address: The increases will bring immigration to Canada to nearly 1 per cent of the population a figure that many have cited as necessary for the Canadian economy to remain competitive as it confronts the realities of an aging workforce and declining birth rate, according to Metro News. Everyone has been of the opinion we need more workers, we need more skilled workers, we need more people to power our economy, address our real skills shortages, address our real labour market shortages and also address the regional nature of some of these requirements, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Wednesday. The immigration plan released Wednesday will see immigration levels climb from 300,000 people a year this year to 310,000 in 2018 and 330,000 in 2019. So we've listened. Again, Hussen said, the change comes after listening to people who complained that the system doesn't work properly as it is currently structured. The switch to a longer term planning approach marks a major pivot for the federal government, which has for decades relied on setting annual targets each year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cent level: In 2017, Canada has a population of 36.5 million people and will welcome an estimated 300,000 newcomers, according to Toronto Star. Of those, roughly 58 per cent or 172,500 of newcomers are expected to come under the economic class, 28 per cent or 84,000 through family reunification and the rest, some 15 per cent or 43,500, as refugees or on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. The plan will bring the country's yearly immigration level to 0.9 per cent of the population, up slightly from its current 0.8 per cent level, in order to offset the economic effects of an aging population and low birth rate. However, the 2020 target still falls far short of the 450,000 level recommended by the federal government's own economic advisory council as the Liberals carefully manage the often sensitive and divisive immigration file. The economic class immigrants include federal high-skill workers and those brought in by provinces based on local labour market needs. Article Continued Below Under its 2018 immigration plan, the government will phase in the increase over three years by raising the intake initially to 310,000 next year and 330,000 in 2019 before reaching the 340,000 target in 2020. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

family connections: Sounds nice, but it's not nice, said Trump, making a case for merit-based immigration and the elimination of chain migration, where arrivals enter through family connections in the U.S. Trump made his comments to reporters in a freewheeling address prior to a meeting with his cabinet at the White House, according to CBC. Trump earlier in the day on Twitter said that the driver in Tuesday's attack came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty a reference to the Senate's top Democrat. Trump said he will ask Congress to eliminate the country's diversity visa program. New York attack was weeks in the planning, authorities say Details emerge on NYC attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov Schumer fired back from the Senate floor, accusing Trump of politicizing the tragedy. Sanders told reporters the president has not blamed the New York Democrat and doesn't feel that the senator is responsible for the attack. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Wednesday that Trump's calls for increasing extreme vetting of immigrants are something that, frankly, the president has been talking about for a long time. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

family: That number will rise to 330,000 in 2019 then 340,000 in 2020, according to CBC. The targets for economic migrants, refugees and family members was tabled in the House of Commons Wednesday afternoon. The number of economic migrants, family reunifications and refugees will climb to 310,000 in 2018, up from 300,000 this year. Hussen said the new targets will bring Canada's immigration to nearly one per cent of the population by 2020, which will help offset an aging demographic. Our government believes that newcomers play a vital role in our society, Hussen said. He called it a historic and responsible plan and the most ambitious in recent history. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration numbers: At 340,000 people, the increase by 2020 represents the highest intake since before the First World War, though it stops short of the 450,000 target suggested by the government's economic advisory council in a report last year, according to CTV. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the plan he unveiled Wednesday is the right mix for Canada, for now. By 2020, Canada will see an increase of 13 per cent in overall immigration numbers, with the vast majority coming under economic programs designed to address skills shortages and gaps in the labour market as the population ages and the birth rate declines. The gradual increase over time was designed so the system could adjust, he said. We have to make sure we have the absorptive capacity, we have to make sure that our partners on the ground with the settlement and integration processes that they engage in every day have the tools necessary so they can plan ahead, so they can adjust to the numbers. Bringing a newcomer to Canada is half of the job; we have to make sure people are being given the tools they need to succeed once they get here, Hussen told a news conference in Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration plan: The plan will also see the number of immigrants under the Atlantic Immigration Pilot Project double to 4,000 by 2020, according to The Chronicle Herald. The pilot project was announced in July as part of the Atlantic growth strategy and officially launched in March. The immigration plan released Wednesday will see immigration levels climb from 300,000 people a year this year to 310,000 in 2018 and 330,000 in 2019. It aimed to bring up to 2,000 primary immigrant applicants and their families in 2017, with increased numbers in following years if the program performs well. The program is designed to be a faster stream for immigration and, unlike other programs, includes employers. Nova Scotia was allocated about 800 of those slots. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

