neighbouring bangladesh: Canadian officials, who have spoken on the condition of anonymity, have said Ottawa has been reluctant to overtly blame Suu Kyi for the violence against Muslims in her country because it believes Myanmar's military is using it to undermine her celebrated global reputation, according to National Observer. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and the United Nations have said the violence against the Rohingya amounts to ethnic cleansing. This will be their first meeting since a crackdown by security forces that began in late August and has forced 900,000 Rohingya Muslims into exile in neighbouring Bangladesh. Before his meeting with Suu Kyi, Trudeau will be briefed Friday by Bob Rae, Canada's special envoy for the Rohingya crisis, on his findings in Myanmar. ; Rae is also expected to use the 21-member APEC summit to meet other regional players to push for a co-ordinated solution to the crisis. He spoke with her in September and also wrote her a letter to outline what she and the government of Myanmar must do to protect innocent lives and act according to the expectations of Canada and the world. Trudeau has said he's reached out to Suu Kyi about the atrocities being committed against the Rohingya. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

agreement negotiations: We have a Minister of Foreign Affairs who is immersed almost exclusively in North American free-trade agreement negotiations to the exclusion, so it seems, of most other foreign issues, while the actual International Trade Minister remains studiously incognito, according to Rabble. If there is such a thing as a Canada-Africa file, for example, our government doesn't flaunt it. We have a Prime Minister who excited us with his promise that Canada would become a peacekeeping nation once again, but who has evidently abandoned the issue entirely. Meanwhile, the world remains a mess. As always, just about every time you turn around, a terrible crisis looms in a place or for a group you've never heard of before. Canada is needed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian embassy: The potential for the program's demise set off shock waves in the U.S. that radiated all the way into the Privy Council Office in Ottawa, according to The Chronicle Herald. The same day, the office, which supports the prime minister, asked Global Affairs whether they had analysis ready and in turn, the Canadian embassy in Washington sent in its observations, according to documents obtained by The Canadian Press under access to information laws. In September, President Donald Trump moved to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, known as DACA, which gives work permits and reprieve from deportation to hundreds of thousands of high school graduates or military personnel under the age of 31 who came to the U.S. illegally as kids. Why such a rush for analysis wasn't specified, but the DACA announcement came after a summer when hundreds of people a day were showing up at the Canada-U.S. border to seek asylum thanks to another pending change in U.S. policy the end of a stay on deportation to certain countries, known as temporary protected status. Any additional pressures as a result of changes the U.S. government may take with regard to the DACA program will need to be considered in light of current operational demands, the briefing note says. That influx sent officials scrambling to spool up immigration and public safety resources and mount an extensive outreach campaign to stem the flow. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

end obama-era: These immigrants are facing an uncertain future after President Donald Trump's decision to end Obama-era temporary protections, according to Metro News. Trump has given Congress until March to come up with a fix. The lawmakers said efforts to grant such deportation protection would easily pass the House, with dozens in the GOP set to join Democrats in backing any bill. Democrats, the minority party in the House, repeatedly have pressed for a legislative solution. Rep. Now, this show of support from Republicans, including some from competitive House districts, reflects a political shift. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

eskimos president: With the Grey Cup coming here next fall, it's going to be difficult to imagine that conversation not coming back in an even more significant way over the next year, according to CBC. I worry that what would otherwise be a very positive Grey Cup could be beset by a very charged conversation around the team name. This conversation is not going to go away, Iveson said in an interview with CBC Radio's Edmonton AM on Thursday. In August, Eskimos president and chief executive officer Len Rhodes said the club was consulting with Indigenous leaders, but had no plans to change the Eskimos name, despite critics who say it is an antiquated term for people of Inuit heritage which many consider derogatory. From the point of view of the national Inuit organization, the term is offensive, Iveson said. Winnipeg mayor raises name of CFL Eskimos with Edmonton counterpart Amid the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Edmonton, and ongoing reconciliation efforts in the city, suggestions the name should be expunged need to be taken seriously, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fowling: I was gently mocked for getting it wrong, all part of the rec room party vibe at the Fowling Warehouse, opened in 2014 in a massive factory that once churned out axels for the Motor City's auto industry, according to Toronto Star. Fowling fits in well in sports-fixated Detroit, a once-struggling city enjoying a rapid renaissance. It's pronounced foal-ling. Close enough to Toronto for a weekend getaway, Detroit has always drawn baseball, basketball, hockey and football fans across the border. The warehouse is in Hamtramck, a gritty, proudly multicultural, small city near Detroit that's worth a visit to try a sport none of your friends have heard of. Now you can add fowling to the mix. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ground level: Many Rohingyas have ended up at Kutupalong refugee camp near the Myanmar border, according to CTV. But the camp's few water sources are under pressure, and with the region's dry season already underway, there are fears that the remaining reservoirs could soon evaporate. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled into Bangladesh since an outbreak of violence that human rights officials have condemned as ethnic cleansing. The ideal solution a steady spring of groundwater deep enough to avoid contamination from the latrines and widespread sewage at the ground level. Clearly these people need it -- desperately need it, Bauman told CTV News. That's precisely what Calgary-based geophysicist Paul Bauman and his team are searching for. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration program: He said the agency has written to five lawyers who represent a high volume of those cases and asked if they can help explain what's behind it, according to CBC. He would not name the lawyers. Jawad Kassab, who leads the refugee and immigration program at Legal Aid Ontario, said the agency has identified an unusual pattern in sexual orientation claims filed by Nigerian refugee seekers this year. Kassab said he is concerned that if claims are fabricated, refugees with legitimate claims might have a harder time getting the help they need. Former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the Same-sex Marriage Prohibition Act into law on Jan. 7, 2014. It galls me because of the potential impact that it could have on the refugee system and the Canadian public's perception of refugee claimants and refugees in a very vulnerable time globally, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

