burnaby north-seymour: Earlier in the day, Leung's opponent, NDP candidate and former MP Svend Robinson, had called for her removal because of comments she made in the past about her views on LGBTQ2 rights and controversial issues like abortion, according to CTV. There are multiple videos online of Leung weighing-in on LGBTQ2 rights. The Conservative Party of Canada announced late Friday afternoon that its candidate for the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour, Heather Leung, would no longer be representing the party. Burnaby NOW shared a video from 2011 of Leung speaking against a Burnaby School Board policy aimed at inclusiveness. They recruit more people and more people into their camp, she said while speaking to a Burnaby NOW reporter. The school board and the people who draft this policy are digging a deep, dark pit for the next generation because these homosexual people, they cannot reproduce the next generation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bernard looney: Dudley will retire in March, ending a 40-year career that began at Amoco, which was later bought by BP. He became CEO in 2010, shortly after a fire and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers and created an environmental catastrophe as oil gushed from the broken well at the bottom of the Gulf, according to CTV. Dudley, who grew up in Mississippi and was the first American to lead BP, succeeded Tony Hayward, who was criticized for his response to the spill -- famously complaining that he wanted his life back. Bernard Looney, 49, will become CEO and take Dudley's seat on the board in February, after the 64-year-old Dudley delivers the company's 2019 full-year financial results. The spill cost BP more than 60 billion, which Dudley managed by selling off businesses and refocusing operations. Bob Dudley took over a BP that was in deep crisis and built it back into a resurgent global player, restoring confidence outside the company, including with investors, and most crucially among BP's own employees, said Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of research firm IHS Markit and author of a sweeping book about the history of the oil industry. Later, he led the company through the oil-price collapse that began in 2014. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

elections: It's possible some may have voted illegally in the 2015 election, according to CTV. But despite that, there are non-Canadian citizens here in Nova Scotia who are still on that list registered to vote in just over two weeks from now. In May of this year, Elections Canada said it would eliminate 103,000 people from the register because they are not Canadian citizens. You must be a Canadian citizen in order to vote so the best thing to do to help Elections Canada improve the list and correct the mistakes is to either go to an Elections Canada office and say 'will you please remove me from the list, I'm not a Canadian.' or you can phone, said Francoise Enguehard of Elections Canada. Elections Canada says if you are not a Canadian citizen you should not be on the list. We have a 1-800 number and you will help greatly in making the list better. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hannity: This is a rush transcript from Hannity, October 4, 2019, according to Rabble. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. Matt Gaetz and 'Swamp Wars' author Jeffrey Lord. SEAN HANNITY, Welcome to Hannity. Tonight, buckle up. All right. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

states news: Trudeau said there's nothing wrong about having dual citizenship that should disqualify anyone from being a politician, according to CTV. He added that honesty, however, is of upmost importance. Speaking to reporters in Quebec City this morning, Trudeau was asked about his views on Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's dual citizenship in the United States news unearthed Thursday in the Globe and Mail. I do think you have to be honest with Canadians when you're applying for a job to be prime minister of 37 million Canadians. Scheer needs to answer for. I think that's what Mr. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

debates part: In total, 105 debates with 386 candidates were scheduled to happen Thursday night, according to National Observer. It's taken a lot of work to get this whole thing done, GreenPAC spokeswoman Kate Belmore said in a phone interview. The debates part of an event called 100 Debates for the Environment, organized by the non-profits GreenPAC and quiterre were a grassroots response to the lack of an official climate-focused debate. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing It's such an issue on the minds of voters, especially on this election. The Conservative party didn't respond to a request for comment. The People's Party of Canada PPC which denies the existence of climate change, dropped a candidate who asked leader Maxime Bernier to speak out against racism and advocates against diversity has 45 candidates attending local debates, more than the Conservatives' 42. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

campaign event: Like millions of Canadians, one of my parents was born in another country, he said, according to CTV. I met with representatives from the embassy in August and announced I was renouncing my citizenship and submitted the paperwork to start that process. Speaking at a campaign event in Halifax, Scheer told reporters that he received the citizenship from his father, who was born in the United States. The Globe and Mail first reported on Scheer's U.S. citizenship on Thursday. Scheer was also questioned about why he waited until the eve of the election to begin the process of renouncing his citizenship. When asked why he never told anyone about his dual citizenship, Scheer replied No one's ever asked me before. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