motor vehicles: Even as he lay wounded in the hospital from police gunfire, Saipov asked to display the ISIS flag in his room and said he felt good about what he had done, prosecutors said in court papers as Saipov was brought to court in a wheelchair to face the charges, according to CTV. Meanwhile, the FBI said it wanted to question a second Uzbek -- 32-year-old Mukhammadzoir Kadirov -- and had found him. The charges against 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov could bring the death penalty. Saipov, accused of driving the rented Home Depot pickup truck that barrelled down a bike path near the World Trade Center memorial on Tuesday, was charged with providing material support to a terrorist group and committing violence and destruction of motor vehicles, resulting in death. Prosecutors said he had 90 videos and 3,800 photos on one of his two cellphones, many of them ISIS-related pieces of propaganda, including images of prisoners being beheaded, shot or run over by a tank. His lawyers did not immediately return a message seeking comment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nations confederacy: Elders share stories and artifacts with students at FNCCEC Cultural Expo 2017, according to CBC. CBC News The FNCCEC is a national non-profit organization whose mandate is to protect, promote and revitalize ancestral languages and culture. The First Nations Confederacy of Cultural Education Centres Cultural Expo 2017 is a five-day showcase taking place this week at Ottawa City Hall. I want to bring my grandfather's teachings, my grandmother's teachings to whoever will listen, said the president of the FNCCEC, Chief Morris Swan-Shannacappo. Sandra Abma/CBC News The five-day event will include teachings about the relationship between Indigenous people and the environment, an evening of homemade bannock and jam, and performances of both ancestral songs and dance in traditional dress. Chief Morris Swan Shannacappo says the expo is a chance to bring the best of Indigenous cultures to Ottawa school children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

right: But the White House offered no indication of what new steps the president might be planning, according to Toronto Star. We have to get much tougher, much smarter, and less politically correct, Trump said. Trump insisted Wednesday that Congress must end the visa lottery program under which Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov entered the country, and he ordered still tighter scrutiny of immigrants already subject to what he calls extreme vetting. He also said the U.S. justice system for dealing with such cases must be strengthened, declaring, What we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock. Read more 5 Argentinians, Belgian among the victims of New York terror attack Article Continued Below Trump orders Homeland Security to step up' its vetting program after New York City attack react-text 156 We are fighting hard for Merit Based immigration, no more Democrat Lottery Systems. Again, there was no elaboration from the White House. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump: But the White House offered no indication of what new steps the president might be planning, according to CTV. We have to get much tougher, much smarter, and less politically correct, Trump said. Trump insisted Wednesday that Congress must end the visa lottery program under which Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov entered the country, and he ordered still tighter scrutiny of immigrants already subject to what he calls extreme vetting. He also said the U.S. justice system for dealing with such cases must be strengthened, declaring, What we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock. Trump denounced the 29-year-old suspect in the truck attack, which killed eight and injured many more, as an animal, and said he was open to sending the man to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, instead of to trial in New York. Again, there was no elaboration from the White House. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tuesday afternoon: But the men who have stayed at the camp on Lombrun Navy Base fear for their safety in the alternative shelters available in the nearby town of Lorengau because of threats from locals, according to Toronto Star. The Sydney-based Refugee Action Coalition said the removal of electricity generators Wednesday morning left the camp without power, including toilets that operate on electrical pumps. The camp inside a Manus Island navy base was declared closed Tuesday afternoon based on the Papua New Guinea Supreme Court's ruling last year that Australia's policy of detaining asylum seekers there was illegal and unconstitutional. They still have tap water, though the coalition says it isn't drinkable. He cut his wrist and chest. As the asylum seekers faced a second nervous night at the now-unguarded facility amid ongoing fears of violence from locals, an Iranian man living there, Behrouz Boochani, tweeted A refugee has harmed himself with a razor. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

