Philip Goodwin and Edward Stone with Philip Johnson-designed additions in 1951 and 1964 and a new section by Argentine native Cesar Pelli in 1984, topped in 2004 by Yoshio Taniguchi's 425 million expansion and renovation. The museum building, which opened in 1939, now nearly fills an entire city block and showcases works by artists including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo, to name just a few from the permanent collection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump policy: The legal fight pits the president's significant authority over immigration against what lower courts have said is a policy that purported to be about national security but was intended to target Muslims, according to Brandon Sun. The Justice Department is confident that President Trump's executive order is well within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe and protect our communities from terrorism, spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said. The Justice Department filing to the high court late Thursday argued that lower courts that blocked the Trump policy made several mistakes, including relying on statements President Donald Trump made during the 2016 campaign. The president is not required to admit people from countries that sponsor or shelter terrorism, until he determines that they can be properly vetted and do not pose a security risk to the United States. Again and again, our nation's courts have found that President Trump's Muslim ban is unconstitutional. Rights groups that have been fighting the policy in the courts said the justices should not allow the travel and refugee bans to take effect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

andy buck: When he arrived, his sons were just 14 and 17 so they stayed back in the UK with his ex-wife, according to CTV. Andy brought his oldest son Alex over as a dependent when he turned 19 and his other son, Ben, was planning to make the move in January 2015 when he would turn 19 but that didn't happen. Andy Buck came to Canada in 2008 for work and became a Canadian citizen in 2014. In 2014, the federal Conservatives changed the age of dependency for sponsorship from under 22 years of age to under 19. The change goes into effect on October 24th and it is not retroactive so families that applied to sponsor dependents between August 1st, 2014 and October 24th, 2017 will still need to comply with the Conservative government policy. The Liberal government is switching the age of the dependency law back to under 22 but it won't happen in time to help the family. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

couillard: The premier said while the issue took a backseat to economy, finances and healthcare for the first half of his mandate, he would have been disappointed had his first term finished without tackling the subject of Quebec-Canada relations, according to The Chronicle Herald. That's why we were elected, but also to do things like this, to have proposed to Quebecers and Canadians but to Quebecers above all the affirmation of who we are and a path to regain contact with the rest of country, that's a part of the full job of a premier for me, Couillard said. Couillard, a staunch federalist, committed to reopening constitutional dialogue on Thursday, with the long-term goal of restarting negotiations that could lead to Quebec finally approving the 1982 Constitution. While there is no timeline or definite plan for opening constitutional negotiations, Couillard is hopeful the vast coast-to-coast discussion he is launching will eventually lead there. The 200-page document defines Quebec as an inclusive, francophone nation with control over its own institutions and Couillard believes a place within Canada. On Thursday, Couillard unveiled his government's official policy on the place of Quebec within Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

drainage ditch: Her friends say she did not tell them about any plans to move north, but it is believed she may have been planning to move to Toronto to live with her daughter, according to CTV. Officials say her body was found in a drainage ditch in Noyes, Minn., the closest American community to Emerson, Man. Friends of Mavis Otuteye, 57, told CTV News that she was a religious woman and had been living in Delaware. It's most likely that she was attempting to get to Canada. If Otuteye was indeed an asylum seeker, her death would be the first fatality connected to the recent wave of illegal border crossings. Evidently, she didn't make it, Matt Vig, deputy sheriff with the Kittson County Sheriff's Office, told CTV News. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

el: The point is not that there be a complete recovery of all ills in the country, Kelly said, according to Metro News. The point is, whatever the event is that caused TPS to be granted that event is over, and they can return. In an interview with The Associated Press, Secretary John Kelly sent strong signals that immigration benefits known as temporary protected status should not be as open-ended as they have become for tens of thousands of people from Haiti and Central America. That might shock 86,000 immigrants from Honduras and another 263,000 from El Salvador, who constitute the vast majority of the program's current beneficiaries. Immigrants from El Salvador were included in 2001 after a series of earthquakes. The Hondurans, along with more than 5,000 immigrants from Nicaragua, became eligible for the temporary protections in 1999 because of destruction from Hurricane Mitch a year earlier. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