election: Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily update on the campaign There's the real risk of a chilling effect on the Canadian election, the researchers say, according to CTV. Unable to discern real from fake, people will just disengage from politics altogether. Researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center say they are already seeing fake images related to the controversy circulating online, and being shared among prominent U.S. operators who have amplified disinformation in the past. The result is far fewer voices and much less vibrant and healthy elections--and democracies, the Technology and Social Change Research Project concludes. Trudeau's inability to say with certainty whether more photos or images exist opens up space for hoaxers to just create their own. There are a number of aspects of the Trudeau controversy that make it vulnerable to disinformation and its effects, said Jon Penney, one of the lead researchers on the project. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

murshidabad district: For Muslims in the eastern Indian state, which borders Bangladesh, these are nervy times, according to Rabble. Panic has swept through the Muslim community, which makes up 34 percent of the West Bengal population, following last month's announcement by the Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah that the National Register of Citizens NRC would be implemented throughout the country. The 33-year-old daily wage worker joined hundreds of men and women with similar concerns standing in line outside the government Block Development Office in Basudevpur, in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The NRC is designed to identify genuine citizens of India while declaring anyone without valid papers as stateless. Half of them were thought to be Hindus. In the northeastern state of Assam, where the checks were recently applied, more than 1.9 million people of all faiths were branded stateless because their names did not appear on the official citizenship list. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

video: What we wanted to do is to provide a reliable source of comprehensive information in one place that's easy to understand, said Noel Tsang, Program Coordinator of the Smart Tips Video Series at Immigrant Services Calgary, according to CTV. Topics include How to rent a home Accessing health care services What do do in a car crash Resources to learn English The information you will access with our videos are specific to Alberta, said Tsang. Immigrant Services Calgary is behind the project, Alberta Newcomers How-to and Smart Tips Video Series, giving newcomers free 24/7 access to video resources. The centre said new videos and materials will be released each month. We really want to use more technology and innovation to provide services to new immigrants. Each video has links to vocabulary lists, knowledge check, quizzes and other information and agency referral links relevant to that topic. 15 videos will be produced in the next year and a half, in a project funded by the province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

aengus bridgman: If you have something important to say on an issue, you have to say it within the first two or three days in the media environment that we live in, said Aengus Bridgman, the lead data analyst on the project, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing Otherwise, things will move on. The results measured through public posts on Twitter were consistent among journalists, federal election candidates and the general public, according to the report by the Digital Democracy Project. The Digital Democracy Project is a joint initiative by the Public Policy Forum and the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University. The dataset included tweets from 700 journalists, 200 media outlets, political candidates and 55,000 likely partisans, defined as individuals who followed more than five rank-and-file candidates from each party. For Thursday's report, the research team analyzed three million tweets collected since Sept. 17. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

news sign: Now that it's official Alberta government policy, however, things are about to get a lot trickier, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing The foreign funding conspiracy theory is a house of sand, where every pillar crumbles to the touch. Underdogs are popular, and suspicion of foreign plotting is a guaranteed box office winner. At its core, this theory, which Jason Kenney has adopted as the Alberta government's, is that the province has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations led by the Rockefellers in a deliberate campaign of economic sabotage. Unscrupulous governments are employing it around the world to discredit, silence and intimidate environmental dissent, and ultimately to choke off resources to activist groups. By directing money and influence to an anti-pipeline movement called the Tar Sands Campaign, these foundations seek to advance American energy interests by landlocking Canadian oil. ; As I wrote earlier in September, the sham outrage over foreign money is just a cynical ruse. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

venue owner: You can read the whole bylaw document here, according to NOW Magazine. Perhaps the most significant change is that the former category of unreasonable and persistent noise, is no longer the overarching catch-all that it used to be. The changes officially came into effect on October 1, and it should come as a sigh of relief to the city's music community especially venue owners and show organizers who have been the targets of frustrating noise complaints even when doing things by the letter of the law. General noise used to supersede all else in the bylaw, meaning that even if a venue owner or festival manager made amplified sound within allowed sound thresholds, a noise complaint could still be lodged against them. Record store and punk venue Faith/Void, for instance, closed earlier this year after receiving such a noise complaint. That was the bane of many music venues in the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

