advertising corp: They were criticized nearly immediately as promoting anti-immigrant rhetoric, according to CTV. Petitions have since sprung up calling on billboard owners Pattison Outdoor Advertising to take the ads down, arguing that they violate the company's own code of conduct. The ads, featuring a photo of party leader Maxime Bernier, the slogan Say NO to mass immigration and a call to vote for his party, started popping up across the country late last week. The company released two statements on Sunday, the first of which said that people who have a problem with the ads should take it up with the advertiser, True North Strong & Free Advertising Corp. We take a neutral position on ads that comply with the ASC code as we believe Canadians do not want us to be the judge or arbiter of what the public can or cannot see, the company said in a statement circulated on their social media accounts. The statement suggested they reviewed the ad content and it did not violate the Ad Standards of Canada ASC code or their own policies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

intelligence community: Wark began work in the late 1990s on the government-commissioned study of how Canada's intelligence community evolved in the years following the Second World War, according to CTV. Much of the book-length manuscript, based on classified files, was released under the Access to Information Act in 2005, but considerable portions were considered too sensitive to disclose. Officials became sufficiently nervous about the tasking of Canadians -- and the prospect of being caught snooping overseas -- that they had John Diefenbaker, prime minister at the time, give his blessing, reveals a study by intelligence expert Wesley Wark. Additional details of the intelligence effort to conscript travellers were released to The Canadian Press following a complaint to the information commissioner. But officials were conscious of the value of trying to provide some Canadian intelligence from human sources, especially to ensure favour with Canada's more powerful partners, such as the U.S. and Britain, notes Wark, who teaches at the University of Ottawa. Canada decided against creating a secret intelligence service to spy abroad in the early phase of the Cold War. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

privacy act: In a statement to CTV News, Global Affairs Canada confirmed the death of a Canadian in Cancun but did not confirm the person's identity due to the provisions under the Privacy Act, according to CTV. We offer our deepest condolences to the family and friends of the Canadian citizen who has been murdered in Cancun, Mexico, the statement reads. The attorney general's office for the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said Sunday that Daniel Lavoie, 62, has been killed with violence. Consular services are being provided to the victim's family. The attorney general's office declined to discuss a possible motive with The Associated Press. Consular officials are in contact with local authorities to gather additional information. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

katie broderick: Caughron has already become the Waterloo record-holder in the butterfly, and Frericks owns Cedar Falls' top time in the backstroke, according to The Waterloo Record. Frericks' freshman state debut included a narrow runner-up finish in the backstroke, 55.77-55.87, against West Des Moines Dowling's Katie Broderick. All three were underclassmen when they climbed onto the podium at last year's state meet. She added a fourth-place finish in the 50 freestyle and was part of two relays that placed among the top six. Frericks' offseason included a taste of competition against some of the best collegiate prospects across the nation. She really wanted to win the 100 backstroke at state, and coming in second kind of upped the ante and boosted her drive coming into this year, Cedar Falls coach Scott Pinter said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