enthusiasm years: With the release of God's Own Country from British filmmaker Francis Lee, we could see a resurgence of the same resounding enthusiasm 12 years later, according to NOW Magazine. Critics at festivals around the world, including Sundance earlier this year, have lavished Lee's film with accolades that he didn't see coming. It wasn't until Ang Lee's groundbreaking 2005 film, Brokeback Mountain, that a broad audience of filmgoers embraced the possibility of being moved by a tale of gay romance. A total surprise, Lee says. I just had a need to tell this story, not knowing what would ever happen once I'd written it. No one ever asked me to write the film or develop it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

spadina museum: This opportunity feels like a teachable moment, according to NOW Magazine. On occasion, I've had to field visitor's questions about the city's newness. You can keep your coins at Colborne Lodge, Fort York National Historic Site, Gibson House Museum, Mackenzie House, Market Gallery, Montgomery's Inn, Scarborough Museum, Spadina Museum and Todmorden Mills. These are tourists from places with deep histories, like Barcelona 2,000 years deep, and there's an air of haughtiness when they stack that up against the city we know as Toronto's relatively measly 224 years.I've often wished I was armed with solid facts that speak to our complex history. But true to form for a city whose denizens hesitate to travel lengths along the subway line, I've never visited the history museums to up my education. Mentioning that Indigenous peoples have inhabited the land the city sits on for at least 10,000 years is a solid start. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

australian authorities: Tuesday, according to Metro News. The closing date was set after Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court ruled last year that Australia's detention of asylum seekers there was illegal and unconstitutional. Papua New Guinea authorities said they would cut off water, electricity and food supplies to the centre inside the Lombrun Navy Base at 5 p.m. The 606 men diverted by Australian authorities to Manus after attempting to reach Australia by boat have refused to comply with an order to relocate to three nearby facilities because they say the alternatives are less secure and they fear for their safety amid threats of violence from locals. With the centre left unguarded as of Tuesday morning, reports emerged of locals, some armed with machetes, looting the facility. An hour after the deadline, however, the utilities had not been cut off, according to refugee advocates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bans lawmakers: He would be the latest lawmaker found to have breached of an obscure clause in the nation's constitution that bans lawmakers from holding dual citizenship, according to Toronto Star. The High Court on Friday disqualified five lawmakers from sitting in Parliament on the grounds that they were citizens of both Australia and another country, a breach of the clause that only came to light in July. Stephen Parry, a senator who is president of Australia's upper house, said he has contacted authorities in the United Kingdom to check if he holds dual citizenship because of his British-born father. The five included Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, the leader of the National Party, the junior partner in Liberal's ruling coalition. Although most lawmakers in multi-cultural Australia have been checking into their citizenship status since the crisis erupted, Parry said he had only examined his own case after the High Court's decision on Friday. Joyce has renounced the New Zealand citizenship he inherited from his father but still must win a byelection if he wants to return to his seat. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bengali language: The Burmese don't even recognize the Rohingya's distinct identity and usually refer to them as Bengalis or Bangladeshis, according to Rabble. Many Rohingya probably did come, originally, from what is now Bangladesh, Burma's western neighbour. In fact, most Rohingya, whose community is centred in the poor coastal state of Rakhine, do not have Burmese citizenship. Like the Bangladeshis, they speak the Bengali language and practice the religion of Islam. They have virtually no rights in Burma. To a good many of the Buddhist Burmese majority the Rohingya are, quite simply, interlopers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian charities: As a result Canada will match, dollar-for-dollar, any donation between Aug. 25 and Nov. 28 to Canadian charities helping in the Rohingya refugee crisis, she said, according to The Chronicle Herald. The government will make its matching donations to the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund. International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said Bangladesh is now home to the world's largest refugee camp, with over 900,000 Rohingya and other minorities driven out of Myanmar by ethnic cleansing. An additional 600,000 Rohingya, nearly 70 per cent of them women and children, have fled to Bangladesh since August, Bibeau said. Psychological support is also needed for women and children who have survived sexual violence on their journey, the minister added. We need to respond not only to basic needs like water, food and shelter but offer sexual and reproductive health service for 20,000 pregnant women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

