information meeting: Steves told the Richmond News that his tweet had been misread and that he will not recuse himself from the council vote on Monday.article continues below Trending Stories The dirty truth about Vancouver real estate Burnaby RCMP warns it won't tolerate Kinder Morgan pipeline protester hurting more Mounties Greater Vancouver home prices to drop 21 per cent by 2019 analysis Federal court rejects provincial appeal on Burnaby Trans Mountain decision On March 1, Steves tweeted about an open house on proposed modular housing for homeless people, according to Vancouver Courier. It read, 500 Asian people go to a Public Information meeting. Harold Steves for dividing Richmond residents based on their ethnicity, and asked Steves to recuse himself from an upcoming vote on farmland size. The librarian gets Karate Kicked by an opponent to housing for homeless people. The librarian gets Karate Kicked by an opponent to housing for homeless people. South Asian landowners are campaigning for 10,764 sq ft houses in the ALR. Is this multiculturalism What on earth is happening to RichmondBC The tweet got more than 100 likes and nearly 100 retweets.500 Asian people go to a Public Information meeting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dhillon: It sparked a large discussion on who we are as a country, said Dhillon, now an RCMP inspector, according to CBC. Insp. Rather than give in, he vigorously campaigned against the RCMP dress code, eventually becoming the first officer to wear a turban on duty. Baltej Singh Dhillon is now a 27-year veteran of the RCMP. But when he applied to join the RCMP in 1988, he had to fight for his right to wear a beard and turban. The event was held to stimulate ideas for a new community plan that aims to provide support for people who experience racism and discrimination. Canada The Story of Us Dhillon was one of a group of community leaders participating in an-anti racism forum in Surrey on Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

remorse: Michael McCaul said, according to CTV. He did refer to himself as a psychopath. Investigators are still looking into what motivated 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt, but the recording he left on his cellphone shows that he was a sick individual, U.S. Rep. He did not show any remorse, in fact questioning himself for why he didn't feel any remorse for what he did, McCaul said. The first three victims were minorities. Conditt makes no mention of a racial motivation on the recording, but investigators are still looking into that as a possibility, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

militaristic role: Initially, Obama denounced Wright's statements, but eventually he and his wife had to withdraw from membership in the church, according to Toronto Star. This despite a respected Republican like John McCain defending him. Wright was a fierce critic of racism and what he perceived as America's militaristic role in the world. This is the price of leadership. Nourbe Se Philip, Toronto Article Continued Below NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh may be ready to represent all Canadians but until we know he doesn't have another agenda, why should Canadians be ready to have him represent us Columnist Shree Paradkar says there is precedent for him to support issues from his ancestral home. This is the experience that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh needs to draw on. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people: It is perplexing to me that people could be influenced in casting their votes in the recent U.S. election and the U.K. Brexit referendum, according to The Chronicle Herald. Yet it seems people do lose elements of their cognitive functioning and decision-making abilities with overuse of technologies, over time, as is now being shown through research and evidence. Equifax, Home Depot Do we really believe there is protection of our private information on any social media or technological platform despite the attempts of those providers to reassure us People choose to reveal every detail of their lives, including medical and health-related ones, on several social media platforms, then express disdain when/if any entity uses that information for business or data-mining purposes. Therefore, let us be advised to not be surprised by this recent turn of events or perhaps, even more sinister future revelations of how personal information is used. Sandra Bauld, HRM Bull riding gives us bad name Halifax has made considerable strides in becoming a world-class travel destination. After all, it is each individual's choice to engage in these ways. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

syrian: We weren't able to go to school, according to CBC. He knew better than to dare dream of going to university, he said. We had to work there to support our family, said the 20-year-old, who grew up with four siblings. Here's how Fredericton's 1st Syrian newcomer to marry celebrated during the storm A Syrian man's desperate plea, a former refugee's answer Saying thanks Syrian newcomers plan dinner for homeless in Saint John Then the Reyises signed up in Turkey for a program that could allow the seven-member family to immigrate to Canada. On the first day I came to Canada, I wasn't even able to say my name or how to introduce myself, said the teen, who now speaks three languages, including English. '1193913411567', 'playlist Selector' 'container Selector' ' container49634315', 'ciid' 'caffeine14591411' ; 'I felt like I have everything now'2 27 Welcome to New Brunswick But soon, his old dreams about going to school were back. There were hurdles, Reyis said, but eventually the family was accepted and arrived in the country two years ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tourism numbers: These folks find their hopeful signs where they can in the aforementioned tourism numbers but also in the fact that 4,515 immigrants arrived in Nova Scotia in 2017, a number that was down from the banner previous year because of the 1,500 Syrian refugees who arrived here in 2016, according to The Chronicle Herald. Not all of these newcomers stick around. The kind of man or woman who breaks into a joyous Bhangra dance upon learning that a couple of wealthy Americans are building a rustic resort complete with a brewery, lodge and music venue and crawling with sheep and highland cattle on 900 acres of fallow farmland in Cape Breton's Margaree Valley. As a report released this week by the Public Policy Forum points out, Nova Scotia's immigrant retention rate from 2011-2015 was 72 per cent, compared to 56 per cent in Newfoundland and Labrador, 52 per cent in New Brunswick and a lowly 18 per cent in Prince Edward Island. Or you can do some rough math and say, hey, that's 3,250 new Nova Scotians even though that's about half the annual number of immigrants the Ivany Report called upon to counteract our aging population and worrisome rate of out-migration and take some solace from that. Now, you can be distressed by the fact that no province outside of Atlantic Canada has a retention rate below 80 per cent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cent: The city and province will spend 24 million over the next three years on the initiative, according to CTV. The money will go towards more French training and to community organizations that help integrate immigrants. While the unemployment rate in Quebec is currently 5.5 per cent, for new arrivals it's 16 per cent. Seventy per cent of new arrivals are in Montreal, so that's a lot of people. So one of the things we're working on is to try to see if we can't also try to see if we can have these new arrivals go and find work outside Montreal as well, said Immigration and Diversity Minister David Heurtel. And right now we have a lot of jobs open in the rest of Quebec. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border wall: 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 CTV. 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 onboard. My highest duty is to keep America safe, he said. 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. 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.

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.