cheetos: What Hin wanted was a burger, according to Toronto Star. Maybe a bowl of Cap'n Crunch. I hate fish, Khan Hin said. Or some Tater Tots. Hin's palate is American. I'm feisty, he said, for my Flamin' Hot Cheetos. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jewish appeal: The largest in the network, UJA Toronto's endowment and planned giving arm, has 500 million in assets and planned gifts, according to Rabble. CJA Montr al has over 300 million on hand. Together the United Jewish Appeal/Combined Jewish Appeal of Toronto, Montr al, Winnipeg, Windsor, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, London, Ottawa, Vancouver and Atlantic Canada raise over 100 million annually. In a recent letter to the Canadian Jewish News, Morris Sosnovitch asked why UJA Toronto gives a quarter of its budget to a country with a 360-billion national budget. The Jewish Federations also oversee the United Israel Appeal Federations Canada. All Canadian taxpayers should ask why tax deductions are given for the 13.7 million UJA Toronto, 3.8 million CJA Montr al, and 1.12 million CJA Vancouver donated last year to Israel, among the world's 25 wealthiest countries, run for the past decade by one of the most right-wing governments in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hollis street: Their last day of work is expected to be next Thursday, according to The Chronicle Herald. Most of the seven laid-off workers are immigrants and all are of African descent, while the one janitor who was rehired by the new contractor is white, union organizer Darius Mirshahi said during a protest in front of the building on Friday morning. The Service Employees International Union is planning to launch a picket line on Hollis Street outside Founders Square on Monday and is in the process of filing a complaint with the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission after seven of eight employees were given layoff notices last week. The workers are filing a complaint at the Human Rights Commission of Nova Scotia. In the cleaning business, when one company loses a contract, the next one usually picks up all the workers and carries on, Mirshahi said. The basis of that complaint is racial discrimination due to the facts that the only worker who has been rehired is the only non-supervisory white worker, and all non-supervisory black workers have not been offered employment, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

house staff: Trump said he was very disappointed in the package, in part because it did not fully pay for his planned border wall with Mexico and did not extend protection from deportation to some 700,000 Dreamer immigrants due to lose coverage under a program the president himself has moved to eliminate, according to Toronto Star. But Trump praised the bill's provisions to increase military spending and said he had no choice but to fund our military. The episode further eroded the already damaged credibility of both the president and a White House staff that had assured the nation he was on-board. My highest duty is to keep America safe, he said. Article Continued Below With Congress already on recess, and a government shutdown looming, he said that young immigrants now protected in the U.S. under Barack Obama's Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals program have been totally abandoned by the Democrats not even mentioned in Bill and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defence, is not fully funded. react-text 153 Hours before funding for the government was to expire, Trump said on Twitter that he was weighing a veto based on the fact that the 800,000 plus DACA recipients have been totally abandoned by the Democrats not even mentioned in Bill and the BORDER WALL, which is desperately needed for our National Defence, is not fully funded. /react-text DOUG MILLS / The New York Times Trump's veto threat put him at odds with top members of his administration and Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan, who had said publicly that Trump supported the bill. The bill signing came a few hours after Trump created his latest round of last-minute drama by tweeting that he was considering a veto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

meatpacking town: Gavin Wright, Patrick Stein and Curtis Allen are charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction to detonate truck bombs in the meatpacking town of Garden City, 220 miles 350 kilometres west of Wichita, according to The Chronicle Herald. Stein also faces weapons-related charges and Wright has an additional charge of lying to the FBI. Defendants wanted to send the message Muslims are not welcomed here not in Garden City, not in Kansas, not in America, prosecutor Risa Berkower said in her opening statement. Three militia members plotted for months to blow up an apartment complex housing Somali immigrants in western Kansas, saying that they wanted to exterminate cockroaches, a federal prosecutor said Thursday at the start of their trial. The three men were indicted in October 2016 after a militia member, Dan Day, became alarmed and contacted the FBI. He agreed to wear a wire and recorded profanity-laced conversations among the men that led to their arrest. It also plans to present testimony showing the men tried to recruit other members of the Kansas Security Force to join them, and warned them not to tip off law enforcement about the plan. The government plans to present evidence that the men manufactured homemade explosives and tested them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

