immigration detention: Another 20 were killed in circumstances that CPJ cannot confirm were related to their work, according to Rabble. A record 262 journalists were imprisoned around the world, with Turkey, China and Egypt topping the list for the second year in a row. The list includes 42 journalists and four media workers killed, some while covering war, others murdered in retaliation for their reporting. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump wages a relentless campaign to discredit journalism in the U.S., often with rhetoric that could potentially incite his followers to violence. Emilio Gutierrez Soto is being held in immigration detention in El Paso, Texas, along with his 24-year-old son, Oscar. Trump's policy of ramping up mass deportations could even send one Mexican journalist, currently jailed in the U.S., back to Mexico, where he might be killed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rohingya muslim: But in the hate-filled reality of the world they live in, Setara can only do these things alone when she takes off her Islamic veil and crosses through a pair of checkpoints into the predominantly Buddhist state capital, where her government will not allow the love of her life to set foot, according to Toronto Star. That's because Setara's husband is a Rohingya Muslim, an ethnic group the United Nations has called one of the most persecuted on the planet. They visit old friends, share a meal with family, dip their toes into the warm surf of the Bay of Bengal. Setara, meanwhile, was born a Buddhist and part of the ethnic Rakhine, who despise the Rohingya and see them as foreign invaders from Bangladesh. It's also risky in a nation where security forces have driven more than 730,000 Rohingya into exile since 2016, carried out large-scale massacres and burned hundreds of villages in a campaign the UN and human rights groups have described as ethnic cleansing. react-empty 164 In Sittwe, Burma, Setara tells no one she is married to a Rohingya. Read more Burma treatment of Rohingya Muslims called dehumanizing apartheid' in new report Article Continued Below U.S. declares Burma is committing ethnic cleansing' against Rohingya Muslims Opinion The Rohingya are enduring a hell on Earth Marriage between the two communities is extraordinarily rare. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump: When the DREAMers chanted their chants, calling on the president and Congress to pass a law, now, to give them permanent legal status in the United States, her cry rang out a beat longer than her fellow activists', her tone a little rawer, as if she was convinced that Trump himself might hear her, according to Metro News. Clean DREAM Act . . . She leaned back, her eyes closed in concentration. Without it, she would have still been the loudest person there. Now! It was genuine emotion. Loera has decided to be loud, she said later, because of all the times she has been silenced. It was also a calculated decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

woman zips: Mark Wysocky says it is hard to separate texting drivers from drunken drivers as he cruises down a suburban interstate highway, according to Metro News. Both weave. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. They speed up and slow down for no obvious reason and get too close to other cars. There's one, he says, as a woman zips past. They endanger their lives and others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

year-end: Without it, she would have still been the loudest person there, according to Toronto Star. When the DREAMers chanted their chants, calling on the president and Congress to pass a law, now, to give them permanent legal status in the United States, her cry rang out a beat longer than her fellow activists', her tone a little rawer, as if she was convinced that Trump himself might hear her. Our year-end series looks at some of the causes that got us riled up at universities, online and in the Loera, at four-foot-11 the smallest person at the rally across the street from the White House, brought a megaphone to amplify her voice. Clean DREAM Act . . . Article Continued Below She leaned back, her eyes closed in concentration. It was also a calculated decision. react-empty 180 Loera has decided to be loud, she said later, because of all the times she has been silenced. Now! It was genuine emotion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

appeals court: Robart limited that part of the injunction to refugees who have a bona fide relationship with people or entities in the United States, according to CTV. He also said that refugees who have formal agreements with refugee resettlement agencies were covered under his order. Just before Christmas, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle imposed a nationwide injunction that blocks restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifted a ban on refugees from 11 mostly Muslim countries. The government does not want to include resettlement agencies. That means the highest court indicates it disagrees with the appeals court on that point, the lawyers say. Government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday saying that although the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has interpreted the bona fide relationship to include connections to resettlement agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed that ruling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border wall: Trump said on Twitter Friday The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc, according to Metro News. He added We must protect our Country at all cost!The battle over immigration has been delayed until next year. President Donald Trump is saying there won't be protection for young immigrants brought into the country illegally unless he gets funding for a border wall and other items. Democrats want protections for the young immigrants, who are referred to as Dreamers. But while there is significant bipartisan sympathy for these immigrants, GOP demands for Trump's border wall and for immigration agents have proved difficult to resolve. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

