stories scheer: Trending Stories Scheer defends Conservative Chinese Facebook ads saying Trudeau will legalize hard drugs Trudeau wears protective vest after security concern delays Liberal rally in Toronto Popular Videos Federal Election Trudeau wears protective vest, increased security at Mississauga rally Edmonton teen shot in north side robbery More from Global News Quebec inquiry investigating treatment of Indigenous people calls for apology Edmonton soldier charged with arson, attempted murder of her 3 childrenif data Layer data Layer.push event Cliff Cullen says he has requested the RCMP look at both the circumstances surrounding the death and an investigation into the case by Brandon city police.CBC reported this week 30-year-old Christine Mitchell overdosed in July on a mixture of heroin and other opioids, and that she had been staying at the home of Rod Sage for almost five years, according to Brandon Sun. Sage is Brandon's chief administrative officer and also a non-voting member of the Brandon police board. Global News File comments Leave a comment facebook Share this item whatsapp Share this item via Whats App twitter Share this item on Twitter email Send this page to someone via email more Share this item more Share this item Smaller font Descrease article font size-A Larger font Increase article font sizeA Share this item facebook Share this item via Whats App whatsapp Share this item on Twitter twitter Send this page to someone via email email Share this item on Pinterest pinterest Share this item on Linked In linkedin Share this item on Reddit reddit Copy article link Copy link Manitoba's justice minister has asked Mounties to review a fatal overdose of a woman who had been reportedly living at the home of a top official with the City of Brandon. Sage said he met Mitchell when she was struggling with addiction and mental health issues, and he offered her a place to stay. This is why we've asked the RCMP to review the circumstances around this situation, Cullen said Thursday. Story continues below advertisement var gn AdSettings gn AdSettings ads ; function gn AdSettings.ads.push 'sizes' 300,250 'biddable' true, 'id' gpt-ad-300250-10 'lazy' true, 'targeting' 'pos' 10 ; ; Brandon man charged with animal cruelty Cullen said he called in the RCMP because the case involves a city official and police board member. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

water quality: There's a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it, said Elena Bennett, who studies ecological systems at McGill University and is one of the paper's 21 co-authors, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing The team considered three ways in which humans depend on nature. The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world. Many crops around the world are pollinated through healthy insect and bird populations; shorelines are protected from erosion and storm surges by coral reefs and coastal marshes; and water quality is protected by filtering swamps and wetlands. Elsewhere, however, people still rely on nature. In some places, those benefits are provided through technology such as flood infrastructure or water treatment, or simply by buying food on the global market instead of growing it locally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bill chambers: All children are innocent and punishing them where they were born or what circumstance they were born in is not our way, said Bill Chambers, the group's CEO. We believe they should be brought home and kept safe, according to CTV. The children are largely based in Al-Hawl, a refugee camp about 100 kilometres southeast of the border region where the Turkish incursion is underway. Save the Children Canada, which has aid workers on the ground in Syria, said the kids are largely the offspring of Islamic State militants, and some of them are orphans, while others have only one parent. Many of the children have family members in Canada, Chambers said. There are over two dozen detention facilities in northeastern Syria. Turkey began a military offensive Wednesday into northern Syria against U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces who are holding more than 10,000 Islamic State militants, including some 2,000 foreigners. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

management: The road will be there for many many years and I can tell my daughter, 'See mommy built that', said Li in an interview with CTV National's Vanessa Lee, according to CTV. The 35-year-old arrived in Quebec from Tianjin, China in 2007, with two suitcases and a diploma in computer sciences. Shengnan Li is helping make inroads for the massive five-year project by operating an articulated dump truck, transporting materials to and from the site. She intended to earn a master's degree in management. I'm a girl who likes action and to try new things and some adventures and then I realized that management is not for me, she laughed. But two weeks before graduation, she says she had a change of heart. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

restaurant: As a result of numerous hate messages & death threats we've received over the past week, we've decided to permanently close our shop, a statement posted on Soufi's Instagram account said, according to CTV. On Wednesday morning, CTV News Toronto learned Paramount Fine Foods founder and CEO Mohamad Fakih spoke with a member of the Al-Soufi family and offered to help them reopen. Soufi's, a well-known Queen West restaurant operated by a Syrian family who recently immigrated to Canada, announced on Tuesday they would be permanently closed to maintain their safety. Speaking together inside the restaurant on Thursday, Fakih and the Al-Soufi family announced the restaurant would reopen on Friday under the management of Paramount Fine Foods. CTV News Toronto I'm happy to share with you great news, Fakih said. Paramount Fine Foods founder and CEO Mohamad Fakih is seen in this photo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

