transit hub: As a historic building in the heart of the city, there are a lot of quirks that you might not notice everyday when you're rushing through to catch the train, according to NOW Magazine. Rooftop Shooting Range When Union Station opened in 1927, it was accompanied by the launch of Canadian National Recreation Association CNRA handgun club who kept space on the top floor of the east wing. Union Station was designated a national historic site of Canada in 1975 and as Canada's busiest transit hub, the station has been part of Canada's history for more than 90 years. The purpose of the club was to allow Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway police to hone their skills with firearms, but it was later opened to the public. Even the Prince of Wales was stunned by the scale and ambition of the building. The range was shut down in 2008 by city council in light of rising gun violence in Toronto.A Royal Whoa With a fa ade that measured 230 metres long and massive exterior columns, Union Station is an impressive by any standard. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

xenophobia rains: Even when they make it to safety, a torrent of prejudice and xenophobia rains down on them, dampening their dreams, according to National Observer. My own journey started as an environmental scientist in Canada, attempting to reclaim land destroyed by oilsands mining; but ended as self-described carbon buster, recognizing the greater need to reclaim our atmosphere by not digging up oilsands. As political storms brew, foundations of people's lives are uprooted and tossed into oblivion. Refugee hurricanes related to climate change are occurring world-wide; small ones may have carried Canadians fleeing forest fires at Fort McMurray; ironically from the centre of the oilsands, where I once worked. Tragically, this hurricane blows them on a journey from Afghanistan all the way to Europe; then after years of desperate swirling, deposits them back home where a peaceful life is even less likely than when they first fled. This particular story of a much larger refugee hurricane originates from the composite voices of young Afghan men hurled onto the shores of Greece, where I met them while volunteering in refugee camps in 2016 and 2017. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

authorities videos: At least 21 people have been killed in the unrest and hundreds more have been arrested by authorities, according to The Chronicle Herald. Demonstrators' videos corresponded with Associated Press reporting from outside of Iran, though individual activists remain unreachable and the protests for now appear leaderless. But even as state television aired footage shot from helicopters of the support for Iran's clerically overseen government, videos emerged showing the anti-government unrest that has swept major cities has also spread to the countryside in the nation of 80 million people. It was not clear if new protests were held Wednesday or if the videos showed earlier events. While many Iranians denounce the violence that has accompanied some demonstrations, they echo the protesters' frustration over the weak economy and official corruption. The past week's protests have been the largest since the disputed 2009 presidential election, which ended in bloodshed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

couple: All of this was done legally, only to find out, after a few years of red tape and jumping through hoops, that 58 is too old to be considered an acceptable applicant, according to The Chronicle Herald. Someone has to seriously question our laws when the federal government won't allow in the perfect immigrants, yet are willing to reintegrate ISIS fighters back into our country with open arms. Then you have the couple from the U.S. who were refused because they are essentially too old Dec. 23 story . This couple is 100 per cent maintenance free financially secure, medically secure, landowners and wanting to open a business leading to possible employment for others. Rob Hazel, Porters Lake Age bias insulting Thanks to your reporter, Aaron Beswick, for presenting a factual, non-opinionated story of the Smith family's ordeal with Immigration Canada Age derails couple's dream, Dec. 23 . The report kept to the high ground and made no mention of how we seem to welcome legal and illegal refugees with open arms. This cannot help in our efforts to attract good people to Nova Scotia and it really makes a mockery of our online advertising. These people, however, were made to feel very unwelcome by insensitive, inefficient, bungling bureaucrats. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigrant-started businesses: She expects that number to pass 4,000 when the full 2017 numbers are in, according to CBC. The top three countries of origin were India, the Philippines and China. By late October, 3,845 immigrants had settled here, said Immigration Minister Lena Diab. The more the merrier, as far Nova Scotia is concerned, she told CBC News. Immigrant-started businesses flourishing Immigrants do well in Nova Scotia and they do much better in Nova Scotia than other parts of the country said Diab, who is the daughter of immigrants. Unable to find work, many Syrian refugees reluctantly turn to social assistance Syrian refugees bump N.S. population to record high but will they stay The growing quest to understand the Syrian refugee experience The number of newcomers is down from 2016, when 5,483 immigrants came, including 1,500 Syrian refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

happiness charity: When my goal is simply to try something new, I don't worry so much about whether I'm doing it right, according to Rabble. This approach eased my anxiety when I tried skiing or roller-skating, for example. The action can be as small as hearing a new song or noticing a new author, or it can be as challenging as learning a new line dance or exploring a new city or a new part of Calgary . This tiny daily goal helps me stay alert to what I'm doing. Instead of wanting to be terrific right away, I'd achieved my goal just by trying. Trying out is one of the skills that the new Action for Happiness charity teaches. By accident I had found a happiness skill. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