job-losing b.c: There, there, dry those tears, according to Hamilton Spectator. Two years ago I planned this exit before being ushered out or carried out, fingers stiffly on keyboard but on with business If only the ruling Ottawa-Toronto-Montreal triangle had a tenth as much concern for job-losing B.C. forestry workers as it has for Quebec-based, scandal-wracked SNC-Lavalin's employees well, it wouldn't be the Canada we know and love, right What WV councillors more favourable than municipal staff toward Park Royal's tacking on more storeys to a development bitterly opposed barely a year earlier PR shows contempt for council and residents, trumpeting its goal of a virtually autonomous live-work-play enclave in a town it doesn't respect. A last column without tears let's get on with important business Oh, dry those tears isn't 29 years at this stand long enough article continues below Trending Stories West Van homeowner forced to sell, conspiracy claims dismissed North Van tax educator' loses appeal First fish clear Seymour River rock slide North Vancouver man charged in mystery tree cutting case This is my last column. Sproing, sproing! The Kangaroo Court of the BC Human Rights Commission is back in session, revived by John Horgan 16 years after Premier Gordon Campbell properly abolished it. This freak show, first reported by the incomparable Christie Blatchford, drew international headlines and jeering of Canada. The case that discredits the B.C. human wrongs apparatchiks beyond all previous crank causes Sending to its Star Chamber-style tribunal the 29 complaints of one Yaniv, putting through the wringer frightened, mostly immigrant female estheticians who don't wax male genitals and wouldn't make an exception for a self-defined transwoman still equipped with a penis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rights committee: However, he never became a permanent resident, according to CTV. In June, the Canada Border Services Agency determined that Elmi should be deported because of a criminal record that includes assault charges. Abdilahi Elmi, 34, arrived in Canada as a child and eventually ended up in a foster home. He was due to be deported back to Kismayo, Somalia on Monday. By the mid-afternoon, the CBSA sent an email to Elmi's lawyer, Idowu Ohioze, informing him that his client's deportation on Monday had been cancelled. But on Friday, the United Nations called for a delay so that the UN human rights committee could review the case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ratification vote: This is what the journey and the pathway to self-determination looks like, she said, according to National Observer. The agreement is an example of the recognition of rights, respect, co-operation and partnership sought by the Liberal government in forging a new relationship with Indigenous Peoples, she added. The milestone shows groundwork has been laid for First Nations in Ontario to move beyond the Indian Act, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Friday. Parliament passed the Indian Act in 1876, giving the federal government enormous power over the control of registered First Nations people, bands and the reserve system. Anishinabek First Nations are set to hold a ratification vote in February 2020. The federal government said four parts of the act that deal with governance will no longer apply to Anishinabek First Nations who ratify the proposed agreement. ; The changes would mean that First Nations could make decisions about leadership, citizenship, government operations and how to best protect and promote their language and culture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cent: Within that category, the province has so far accepted 41 per cent fewer skilled workers than it did in the first six months of last year, according to CTV. The numbers were compiled by Jack Jedwab, president of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration, using data from the federal Immigration Department. In the first six months of 2019, the number of immigrants to Quebec in the economic category fell by 32 per cent compared with the same period in 2018. Premier Francois Legault was elected last October on a promise to cut immigration by 20 per cent in 2019 compared with 2018 levels. But Legault and his immigration minister, Simon Jolin-Barrette, have repeatedly stated that while Quebec would receive fewer newcomers overall in 2019 and in the three subsequent years, those accepted would be better suited to meet the province's economic needs. Too many newcomers weren't finding work within the first five years of arriving and too few spoke French, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bassett walker: A third-party advertising group, True North Strong & Free Advertising Corp., paid for the billboard, according to CTV. The organization is run by Frank Smeenk, the chief executive of a mining exploration company based in Toronto. The ad prompts people to vote for the People's Party of Canada and reads Say NO to Mass Immigration. The group filed interim financial returns with Elections Canada that show it spent 59,890 on billboards in select cities in Canada and received 60,000 from Bassett & Walker International Inc., a company that specializes in the international trade of protein products. Earlier this week, Smeenk declined to comment on the billboard beyond what appeared in the Elections Canada filing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

david koch: At 6 feet, 5 inches tall, the professional contrarian and ideological warrior had little interest in blending in, according to Rabble. Even as Democrats made him and his deep political giving a symbol of the corrupting influence of money on politics, he remained defiant and doubled-down. He liked it that way. Koch could not be kowtowed into a crouch. No cause was given, although his brother Charles noted in a statement that David had previously fought prostate cancer. David Koch's death was announced Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

