party: Including a fascist skinhead with a Nazi rune tatoo who drove around Macerata shooting Black people fortunately all have survived; good thing the P.O.S. was a poor shot . of my friends who voted at all supported Potere al popolo, a party similar to Podemos in the Spanish state some voted PD as a lesser evil or still smaller parties, according to Rabble. To say nothing of the filth in the other party. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pnp program: The figures provided to The Canadian Press through freedom-of-information laws show the self-reported travels of 88 immigrants in P.E.I.'s Provincial Nominee Program PNP who signed deals saying they'd run a firm for 12 months, according to CBC. P.E.I.'s PNP program leading to double standard for Canadian immigration, says lawyer The absence rates demonstrate the Island needs to move to match the higher standards of other provinces, a veteran observer of Canada's immigration programs says. Despite the days away, they were not disqualified from the program and have been granted permanent residency with the freedom to move anywhere in Canada. Prince Edward Island just has to up its game here, said Richard Kurland, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer and policy analyst, in a telephone interview. One person deemed to be a successful participant in the Island's program was gone 182 days, a day short of the maximum allowed. Required to spend half the year in Canada The Island program requires immigrants to provide active and ongoing management of the business from within Prince Edward Island, but the contracts also say the newcomers are only required to show they spend half the year in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

richard kurland: The figures provided to The Canadian Press through freedom-of-information laws show the self-reported travels of 88 immigrants in P.E.I's Provincial Nominee Program PNP who signed deals saying they'd run a firm for 12 months, according to CTV. The absence rates demonstrate the Island needs to move to match the higher standards of other provinces, a veteran observer of Canada's immigration programs says. Despite the days away, they were not disqualified from the program and have been granted permanent residency with the freedom to move anywhere in Canada. Prince Edward Island just has to up its game here, said Richard Kurland, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer and policy analyst, in a telephone interview. One person deemed to be a successful participant in the Island's program was gone 182 days, a day short of the maximum allowed. The Island program requires immigrants to provide active and ongoing management of the business from within Prince Edward Island, but the contracts also say the newcomers are only required to show they spend half the year in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

show host: Things are changing for the better, according to CBC. They're making sure of that. Over the course of this evening, I hope you will listen to many brave and outspoken supporters of movements like Time's Up, Me Too and Never Again because what they're doing is important, he said during his show-opening monologue in Los Angeles. The comedian and late-night talk show host, Oscars emcee for a second straight year, mixed comedy with serious commentary. Oscars 2018 The Shape of Water crowned best picture Here are four times the 90th Academy Awards got political Tell the NRA they in God's way' Rapper Common and singer Andra Day performed the Oscar-nominated song Stand Up for Something, featured in Marshall, the biopic about Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice. And some performers, presenters and award recipients also used their moment on Hollywood's biggest night to speak out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

stupa shrines: Giant water-powered prayer wheels spin from tumbling falls, according to Metro News. Farmers tend yaks. Buddhist temples, stupa shrines and majestic fortresses called zhongs dot the landscape. Never conquered, never colonized, tiny Bhutan retains much of its deep and ancient culture. It's also taken a unique approach to tourism, promoting itself as an exclusive destination through high value, low impact tourism. But it's attempting to chart a unique path in today's world Modernize and democratize without sacrificing independence, culture or its pristine mountains and forests. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