lactation: The lactation consultation decided she wanted to help, according to CBC. Langille found a program that helps new refugee moms nurse their babies. Among those refugees, she took particular notice of the new mothers in the groups. She applied and went over for seven days to help. But I went and I did my job because I was there to be a lactation consultant. It was taxing emotionally, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

law enforcement: State officials removed a sign Tuesday on the Arizona line and another Monday near the Nevada border, Department of Transportation spokesman Mark Dinger said, according to Metro News. The signs take aim at California's sanctuary state law that kicked in Jan. 1 and provides greater protections for immigrants living in the state illegally. Drivers heading to California saw fake signs decrying a new immigration policy on at least two highways, welcoming them to an official sanctuary state that's home to felons and gang members. It limits co-operation between local law enforcement and U.S. immigration authorities. The measure was widely backed by Democrats. The law bars police from asking people about their immigration status, but jail officials can work with federal authorities in some cases. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

lipopolysaccharides lps: An ability to detect sick people would allow people to avoid being close to sick people, and hence minimise the risk of becoming sick if the person is a carrier of contagious disease, study co-author John Axelsson of Stockholm University told AFP. The research team experimented with 16 healthy volunteers, all Caucasian, according to CTV. Each was given a shot of lipopolysaccharides LPS -- molecules taken from bacteria. Such an ability to detect infection early, and from the subtlest of facial clues, has never been demonstrated before, but is presumed to be part of a crucial survival skill called disease avoidance they wrote. The LPS molecules are sterile, meaning that no live bacteria is injected. It is a method commonly used to cause infections in humans and people for experimentation purposes. But they cause a strong immune response and flu-like symptoms that lasts a few hours -- mimicking someone who is acutely sick and fighting off infection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

son barron: All in three hours, according to Toronto Star. And then he went back online later in the day to issue a startling boast that his own nuclear button is bigger than Kim Jong Un's, to announce he would be giving out awards to THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA, and to issue a confusing pronouncement on the Middle East. All on Twitter. Article Continued Below Happy 2018! In Washington, it looks a lot like 2017. react-text 173 U.S. President Donald Trump returns with first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron to the White House in Washington on Monday. Trump saved his most alarming tweet for the evening a response to Kim's Sunday taunt about his capacity to begin a nuclear war. Trump made his first Crooked Hillary Twitter post less than 48 hours into the new year on Tuesday, accusing a former Clinton aide of disregarding basic security protocols, and calling his own Justice Department a deep state. /react-text GABRIELLA DEMCZUK / NYT I'm going to take a stab and guess that Fewer Crazy Tweets' was not one of Donald Trump's New Year's resolutions for 2018, tweeted Dan Pfeiffer, former White House communications director to Barack Obama. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

middle names: The brothers who only go by their first and middle names have aspired to become dentists to help those who can't afford dental care ever since they were little when their grandfather died from a serious infection after having a tooth extracted by an unqualified dentist using non-sterile equipment, according to Toronto Star. We were looked after by our grandfather and were very close to him. Although the Tibetan family had barely enough to eat, living off the support of international aid groups, they scraped together all they had and borrowed money from relatives to make sure that Khamsum, Kunsang and their two younger sisters could go to school. Because of his death, we both wanted to be dentists to save others, said Khamsum. Article Continued Below Then a new door was opened to them when they got their visas later that year to resettle in Toronto and join their father who had come to Canada earlier and was granted asylum. In 2015, the duo were close to getting their licences in Nepal when they finished their five-and-a-half-year study with scholarships at the University of Kathmandu's dental school, only to find out they were not allowed to take the Nepalese licensing exam because they were stateless in the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

obama-era program: Details on qualifying for citizenship, including on how many years to wait and other requirements, would have to be addressed, according to Metro News. Asked whether the president would support citizenship, she said, I think he's open to hearing about the different possibilities and what it means but, to my knowledge, there certainly hasn't been any decision from the White House. Congress is considering three options, including citizenship or permanent legal status for people who were temporarily shielded from deportation, Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said in an interview. In September, Trump said he wouldn't consider citizenship for DACA recipients an Obama-era program that Trump said last year he was ending. The options being considered by Congress include permanent residency, residency for a certain amount of time perhaps three or four years, subject to renewal and citizenship, Nielsen said. He gave Congress until March to deliver a legislative fix. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee population: The authors concluded that 92 per cent of the additional crimes recorded could be attributed to the increase in refugee numbers, according to CTV. It noted that the demographic composition of the refugee population is a major factor. The study used figures from the northern state of Lower Saxony to examine the impact of refugee arrivals on crime in 2015 and 2016, a period when the number of violent crimes reported increased by 10.4 per cent. Young males -- whether Germans or migrants -- are generally more likely to commit crimes, but also more likely to become victims of violence. It is true that since 2015 there has been a rise in violent crime that the authors attribute to the arrival of refugees, said Verena Herb, a spokeswoman for the Families Ministry that commissioned the study. The findings add to the ongoing debate in Germany about how to tackle migrant crime, which has been fanned by a number of high-profile incidents . Parties on the right, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Union bloc, want a tough response and more deportations, while those on the left say more needs to be done to integrate refugees into German society. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