media outlets: And it is also becoming more politically engaged The voting rate of immigrant from West Central Asia and the Middle East increased to 73 per cent in the 2015 election from the 57 per cent recorded four years earlier, the largest increase among the 10 immigrant regions studied by Statistics Canada, according to CTV. Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily update on the campaign, once the federal election is underway For Alshaer, and other ethnic media outlets, all his efforts are aimed at helping Arabic-speaking new Canadians kick isolation and get involved in politics. The community Alshaer's paper serves is growing -- more immigrants are arriving in Canada from Africa, Asia and the Middle East than ever before, surpassing Europe that was once the dominant source. We're trying to encourage our audience to integrate, he said. Research published by Statistics Canada in 2016 highlighted that new Canadians made up about one-fifth of the voting population. We show them how important is to participate in politics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rosemary barton: They are three news anchors Lisa LaFlamme, Rosemary Barton and Dawna Friesen and two columnists, Susan Delacourt and Althia Raj, according to CBC. There is no way of precisely knowing this, but I am confident that choosing all five exclusively from the XX chromosome class was a matter of some exultation, perhaps reaching to self-congratulation. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images Rex Murphy August 23, 20195 02 PM EDTFiled under Full Share this story Rex Murphy Who else would have the empathy to interrogate our feminist PM Tumblr Pinterest Google Linked InA stellar cast of central Canadian journalists, all of them eminently female, has been selected to moderate the first federal election leaders' debate. Somewhere, in whatever closet these mysterious deliberations were conducted, surely at their conclusion there was a whoop of You go girls!, and surely, too, much high-fiving over the shards of another broken glass ceiling. Surely there was a whoop of 'You go girls!'So the declaration of a No Males Zone around the moderation of the first debate has to be a good thing, achieving heights of fashionable correctness that would stir a gulp of envy even in the puritan confessionals sound booths of the third-wave sisterhood down south at National Public Radio home of the hushed voice, where even the news is organic and shade-grown. In the higher regions of Canadian journalism, soft L liberalism predominates, and a progressive attitude toward upper-middle-class feminism, the feminism of professionals, is as much standard equipment for both males and females as a laptop, an iPhone, and an envious glare to aim at Robert Fife a male as he goes off to bury another politician. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

scheer: Along with the video came a challenge to march in Sunday's Ottawa Pride parade, with Goodale noting that Scheer has never yet participated in any Pride parade, according to Vancouver Courier. SCHEER IS PASSING THE BUCK, LETTS' PARENTS SAYThe parents of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man imprisoned in northern Syria, are chastising Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer for saying he wouldn't lift a finger to help their son. Singh's statement came several hours after Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted a short, edited video of an April 2005 speech Scheer gave in the House of Commons explaining his opposition to the Civil Marriage Act, which legalized same-sex marriage in Canada later that year. Scheer might react differently if his own child was locked in a foreign dungeon without access to a lawyer or contact with his family, John Letts and Sally Lane said in a statement distributed Thursday. Questions about the fate of Jack Letts, who is being held in a Kurdish jail in Syria, recently resurfaced following word that Britain had revoked his citizenship. The couple, who live in Oxford, England, said it is time for Canadian politicians to show leadership and demonstrate that Ottawa is able to protect the rights and freedoms of all citizens. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cent: Within that category, the province has so far accepted 41 per cent fewer skilled workers than it did in the first six months of last year, according to National Observer. The numbers were compiled by Jack Jedwab, president of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration, using data from the federal Immigration Department. In the first six months of 2019, the number of immigrants to Quebec in the economic category fell by 32 per cent compared with the same period in 2018. Premier Francois Legault was elected last October on a promise to cut immigration by 20 per cent in 2019 compared with 2018 levels. But Legault and his immigration minister, Simon Jolin-Barrette, have repeatedly stated that while Quebec would receive fewer newcomers overall in 2019 and in the three subsequent years, those accepted would be better suited to meet the province's economic needs. Too many newcomers weren't finding work within the first five years of arriving and too few spoke French, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

islamic state: The couple, who live in Oxford, England, said it is time for Canadian politicians to show leadership and demonstrate that Ottawa is able to protect the rights and freedoms of all citizens, according to National Observer. Questions about the fate of Jack Letts, who is being held in a Kurdish jail in Syria, recently resurfaced following word that Britain had revoked his citizenship. Scheer might react differently if his own child was locked in a foreign dungeon without access to a lawyer or contact with his family, John Letts and Sally Lane said in a statement distributed Thursday. Letts' parents said their son, who still holds Canadian citizenship, went to Syria for religious and humanitarian reasons, not to fight for the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Mr. It is irresponsible of Scheer, and the U.K. government, to pass the buck and let other countries deal with the westerners being held in Syria following the demise of ISIL, they said. ; Last year, John Letts accused Scheer and his colleagues of falsely stating Jack was a terrorist who had gone abroad to fight with the terrorist organization. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