case study: Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing But because the fake story appears to originate inside Canada rather than from a foreign power, the federal government's anti-election-meddling panel which hasn't spoken publicly about the rumour is unlikely to tackle it, experts consulted by National Observer said, according to National Observer. It's a case study for a crucial gap in Canada's defences against disinformation on the campaign trail. The false information snowballed, passing from a gossip rag to Twitter to the darkest corners of Reddit to Facebook.A website known for false Canadian news stories published an article dubiously claiming the rumours were correct, which quickly spread to nearly 25 million people and counting, according to the social media monitoring tool Crowd Tangle. Misinformation is probably going to be spread by domestic actors rather than foreign actors, said Fenwick McKelvey, a communications professor at Concordia University who studies rumours of a Justin Trudeau sex scandal went viral. For weeks amid the chaos of the campaign trail, unfounded rumours about Trudeau have circulated around his departure from West Point Grey Academy, the elite private school in Vancouver where the Liberal leader taught for a few years before leaving in 2001. Canada's election-integrity law doesn't have a mechanism to stop it. cdnpoli elxn43 We don't have a good voters will head to the polls for the federal election on Oct. 21. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

charges thursday: Parnas and Fruman were arrested on a four-count indictment that includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsification of records, according to Vancouver Courier. The men had key roles in Giuliani's efforts to launch a Ukrainian corruption investigation against Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The charges Thursday relate to a 325,000 donation to a group supporting Trump's reelection.article continues below Trending Stories Did someone find Canuck the Crow's dead body or is it a hoax Here's who's running in Vancouver in the 2019 federal election Vision Vancouver will not run a mayoral candidate for first time in party's history'Bella Dolls' sex doll brothel has opened in Vancouver Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, associates of Rudy Giuliani, were arrested Wednesday trying to board an international flight with one-way tickets at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, according to Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. The indictments mark the first criminal charges related to the Ukraine controversy. Trump has dismissed the impeachment inquiry as baseless and politically motivated. While they do not suggest wrongdoing by the Republican president, they raise additional questions about how those close to Trump and Giuliani sought to use their influence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

storm surges: The team considered three ways in which humans depend on nature, according to Vancouver Courier. Many crops around the world are pollinated through healthy insect and bird populations; shorelines are protected from erosion and storm surges by coral reefs and coastal marshes; and water quality is protected by filtering swamps and wetlands. The results, published Thursday in the journal Science, raise troubling questions about who will be able to adapt in a shifting, less dependable world.article continues below Trending Stories Did someone find Canuck the Crow's dead body or is it a hoax Here's who's running in Vancouver in the 2019 federal election Vision Vancouver will not run a mayoral candidate for first time in party's history'Bella Dolls' sex doll brothel has opened in Vancouver There's a great potential for the problems to occur where people have the least ability to cope with it, said Elena Bennett, who studies ecological systems at McGill University and is one of the paper's 21 co-authors. In some places, those benefits are provided through technology such as flood infrastructure or water treatment, or simply by buying food on the global market instead of growing it locally. The team was able to use large amounts of data from sources such as satellites to model where nature was providing those benefits, and where people needed them and weren't getting them. Elsewhere, however, people still rely on nature. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

minute video: The gunman shouted that Jews were the root of problems such as feminism and mass immigration, according to a group that tracks online extremism, according to CTV. It said a roughly 36-minute video posted online featured the assailant, who spoke a combination of English and German, denying the Holocaust before he shot a woman in the street after failing to enter the synagogue. The attacker shot at the door of the synagogue in the eastern city of Halle but did not get in as 70 to 80 people inside were observing the holy day. He then entered a nearby kebab shop and killed another person before fleeing. He said several people were hurt. Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, said authorities must assume that it was an anti-Semitic attack, and said prosecutors believe there may be a right-wing extremist motive. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