air travel: In the days before commercial air travel became popular and accessible to the masses, the Beaux-Arts architectural features in The Great Hall would form the first impression many newcomers would have of their new home, according to NOW Magazine. While Union's role as a welcoming place for each new wave of Torontonians has remained steady since its opening in 1927, there was one particularly unique immigration event that helped bring a national focus towards this historic railway station. For nearly a century, Union Station has played a significant role as a gateway to Toronto and Canada. During the Second World War, thousands of Canadian soldiers stationed abroad met and married women from countries like England, Scotland, Belgium, France and others. To help facilitate the newcomers as they arrived in Toronto, the Canadian Red Cross set up a war bride reception centre inside Union Station. While these marriages were not officially encouraged by the military, the federal government committed to patriating the women and any children through the Canadian Wives' Bureau between 1942 and 1948. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pender street: It will hopefully help close the door on a piece of history of our city that needed to be recognized as having happened, said Vision Vancouver Coun, according to Vancouver Courier. Raymond Louie, who will join Mayor Gregor Robertson in reading the apology at the centre on East Pender Street. The event at the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver comes after the 11-member council agreed unanimously in November 2017 to hold a ceremony to condemn the racist policies of city leaders in power between 1886 and 1947.article continues below Trending Stories These Richmond realtors focus on housing for the homeless Two men fined for selling 4,000 of illegal crab to Vancouver market Burnaby home operating as nine-bedroom Airbnb hotel Restaurant plan dashes homeowner's neighbourhood dreamrelated Pop-up events bring tea and talk to Chinatown City to apologize for historical discrimination against Chinese people Banning voting rights, not allowing Chinese people to run for public office and lobbying for a head tax were among such policies. Louie and Robertson will both read sections in English, with former councillors Maggie Ip and Bill Yee expected to read the Chinese portion of the apology, which will be read in Cantonese and the Sze-Yup dialect. Yee, a retired provincial court judge, was the first Chinese-Canadian elected to Vancouver council in 1982. Ip, a co-founder of United Chinese community Enrichment Services Society, served on council between 1993 and 1996. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