del toro: Everyone was sure Del Toro would win best director and he did but the film was deemed too weird, too odd, too different to make it all the way to the top prize, according to NOW Magazine. Well, nobody knows anything. Although the film was Oscar's front-runner, with a total of 13 nominations, few industry-watchers thought it would take the top prize; Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk and Jordan Peele's Get Out all had more buzz for a best picture win, with Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird positioned as a possible consensus winner. Del Toro's delicate, beautiful, strange little movie created its own wave, and brought a genuine thrill to the exhausting ceremony when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway brought back for a do-over after last year's disastrous La La Land/Moonlight mix-up announced the winner. The Shape Of Water is a film about love and acceptance by a man who wears his heart on his sleeve in all of his films, and seeing it embraced by the Academy provided the best kind of surprise at the end of a very long night. Watch the playback, and you'll see Del Toro take a quick glance at the envelope to make sure his movie really won he did it as a gag, I'm sure, but you can see real joy flood his face the moment he reads the title and knows it's true. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cbc news: Refugee youth group fights isolation, promotes community Waterloo startup Epoch to help newcomers to Canada use their skills Syrian refugee language program brings residents and newcomers together It's hard, team member Refaay Alsalem told CBC News, according to CBC. At first, each player contributed some money, but that still wasn't enough. KW Syria United was able to pay for its first season in 2017 with help from Reception House Waterloo Region and other community donors, but now the team needs to find enough money to pay its league fees and other expenses for 2018. Most of the members of KW Syria United are refugees who have recently arrived in Canada from Syria and other foreign countries. So, we needed more money, he said, hence the fundraiser planned for Sunday at Cameron Heights Secondary School. Alsalem said they don't have a lot of money to spare. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tax: Many federal benefits for low-income people, including the revamped workers' benefit and the Canada Child Benefit, as well as provincial and municipal benefits, are calculated through income tax returns, according to Metro News. More returns filed means more benefits. The Liberals gave volunteer-driven clinics like this a boost in last week's budget, bringing annual spending on the community volunteer income tax program to 13 million, and allowing them to operate year-round. Susan Alcott, who oversees the tax clinic at the Shepherds of Good Hope, said many of the people using her clinic don't realize they can receive benefits for filing a return. Our clients don't pay taxes, she said. One of the misconceptions that our clients have is that they pay taxes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ctv winnipeg: The urgency for this case is that their lives are in danger, the woman told CTV Winnipeg, according to CTV. They are at risk and could be persecuted anytime if they are found. The couple -- who did not want to be identified in order to protect the identities of their family -- are pleading for the government to grant the boy and his mother entry into Canada. The couple, who lived in Afghanistan until 2015, support education for women and girls in the country, as did their son. Their daughter-in-law and grandson were last in hiding in the city of Kabul but are constantly moving. They believe this support for women's rights is the reason their son was killed -- by the Taliban, they say -- and why their family could still be in danger. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

daughter-in-law: They believe the Taliban is responsible for his death, according to CTV. The couple says they've reached out to some Manitoba Members of Parliament in the hopes of bringing the Amena and the boy to Canada in the hopes of keeping them safe, but so far no one has taken up their case. A couple living in Winnipeg is trying to reunite with their daughter-in-law, who is being called Amena,' and their 2-year-old grandson, after their son was killed in September 2017. The urgency for this case is that their life is in danger. They could be persecuted anytime if they are found, said the grandfather. My daughter-in-law and grandson. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

money: They were actually talking about cheese a big circle of pressed milk curds and how much it would weigh, according to Metro News. It was early 2016, shortly after Letts and Lane had been charged with terrorism for trying to send money to their son Jack to help him escape from Raqqa, Syria. This wasn't code. Jack Letts, who has both British and Canadian citizenship, converted to Islam as a teenager and went to Syria in 2014. Scared that Daesh would kill him, he begged them to send money for smugglers so he could escape. By the following year, he told his parents he was desperate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pakistan people: Lawmakers in national and four provincial assemblies on Saturday elected half of the 104-member Senate to six-year terms, according to Toronto Star. Deposed premier Nawaz Sharif's party holds a plurality of 33 seats in the upper house of parliament after winning 15 in Saturday's elections. Krishna Kumari, a member of the Pakistan People's Party, hails from the so-called untouchables, the lowest rung of the caste system that still prevails in Pakistan and neighbouring India. Former President Asif Zardari's party came in second, followed by the party led by former cricket star Imran Khan. Extremist groups in Pakistan have mobilized mass rallies in recent years to protest U.S. policies and support tough anti-blasphemy laws, but have largely failed to translate their clout into electoral victories. Khan's party supported Maulana Samiul Haq, a mentor to a number of Taliban leaders, but he fell short. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