statistics canada: And it is also becoming more politically engaged The voting rate of immigrant from West Central Asia and the Middle East increased to 73 per cent in the 2015 election from the 57 per cent recorded four years earlier, the largest increase among the 10 immigrant regions studied by Statistics Canada, according to National Observer. For Alshaer, and other ethnic media outlets, all his efforts are aimed at helping Arabic-speaking new Canadians kick isolation and get involved in politics. The community Alshaer's paper serves is growing more immigrants are arriving in Canada from Africa, Asia and the Middle East than ever before, surpassing Europe that was once the dominant source. We're trying to encourage our audience to integrate, he said. Research published by Statistics Canada in 2016 highlighted that new Canadians made up about one-fifth of the voting population. We show them how important is to participate in politics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

a-list clout: He placed second in both of the last two years, according to CTV. The prolific actor, 47, scored a major hit with family-friendly reboot Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle -- a sequel is on the way -- and has starred in multiple Fast and Furious films including this month's Hobbs & Shaw. Former professional wrestler Johnson raked in US 89.4 million over 12 months, rising back to the number-one spot he last held in 2016. He has just become the go-to bankable star, said Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. Using his A-list clout to secure lucrative profit-sharing movie deals on top of eight-figure fees, Johnson also appears on HBO television show Ballers, hosts NBC game show Titan Games and has his own lucrative line of fitness clothing, among other endorsements. And he's always working -- he's relentless. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

june: The apparent reversal comes after the board said in June it needed to delay applying the legislation for one year in order to consult with schools, parents and other stakeholders, according to CTV. The board's position was welcomed by Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge, who said he was pleased but not surprised by the decision. The Commission scolaire de Montreal said Thursday it will present a report next week to its council of commissioners to discuss the implementation of Bill 21. Roberge and Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette said in June that no exceptions would be granted, and that the law would apply in Montreal like everywhere else. Religious and civil liberties groups are challenging the legislation, which prohibits some public sector workers, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols at work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

marriage: In the video, Scheer is seen delivering a speech in the House of Commons detailing the reasons for his opposition to same-sex marriage, according to CTV. Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily update on the campaign, once the federal election is underway Liberals had been circulating the video on social media all day Thursday. Singh's comments came in response to a video of Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer from 2005. Scheer says his position has changed since the 2005 vote that legalized same-sex marriage, and he now unequivocally supports equal LGBTQ rights, including same-sex marriage as defined in law. This is exactly why, if Canadians deliver a minority government in October, I will not prop up Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives. Still, Singh said the video was a resurfacing of Andrew Scheer's disgusting prejudice against LGBTQI2S people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

navy reservist: In the opposite corner, wearing Tory blue, was a young aboriginal leader and Conservative senator named Patrick Brazeau, who is a former navy reservist and a second-degree black belt in karate, according to Rabble. Bookies had given the lanky Trudeau, a former high school teacher, three-to-one odds against. He was clad in a lustrous red robe, the colour of the Liberal party, for which he was then a junior member of parliament. The televised match was ostensibly a fundraiser for cancer research, but in Ottawa it became a sensation a display of partisan pageantry rarely seen in the staid world of Canadian politics, where bland works had been the watchword of one long-serving provincial premier. The Liberal party, which had governed Canada for much of the 20th century, had been reduced to a historically low number of seats. The fight's symbolism was lost on no one in recent years, the Conservatives had battered the Liberals, turning a narrow lead in the 2006 election into a majority government by 2011. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: People's Party Leader Maxime Bernier doesn't believe in climate change, according to National Observer. That was enough for Elections Canada to say they would construe a position on the issue as proxy support for one party over another. The star candidate and former director of the environmental organization quiterre continued, Elections Canada won't let environmental groups talk about climate change because Maxime Bernier doesn't believe in it!!! Science is no longer acceptable for them it seems... Guilbeault was responding to a Canadian Press report saying Elections Canada had issued a warning that it could classify advocacy around climate change as partisan activity during the upcoming election. This is pure madness, Elections Can E won't let environmental groups talk about climate change because Maxime Bernier doesn't beleive in it!!! Science is no longuer acceptable for them it seems... globeandmail https //t.co/T5fDjgdGYs Election2019 steven guilbeault s guilbeault August 19, 2019This has serious consequences for environmental organizations like Guilbeault's former group. Groups that don't comply could be punished with fines adding up to several multiples of the amount they originally spent on the campaign activities. Under current election law, a group engaging in any election-related activity that's deemed partisan and costs more than 500 must be registered as a third party. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