school: So this is something we're going to just come back around to, according to Vancouver Courier. Munroe noted the school encouraged Indigenous candidates to apply for the job when it was posted. We've decided to fold the search and not hire any of our finalists, and that's not actually unusual at Quest, said Doug Munroe, the interim chief academic officer at the school.article continues below Trending Stories These Richmond realtors focus on housing for the homeless Two men fined for selling 4,000 of illegal crab to Vancouver market Number of arrests nears 200 in pipeline protest Childcare advocates disagree with Fraser Institute's report on subsidized daycare All the candidates had their respective strengths, but the consensus was that none of them quite met our needs, he said on Monday. The school's decision arrives after some students said that two of the three finalist candidates for a teaching position in the program did not identify as Aboriginal. The Indigenous candidate had an MFA, while the other two had PhDs. Only one of the finalist candidates identified as having some Indigenous ancestry, according to people who say they attended meetings where the candidates were introduced to the student body. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ban gender: The government's proud plan to road-trip consultations on racism, with an eye to infusing every policy with anti-discrimination measures, was quickly put on ice, according to CTV. Quebec MPs in the Liberal caucus sounded the alarm about the perils of cross-Canada hearings whipping up Islamophobia or worse. Amid a clear meltdown in Liberal government poll support, new moves on gender and tolerance issues were met by a head-shaking, eye-rolling, derision-snorting reaction from a public fed up with the excess of it all. And that bizarre Service Canada decree to ban gender specific terms like father' or mother', Mr.' or Mrs.' from all telephone communications had the government doing backflips to insist the policy had been refined. After all, the budget bellyflopped into a mosh pit of multi-billion-dollar gender measures that will do nothing to help a working mother if she can't find or afford child care. The message seems to be finally getting through Justin Trudeau has become so identified with kumbaya peoplekind priorities that he's lost the appearance of leading a serious government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border: The catch It was bait to win more money for President Donald Trump's precious border wall with Mexico, according to Metro News. The last-gasp White House attempt came as bargainers completed the huge spending measure that lawmakers aim to approve this week, participants and observers of the budget negotiations said Wednesday. That's why bargainers from both parties were surprised when the White House tried anyway. The effort failed, and Trump ended up getting just 1.6 billion for his wall and other border security steps, a year's worth of funds. Until they stop acting like idiots and stop trying to use Dreamers as hostages to pass their stupid xenophobic laws and stupid ideas like the border wall, nothing changes, Rep. That left prospects dim that Congress would act this year to renew the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, as Democrats eyeing a potential House takeover in November's elections become increasingly resistant to helping Trump build his wall. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cultures: For myself, it is very important that we bring that idea of unity that brings all the cultures together, said student Viktoriya Lee, according to CBC. When Lee, who is from South Korea, came to Canada, there was apprehension about whether or not she would fit in or if people would even talk to her. The celebration, which has been going on for about four years, was aimed at putting the spotlight on the various cultures in the school and in the city. It's okay to be new, she said. CBC Regina residents push for Davin School name change at special meeting Regina's Campion College celebrates 100th anniversary The event featured students from Canada, Indigenous communities and abroad showcasing dances, music performance and poems. When Viktoriya Lee, who is from South Korea, came to Canada, there was apprehension about whether or not she would fit in or if people would even talk to her. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jewish homes: On May 13, 1939, four months before the start of the Second World War, the luxury liner set out from Hamburg for a two-week transatlantic voyage to Havana, where the refugees hoped to live in peace, according to CTV. These were the elite. Louis who were escaping Nazi Germany were rejected by Ottawa, and forced back to Europe, where 254 passengers were killed in death camps. The cream of European Society, Canadian historian Irving Abella told CTV News. Only six months before, German Nazis had destroyed synagogues, Jewish homes and businesses in a ruthless wave of hate known as Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, which littered German streets. But they were all Jews. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

law enforcement: Local police departments lack authority under state or federal law for such arrests, the lawsuit states, according to Metro News. Michael Gatti, an attorney who represents Palmer, said the city has received a copy of the complaint, and it is being reviewed. The lawsuit against the city of Palmer challenges the authority of local law enforcement to make civil immigration arrests, ACLU-Alaska attorney Tara Rich said. The case, filed on behalf of Alex Caceda kuh-SAY-duh on Thursday, seeks unspecified damages. He tried to help a female bartender who was being attacked and was himself punched and kicked by three men who left him bleeding from his head and face, the lawsuit says. Caceda's full name, according to the filing, is Andres Alexander to the lawsuit, Caceda was helping provide security at a bar in Palmer, about 40 miles north of Anchorage, when a fight broke out last August. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

legislation addresses: The White House later said the president backed the legislation, even as some conservative Republicans balked at the size of the spending increases and the rush to pass the bill, according to The Chronicle Herald. Talks continued into Wednesday evening before the 2,232-page text was finally released. As negotiators stumbled toward an end-of-the-week deadline to fund the government or face a federal shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan dashed to the White House amid concerns Trump's support was wavering. No bill of this size is perfect, Ryan said. Leaders still hoped to start voting as soon as Thursday. But this legislation addresses important priorities and makes us stronger at home and abroad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mass destruction: More than 4,500 U.S. service members were killed, seven of them as recently as last week, according to Rabble. Death and destruction on this scale would be more than enough to crush any society; yet the Iraqi people have persevered, countering war with determination and hope. Far from delivering the promised freedom and democracy and exposing stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, the illegal war killed, wounded and displaced millions of civilians. We have to name it as a criminal war, Zahra Ali told us on the Democracy Now! news hour, the destruction of Iraq as a functioning state and society. The post-2003 Iraqi regime has proven to be very anti-democratic, she added. A French-Iraqi sociologist, she was raised in Paris because her Iraqi parents fled Saddam Hussein as political exiles. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people non-monarchies: From Morocco in the west to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf emirates in the east, monarchies have proven more stable than places that experimented with government of the people, according to The Chronicle Herald. Non-monarchies like Syria and Yemen, which before their wars did have functioning central governments, never made much of a pretense of democracy not even in the half-hearted sense of communist East Germany calling itself a Democratic Republic. But the bigger picture is that in the Middle East as a whole, democracy has largely failed to take hold. And today many argue that with so little democratic tradition and so much illiteracy in the case of Egypt, at least a quarter of the population some places are just not ready. That largely predetermines the result and diminishes democracy into something of a census. Countries that tried fairly free balloting like Iraq and Libya after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi tended to find the effort mired in tribal and sectarian voting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