year: Yet when the motion's summary report was issued last month -- almost a year later -- the most striking upshot was the general apathy, according to Rabble. The media and public ignored the fact that the report recommended that January 29 -- the anniversary of the horrific 2017 Quebec City mosque shooting -- be designated as a national day of remembrance and action on islamophobia. The motion itself repeatedly topped the news last year after initial Parliamentary debates in mid-February. This, just weeks after Liberal Quebec premier Philippe Couillard made headlines after siding with Quebec's sovereigntist and conservative parties in opposing such a move. After dominating headlines for weeks, the motion sparked protests and counter-protests across the country. For those who might have forgotten, after M-103 was introduced last year, its parliamentary sponsor Iqra Khalid received death threats among thousands of hate emails. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

time germany: Parliament is expected to meet March 14 to re-elect Merkel as chancellor, ending the longest time Germany has been without a new government after elections in its postwar history, according to CTV. Merkel has drawn flak from both left and right for maintaining an unabashedly centrist course since taking office in 2005. The centre-left Social Democrats voted overwhelmingly to remain in a coalition with Merkel's conservative bloc, after difficult and drawn-out negotiations triggered by September's elections, which saw the rise of a new right-wing force in German politics and raised questions about Merkel's future. With the coalition approved, she can now turn her attention to tackling rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany while pushing forward efforts to reform the stumbling European Union. Merkel's survival drew cheers from her allies at home and abroad, with French President Emmanuel Macron declaring it good news for Europe. I congratulate the SPD on this clear result and look forward to continuing to work together for the good of our country, she said on Twitter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

aviation careers: But while the 34-year-old is thriving in a job that's regularly described as one of the world's most stressful, she remains a minority in a field that's largely still dominated by men, according to Toronto Star. According to Nav Canada, the private company that manages Canadian civil air navigation, less than 25 per cent of the workforce at the Montreal control centre are women. As an air traffic controller for Nav Canada, it's her responsibility to ensure the planes swooping in and out of some of Canada's busiest airports have a safe path to take off and land without crossing paths. It's something they're trying to change, in part by teaming up with Elevate, a volunteer-run network that promotes aviation careers for women. It's a matter of educating women to the fact that it's a job out there that is available to them, about the possibility of all these great jobs that are out there, she said. Article Continued Below Bedewi says she doesn't know why more women aren't flocking to a job that often pays six figures and requires only a high school education, other than to assume they don't know about it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hong kong: In a speech at the opening of a largely ceremonial political advisory conference, Yu said the advisory body has meticulously worked to enhance patriotism among young people in Hong Kong and Macau as well as those farther abroad with invitations to visit China and outbound delegations, according to Metro News. He said he was seeking to mobilize all the sons and daughters of ethnic Chinese to work together for the greater national interests and the realization of the Chinese Dream, referring to Xi's nationalist vision of China as the pre-eminent global power. The comments from Yu Zhengsheng come amid heightened Western scrutiny of the Communist Party's attempts to exert control and influence abroad, including over the Chinese diaspora in countries like Australia and the United States. China's Communist Party has long claimed sovereignty over the self-governing island of Taiwan and a degree of authority over all ethnic Chinese, regardless of nationality but its attitude toward the Chinese diaspora has been a source of growing friction with foreign governments over the past year. In another instance, European officials were deeply alarmed after Chinese police detained and denied consular visits to a naturalized Swedish bookseller in a diplomatic standoff, with Chinese state media editorial deriding his Swedish passport as effectively meaningless. In Australia and the United States, law enforcement officials have warned about Chinese government attempts to influence national politics and public opinion, as well as monitor the activities and speech of Chinese students studying abroad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

