henderson place: Celine's got a simile to describe the mall Henderson Place is to Coquitlam Centre like Crystal Mall is to Metrotown, according to Metro News. Locals call malls like Henderson Place and Crystal Mall Asian malls because of their clientele. Celine and Tara just got off school and are having a snack with some friends at Henderson Place. These suburban malls function like Chinatowns, only indoor, with independent shops and services catered to East Asian immigrants. The company is also behind Vancouver's International Village Mall, once known as Tinseltown. But Henderson Development, which built its namesake mall in 1999, wanted it to be multicultural, said Vivian Zhang, the company's leasing and marketing manager. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigrant detainees: According to the lawsuit, Jesus Chavez Flores is one of more than 120 immigrant detainees at the facility who began a hunger strike Feb. 7 to protest the conditions of their confinement, including the quality of the food they are served and that the prisoners are paid just 1 per day to perform janitorial, kitchen, laundry or other work there, according to Metro News. After one guard falsely identified Chavez as an organizer of the hunger strike, another guard punched him in the eye to retaliate, and he's been held in isolation alone 23 hours per day since Feb. 10, the ACLU said. The organization sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as the GEO Group, which operates the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. It added that he continues to have trouble opening his eye, his vision is blurry and that his requests for medical treatment have been rebuffed.ICE spokeswoman Lori Haley said the agency did not immediately have any comment about Chavez's allegations. Chavez, 34, is originally from Mexico, ACLU spokesman Doug Honig said in an email. Pablo E. Paez with the GEO Group told The Associated Press in an email Friday that the company strongly denies the allegations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration system: Trump congratulated Turnbull on your immigration reforms and on Australia's commitment to merit-based immigration, according to The Chronicle Herald. Are my friends from Congress listening to that Merit based, said Trump, who has been arguing for changes to turn the U.S. immigration system into one that is more focused on merit and the skills immigrants bring to the U.S., and less focused on family ties. Their relationship got off to a rocky start a year ago, but none of that was evident as they prepared to field questions from journalists in the East Room after an afternoon of talks, including about jobs. His immigration demands have upset lawmakers, mostly Democrats. It's the way to go. We want to do merit-based immigration also, Trump said, adding that such a system really protects the interest of Australia and its people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mission: He said the country is indisputably a nation of immigrants, according to Metro News. The agency's mission statement is not something where you put eternal professions of American values. Francis Cissna told The Associated Press that he cut reference to the U.S. being a nation of immigrants from Citizenship and Immigration Services' mission statement because a bureaucratic document was the wrong platform to say so. That sort of thing belongs chiseled in the wall of a monument, not in some bureaucratic mission statement, he said. He said the White House had no involvement. Cissna said he was surprised by criticism after announcing the change Thursday to his 18,000 employees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nations commission: She had tried to defend her 17-year-old daughter from being raped by more than a dozen soldiers and didn't succeed, according to CTV. Seventeen soldiers then raped her. One South Sudanese man returned home after hiding from government soldiers to find they had blinded his mother, gouging out her eyes with spears. The family's father was beheaded. I did not expect to be confronted with so much ritual humiliation and degradation deliberately done for multiple reasons. The latest report on human rights abuses in South Sudan's five-year civil war, released on Friday by a United Nations commission, includes that horrific day in Pagak town and many others as the team collects evidence in the hopes of one day finding justice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nova scotia: Abdi's lawyer, Benjamin Perryman, asked the Federal Court to pause deportation proceedings scheduled for March 7 while he pursues a constitutional challenge, according to CTV. But, in a decision released Friday, Justice Keith Boswell rejected the bid, saying there were no exceptional circumstances warranting inference by the Federal Court. Abdoul Abdi, who never got Canadian citizenship while growing up in foster care in Nova Scotia, was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency after serving five years in prison for multiple offences, including aggravated assault. Mr. My biggest concern is that Mr. Abdi is extremely distressed by the result, said Perryman in an interview Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rd place: It would tend to reason, would it not, that the NDP made a brilliant selection as leader and now stands to reap the most gain from the Liberal collapse, according to Rabble. Or do you think Andrew Scheer may somehow benefit and steal votes from the NDP Also, the effects of this disastrous India trip will send the Liberals reeling into a distant 3rd place in the polls. Citizens of the great country of India, now Canadians, don't take kindly to a government that associates itself with terrorists. It's hard to overstate the level of anger and just how much PMJT is reviled throughout the land and the near destruction of JT that resulted from the ethics commisoner report. First one term government in over 100 years. The Bahamas put him in his coffin and India closed it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