generous...your donations: They want to do their part, said Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau, according to CBC. The needs on the ground are huge, particularly for women and children who represent 70 per cent of new refugees since August. In the face of this crisis, I know that Canadians want to help. I invite all Canadians to be generous...your donations will save lives and will help more than 900,000 refugees to recover their sense of dignity until they are able to return to their homes to live, hopefully, in peace and security, Bibeau said. The latest surge follows a brutal Myanmar army-led campaign against the Muslim-minority population that the UN human rights chief has described as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. The United Nations refugee agency estimates that since Aug. 25, more than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and are now in Bangladesh, joining an existing Rohingya refugee population of roughly 300,000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

kool-aid article: It was all completely consensual carnality, though, Jones insisted on Tuesday, as he took the stand in his own defence against charges of sexual assault, theft and administering a noxious substance allegedly, drug-laced cherry Kool-Aid, according to Toronto Star. Article Continued Below Jones, 57, has pleaded not guilty to all the charges. He thumped the Bible but he humped the flock.A whole lotta fornication going on . . . Bishop Wayne Jones does not deny that he did the horizontal lambada with at least three members of his congregation and we haven't yet got to the defendant's version of what occurred with a fourth complainant, the woman who testified that Shepherd Wayne extorted sex to perform an exorcism. Each of the women has testified that Jones coerced them into sex while he commanded the pulpit at the United Spiritual Baptist Church in Scarborough and its various incarnations over the years. These specific accusations hark back decades, when the women two of them sisters elevated to deaconess status, now in their 60s all worshipped at Jones' Trinidadian-based Baptist church, a religion akin to Anglican Pentecostals or Charismatic Catholics. react-empty 161 We make a lot of noise, Jones told the judge-alone trial, describing the singing and the musical instruments and hallelujah preaching. They submitted gave their bodies, their money and their property during purification rituals, to chase away voodoo hexes and, in one case, from fear of being reported as an illegal immigrant after over-staying her visitor's visa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

leadership: The Star's warning came the day after results of the 2016 census were released, showing that 51.5 per cent of Toronto's population identified as a member of a visible minority, marking the first time more than half the population of Canada's largest city has said that, according to Rabble. But instead of earning points for courageous leadership, the Star is guilty of myopia. In an editorial, the paper said, there's still a yawning gap between Toronto's demographic reality and the makeup of its leadership in almost all sectors -- political, economic and social. Or, to extend the baseball analogy, it took its eye off the ball and struck out swinging. Nor did big business measure any better. To bolster its case, it quoted from a 2011 research report from Ryerson University showing that visible minorities comprised only 11 per cent of the region's elected officials at city hall, Queen's Park and Ottawa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mehak saini: As an immigrant, I celebrate this country and its values and the freedom of speech, said Saini, who immigrated to Brampton, Ont., from northern India when she was nine years old, according to CTV. I'm proud of this country. Mehak Saini said Monday she's standing up for voices silenced during an acrimonious debate that engulfed the Halifax university after the student union pulled out of Canada 150 celebrations in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples. Student leader Masuma Khan tabled a motion to opt out of Canada Day festivities, calling the celebration an act of ongoing colonialism. Many people on campus and beyond defended Khan's freedom of expression and political speech, including the Ontario Civil Liberties Association and a group of 25 law professors from Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law. In response to criticism, the student council executive said on social media she would not stand with privileged white people, or be proud of over 400 years of genocide, with the hashtag Khan's comments sparked controversy and prompted a complaint against her, which the university has since dropped, in part due to concerns about violent and hateful messages she was receiving. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mystique homemakers: Everyone wanted to succeed, and the way to succeed was to fit in -- that is, to conform, according to Rabble. Of course, some of us never could. Economically, the pendulum has swung to the other extreme from the conformity of the 1950s and early 60s.I grew up in the age of ticky-tacky cookie-cutter suburban homes, Corporation Man breadwinners -- employed at one firm for life -- and Feminine Mystique homemakers. Conformity offered comfort and security for those who succeeded, especially for returning soldiers. Utopia meant a chicken in every pot, and a new car in every garage. Social planners focussed on the farm boy who earned his BA and middle management job on a GI Bill scholarship, his reward for surviving the killing fields of World War II. His home was his pride and joy, perpetually stocked with all the latest appliances, thanks to his educated and dedicated homemaking wife, who handled the machines and did all the childcare, food preparation, and other daily household work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