maria: The film opens with Maria Cheng Pei Pei hosting a birthday celebration for her workaholic accountant husband, Bing, Tzi Ma . Maria reveres Bing and remains in awe of the sacrifices he has made for the family, so much so that she even respects his insistence that she not speak to their son, according to Rabble. But when she finds evidence that Bing may not be the perfect person she believes him to be, she's forced to consider her world in a radically different light. Toronto International Film Festival In her film Meditation Park, Mina Shum returns to the themes that propelled her early work. Maria embarks on a journey of self-discovery by engaging with the world around her, something Bing has always discouraged. Mina Shum is a Hong Kong born, Vancouver-raised filmmaker who studied theatre and film production at the University of British Columbia. She befriends a group of local eccentrics and a rather shady neighbour, Gabriel Don McKellar . Maria soon realizes that people's lives are much more complicated than Bing has led her to believe. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

phone interview: Harris, a native of Saginaw, Michigan who moved to Atlanta last year, cast her ballot Tuesday for city councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms, who will face fellow councilwoman Mary Norwood in a Dec. 5 runoff election, according to Metro News. Just having a mayor whose name isn't the standard name you would find on a coffee mug . I don't know what could be better! Harris said in a phone interview. The 28-year-old graphic designer exulted Wednesday on her Facebook page Keisha, Keisha, Keisha! I just want a mayor name Keisha. It's kind of like when Barack Obama became president. Ethnic-sounding names have long been considered an obstacle, particularly when applying for jobs or college admissions. A campaign once fixated on the possibility of Atlanta electing a white mayor for the first time in decades has suddenly shifted to the notion that the city could end up with Mayor Keisha adding Bottoms to a growing list of politicians whose ethnic-sounding names haven't hindered them from winning elected office. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rambam mesivta: He did not come out as they shouted Your neighbour is a Nazi, according to CTV. Police stood in front of the three-story row house, marked by an overgrown garden and a rotting front door. About 100 students from Rambam Mesivta stood across the street from the Queens home of 94-year-old Jakiw Palij on the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Palij was a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943. A federal judge removed Palij's citizenship in 2003, saying he falsified his immigration application. He has said he was forced to be a guard. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

team statement: That's ultimately a decision for the team, though, according to CTV. Bowman, who is Metis, also said he respects the Edmonton CFL organization but would prefer a different name. I think there's an opportunity to have a more inclusive name, he said. The Eskimos responded to the mayor's comments on Wednesday through a team statement, saying in part We are always interested in hearing what people think within our community and elsewhere, on this topic or any other topic related to our Football Club. The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami agreed with Bowman. We use the Edmonton Eskimos name with pride and respect. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

toronto area: Twenty-nine per cent of Ontarians and 22 per cent of Canadians overall reported being visible minorities, versus a thin majority in the City of Toronto, according to Metro News. The numbers also varied in the Big Smoke. The data shows a marked difference in diversity between the multicultural heartland of the Greater Toronto Area and the rest of the country. The higher proportions of diversity more than 50 per cent were clumped in the inner suburbs of Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke. People who identify as Aboriginal are not counted as a visible minority by Statistics Canada. What does your community look like Search by address or zoom in on your census tract, a geographic area defined by Statistics Canada that typically makes up between 2,500 and 8,000 people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trans energy: There were messages that called for my beheading and for a bat to be taken to my face, according to Rabble. There were messages that called me a 'c ' or 'bitch'. Some messages suggested I should have posted naked and others commented on my appearance.I'am not new to being trolled.I'm a public figure with a national organization calling for an end to the expansion of extreme energy including pipelines expanding the Alberta tarsands or oilsands, and for a just transition to a clean economy. These are names on the Facebook profiles that sent me misogynistic and violent messages over a span of a few days. In our four-year fight against Trans Canada's Energy East pipeline, I dedicated a lot of time to myth-busting. We were up against Goliath, a corporation that spent over a billion dollars on the recently terminated pipeline project from Alberta to a new port in Saint John, New Brunswick. I did this because I believe the project would have violated Indigenous rights, made a mockery of our role with the Paris Climate Agreement and put the drinking water of over 5 million people at risk from an oilsands spill. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