business association: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an hola, ciao, namaste, salaam or marhaba, according to Toronto Star. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a bonjour instead of the English-French mix, bonjour/hi. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Article Continued Below Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada claims: Given the ever-present possibility of a complete disregard for truth on both sides, which government might be more credible in this instance Let us consider the background, according to Rabble. Last week Venezuela declared Canada's charg d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In the recent tussle between Caracas and Ottawa, for instance, Venezuela says it is trying to protect itself from foreign interference while Canada claims it is promoting democracy and human rights. In making the announcement, the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela. Following Washington's lead, Ottawa has also imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials and supported opposition groups. Is Rodriguez's explanation for expelling Kowalik convincing In recent months, foreign minister Chrystia Freeland has repeatedly criticized Venezuela's elected government, and Canada is part of the so-called Lima Group of foreign ministers opposed to President Nicol s Maduro. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian press: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an Hola, Ciao, Namaste, Salaam or Marhaba, according to Metro News. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a Bonjour instead of the English-French mix, Bonjour/Hi. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

category: Having that category really allows us to expand who we can open our doors to.'- Dorothy Keating Recent data shows there are 2,000 fewer people in the province than there were just a year ago; Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province in Canada to see its population drop over the last 12 months, according to CBC. Need for entrepreneur category Board chair Dorothy Keating said while the provincial government has taken some steps toward attracting new immigrants, the board would like to see the creation of an entrepreneur category to its immigrant nominee program so that the province can bring in business owners from other countries. John's Board of Trade says it's time for the province to change its immigration rules. Not-so-new Canadian How welcoming is N.L. for immigrants Foreign student says immigrants leaving N.L. because finding meaningful work too difficult Under the current program, people must be sponsored with a job lined up in the province to apply for immigration. In an emailed response to CBC, a spokesperson for the Department of Advanced Education, Skills and Labour said the government is exploring opportunities to introduce new categories to its immigration policy, and already supports international students looking to establish businesses through the startup visa program. If they are entrepreneurs, and we get this category open to welcome individuals in who will create their own positions and positions for others, that will allow us to really expand on who can come in and what can be achieved here, Keating said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

court documents: Their names are rarely widely known, according to Toronto Star. But Mitchell Ivers of Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of the New York-based publishing house Simon & Schuster, is getting an unlikely moment in the limelight after a manuscript he worked on surfaced in a high-profile court case. Their work advising, shaping and cutting a piece of writing to make it more readable is done in private. The markup of Milo Yiannopoulos' Dangerous, which statements in court documents say were largely made by Ivers, became a sensation on social media on Tuesday. Read more Milo Yiannopoulos appearance at UC Berkeley sparks clash of extremes Article Continued Below Milo Yiannopoulos quits Breitbart over pro-pedophilia comments Milo Yiannopoulos loses book deal, CPAC role over comments on pedophilia Delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke, the editor writes in one comment. react-empty 163 This entire paragraph is just repeating Fake News, he says later. Perhaps it was the earnestness with which the editor went about his task, writing clipped, direct notes of feedback to the conservative media figure, who made a name for himself by making outrageous statements designed to raise people's ire. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