daughter kashaf: Documents from the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada say Abbas told his Nov. 22 refugee hearing that he and his wife are from different sects of Islam, according to CBC. Abbas, who was a police officer in Pakistan, said he is Shia and his wife is Sunni. Zahid Abbas says if he and his daughter Kashaf go back to Pakistan, they'll be in danger. The difference wasn't a problem in Islamabad, where they met in 2003, but Abbas's family was outraged when he and his wife moved back to his hometown of Multan in 2009. Abbas testified the beating was so severe it caused his wife to miscarry. 1 in 6 female asylum seekers fleeing gender-based persecution Fewer than 1% of illegal border crossers have serious criminal backgrounds, CBSA official says They killed my baby when she was pregnant, Abbas said in an interview with CBC News. In April 2016, he said members of his family attacked his wife while she was pregnant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

game: A lot of them, it was their first time in a rink ever, he said, according to CBC. Now, as the inaugural program wrapped up Saturday, Doyle said their skill level and their confidence has improved greatly. The boys and girls, aged five to 13, clung to the boards faced with a game they barely knew. Now they're coming right into the dressing room, getting their own gear on, they're outside waiting for the Zamboni to get off the ice, he said. Coaches say players were initially apprehensive but picked up the game quickly. They're very eager, so it's great. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

juan samayoa: He urged a judge not to deport him because he could be tortured upon his return to Guatemala, according to Metro News. The judge is expected to rule March 26. Juan Samayoa appeared Friday in federal Immigration Court in Boston. Boston radio station WBUR reports that Guatemalan authorities have an arrest warrant for Samayoa and accuse him of being involved in the killings and kidnappings of indigenous Mayans. He entered the U.S. illegally in 1992 and was ordered deported years ago after his asylum application was rejected. Samayoa lives in Providence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

money: They were actually talking about cheese a big circle of pressed milk curds and how much it would weigh, according to Toronto Star. It was early 2016, shortly after Letts and Lane had been charged with terrorism for trying to send money to their son Jack to help him escape from Raqqa, Syria. This wasn't code. Jack Letts, who has both British and Canadian citizenship, converted to Islam as a teenager and went to Syria in 2014. Scared that Daesh would kill him, he begged them to send money for smugglers so he could escape. By the following year, he told his parents he was desperate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sudanese regime: Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group, one of the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan, aligned with President Kiir and those from the Nuer ethnic group, the other largest ethnic group, supported Machar, according to The Chronicle Herald. At the time, the country was only two years old, having finally liberated itself from rule by the Sudanese regime in Khartoum after decades of warfare. The violence immediately took on an ethnic character. Since then, well over 50,000 people have died in the conflict, more than two million have fled to neighbouring countries and almost two million more are internally displaced, despite the presence of 17,000 UN peacekeepers in the country. Under the threat of international sanctions and following several rounds of negotiations Kiir had signed a peace agreement with Machar in August 2015 and the latter returned to the capital, Juba, in April 2016 after spending more than two years outside of the country. Armed groups have targeted civilians along ethnic lines, committed rape and sexual violence, destroyed property and looted villages and recruited children into their ranks. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sociology student: The experience in 2012 led the sociology student who was studying at the University of British Columbia UBC at the time to analyze faces in four textbooks widely used in North American medical schools, according to Toronto Star. She concluded in an honours thesis that racial diversity was being ignored. She wondered if medical textbooks would also reflect what she considered to be a biased portrayal of Canada's diverse population. Most images in medical books are of legs, arms and chests, showing only skin tone, not ethnicity, so Louie broadened her research as a master's student at the University of Toronto and focused on skin tone in more than 4,000 images in later versions of the same textbooks. Imagery of six common cancers for people of colour or dark skin tone hardly exist in the textbooks, says the study, which suggests unequal health care could result. Read more Opinion Adam Kassam It's time for fresh new leadership in health care Article Continued Below Report says Indigenous people in Toronto are far more likely to be homeless, unemployed and hungry Province aims to hand back' health-care decisions to First Nations within years The study by Louie and co-author Rima Wilkes, a sociology professor at UBC, found the proportion of dark skin tones represented was very small in images featured in Atlas of Human Anatomy, Bates' Guide to Physical Examinations and History Taking, Clinically Oriented Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy for Students. react-empty 161 Atlas had fewer than 1 per cent of photos featuring dark skin, while the highest amount 5 per cent was included in Gray's, the researchers say in the study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