diba majzub: Border officers seized Meng's cellphones, tablet and other devices and wrote down her passcodes on a piece of paper that they handed to the RCMP when she was arrested, according to CTV. The border agency later realized it had made a mistake and told the RCMP the codes could not be used or shared because they'd been obtained during a CBSA examination, a Crown lawyer said. Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency questioned Meng for three hours at Vancouver's airport before the RCMP executed a provisional arrest warrant on Dec. 1, 2018. The fact of an error in the process is not an air of reality that the process was a sham, Diba Majzub told a British Columbia Supreme Court judge. Meng's arrest has sparked a diplomatic crisis between Canada and China. The Chinese tech giant's chief financial officer was arrested at the request of the United States, which is seeking her extradition on fraud charges linked to the alleged violation of sanctions against Iran. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

floor: His mental health had deteriorated rapidly, according to the new case report released Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports, according to CTV. He had hallucinations, lost sleep and grew paranoid that people were spying on him. Three weeks after a referendum determined in 2016 that the United Kingdom would leave the European Union, a man in his 40s was taken to hospital. At the hospital he was agitated, perplexed and confused, attempting to dig the floor with his hands to burrow' through the floor to get the hell out of this place,' the report said. The man, who described his family as multicultural, became increasingly worried about racial incidents. He found it difficult to reconcile with the political events happening around him. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration minister: Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily update on the campaign But Hussen is a Liberal, Abdi a Conservative, according to CTV. And their politics shaped how they responded, and how the challenge of tackling racism in Canada has become, for them, a campaign issue. Both also reacted to photos of Justin Trudeau engaging in the racist act of wearing black- and brownface three times in his life with shock. Hussen won the Toronto-area riding of York South-Weston in 2015 and became immigration minister in 2017. The most vicious have been online, including one that involved a photo of a gun, a stack of bullets and a racial slur. Racist attacks again him have increased since he was elected. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian association: In a conference room at this verdant retreat on April 11, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer and his campaign manager, Hamish Marshall, were huddling with a group of oil company CEOs along with Tim McMillan, president of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers CAPP Big Oil's most powerful lobby group, according to National Observer. All of the CEOs present, in fact, are members of CAPP's board of governors. It's a popular wedding destination. One purpose of this meeting To strategize on how to defeat Justin Trudeau's government in the federal election this month. Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer reacts to the Liberal carbon pricing announcement in Ottawa on Oct. 23, 2018. The agenda also included discussions about how to silence environmental critics of pipeline projects and the tar sands, including suing them in court. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

news sign: Vancouver-based Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd. says the technology, known as Hexwave, can detect both metallic and non-metallic weapons ranging from guns and knives to explosives, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing It operates by capturing radar images, then using artificial intelligence to analyze those images for signs of a weapon concealed in bags or under clothing. The operator of Toronto's Pearson International Airport says it has agreed to test the new system developed at an Ivy League American university and marketed by a B.C. company. Liberty says the technology is not able to recognize facial features and therefore does not pose a privacy risk, a position experts in the field view with some skepticism. When I saw this opportunity, I felt that we had to be part of it. The Greater Toronto Airports Authority, which operates Pearson, says it will start deploying the technology in the spring of 2020 in a bid to boost security. ; They were trying something that could give us a more definitive look at weapons and plastic explosives that may be coming into airports, Dwayne Mac Intosh, director of corporate safety and security for the authority, said in a telephone interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

use humour: Recent polling by Ipsos, Earnscliffe Strategy Group and MIT researchers suggests nearly all Canadians have come across misinformation online, yet only 40 per cent feel they know how to differentiate between fake news and the real thing, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing The polls also found 90 per cent of Canadians admitted to falling for fake news in the past, and only a third of them regularly check to see if the stories they're consuming are legitimate.CJF president Natalie Turvey said the campaign aims to use humour to engage news consumers and get people talking. The Canadian Journalism Foundation's Doubt It campaign aims to be an engaging collection of online quizzes and public service announcements from Canadian media personalities such as retired CBC host Peter Mansbridge. We're looking at the simplest, most straightforward and small actions that Canadians can incorporate to have changes in how they're consuming news and information, Turvey said in a phone interview. ; All of these techniques take 10 to 30 seconds to verify if a claim is real. Turvey said they've tried to make the campaign humorous and fun so that it's engaging. Some of the techniques she cited include checking dates, googling to see if other outlets are covering the story, and being skeptical of items that provoke a particularly strong emotional reaction. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

statistics canada: As of July 2019, the government agency estimated Canada's population at 37,589,262, according to CTV. That's up by over 500,000 compared to the year before. The figures were released as part of Statistics Canada's annual population estimates. That makes Canada's population growth the highest among G7 countries. Source Statistics Canada Interprovincial migration contributes to slow in Manitoban growth Conversely, Manitoba's growth slowed, with Stat Can estimating its population in July at 1.36 million. This infographic created by Statistics Canada shows the demographic growth by province between July 2018 and July 2019. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