card: He says the card, which is addressed to him, was sent to his PO Box in a small town northeast of Calgary, according to CTV. The problem is Gabriel says he is not a Canadian citizen, making him ineligible to vote. This week, Paul Gabriel shared an image of a voter information card on Facebook, which contains information on how to vote, and can be presented alongside another valid piece of ID or proof of address in order to vote. Here's the problem, I can vote with this card and an Alberta Drivers licence, but I am NOT a Canadian citizen, and asking around some of my non-citizen friends, I am not alone, reads Gabriel's Facebook post. Your election is about to be stolen from you by illegal voters and we all know who gave them this ability and who they will vote for. I am not going to vote because I am not legally entitled to vote, but others will. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

turkish control: Here is a look at what has happened in northern Syria in the last few days, what could happen next, and how it could impact Canada, according to CTV. WHAT IS HAPPENING Turkish forces rolled into northern Syria on Wednesday, launching airstrikes and a ground attack on Kurdish fighters, who had previously been allied with the U.S. military in the fight against ISIS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he wants to establish a safe zone along the Turkey-Syria border that would essentially put many Syrian Kurds under Turkish control. The latest armed conflict in Syria comes only months after Kurdish and American forces declared that they had taken the last land held by ISIS and for anyone who watches the region closely, it was virtually inevitable following the American announcement. Although the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has largely taken back control of Syria from ISIS -- thanks in part to help from Russia and Iran -- the Kurds have picked up a certain amount of autonomy in the north. He tweeted that he aimed to prevent the creation of a terror corridor along the border. A Kurdish insurgency exists in Turkey, and Erdogan has said he views Kurds in Syria as terrorists threatening his country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

justin trudeau: It should take nothing the prime minister says for truth, according to National Observer. The role of the press should be to examine Liberal truth from every side and help Canadians decide where the truth really lies. It should be critical and rich with detail. Mainstream political reporting isn't like The Trudeau Formula, though. It has let the Liberals mostly off the hook, which makes Lukacs' book stand out way out as a must-read analysis on the rise of Justin Trudeau. It too often reprints talking points or refuses to challenge comments that are not exactly true. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

minute video: It said a roughly 36-minute video posted online featured the assailant, who spoke a combination of English and German, denying the Holocaust before he shot a woman in the street after failing to enter the synagogue, according to Vancouver Courier. He then entered a nearby kebab shop and killed another person before fleeing. The attacker shot at the door of the synagogue in the eastern city of Halle but did not get in as 70 to 80 people inside were observing the holy day.article continues below Trending Stories Here's who's running in Vancouver in the 2019 federal election Loss of West 4th parking worries Vancouver businesses Vancouver weather forecast calls for chance of rain Thanksgiving weekend Chinese barbeque replacing iconic Burnaby Italian restaurant The gunman shouted that Jews were the root of problems such as feminism and mass immigration, according to a group that tracks online extremism. Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, said authorities must assume that it was an anti-Semitic attack, and said prosecutors believe there may be a right-wing extremist motive. The attack strikes the Jewish community, Jewish people not just in Germany but particularly in Germany, to the core, said the country's main Jewish leader, Josef Schuster. He said several people were hurt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

english-language debate: Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily campaign update The visit followed Monday's English-language debate, in which the Liberal leader was attacked on the one hand by Tory Leader Andrew Scheer for putting a price on carbon even as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Leader Elizabeth May said he was not going far enough, according to CTV. The Liberals have committed to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 and in government they brought in a federal carbon tax, but they also bought the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan for 4.5 billion. Trudeau touched down for the four-hour visit to Nunavut's capital under overcast skies and chilly temperatures before making his way to the rocky banks of a nearby river where he sought to contrast his plan to protect the environment with that of the Conservatives. Unlike the Conservatives, Liberals believe that climate change is a real emergency that we must address now, said Trudeau, who made the trip north with his oldest son Xavier and daughter Ella-Grace. And I know the poeple of Iqaluit don't need any convincing on that. It's not something we can leave to our kids and grandkids to figure out. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