opposition leader: The opposition leader, who boycotted the Oct. 26 vote, hinted that his supporters could appeal to the nation's highest court to nullify a presidential election for the second time since August, according to The Chronicle Herald. We shall see to it that we conduct a free, fair and credible presidential election as ordered by the Supreme Court, Odinga said. Odinga's first public comments since election results were announced Monday suggested that Kenya's political and ethnic tensions are likely to fester. It's in our best interests that we do so sooner rather than later. Odinga, whose petition alleging vote-rigging led to the court's ruling, boycotted Thursday's vote because he said electoral reforms had not been made. The court invalidated the Aug. 8 election in which Kenyatta was declared the winner after finding what it called irregularities and illegalities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

oren kolodny: The search for an explanation has produced many theories including climate change, epidemics, or inability to compete with the modern humans, who may have had some mental or cultural edge, according to CTV. The new study isn't intended to argue against those factors, but just to show that they're not needed to explain the extinction, says Oren Kolodny of Stanford University. Our close evolutionary cousins enjoyed a long run in Europe and Asia, but they disappeared about 40,000 years ago after modern humans showed up from Africa. He and colleague Marcus Feldman present their approach in a paper released Tuesday by the journal Nature Communications. These local populations were randomly chosen to go extinct, and then be replaced by another randomly chosen population, with no regard for whether it represented the same species. They based their conclusion on a computer simulation that represented small bands of Neanderthals and modern humans in Europe and Asia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee camp: Bangladesh is now hosting the largest refugee camp in the world, said Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development, according to Toronto Star. Two months into the crisis, over 900,000 Rohingya and other minorities have fled the violence in Burma also known as Myanmar with some estimates suggesting the number has crossed a million. These donations will be made to the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund. Close to 70 per cent of these refugees are women and children, said Zaid Al-Rawni, CEO of Islamic Relief Canada, who was representing the Humanitarian Coalition at the government's announcement on Tuesday. Article Continued Below It will have a real impact on the ground, and it will save lives, said Al-Rawni at the announcement. react-text 161 Dr. The seven member collation, consisting of Canadian Lutheran World Relief, CARE Canada, Islamic Relief Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Qu bec, Plan Canada and Save the Children Canada, are celebrating the government's decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee camp: As a result Canada will match, dollar-for-dollar, any donation between Aug. 25 and Nov. 28 to Canadian charities helping in the Rohingya refugee crisis, she said, according to CTV. The government will make its matching donations to the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund. How to make a donation to the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said Bangladesh is now home to the world's largest refugee camp, with over 900,000 Rohingya and other minorities driven out of Myanmar by ethnic cleansing. An additional 600,000 Rohingya, nearly 70 per cent of them women and children, have fled to Bangladesh since August, Bibeau said. Psychological support is also needed for women and children who have survived sexual violence on their journey, the minister added. We need to respond not only to basic needs like water, food and shelter but offer sexual and reproductive health service for 20,000 pregnant women. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.