desautel: Desautel, a member of the Lakes Tribe in Washington state, argued in provincial court that he was exercising his constitutional right to hunt for ceremonial purposes, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Lakes Tribe was described in court as a successor group to the Sinixt people, who lived, hunted and gathered in B.C.'s Kootenay region prior to first contact with European settlers. Richard Desautel was charged under the Wildlife Act with hunting without a licence and hunting big game while not a resident of B.C. after he shot and killed an elk near Castlegar in 2010. The provincial court acquitted the man in March, but the Crown appealed to the higher court, arguing that Desautel is not an Aboriginal person of Canada and not entitled to rights under the constitution. For the Sinixt, that declaration has weighed on the collective psyche for generations, Underhill said. Desautel's lawyer, Mark Underhill, said the argument goes back to a 1956 declaration by the federal government that said the people of the small First Nation in the Kootenays were extinct. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fire spread: The 3 1/2-year-old-boy, his mother and another child were able to flee their first-floor apartment, according to CTV. But they left the apartment door open behind them, and it acted like a chimney that drew smoke and flames into a stairwell. A dozen people died and four others were fighting for their lives a day after the flames broke out in the century-old building near the Bronx Zoo. From there, the fire spread throughout the five-story building, authorities said. At least 20 people scrambled out via fire escapes on a bitterly cold night, but others could not. The city housing department said investigators would look into why the door did not close automatically, though Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was nothing problematic about the building that contributed to this tragedy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mexican journalist: In a statement Thursday, the National Press Club said the board will consider Emilio Gutierrez Soto's request again, according to Metro News. Spokespeople for the board could not immediately be reached for comment. The two are being held at an immigration detention centre in El Paso, Texas, not at a detention centre in Sierra Blanca, Texas.A corrected version of the story is below Board to reconsider Mexican journalist's US asylum request Board to reconsider asylum request of Mexican journalist who believes he will be killed if deported The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals will reconsider the asylum request of a Mexican journalist who believes he will be killed if deported. The Press Club and other press freedom advocates have highlighted the case and those of other reporters who claim their lives were in danger. He fled north with his then-teenage son and entered the U.S. in 2008, seeking asylum. Gutierrez says he began receiving death threats after writing articles alleging military forces were robbing and extorting local people in Chihuahua, Mexico. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

language skills: In an interview with Ottawa Morning, Showler said the biggest barrier to finding work, and integrating into Canadian life, is language, according to CBC. They can't get enough language skills within the 12 months to find work that would support a family of five, six or seven. Peter Showler is part of a group that has helped four Syrian families resettle in Ottawa. Showler said English as a second language training ESL can't help refugees if they can't get to the classes. The mother ends up staying home for the first six or seven months because they're taking care of a young child because they can't get into daycare. Often what happens is the father gets into ESL quite quickly, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

libya: Itohen said she travelled through Niger and Libya with 150 others who hoped to make it to Europe, according to CTV. At least 20 died along the way from dehydration, hunger and illness. A woman told her and others they could be nannies in France. Many girls were raped in the course of our journey, even in the camps where the traffickers kept us before being handed over to Libya militiamen, she said, giving only her partial name for fear of retaliation. Two weeks ago, she disembarked from a plane and came home. I was lucky because I disguised as a boy before we left Nigeria. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

russian invaders: Boys on every other rooftop followed suit, one after another, and then altogether, according to Toronto Star. That night in 1979, the rooftops rung with the hopeful echoes of a prayer a simple act of defiance against the Russian invaders. Overlooking the pitch-black, Soviet-patrolled streets of Kabul, the distant mountains barely a shadow, the 17-year-old boy took a deep breath, held up the pipe as a megaphone, and called out Allahu Akbar. When you would hear this it would make you understand that the whole country is against Russia, Akbari, 55, said in his Brampton home. Days after that night in Kabul, with only 100 U.S in his pocket and a shawl the colour of sand wrapped around him, Akbari left his family and his city and walked 10 hours to Wardak province, his ancestral home, and then 10 days to Peshawar, Pakistan, to escape the war. He spoke softly, pausing as if hearing the sounds of their voices. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