i tweeted: I want to start off with the elephant in the room and apologize, said Battiste, who is running for the Liberals in the riding of Sydney-Victoria, That's how Battiste started off a climate change debate at Cape Breton University, according to CTV. I take full responsibility for what I said and what I tweeted those years ago, Battiste said. It's the first time Jaime Battiste is reacting publicly to the social media posts he made years ago. They were done during a time of heartbreak and depression and that's not a good time to use humour. Those comments were called disgusting and inexcusable by the Conservative Party's Lisa Raitt. In 2012, Battiste tweeted Why do I assume every skinny Aboriginal girl is on crystal meth or pills In another, he made light of sexual assault, tweeting five minutes in Cheers and I would accidently sexually assault a cougar twice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

leader: Sign up for our Election Dispatch newsletter for a daily campaign update His response was a question to those Canadians How many times in your life have you done something because you're afraid and got a good result out of it And how many times have you taken the courage to take a chance on something that was good for you, and you did it and your life became better said Singh in Toronto, according to CTV. It's the same thing in this election. Singh was asked what he'd say to voters who may be contemplating voting strategically, given that the polls are consistently showing Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer in a tight race to win the most seats. If you make a choice out of fear we're going to get cynical results, but if you choose something that you believe in with your heart, you dream big, that's how you get big results. View on the ground Students react to Singh visiting Ryerson campus. We're not going to get amazing changes by settling for less. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

calendar: Cheema was listed as attending the meeting on Farnworth's calendar, but a spokesperson for Farnworth's office subsequently denied Cheema attended; instead, the spokesperson said Cheema's name was referenced in the calendar as he was the one who reached out to book the meeting that was described as one to discuss traffic fine revenue sharing, according to Vancouver Courier. The ministry spokesperson also said Donna Jones was listed on the calendar. This is the second such suit against a political opponent of Mayor Doug McCallum.article continues below Trending Stories Vancouver saw the coldest temperature in a whopping 84 years today The Cambie has been saved Vancouver's oldest bar isn't closing after all These are the Vancouver ridings to watch in the 2019 federal election Here's who's running in Vancouver in the 2019 federal election The claim originates from a motion tabled by Hundial at a Sep. 16 council meeting, in which Hundial asked for more information about an apparent meeting Cheema had on Nov. 2, 2018, with then mayor-elect McCallum and B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth. Jones is Surrey s manager of economic development and intergovernmental relations. Hundial's motion asked for more information about the meeting and the extent of the relationship Cheema had to the City of Surrey at the time. Cheema claims Hundial made no effort to verify, prior to the motion, if he actually attended the meeting. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

leadership candidates: The leaders often interrupted and talked over one another, prompting more than one of the five moderators to remind them to speak one at a time, according to National Observer. Some of them landed some good lines see Singh getting whimsical calling Trudeau and Scheer Mr. During the English-language debate in Gatineau, Que., the six leadership candidates the Conservative Party of Canada's Andrew Scheer, the Green Party's Elizabeth May, Justin Trudeau of the governing Liberals, the NDP's Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Qu b cois leader Yves-Fran ois Blanchet and People's Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier sparred over economics, Indigenous issues, immigration, and environment and energy. Delay and Mr. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing Here's what they claimed, and what the truth is Claim Maxime Bernier said People's Party is the only environmentalist option at the ballot box True or false False In a heated discussion about each of the six parties' climate plans, rookie party leader Maxime Bernier claimed that, at the People's Party, we are the only real environmentalist party. Deny, or Trudeau saying that Bernier says publicly what Scheer thinks privately some of them got their points across and some of them got facts wrong. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: Replay our live blog below function d, s, id var ijs ; document, 'script', 'scrbbl-js' , according to CTV. Canada debate 2019 Party leaders square off on policy Nine zingers from the federal leaders' debate Topics covered in tonight's debate included affordability and economic insecurity, environment and energy, Indigenous issues, leadership in Canada and on the global stage, as well as polarization, human rights and immigration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

organization thousands: He pleaded innocent to the charges against him, according to CTV. On Monday, the 60-year-old Rivas, a Canadian citizen who was born in El Salvador, was ordered held pending trial. Court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington say that Godofredo Rivas-Melendez was taken into custody on Oct. 1 in Champlain, N.Y., after being deported from Canada. An indictment says Rivas' organization specialized in smuggling people into the U.S. from Canada, sometimes in New York, but usually into Vermont. Rivas's attorney did not return a call seeking comment. People would pay the organization thousands of dollars to be smuggled into the United States. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