issues: He later told National Observer he believes that after this election, maybe we can have a conversation about systemic racism and all the issues related to it, according to National Observer. It's frustrating that the press are trying to make this a story, he said. In an apology posted to Facebook on Tuesday, Marty Lancaster, a 47-year-old physics and environmental science teacher at Bear Creek Secondary School, said the costume was a mistake he deeply regrets and he's committed to educating himself on the issue. That's your choice to decide whether this is going to be a story or if this is going to be a small thing and you can move on and focus on more important issues. The issue took centre stage last month after shocking photos and video emerged showing the sitting prime minister in brownface and blackface. Race has been a powerful undercurrent in the leadup to and throughout the 2019 federal election campaign, which is witnessing the first racialized candidate for prime minister and a breakaway Conservative politician who founded a new party that taps into anti-immigrant sentiment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

al-rawi: SFU public communication professor Ahmed Al-Rawi is one of many academics across the country scrutinizing online activity for signs of foreign or domestic interference; he hasn't found any, according to CTV. I've downloaded over a million tweets and analyzed the canpoli' hashtag and I could not find any large activity of bots automated re-tweeting accounts said Al-Rawi, who is continuing to assess those tweets throughout the campaign. Analysis from Twitter, Facebook and academics suggests that malicious, manufactured and fake news content is not as widespread as in previous years, largely due to efforts to zero in on and remove that kind of material as quickly as possible. He believes it's a combination of public awareness and reluctance to share questionable content that is keeping it from growing, in addition to the work of social media companies clamping down. The company says the kind of activity seen in the United States' 2016 presidential election is non-existent in Canada's elections at this point. Al-Rawi's research backs up assessments from Twitter, which has invested in anti-bot and anti-manipulation techniques. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

arts centre: The demonstrators chanted Nazi scum, off our streets and held signs that read white supremacy is terrorism, according to CTV. According to a news release issued Monday, police were made aware of an incident that was occurring out of view from officers. About 100 demonstrators wearing bandannas or balaclavas to cover their faces entered Mohawk College McIntyre Performing Arts Centre ahead of the political event that evening. An elderly woman with a walker was being prevented by some of the demonstrators from entering the event. Hamilton police are in the process of collecting video evidence and further charges may be pending. Once police became aware, officers intervened and escorted the woman and her companion into the venue, investigators said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

group trip: The tweet identifies the man as 51-year-old Canadian Justin Kyllo, according to CTV. CTV News Vancouver have learned that Kyllo was the owner of Smoke and Bones BBQ in North Vancouver, B.C. Posts on social media indicate he was in Tanzania with the charitable organization Wings of Kilimanjaro, in which participants raise money for charity projects in Tanzania and then go on a group trip to climb the mountain and paraglide back down. A tweet posted on Sept. 28 by Tanzania National Parks said that the accident happened at Stella Point on Mount Kilimanjaro. For more on this story, visit CTV News Vancouver Global Affairs Canada confirmed in an email statement to CTVNews.ca that they were aware of the death of a Canadian, but did not identify the individual. At around 5,900-metres tall, Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of the Canadian citizen who died in a tragic accident in Tanzania, Global Affairs said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

news media: It marked the fourth consecutive year that they have gone up, according to Rabble. The increase was fueled by incidents primarily taking place in Ontario and Quebec targeting Canada's Jewish, Muslim and Black populations. In Canada, the number of reported hate crimes skyrocketed 47 per cent in 2017, according to the latest figures available from Statistics Canada. But issues like abortion and sexual orientation have also attracted extremist opposition. But how it should be covered is a problem that our news media are still wrestling with.A good example is how last Saturday's provocative march by a fringe group of anti-LGBTQ activists was covered in the Toronto media. This is clearly news worth covering. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ross poldark: Despite it being an annual tradition on Poldark for a person of rank to corner a reluctant Ross by the syllabub and force a position of power on him, that was a turn up for the books, according to Rabble. Unless you've read the books, in which case it wasn't. It originally appeared on Den of Geek UK.A spy for the English crown! Fancy that. Those who've read other books may recognise the name Edward Despard, a genuine chap of history whose exploits explain why Dwight was so keen for his pal to steer clear. You may as well put Despard in a Demelza wig and dip him in honey. Tell Ross Poldark that someone's too dangerous Oh, Dwight. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.