russian winters: These were the undrafteds and the unwanteds the castoffs of the Canadian hockey factory, according to Toronto Star. Yet because of the collective setbacks that made the NHL a non-option, these were also the unbreakables honourable lovers of the game who'd persevered through Russian winters and Euro existences to anonymously pursue a passion. These were players, the Team Canada brain trust told us, who'd spent key moments in their careers being told no. Now that Canada's run at a third straight Olympic gold medal is over, we've come to find out there's a damn good reason why many of these guys are mostly anonymous. Legends aren't made in bronze-medal games. After a 4-3 semifinal embarrassment at the hands of the not-so-mighty Germans, it's probably only fair most of them stay that way. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

security forces: Satellite images of Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state, released to The Associated Press by Colorado-based Digital Globe on Friday, show that dozens of empty villages and hamlets have been completely levelled by authorities in recent weeks -- far more than previously reported, according to CTV. The villages were all set ablaze in the wake of violence last August, when a brutal clearance operation by security forces drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya into exile in Bangladesh. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth -- in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority. While Myanmar's government claims it's simply trying to rebuild a devastated region, the operation has raised deep concern among human rights advocates, who say the government is destroying what amounts to scores of crime scenes before any credible investigation takes place. One displaced Rohingya woman, whose village was among those razed, said she recently visited her former home in Myin Hlut and was shocked by what she saw. The operation has also horrified the Rohingya, who believe the government is intentionally eviscerating the dwindling remnants of their culture to make it nearly impossible for them to return. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

winter olympics: He was thinking of them during his alpine skiing events in this week at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, according to CBC. It means a lot, especially for my dad. Shannon-Ogbani Abeda, 21, was born in Fort McMurray, Alta., and raised in Calgary by parents who fled their tiny home country of Eritrea as refugees in the 1980s. He sacrificed a lot to make his way to Canada, and in the war of independence, he lost a lot of relatives, Abeda told the Calgary Eyeopener by phone from South Korea on Friday morning. The country gained internationally recognized independence in 1993. When I raised that flag for him, it was a very emotional time for him. '1168780867658', 'playlist Selector' 'container Selector' ' container50706221', 'ciid' 'caffeine14549145' ; The country, which is home to about five million people, spent almost 30 years torn in the Eritrean War for Independence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

indian clothing: Inviting Jaspal Atwal to a reception, however, was the last straw, Dosanjh suggested, according to National Observer. Atwal was convicted of attempting to kill Indian cabinet minister Malkiat Singh Sidhu on Vancouver Island in 1986. The fiasco has left relations between the two countries at an all-time low, said one former Liberal cabinet minister, while other observers call it proof the government must jettison the photo ops in traditional Indian clothing in favour of a more serious foreign policy stance. ; Ujjal Dosanjh, a former Liberal health minister, ex-premier of British Columbia and one-time provincial attorney general, accused his old federal party of being too close to Sikh separatists even before Trudeau's arrival Sunday in India. He was also charged, but not convicted, in connection with a 1985 attack on Dosanjh, a staunch opponent of the Sikh separatist movement's push for an independent state of Khalistan. Trudeau can perhaps salvage our relationship with India but I think it hit rock bottom with this, Dosanjh said in an interview Thursday. Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

home: Current borrowers under the program will not be affected, a B.C. Housing official said in a statement on Thursday.article continues below Trending Stories Tessa Virtue's hilarious response to Ryan Reynolds tweet goes viral20 cm of snow expected as Vancouver struggles with winter's return Dog killed in possible electrocution at Lonsdale Quay Both sides of Yaletown parking debate state their casesrelated Third of first-time home buyers don't fully understand ownership costs Free forum aims to educate and help local home buyers A review of the program indicates that it's helped far fewer first-time home buyers than expected, according to Vancouver Courier. The previous B.C. government brought in what was to be a three-year, 700-million program to help qualifying first-time homebuyers with a down payment loan of up to 37,500, or up to five per cent of the purchase price. Applications under the B.C. Home Owner Mortgage and Equity Partnership will be accepted until the end of March. Loans are for an initial 25-year term, which is interest and payment free for the first five years. It had been expected to help about 42,000 people buy homes. The loan is registered on the property title as a second mortgage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