schizophrenia: But he didn't know that at first, according to CTV. I was manic depressive, they say, I was obsessive compulsive, he told CTV News. For Marek Wroblewski, it was schizophrenia. But it was actually schizophrenia, and when it hit me, I wasn't prepared. He worked much of his life, but his undiagnosed mental illness plagued him, causing him to make poor decisions that led to his money disappearing as fast as he earned it. The 59-year-old immigrant arrived in Canada from Poland as a translator and occasional actor. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump: They used to want only our money, but since we elected Trump, they've decided to come for everything else we enjoy as free citizens of the Republic, according to Rabble. Trump is all that stands between the America we cherish and the left's policies for fundamentally transforming the United States of America. And just as we so many times disappointed Barack Obama, we failed them as well, proving our illegitimacy as a citizenry. if page width onload 479 document.write ' ' ; ; Electing Trump was the last straw for them plastic, of course, paper is for us rabble. They know that for us, 2020 is a Flight 93 election and impeaching Trump on what is the thinnest of gruel, and arguably the finest example of projection today, is a last-ditch effort to either depose him or damage him enough politically to make him unelectable come next November. It used to be the big lie. With the media, their unctuous allies in scurrility, the left knows every specious allegation will be portrayed as fact in every article, on every news panel, and in every talking-head utterance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

official leaders: We can expect to hear about Canadian values and immigrants' integration, according to National Observer. While seemingly simple shared ideas, they are everything but. And they will be front and centre as topics scheduled for today's official leaders' debate. Canada's immigration system assesses potential immigrants' value and potential for integration by giving points for language and educational qualifications, age, work experience/arranged employment and adaptability. Eligibility thresholds demanded from immigrants shed light on what policy-makers believe Canadians are. Potential immigrants must meet financial savings thresholds and pass a medical examination. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ndp leader: Its platform also denies the science of climate change, according to National Observer. On Monday, Canadians had their first opportunity to watch Bernier debate other federal political leaders. Bernier's year-old People's Party of Canada stands for ending official multiculturalism and slashing the number of immigrants allowed into the country. He wasted little time putting this new exposure to use, tossing out an incendiary anti-Semitic slur in some of his first remarks when he declared that the other leaders on this stage are globalists and attacked the United Nations as a dysfunctional organization. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing Singh, the NDP leader, had already expressed his displeasure at Bernier's invitation to the debate. Discussions about Bernier's policies ended up dominating the first half of the debate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sign: I think the government of Quebec has to take all the measures to put incentives in place to ensure people are welcomed in French in different businesses, but we won't legislate on the singular question of 'bonjour-hi,' Jolin-Barrette told reporters in Beloeil, on Montreal's South Shore, according to National Observer. Don't miss out on the latest news Sign up for our daily briefing The bilingual greeting has been widely adopted by retail workers in Montreal in an effort to welcome a diverse clientele, but it has also become a sore point among those who fear the gradual erosion of the French language in the province's largest city. Simon Jolin-Barrette, who is also minister responsible for the French language, said the government will work to encourage retailers to greet customers in French, but he shut the door on the idea of forcing them by law. On Friday, Jolin-Barrette said the province was looking for a way to ban the greeting as a way of building on two unanimous motions passed in the legislature calling on store clerks to stick to a simple bonjour. Unilingual French greetings dropped to 75 per cent from 84 per cent over the same period. ; Jolin-Barrette did not specify how he planned to accomplish the ban but insisted to reporters that people want to be welcomed in French an assertion he repeated Monday. As justification, he cited a recent study by Quebec's language watchdog that suggested bilingual greetings became twice as frequent between 2010 and 2017, making up eight per cent of all greetings in Montreal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

replacement certificate: Diab, who was born in Lebanon, argues the government has a public duty to provide the replacement, given that he has been a Canadian citizen since 1993, according to CTV. The RCMP arrested Diab in November 2008 in response to a request by France. The 65-year-old Ottawa academic is asking the Federal Court of Canada to hear his plea for a replacement certificate after waiting 15 months for government officials to issue one. French authorities suspected he was involved in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed four people and injured dozens of others, an accusation he has always denied. In January last year, French judges dismissed the allegations against him and ordered his immediate release. Following lengthy court proceedings, Diab was extradited to France where he spent three years behind bars, including time in solitary confinement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.