president disapprove.article: Trump's approval rating has never dipped below 32% or risen above 42% in AP-NORC polls since he took office, according to Vancouver Courier. No other president has stayed within so narrow a band. Just 36% of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president; 62% disapprove.article continues below Trending Stories Richmond man killed in motorcycle crash in East Vancouver Making more lungs available for transplant in Vancouver Vancouver's millennials are being scammed and Nana's here to help Air Canada has temporarily suspended all flights to India from Vancouver The numbers may be ugly for a first-term president facing reelection in 14 months, but they are remarkably consistent. Since Gallup began measuring presidential approval, Trump is the only president whose rating has never been above 50%. Still, several Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush logged ratings worse than Trump's lowest rating so far at some point during their time in office. Views of the Republican president's handling of the economy remain a relative bright spot despite fears of a potential recession, but at least 60% of Americans disapprove of his performance on other issues. Trump's poor grades in the AP-NORC poll extend to his handling of several key issues immigration, health care, foreign policy and guns. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

protest movement: The prime minister added his government has been working tirelessly to secure the release of two Canadians detained in China, according to National Observer. As a global community, we must recognize that China is a growing power and increasingly assertive towards its place in the international order, Trudeau told the audience at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations event. The federal government is closely monitoring the protest movement in Hong Kong, where there are 300,000 Canadian citizens, Trudeau said in a speech in Montreal. But make no mistake We will always defend Canadians and Canadian interests. We do not escalate, but we do not back down, he said. ; Trudeau's speech came a day after Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, told reporters Canada needs to stop its wrongdoing before it's too late. The prime minister said Canada will continue to engage in dialogue with the Asian power, but it won't stop standing up for fundamental freedoms, including the right to peaceful assembly. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

waterloo graduate: The dictionary's publisher, Oxford University Press, said in an email that it has no record of Dzsurdzsa working for the company, but that he appears to have worked on an unaffiliated research project examining the text, according to National Observer. But that short biography leaves out a few steps. According to the About Us page on The Post Millennial's website, the University of Waterloo graduate used to be a researcher on The Oxford English Dictionary. Before Dzsurdzsa was hired at the Post Millennial, he also worked for websites that promoted racism and peddled pro-Kremlin content. It did the same for Faith Goldy, who praised white nationalists at the deadly Charlottesville neo-Nazi protest, said a neo-Nazi slogan on a podcast for the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer and added that she doesn't see that as controversial, advocated to return Canada to a population that is 96 per cent Euro Canadian and said she wants launch the next Crusade to reclaim Bethlehem. While he was a creative director and correspondent at Free Bird Media, the blog promoted Richard Spencer, who has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center in the U.S. as a professional racist and white supremacist. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

community berg: It made her feel like she was a foreigner in her own community, according to CTV. Berg, a registered Democrat, is among a growing and crucial bloc of Asian American voters leaning further to the left in the age of Trump, and his stunt, reported by the New York Post, angered her and many others. Berg, a Korean American who grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, recalled kids doing the stereotypical pulling at the eyes and the mocking accent. It empowers people who would be predisposed to doing that kind of thing anyway, said Berg, a high school English teacher in Denver. Trump has used racist rhetoric to fire up his conservative base ahead of the 2020 election -- most notably against four Democratic congresswomen of colour. And it makes it acceptable to be openly, increasingly discriminating. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

riot shields: Police with riot shields faced off at the station entrance against a group of remaining protesters, who sprayed a firehose and spread soap on the floor to slow a police approach, while piling up trash bins, a wheelchair and umbrellas in a makeshift blockade, according to CTV. They also discharged fire extinguishers, creating a cloud obscuring visibility. Near the end of the event, the police began what they called a dispersal operation, using minimum force after some protesters blocked roads and flashed laser pointers at officers. The station's entrance shutters were lowered, barricading the protesters inside. The black-clad protesters flooded earlier into Yuen Long station to commemorate the July 21 rampage by a group of men suspected of organized crime links, in what was a shocking escalation of the city's summer of protest. The confrontation ended without further incident, as police retreated and protesters left on trains. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.