care homes: This meant they ended up at the front lines of the pandemic, caring for elderly patients at the long-term care homes that have been hit extremely hard by the virus, according to CTV. Now some who work with them are asking Canadian authorities to thank these workers with a more reliable path to citizenship, essentially allowing them to switch from the uncertain refugee claims process to an immigration process. Hundreds of asylum seekers, most of whom crossed into Quebec through Roxham Road in recent years, got jobs as orderlies while they waited for their refugee claims to be settled. They could live here as an immigrant, and after three years or four years they could apply as to be a citizen, said Marjorie Villefranche, the director of the Maison d'Haiti community centre in Saint-Michel. Many of them got apartments in the surrounding neighbourhood, and jobs in the health system, helping explain the sky-high rates of COVID infection in Saint-Michel right now. Complete coverage at newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The Maison d'Haiti single-handedly resettled 5,000 of the 27,000 asylum-seekers who arrived in Montreal in the last three years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people: Bears are considered sacred by many Indigenous communities, according to NOW Magazine. Headdresses are considered sacred by communities that have them as part of their culture, which is not all Indigenous people in Canada. The cover image of a bear wearing a headdress made of marijuana leaves sparked a flurry of confusion, since the image depicted things that many Indigenous people hold sacred. Weed, on the other hand, is not sacred to Indigenous communities in a way that transcends its medical use to many communities, Indigenous and non. But our concern is with the choice to use controversial images and wording to grab the attention of readers on a topic that is far removed from decolonization and not representative of the histories of all Indigenous people. The accompanying article by Kieran Delamont is well-written and researched, bringing together quotes and facts from several sources to raise the issue of Indigenous inclusion in the legalization of cannabis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

twitter rebel: Vladimir Putin is baring his teeth to Europe and the West, according to National Observer. Next up, Germany, which goes to the polls in September. Yet Russia's apparent attack on the French election presents profoundly unsettling global security implications. Now comes the stunning report that cyber analysts have identified Jack Posobiec, a journalist for Canada's Rebel Media as playing a crucial role in driving the massive Macron data dump through social media. Screenshot from Twitter Rebel Media's new brand By way of background, Mike Cernovich is an online conspiracy troll who has a gig with the notorious extremist Alex Jones and his Infowars site. We'll get to that in a minute, but meanwhile, here's a question Was this all presaged by an obscure and cryptic tweet on April 13th Mike Cernovich tweets about a meeting with Rebel Media's Ezra Levant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

studio vehicles: Opens Friday May 10 . For venues and times, see listings, according to NOW Magazine. After four decades in the movie business, Dennis Quaid is a Hollywood institution. A Mongrel Media release. 105 minutes. Lately, he's been playing stock roles in studio vehicles like G.I. Joe The Rise Of Cobra, but he's turning that around with a masterful performance as a scheming patriarch in At Any Price, a drama about a farm family coping with modern practices. When Quaid was offered the part, he immediately checked out Bahrani's films. It's the latest by Ramin Bahrani, an art house filmmaker Roger Ebert once described as the director of the decade. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

two-household bubble: All the experts are saying now that everyone should be wearing a mask, says Dieppe resident, Peter Henry, according to CTV. Especially now that we're starting to open up here in New Brunswick. One condition from the government announced Friday, was that face masks will be required in public if physical distancing cannot be maintained. It's even more responsible for everybody to wear a mask. While several activities and gatherings are now being permitted, those new permissions are only granted if physical distancing measures are maintained. The N.B. government is asking people to limit close contact to those within their two-household bubble. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

u.s .,: But until the 1960s, they noted, most Filipinos knew very little about Canada, which many imagined to be a land of snow and Eskimos, according to Georgia Asian. Some, according to them, had seen pictures of Niagara Falls and thought it was entirely an American landscape. Canada has the second-largest Filipino community in the world, behind only the U.S., the Laquians said in an interview with the Georgia Straight. The Laquians have lived in and out of Canada since arriving in Ontario as a young couple with their two children in 1969. Back in 1964, according to their research, there were only 770 Filipinos living in the country. It was during this decade, they said, that Filipinos were officially categorized as a distinct ethnic group in Canadian-immigration statistics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