views: As with many issues, there were a variety of views inside the administration on a policy, according to Toronto Star. The Acting Secretary took those views and advice on the path forward for TPS and made her decision based on the law, said Jonathan Hoffman, the DHS spokesman, referring to a form of provisional residency called Temporary Protected Status. Duke refused to reverse her decision and was angered by what she felt was a politically driven intrusion by Kelly and Tom Bossert, the White House homeland security adviser, who also called her about the matter, according to officials with knowledge of Monday's events, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He added that it was also perfectly normal for them to discuss the issue before she had reached a decision. By extending the residency permits of the Hondurans, Kelly told her that the TPS decision keeps getting kicked down the road and that the additional delay prevents our wider strategic goal on immigration, the White House official said. A White House official confirmed the calls to Duke on Monday, but said Kelly's frustration had to do with Duke's lack of decisiveness. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

water journeys: I soon knew what she meant, according to Toronto Star. Using both drone photography and close-ups, shot across one year in 23 countries, Ai Weiwei's movie is awash in often startlingly beautiful images of desperate adults and children surviving harrowing water journeys or long marches, arriving with almost nothing, living in crowded refugee camps, bringing home the notion, as New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis put it, that ours is an age of ceaseless churn with no calm in sight. A friend told me I would need this, she said. Ceaseless churn also describes our current public discourse about immigrants and refugees, from the dispiriting nativist rhetoric in the U.S. and proposed travel bans to the Trudeau government's recent declaration that it will open our doors even wider to new immigrants. Can we find a more engaging way to say this Article Continued Below We have recently debated Quebec's Bill 62 that bans women in full face-coverings from riding a city bus. We have new statistics that show Toronto is now majority visible minority such a mouthful. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

watershed moment: His death was a watershed moment for police relations with the black community in Montreal, according to CBC. It mobilized the community to put pressure on authorities to answer serious questions about the shooting and examine the way they related to Montreal's different ethnic communities. His name was Anthony Griffin. That process, some would say, is ongoing. That passenger is Anthony Griffin. These are a few key moments in that journey. 32092 Around 6 30 a.m., police receive a call from a taxi driver that a passenger in Notre-Dame-de-Gr ce did not pay his 27 fare. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

alberta tarsands: There were messages that called me a c ' or bitch'. Some messages suggested I should have posted naked and others commented on my appearance.I'm not new to being trolled.I'm a public figure with a national organization calling for an end to the expansion of extreme energy including pipelines expanding the Alberta tarsands or oilsands, and for a just transition to a clean economy, according to National Observer. In our four-year fight against Trans Canada's Energy East pipeline, I dedicated a lot of time to myth-busting. There were messages that called for my beheading and for a bat to be taken to my face. I did this because I believe the project would have violated Indigenous rights, made a mockery of our role with the Paris Climate Agreement and put the drinking water of over 5 million people at risk from an oilsands spill. I helped organize public forums, participate in government consultations, write reports, op-eds, government submissions, factsheets, blogs and press releases all providing facts countering Trans Canada's claims. We were up against Goliath, a corporation that spent over a billion dollars on the recently terminated pipeline project from Alberta to a new port in Saint John, New Brunswick. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

assault policies: The acknowledgement of rape culture can function as a transformative tool and opportunity to be good citizens or a different kind of citizen, according to NOW Magazine. It can create radical change in our socialization and education and better inform us of the racism, colonialism and misogyny intrinsic to sexual assault. But is that all there is We've known about sexual assault in Hollywood for at least a century, while choosing to ignore how lonely, re-victimizing and stigmatizing it is for those who choose to report or the rewiring of the lives of adults and children who tell. They should never be separated. Oh, there are sexual assault policies. It can allow us to observe the degree to which rape functions as entertainment in our media watch any episode of Law & Order as bounty and ethnic cleansing in our wars and as entitlement in toxic masculinity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

night: The 100 or so words that followed described an incident that happened one night last summer a man followed her as she walked home alone, according to NOW Magazine. He was in his car yelling at me, the 31-year-old recalls. On the morning of October 18, Louise went on Facebook and typed out the words me too. I waited in front of a busy bar for a few minutes and he drove off. Louise got home safely that night, but the situation stuck with her. But he circled the block and followed me again. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