user data: Zuckerberg speaks Following five days of silence, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted mistakes and outlined steps to protect user data following a privacy scandal at the company. 2, according to CTV. St. Plus, a Halifax nun with a brown belt in karate. 1. Louis exhibit A new exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa examines a dark moment in Canada's past the rejection of more than 900 Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis in 1939. Austin bombing The family of Mark Anthony Conditt, the suspect in a series of bombings in Austin, Texas, is devastated and broken by Conditt's alleged involvement in the violence. 4. The refugees were sent back to Europe, where 254 later died in death camps. 3. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nova scotia: We look to support whoever wants to start a small business project and gain Canadian experience, said Osman, according to CBC. At the same time, I'm also building social connections between people, to see people exchange numbers and make friends. Manal Osman has founded 50/50 Nova Scotia, a non-profit organization that offers free workshops in cooking, soap-making and sewing in the hopes it will encourage people, especially newcomers, to sell what they make. Manal Osman is the co-founder of 50/50 Nova Scotia. Ever since I came here, I felt the need to become part of the community, so the idea started from there, said Osman, who is now a Canadian citizen. Robert Short/CBC Osman immigrated to Canada in 2010 to seek a better life. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sanctuary laws: He said a final order is imminent, according to Metro News. Homan must back up claims that the federal government is suffering irreparable harm from three California laws that limit co-operation with federal immigration authorities by employers and state and local law enforcement agencies, Newman said. The nation's top immigration enforcer is likely to testify in a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration over California's so-called sanctuary laws seeking to protect people in the country illegally, a federal judge said Wednesday.U.S. Magistrate Judge Kendall Newman said his strong inclination is to require four hours of sworn testimony by Thomas Homan, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director. He rejected the argument by U.S. Justice Department attorney Lauren Bingham that such testimony would be too burdensome on a busy agency director. It doesn't fly anywhere, Newman said. You've made your point. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

william zochinsky: For every quarter since the second half of 2013, there were losses of people leaving Saskatchewan more than people moving in, said Claudine Provencher, an analyst with the demography division of Statistics Canada, according to CBC. Irish immigrant says boom or bust, Sask. is home now Saskatchewan family sells everything, moves to Alberta in search of jobs The province of Saskatchewan is losing people to Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, Provencher said, adding that's been the trend for at least the last two years. The data released Thursday, covering the last quarter of 2017, is reflective of what's happened with interprovincial migration during the last four years says an analyst with the agency. That includes people like William Zochinsky. It wasn't so much the economic downturn that drove his decision, but the nature of the province. He's lived in Regina for almost six years, but he's packing his bags and heading back to British Columbia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