claudia tenney: Tenney, a first-term congresswoman and staunch supporter of the Second Amendment, made the controversial remark while discussing last week's school shooting in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 people dead, according to Toronto Star. Speaking to host Fred Dicker on Albany radio station WGDJ, Tenney said she feared a lot of these legal gun owners are going to be targeted now, even though in their demographic they have the least amount of crimes than virtually any other demographic. Claudia Tenney, a Republican from New York, claimed in a radio interview Wednesday that so many people who commit mass murders end up being Democrats. Read more Your brain is not functioning' Jimmy Kimmel rips Parkland conspiracy theorists and Donald Trump Jr. It's interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats . . . but the media doesn't talk about that either. Article Continued Below Teen survivors of Parkland school shooting shake up Florida state capitol Analysis Daniel Dale Trump tells grieving students the U.S. needs more guns in schools Dicker responded by arguing that most gun crimes take place in what's euphemistically called the inner cities involving minorities, and they're the ones that Democrats generally are going to bend over backwards to protect. react-empty 162 Obviously there's a lot of politics in it, Tenney said in response. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

founder: This is a great opportunity, said Paramount founder and CEO Mohammed Fakih, who made headlines early last month when he teamed up with a concerned Toronto residentto help get 20 homeless people out of the bitter cold, according to CBC. For our name to sit there is bigger than any move we have made before. The chain of Middle Eastern restaurants, which is based Mississauga, reached a 10-year agreement with the city. This is not only about the signage and the marketing. It is where the community comes together, including events where diverse communities celebrate their cultures. What the venue stands for really is what our company is all about. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

deputy chairperson: The switch to the new first-in, first-out approach is more fair to those seeking asylum, said Shereen Benzvy Miller, deputy chairperson of the refugee protection division, according to CTV. But while measures like that and others have seen the board increase output by 40 per cent over the last year, it can still only hear about 2,000 cases a month -- with 2,100 more being added to a backlog that currently has wait times of 20 months for new hearings. The board took the formal step this week of invoking an element of Canada's immigration law that says it doesn't have to follow legislated timelines to hear claims if doing so would unduly impact the operations of the board. Is it my problem there's a backlog It's my problem from a position as an administrator, because who likes a backlog, she said. Our real job is to do refugee determination on individual claims and we are doing that to the best of our ability. The truth is that at the end of the day we're a tribunal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

displays picture: But she says his campaign won't return her call, according to Metro News. Uber driver Jeffrey Monroe and Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson were killed Feb. 4 when a suspected drunken driver struck them on Interstate 70 in Indianapolis. Deb Monroe tells The Associated Press she wants Republican Indiana Senate candidate Mike Braun to take down his new immigration themed ad. President Donald Trump tweeted about the tragedy, calling it disgraceful. Braun's ad calls for a border wall and displays picture of Monroe and Jackson, as well as the mug shot of Manuel Orrego-Savala, the Guatemalan man charged in the crash. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

distinction website: The theme of the gala is to Inspire, Support, Connect bringing together communities from all levels of government, business and non-profit while recognizing organizations that make diversity and inclusion a priority in their workplace, according to CBC. For for information and tickets details visit the Immigrants of Distinction website here. Join CBC Calgary's Doug Dirks at the Immigrants of Distinction Awards on Friday, March 9 for an evening inspiration while celebrating the accomplishments of local immigrants and refugees who are making Calgary a great place to live. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

limits co-operation: The administration has been threatening more not less immigration enforcement in California in response to a new state law that sharply limits co-operation with federal authorities, according to Metro News. The president's suggestion, however impractical, was his latest attention-grabbing statement to pressure so-called sanctuary jurisdictions, which the administration claims are a magnet for immigrants who commit crimes. Withdrawing ICE, partially or completely, runs counter to Trump's record of dramatically increasing deportation arrests and pledging to beef up the agency with an additional 10,000 employees. Frankly, if I wanted to pull our people from California you would have a crime nest like you've never seen in California, he said at the White House during a meeting with state and local officials on school safety and gun violence. You would see crime like nobody has ever seen crime in this country. All I'd have to do is say is, 'ICE and Border Patrol, let California alone,' you'd be inundated. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

oren sellstrom: It claims Trump's move to rescind the program was rooted in animus against immigrants of colour citing comments he made on the campaign trial and in office, according to Metro News. Today we are drawing a line in the sand and saying that governmental policy cannot be based in bias and discrimination, said Oren Sellstrom, litigation director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, which filed the complaint. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Boston seeks to block the administration from terminating temporary protected status for thousands of immigrants from Haiti and El Salvador. Temporary protected status provides safe havens for people from countries experiencing armed conflicts, natural disasters and other challenges. Protections for El Salvadorans have been in place since earthquakes devastated the country in 2001. The program has been continuously extended for Haitians since a 2010 earthquake. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