soroush hatami: Marathon runner stopped in his tracks by Trump travel banU.S. Supreme Court allows Trump travel ban on residents of 6 mostly Muslim countries The 37-year-old, who emigrated from Iran to Toronto in 2013 and is a permanent resident of Canada, received his Canadian citizenship Friday afternoon, according to CBC. He hopes it will help clear a major hurdle that has barred him from entering the United States. That's exciting news ... There's a high possibility I can get my passport right on time, and I hope I can make it to Boston, Hatami said. Soroush Hatami migrated from Iran to Toronto in 2013 and received his Canadian citizenship Friday afternoon. Despite qualifying for the Boston Marathon back in October 2017, Hatami was banned from entering the U.S., based on his Iranian citizenship; a decision he calls unfair and xenophobic. CBC Last January, an executive order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump blocked citizens of several Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States including Hatami's birth country of Iran. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

time police: One day, an officer asked, Have you ever thought about being a police officer yourself It was the farthest thing from the mind of the Egyptian-born Bahgat, who arrived in Columbus as a teenager in 1980 speaking almost no English, according to Metro News. But he applied and has served as an officer in Ohio's largest city for 21 years. Often, he had the situation in hand by the time police showed up. Recently, police chief Kim Jacobs appointed Bahgat a liaison officer between the department and the city's growing immigrant populations, particularly people from Somalia and Bhutanese-Nepali refugees. There has definitely been some areas where law enforcement doesn't understand the culture, and likewise the culture doesn't understand why we do the things that we do, Bahgat told worshippers last month at Masjid Ibnu Taymiyah and Islamic Center, a mosque on Columbus' north side serving mainly Somali immigrants. Bahgat joins Columbus officers with outreach responsibilities to the black and gay communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trade policy: The issue pits Trump's populist promises to his voters against the party's free trade orthodoxy and the interests of business leaders, according to CTV. Unlike recent immigration and gun policy changes that require legislation, Trump can alter trade policy by executive action. But Trump's decision to seek steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has provoked rarely seen urgency among Republicans, now scrambling to convince the president that he would spark a trade war that could stall the economy's recent gains if he doesn't reverse course. That intensifies the pressure on Republican lawmakers to change his mind before he gives his final approval for the penalties as early as this coming week. He also railed about very stupid trade deals by earlier administrations and said other countries laugh at what fools our leaders have been. Trump on Saturday showed no sign of backing away, threatening on Twitter to impose a tax on cars made in Europe if the European Union responds to the tariffs by taxing American goods. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

conspiracy theories: If you believe the Toronto Star, the former Progressive Conservative leader abandoned his political comeback on Monday, February 26, for less altruistic reasons not the least of which is that a police investigation into alleged fraud in a Hamilton nomination battle may soon be hitting close to home in the form of criminal charges against former PC party officials close to Brown, according to NOW Magazine. If you believe his supporters, the media killed Patrick Brown. If you believe Patrick Brown, he did it to protect his family. On that front, conspiracy theories abound, and they're hard to ignore now that one of the accusers who forced his resignation on sexual misconduct allegations in late January has changed her story. An ex-girlfriend of Brown has also come forward to cast doubt on the allegations made by a second accuser, a former staffer of Brown's who says he forced himself on her during a party at his house in 2013. Turns out she was not in high school and too young to drink when she says Brown tried to force her to perform oral sex on him at his home more than 10 years ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.