viktor orban: Democracy has been restored in Austria because the Austrians who reject immigration elected a government that also does not want immigration, Orban said, according to Metro News. This will be the case everywhere in Europe and I believe it is only a matter of time. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, making his first bilateral visit since assuming office in December, and his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, pointed to Austria, where conservative and nationalist parties formed a coalition government last month. Morawiecki said the immigration issue, which he called a matter of national sovereignty, was getting even hotter in the EU and it seems that it is going in our direction. The EU's immigration policy is not working. The two leaders again rejected EU efforts to resettle refugees among members of the bloc, while emphasizing their contributions to rebuilding efforts in the Middle East aimed at keeping more people at home. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

half chinese: My mom is from Hong Kong and my dad is Dutch, according to NOW Magazine. I grew up in Calgary and I've lived all over Canada in the past six years. In fact, they give me the opportunity to talk about a part of my identity that's very important to me. When I was studying in London, Ontario, I felt very whitewashed. When I tell people I'm half Chinese, they sometimes say, Oh, you don't look Chinese. People would assume I was just a tanned white person. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

eyes: What does diversity mean to you The eager faces around the table had shined in anticipation and I remember pausing in confusion, according to Toronto Star. Were they looking for a standard answer, or were they waiting for the one visible minority in the room to unveil the meaning of the enigmatic term that has been floating in organizational workspaces since it was chosen to replace affirmative action Irritation took over my mind and I remember sitting up taller in my chair, meeting each pair of eyes as I slowly spoke and said something to the effect of, I'm not sure exactly. As I answered the standard queries posed to me by the panel, the inevitable question made its appearance. Eyes had widened but I couldn't stop. But I am not sure that we still need a term for this. I suppose it means representing everyone from all backgrounds, and putting up pictures on websites and marketing material that reflects the intended audience. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

agency: The report, released under the Access to Information Act, also recommends the watchdog be able to look into trends and any systemic problems at the border services agency, according to The Chronicle Herald. The power to conduct systemic reviews would be positive, said Josh Paterson, executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, which was consulted for the report. A report produced for Public Safety Canada says the government should establish an independent body to handle public complaints about the Canada Border Services Agency. But the suggested complaint mechanism falls short in Paterson's eyes because the border agency itself would first investigate any complaint. If the federal government follows this recommendation, it would be adopting the wrong model, Paterson said Tuesday. Only if that investigation fails to resolve the issue would the watchdog look into the matter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anti-immigrant bias: Victor Bolling, the owner of a house that Sam is working on, has been bludgeoned at the work site, according to The Chronicle Herald. And Ernesto Mazzotti, a carpenter that Sam likes and respects, has been charged with the murder, bringing out the worst in their neighbours' anti-immigrant bias. Amanda, Sam's lover, has fallen critically ill. Everything gets much worse when Sam's lawyer-friend Jackie Swaitkowski agrees to represent Mazzotti and hires Sam to help with the defence. It turns out that neither Bolling nor Mazzotti are what they seemed. In Knopf's first seven Acquillo novels, Sam has taken on and bested thieves, killers, drug dealers, crooked businessmen and corrupt cops in his little corner of western Long Island, but Tango Down finds him in over his head. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bills pmbs: At the start of each Parliament, MPs draw numbers to determine their standing in the PMB lottery, according to CTV. The lower their number, the earlier they'll have a chance to table and advance a bill of their choosing. Private members' bills PMBs are sponsored by an MP, or a senator called Senate public bills and they move through the House and Senate in the same way as government legislation, but on a different schedule. MPs often pick issues close to their constituents, or other widely agreeable aims, in a bid to better their chances of getting the bill through. Senate public bills follow a similar process, except senators have the advantage of being able to introduce multiple bills, and don't have a pecking order to follow. Not all will see their turn come up before the next election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

family parents: Even after they all fled to Batman, a city in southeastern Turkey, in 2013, they still lived in the same building, according to Toronto Star. Now, for the first time, their family unit would be pulled apart. His whole family parents, elder brother, three sisters and their spouses and children had always lived together in Damascus. Although his wife, two children and parents all arrived in Toronto with him in February 2016, the majority of the Darwish clan 19 adults and children are still languishing in Turkey, except for one sister and her family who were resettled to Brussels in November. There was a lot of crying when we left Batman, said Darwish, a skilled trades worker who came here as a resettled Syrian refugee sponsored by the Canadian government. Darwish's brother and his wife and children have been waiting since November 2016 for their application to come to Canada to be approved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