matthew house: The non-profit agency offers safe, supportive shelter and a sense of family for teens who come on their own from far-away countries such as Eritrea, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan and Sudan, according to Toronto Star. They need that desperately, says Karen Francis, executive director of Matthew House matthewhouse.ca . Unlike sponsored refugees, there is no one waiting for these kids at the airport. It is the newest of four homes operated by Matthew House, Refugee Reception Services, Toronto. Many who reside at these homes were wandering the streets unsure of where to go, who to connect with, what to do. But no room was in as much need of renovation as the kitchen, which Francis hoped would be the heart of the home. The entire home, which had been purchased by a community partner in the fall of 2017 in the city's Little Portugal neighbourhood, required some work before it could open this past December. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

physician recruiters: Nova Scotia currently accepts physicians from 29 jurisdictions, including the U.K. and the U.S. Immigration Minister Lena Diab announced the new stream at a news conference Thursday afternoon, saying it will be a strong advantage as the province tries to recruit more doctors, according to CBC. It cuts red tape and paperwork, she said. But it only applies to doctors who can already work here, not other foreign-trained physicians. All hands on deck' Nova Scotia's new physician recruiters playing catch-up The new stream means the immigration aspect of recruitment can be processed within five to 10 days. We do not have to check their education. It eliminates duplication of the bureaucratic process. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

remittance companies: The same is true, she finds, of people she meets as a manager at the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. My experience with my clients and my coworkers, if they go to one institution, that's pretty much where they stay, according to The Chronicle Herald. However, the remittance market has changed significantly in recent years, so those looking to maximize the money they send home should shop around now more than ever. Because of convenience and my family over there already knows they're going to be receiving from this institution I don't shop around any more. Remittance companies make their money from a service fee they charge on each payment sent, usually a percentage of the amount transferred and an added cost baked into the exchange rate consumers pay. The World Bank estimates costs globally have dropped to an average of 7.09 per cent of money sent from 9.67 per cent in 2009, but still off its five per cent target. Increased competition from both traditional remittance companies and web-based startups has helped lower the cost of sending money abroad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

stream: Diab said the program is aimed at doctors in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, according to CTV. It will be easier and faster because this stream targets family doctors from countries with recognized training equivalencies with the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Thursday that a new stream has been approved under the provincial nominee program, which seeks skilled immigrants. Diab said the stream would eliminate duplication by relying on assessments already carried out by the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia. It has significantly reduced processing times, Diab said. That should speed up processing time for doctors who have already demonstrated training similar to that in Canada and who have been licensed by the province's College of Physicians and Surgeons. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

comedy school: She looked for inspiration by walking around the comedy school, cole nationale de l'humour, in Montreal enjoying past photos, according to National Observer. Some showed graduates with pets or children, one wore a pirate eye patch and another held a Tim Horton's coffee cup. Garihanna Jean-Louis wanted hers to be original. I know three black women doing humour in Quebec Dorothy Rhau, me and my sister, Garihanna Jean-Louis said. But she couldn't help noticing something was missing. I have to work twice as hard to get half as much because not only I am a woman but I am a black woman. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

guillermina buzio: Free, according to NOW Magazine. Artists Laura Barr n, Guillermina Buzio, Jorge Lozano, Susana Reisman and Lorena Salom touch on the passing of time and how immigrants carry their past within them. Mar 8-Apr 14, opening 7-10 pm Mar 8; curator tour 1-2 pm Apr 5; closing reception 3-5 pm Apr 14. Through photography, video, installation and performance the artists inhabit movement, expose their past through place and explore immediacy as a tool of emotional and political survival. Curated by Tamara Toledo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bowl champions: Press Taylor will replace John DeFilippo as quarterbacks coach, according to Metro News. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the team hadn't officially announced the moves. Running backs coach Duce Staley, who also interviewed for the offensive co-ordinator position, will add assistant head coach to his title. Groh replaces Frank Reich, who left the Super Bowl champions to become head coach for Indianapolis. He also played a role in Nelson Agholor's improvement. DeFilippo left to become Minnesota's offensive co-ordinator . Groh joined the Eagles last season and helped a receiver corps that included newcomers Alshon Jeffery, Torrey Smith and Mack Hollins. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.