halal market: He's the general manager at Sun Gold Specialty Meats Ltd. in Innisfail, which has been around under various owners since 1974, according to CBC. In the last 10 years, lamb is the only red-meat protein that is growing in per-capita consumption, he said. 2011 Alberta increases sheep flocks King canola, fewer cows, aging producers Digging into the agriculture census Kliner says since the late 1990s demand has roughly doubled, numbers which still pale compared to other red meats. It's most definitely growing, Miles Kliner told CBC News. In the grand scheme of things, it is still very small, but for the lamb industry it is very large, he said of the increase. In the mid-2000s an opportunity emerged the halal market for Muslims. The processing plant has expanded beyond simply selling carcasses to value-added services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

homeland security: They bear logos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security, and say residents should report people in the U.S. illegally, according to Metro News. Mayor Muriel Bowser, on Twitter and Facebook, says the flier is meant to scare and divide residents. The fliers were found Thursday on cars and lampposts around Washington. D.C. remains a sanctuary city, she said.ICE spokeswoman Carissa Cutrell said in a statement that the fliers are dangerous and irresponsible. The Washington Post reports that D.C. police are instructed not to co-operate with federal authorities working to deport immigrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration: Amanda McDougall, who represents District 8 of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, was asked to appear before the standing committee on citizenship and immigration in Ottawa about a pilot program to bring immigrants to Atlantic Canada, according to CBC. But McDougall said she didn't get a chance to speak because of a filibuster by Alberta MP Michelle Rempel, the Tory immigration critic, that lasted for more than an hour until the committee adjourned. Coun. The worst part is, there was myself and several other witnesses who were going to speak to this, said McDougall, the former manager of immigration partnerships at Cape Breton University. These people are coming from all over Atlantic Canada who spent time preparing. What a waste. (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 The Chronicle Herald. 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.

knees: So has Madrid, according to Hamilton Spectator. So has Oslo. London has endured. Beirut and Jerusalem remain. In the last 16 years, New York has endured an attack that killed thousands and took down its two tallest skyscrapers, a financial calamity that nearly brought the world's economy to its knees and a storm that caused 70 billion in damage. Boston was and is strong, as are Paris, Nice and Quebec City. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mervon mehta: Twelve musicians, many of them playing ancient instruments from their home countries, show off their talents Friday night as the New Canadian Global Music Orchestra in a concert at Koerner Hall, according to Toronto Star. They'll play original compositions by each of the band members, created in collaboration with each other and band leader David Buchbinder. Nicola Betts By Trish Crawford Music Thu., June 1, 2017 They've come from all over the globe China, Pakistan, Mexico, Greece to make music in a new world. Mervon Mehta, the executive director of performing arts for Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music, conceived of the project as a celebration of the diversity of Canada as the country celebrates its 150th anniversary. Article Continued Below I'm an immigrant, says Mehta, who was born in Vienna and is the son of famed Indian conductor Zubin Mehta. He got the idea during the last federal election when then-prime minister Stephen Harper used the term old stock Canadians, suggesting different status among Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

montreal police: It's baffling, especially because we have so many cases of racial profiling, said Farid Charles, who was a victim of racial profiling in April 2010, according to CBC. Turmoil within Montreal police could be contributing to racial profiling, activist warns The Quebec Human Rights Commission recommended Charles be given 33,000 in compensation after two police officers arrested him while he waited for a friend outside a take-out restaurant in LaSalle. The slow pace of change, outlined during a public consultation on the issue at city hall on Monday, has left victims discouraged and calling for action. Farid Charles was a victim of racial profiling in 2010. At Monday's meeting, Cmdr. Elias Abboud/CBC You need the data, and you need someone to take ownership of the fact that there is a problem and say, 'Let's research the problem, and let's fix the problem and prevent it from happening again,' Charles said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nazi-approved artwork: Trump himself has to be challenged, he said, according to The Chronicle Herald. 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.

poloz: In early November, Poloz and the HCC performed at the Ontario Music Educators' Association Resonate 2016 conference in Niagara Falls, according to Hamilton Spectator. Some of the feedback they received after their Friday-night showcase performance was startling. Late last August, artistic director Zimfira Poloz and 53 of her HCC Ilumini choristers jetted off to Paradise Island, The Bahamas, for America Cantat 8, a noncompetitive triennial festival featuring choirs from North and South America. We were surprised about how many music teachers in Ontario had never heard about the Hamilton Children's Choir, said Poloz over the phone to The Spectator from her Mississauga home last week. It was very interesting. People were coming to our room after we finished and were asking, like, where we were located. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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.