west africa: I tried to get job, but it's not easy because my English is poor, he said, according to CBC. I applied for over 100 jobs . I'm waiting. The S guins arrived in Winnipeg late in 2016 after five years as refugees in Ghana, but Cyprien says he has been unable to find a job in his new home. For me, it's not easy. Cyprien S guin is from Ivory Coast in West Africa, where he was studying computer science and previously worked as a contractor. S guin is one of thousands of newcomers in recent years who fled wars and civil unrest in search of asylum and, as chance would have it, ended up in Manitoba. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ankles: There is a pink bus parked on the edge of the airstrip, according to Toronto Star. There are dozens of refugees with bags at their ankles, staring through the barbed wire at the plane that will take them from this 26-year-old camp. When you descend, the shapes distinguish themselves. It's the only place many have ever known. Either they have given up on refugee life where every year there is less food, less shelter, less everything and they are returning to Somalia. Where they going There are two possibilities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

appeals court: Robart limited that part of the injunction to refugees who have a bona fide relationship with people or entities in the United States, according to Metro News. He also said that refugees who have formal agreements with refugee resettlement agencies were covered under his order. Just before Christmas, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle imposed a nationwide injunction that blocks restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifted a ban on refugees from 11 mostly Muslim countries. The government does not want to include resettlement agencies. That means the highest court indicates it disagrees with the appeals court on that point, the lawyers say. Government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday saying that although the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has interpreted the bona fide relationship to include connections to resettlement agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed that ruling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rent control: It would have cost you, on average, 688,011 -- an unimaginably high amount to many people just a few years earlier, according to CTV. If you decided to sell that home one year later in March 2017, it would have fetched around 916,567 -- an incredible 228,556 more. Let's say you purchased a typical Toronto home in March 2016. But let's say you had hung onto it for another five months, until after the Ontario government slapped a tax on foreign buyers and expanded rent control. That roller-coaster ride was all too familiar to people in Vancouver. It would have been back down to 732,292. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

week: The number shot up to 17,500 applications the week after the new requirements kicked in, according to CBC. There were 12,530 applications submitted the week after that, but data for subsequent weeks is not yet available. Figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship provided to CBC News show there was an average of 3,653 applications a week in the six months before changes were brought in Oct. 11. Reducing the physical presence requirement gives more flexibility to applicants to meet the requirements for citizenship and encourages more immigrants to take the path to citizenship, said Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship spokeswoman Nancy Caron. Relaxed citizenship rules kick in Applications decline as citizenship fees rise In recent years, there has been an average of 200,000 citizenship applications submitted each year. This helps individuals who have already begun building lives in Canada achieve citizenship faster. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

gravel driveway: On the second official day of winter, the tract is a colourless bog, surrounded by tall, barren trees and covered with a blanket of dead leaves, according to Toronto Star. But this, promises Getaway a start-up that offers these rental not-cabins and this not-camping not far from major cities is where we may rejuvenate our very souls. The heavenly part is debatable. As our car crunches up the gravel driveway, we pass an ominous charcoal-gray box on wheels. It is a carbon copy of Lillian, Hank, Felix and Shirley, which is the tiny house we have been assigned, we learn in a succinct text from the company that also feeds us an entry code. A sign proclaims it Lenore. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sign: Navarro is deaf and while she knew Filipino Sign Language, American Sign Language ASL was something very new to her, according to CBC. When I first arrived here, I was overwhelmed, she told CBC Toronto. But that language wasn't English. With the assistance of a Toronto program that has been helping newcomers learn ASL for years, Navarro began to get her confidence back. CBC Toronto spoke with Navarro with the help of a a sign language interpreter. Shut out Lack of sign language at concerts frustrates deaf Canadians The Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada LINC offers full-day courses and has taught dozens of immigrants from all over the world how to communicate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mass murders: Instead 2017 got globally Trumped by a constant stream of puerile, corrosively hostile and often hateful tweets from an American president whose words and actions make it difficult for anyone who cares about democracy to find a healthy Trump-life balance, according to Toronto Star. The id stayed in the picture. Ha. There were as well, in 2017, terrible mass murders, including a massacre in a Quebec mosque, growing incidents of unabashed bigotry, devastating floods and other natural disasters, and in many of us a deepening sense of outrage and despair. A joyful wedding, a new baby born into a family, a moment of mastery at work or at play. Yet there were also bright spots in all our lives, both personal and public. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.