joly: Joly said the government won't run broad consultations on racism, opting instead to speak with different stakeholders about spending on programs outlined in the budget, according to National Observer. Previous efforts to talk about racism have not gone well. The Liberals will soon launch small-scale consultations on a national anti-racism strategy promised in February's budget. ; Canadian Heritage Minister Melanie Joly, who will oversee the work, said the government wants to find real solutions to real problems, particularly on fundamental rights and access to justice and jobs. Concerns about free speech forced their way into discussions around a Liberal MP's motion condemning Islamophobia. The Liberals are now looking to avoid the same pitfalls. Similarly, the Quebec government's plan to consult on systemic racism was met with objections that forced the province to tone down its plans. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pm: Thu and Fri 11 am-9 pm, Sat 10 am-5 pm, according to NOW Magazine. Free. Apr 5-7. This exhibition examines immigration and rejection, walls, fences, resettlement, detainment, and what it means for humanity and individuals when a decision is made to close borders and evict asylum seekers, when we treat people as other. Forced resettlement; regulations; treaties that set up separated geographical areas are part of this separation. Borders are not just between countries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dog tori: Humane Society International/Canada has been partnering with local organizations in South Korea for years to end one of the most complex animal abuse issues in the country the dog meat trade, according to NOW Magazine. While rooted in history, fewer South Koreans are eating what's known as aegogi due to a growing pet industry and shifting views on which dog breeds are meant for consumption. As Olympic venues shuttered their windows and crowds packed up their souvenirs, a few Canadians remained in Pyeongchang where unfinished work kept them focused. South Korea's president Moon Jae-in adopted his dog Tori from a meat farm, the first president to welcome a rescue dog into the Blue House. On these sites, dogs are crammed into paltry cages, exposed to harsh elements and provided little in the way of food, water or medical oversight. Despite this, roughly 2.5 million dogs are raised annually for slaughter on an estimated 1,700 farms across the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

landlords: Unfortunately, many people felt they had no choice but to provide that information to avoid missing out on a place to live, despite feeling uncomfortable doing so, according to Vancouver Courier. Landlords were asked to explain how the collection of personal information and use and retention of that information is compliant with the Personal Information Protection Act. McArthur reached that conclusion after conducting an investigation that included collecting residential tenancy application forms from eight for-profit and five non-profit landlords, and rental management companies.article continues below Trending Stories Burnaby home operating as nine-bedroom Airbnb hotelrelated Tiny den for 1,000/month, and more Vancouver rental gems Downtown Eastside hotels see average rent increase by 139 over previous year Former bottle depot site in Downtown Eastside now 32 million rental highrise I found a systemic practice of landlords asking tenants to provide an unreasonable amount of personal information during the application process, McArthur wrote in a report released Thursday titled Always, Sometimes, or Never Personal Information and Tenant Screening. McArthur also heard from people who reported several incidents that concerned me, including one case where a prospective tenant was asked for a copy of their child's report card. One person was asked to consent to an inspection of their current residence. Others told him they were asked about immigration status and had requests for detailed bank statements dating back three months from all bank accounts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wednesday afternoon: The spacecraft is set to dock at the orbiting outpost Friday, according to National Observer. Feustel met his future wife, Indira, a speech pathologist from eastern Ontario, at Indiana's Purdue University. Andrew Drew Feustel, who has dual Canada-U.S. citizenship, headed off Wednesday afternoon with fellow NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. ; The trio are aboard a Soyuz rocket that left as scheduled from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan eight months before Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques leaves for the orbiting space laboratory in November for a six-month stay. They married and came to Canada, and Queen's University says he completed a PhD in geological sciences at the university in Kingston, Ont., in the 1990s. It will be Feustel's third flight into space, and his second to the space station where he will also take over as commander in June. The Queen's Gazette says their two children Ari and Aden, were born in Kingston and that the family still has ties to the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ben perryman: Abdi came to Nova Scotia as a refugee from Somalia with his sister and aunts when he was six years old, according to CBC. He grew up in provincial foster care, but officials never applied for his Canadian citizenship. He was incredibly relieved with the result and to learn that he's not going to lose his permanent resident status before he gets to have his day in court, said Ben Perryman, Abdi's Halifax-based lawyer, who will represent him at Federal Court. Abdi was detained by the Canada Border Services Agency earlier this year after serving nearly five years in prison for multiple offences, including aggravated assault. Former child refugee's deportation hearing temporarily paused Perryman has asked the Federal Court for a warning letter instead of a deportation order. He was subsequently released to a halfway house. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.