deportation tens: Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program last year but delayed its end for six months to allow Congress to act, according to Metro News. The Obama-era program protects from deportation tens of thousands of young immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. President Donald Trump is blasting Democrats for doing nothing to protect people brought to the U.S. as children and living here illegally. Trump is demanding funding for a border wall and an end to family based immigration programs as part of an agreement on DACA. But Democrats and a few Republicans have suggested they may not vote for government funding that doesn't include DACA protections. President Donald Trump says A.G. Sulzberger's ascension as publisher of The New York Times gives the newspaper a last chance to fulfil its founder's vision of impartiality. Trump tweeted that DACA activists and Hispanics will go hard against Dems, will start falling in love with Republicans and their President! We are about RESULTS. 10 15 a.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

enforcement organizations: The new watchdog, the Canada Law Enforcement Review Commission, would scrutinize both the border agency and the RCMP, given the frequent overlap between the two enforcement organizations, according to Metro News. The June 2017 report by former Privy Council Office chief Mel Cappe, now a professor at the University of Toronto, was obtained by The Canadian Press through the Access to Information Act. The report, prepared for Public Safety Canada, also recommends the proposed body be able to look into trends and any systemic problems at the border services agency. Scott Bardsley, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, would not comment directly on Cappe's recommendations, but said the government is working on legislation to create an appropriate mechanism to review CBSA officer conduct and handle complaints. The border agency's thousands of employees manage the flow of about 100 million travellers as well as some 16 million commercial shipments entering Canada annually. The government is committed to ensuring that our border services are world class and worthy of the trust of Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

huma abedin: Trump's latest tweets pressed familiar arguments for the president, who is set to begin his first full year in office with the victory of tax legislation but the Russia investigation still hanging over his administration, according to CTV. Crooked Hillary Clinton's top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols. He also claimed that U.S. sanctions on North Korea were having a big impact and that he was responsible for preventing commercial aviation deaths in 2017. She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents, Trump tweeted in an apparent reference to a report by the conservative Daily Caller. As he remains shadowed by the special counsel's Russia investigation, Trump has seized on recent revelations of anti-Trump behaviour by some FBI officials, including some who once worked on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, to claim bias against him. Remember sailors pictures on submarine Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act Also on Comey & others, he added. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ice storms: The new watchdog, the Canada Law Enforcement Review Commission, would scrutinize both the border agency and the RCMP, given the frequent overlap between the two enforcement organizations, according to The Chronicle Herald. POWER RESTORATION CONTINUES IN B.C. About 800 customers were still without power early Tuesday as crews worked to restore electricity after ice storms swept through British Columbia's Fraser Valley. It also recommends the proposed body be able to look into trends and any systemic problems at the border agency. For some residents, Monday was their fourth day without electricity, after freezing rain left thick layers of ice in the hardest hit areas of Abbotsford, Mission and Chilliwack. EAST COAST BRACES FOR ANOTHER STORM Canada's east coast appears to be in the crosshairs of another storm. BC Hydro spokeswoman Tanya Fish says 450 field workers have been working around the clock and have restored power for more than 159,000 customers since the storms hit Thursday and Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

morning show: The idea is to make it a little bit easier to provide settlement services for immigrants and refugees.'- Justin Campbell The association is setting up satellite offices in Corner Brook, Grand Falls-Windsor, Labrador City and Happy Valley-Goose Bay, using funding from both the federal and provincial governments, according to CBC. The idea is to make it a little bit easier to provide settlement services for immigrants and refugees, no matter where they live in the province, the association's Justin Campbell told the St. John's. John's Morning Show. John's. The Association for New Canadian has offices on Military Road in St. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

income bar: No matter how one slices this, whether it's on the basis of ... being below an income bar, or taking into account lower cost of living, anglophones still fall below the lower income lines more often than francophones do in Quebec, Jedwab told CBC News. if undefined typeof b in The study examines poverty based on several factors, including age, unemployment, ethnicity and region, according to CBC. It found that across all regions of Quebec, anglophones are more likely than francophones to be living below the poverty line. The findings, compiled from 2016 census data by demographer Jack Jedwab, president of the Association for Canadian Studies, fly in the face of a longstanding perception that Quebec anglophones are mostly well off. When it comes to age, only francophones aged 65 or older are more likely to be living below the poverty line than anglophones in the same age group. Allophones have it the hardest' Overall, Quebecers whose first language is neither English nor French are the most likely to be living in poverty. In this study, anglophones are defined as those whose first official spoken language is English, which includes a number of immigrants and people from various ethnic communities, Jedwab said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.