brooklyn museum: Speaking to supporters at an election night party at the Brooklyn Museum, de Blasio pledged to make New York the fairest city in America, promising to increase investments in pre-kindergarten and affordable housing, to put body cameras on all police officers and to fight for more money to fix the subway system, according to CTV. We've got to become a fairer city. De Blasio, a Democrat, easily defeated Republican state lawmaker Nicole Malliotakis, of Staten Island, and several third-party candidates. We've got to do it soon, and we've got to do it fast, he said. First elected four years ago, de Blasio emerged as a national leader in progressive politics. You've seen some important changes in the last four years, but you ain't seen nothing yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

caseworkers approach: They have encountered him before; they know he's teasing when he gives a phoney name, according to Metro News. Gladys Rivera and Ali Olson are part of a citywide, round-the-clock army of workers for nonprofits contracted by the city. A nurse will be visiting to discuss his heart problems, they tell him.A short time later, in Marcus Garvey Park, the sun has just begun to rise when the caseworkers approach a man zipped inside a sleeping bag. Their aim is to get the homeless into shelter, and so they make the rounds of upper Manhattan, checking on clients, identifying newcomers to the streets and trying to connect them with services. You never know which one is going to be the one that sticks, said Olson. They are often rejected, but they do not give up. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

citizenship canada: The Global Skills Strategy cuts the amount of time a foreign worker needs to wait for a work permit, with decisions being made within two weeks instead of months, according to CBC. The program also makes it easier for their immediate family members to enter the country. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada launched the two-year project in June to help companies that need to bring in talent quickly so their businesses can expand. Federal plan to fast-track foreign talentU.S. travel ban could be boon for Canada's tech sector Tech execs trash Trump travel ban The feedback from the private sector has been very positive, said Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science and economic development. Some applicants appear to be lured to Canada as they are second-guessing moving to the United States because of the political climate. More than 2,000 people have already applied so far meaning about 80 per cent of the applications to the program have been fast tracked. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

culture: It also points to the withering of civic attachments, the undoing of civic culture, the decline of public life, the erosion of any sense of shared citizenship and the death of commanding visions, according to Toronto Star. As he visits Asia this week in a trip that those in the White House, as usual, feared could careen spectacularly off the rails, the world will once again witness how Trump's history of unabashed racism and politics of hate is transformed into a spectacle of fear, divisions and disinformation. His ascendancy in American politics has made visible a culture of cruelty, a contempt for civic literacy, a corrupt mode of governance and a disdain for informed judgment that has been decades in the making. Under Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism and apocalyptic populism has returned in a unique American form. Article Continued Below How could a liberal society give up its ideals so quickly What forces have undermined education to the extent that a relatively informed electorate allowed such a catastrophe to happen in an alleged democracy George Orwell's ignorance is strength motto in 1984 has materialized in the Trump administration's attempts not only to rewrite history, but also to obliterate it. A year later, people in Asia and the rest of the world are watching, pondering how such a dreadful event and retreat from democracy could have taken place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

daniele hamamdjian: CTV's Daniele Hamamdjian visited a congested camp inside Bangladesh, near the Myanmar border, according to CTV. It's a place where sheets of plastic are often the only protection from the sun, monsoon rains turn the ground into thick mud, and disease and violence are an ever-present danger. Since late August, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims and other minorities have chosen a bleak and uncertain future in a foreign land to escape what the United Nations has called a case of textbook ethnic cleansing, and the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. This is zero line. Col. You're in a no-man's land, Lt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dozen lawmakers: In another new challenge, Mombasa Gov, according to Metro News. Hassan Joho, another governor and more than a dozen lawmakers have revived old calls for coastal counties to secede, alleging discrimination by the national government since Kenya's independence from British rule in 1963. Some posted online images of Kenya divided into two nations along ethnic lines, reflecting a growing sense of marginalization in some opposition strongholds despite some progress in allocating more rights and resources to aggrieved communities. Critics have dismissed the call as political posturing in the wake of President Uhuru Kenyatta's disputed election win on Oct. 26, but the rhetoric highlights the skepticism of some Kenyans about the unity of one of Africa's most influential nations. Recent independence bids in Spain's Catalonia region and Iraq's autonomous Kurdish area ran up against the power of the state, and the bloodshed that accompanied the path to statehood in African nations including Eritrea and South Sudan is a measure of the toll of some secessionist bids. However unlikely, secession is an idea that was extremely marginal, and now it's gone mainstream, said Abdullahi Boru, a political analyst in Kenya. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.