virus causes: At least 73 children in New York have been diagnosed with symptoms similar to Kawasaki disease -- a rare inflammatory condition in children -- and toxic shock syndrome, according to CTV. Most of them are toddlers and elementary-age children. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. Cuomo announced two more deaths a day after discussing the death of a 5-year-old boy Thursday at a New York City hospital. There is no proof that the virus causes the mysterious syndrome. A 7-year old in Westchester County and a teenager in Suffolk County also died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anti-foreigner sentiment: Guterres said migrants and refugees have been vilified as a source of the virus -- and then denied access to medical treatment, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox With older persons among the most vulnerable, contemptible memes have emerged suggesting they are also the most expendable, he said. The U.N. chief said anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and in the streets, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories have spread, and COVID-19-related anti-Muslim attacks have occurred. And journalists, whistleblowers, health professionals, aid workers and human rights defenders are being targeted simply for doing their jobs. He called on the media, especially social media, to remove racist, misogynist and other harmful content, on civil society to strengthen their outreach to vulnerable people, and on religious figures to serve as models of mutual respect. Guterres called on political leaders to show solidarity with all people, on educational institutions to focus on digital literacy at a time when extremists are seeking to prey on captive and potentially despairing audiences. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iron-caged prison: In other words, Paris is only liberating for those privileged enough to experience it as such, according to Rabble. The opening shots of John Schlesinger's Billy Liar are similarly attuned to how a city's value resides in the eye of the beholder. Right out the gate, the film, which deals with a young boy's feelings of confinement and suffocation, invites us to see the potential for even this remarkable monument to be an iron-caged prison. As the camera moves through the streets of Yorkshire, there are no wondrous buildings or monuments to behold only indistinguishable flats with cold-looking exteriors. Billy is given the nickname Billy Liar by his family because he spends his days fantasizing about his future as a famous novelist or as the militaristic savior of an imaginary country. Inside one of them lives Billy Fisher Tom Courtenay a twentysomething native who wants nothing more than to escape his parents' company and move to London. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

atv patrollers: Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci Police and community are searching the woods for a 9 year-old girl who went missing at 4 pm on Thursday afternoon, according to CTV. SQ says they will keep on searching through the night. The girl had been with her parents who were working on their chalet in the woods in Notre-Dame-de-la-Merci when she wandered off and got lost around 4 30 p.m. CTVMontreal Cosmo Santamaria cosmoCTV May 8, 2020 The girl's family, police dogs, ATV patrollers, a helicopter, provincial and local police were on site well into the night to search for her. A citizen located her near a path, said S ret du Qu bec spokesperson Louis-Philippe Bibeau. At around 1 a.m. on Friday, police were informed of her whereabouts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

capacity: But for months now I've been finding it hard to write, whether fiction or essays, and even to speak, according to Rabble. And once you lose your capacity to write and speak as you, dear friends, will certainly understand only too well you risk losing your capacity to think, too. Meaningful in its vulnerability, and powerful in its articulation, its bewilderment. What's left is an interior monologue, constantly revolving around itself, that finds no expression in outwardly directed speech acts and no clear-cut articulation in writing In a time of unknowing, silence, I was once told, silence and listening. About your conclusion, one recalls what Albert Camus' Dr. I would want to imagine such, in a season as strange as our earth's might be a call to hibernation; to humanity to stop a while and give itself over to a rejuvenating rest that might end with an unveiling of a spring of new possibilities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

company: The shutdown affects all routes throughout Ontario, and one route from Ottawa to Montreal, according to CTV. Greyhound Canada called the shutdown a regrettable result of the pandemic, adding that ridership has declined 95 per cent. The company said in a statement that service will be suspended effective 11 59 p.m. on May 12. Our commitment has and always will be to our customers and getting them where they need to be. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The company said it has made every effort to reduce costs but cannot continue to operate during the pandemic without financial support from other levels of government. However, we are facing unprecedented times that have caused a significant decline in demand, Senior Vice-President Stuart Kendrick said in the press release issued Thursday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

service area: The trio of businesses includes The Loving Group and was founded in 2003 by its president, Mike Haynes, according to NOW Magazine. It is based in northwest Charlotte. The Loving Companies specialize in providing high-level residential and commercial turf, landscape and outdoor living services. In March 2017, the organization spent 213,000 on a 6,000-square-foot commercial space at 100 W. Main Ave. in Gastonia. After sitting on that property for a year without any activity, The Loving Group has begun renovating what has long been empty shell space. The acquisition was made to provide for the company's expansion as it widens its service area and continues to grow. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

coronavirus cases: Julia Iafrate told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Tuesday, according to CTV. I'm honestly beside myself. I'm putting my life on the line every day to do this, and it's just blowing my mind right now that they are not appreciating it or they don't see the value in what I'm offering to do, Dr. It's like a slap in the face. But she says she wanted to volunteer to work on the front lines as coronavirus cases spiked in her city. Iafrate is an assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center who specializes in sports medicine. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

indian-style crepes: This was before dosas, or Indian-style crepes, became a common offering in multicultural restaurants in the area, according to Georgia Asian. Architect Matthew Cheng has filed an application with the city to redevelop 5656 Fraser Street into a four-storey building. According to a Straight feature, the family-run Madras was opened by Sri Lankan immigrant Thevarajan Nadarajah in 2009. Cheng indicated that the ground floor and half of the second storey of the development will be used for an animal clinic. According to a summary by the City of Vancouver, eight rental homes are proposed. The rest will be for market rentals, with studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

information: Put another way, the medium and these days, everything goes through social media whether or not it started there embeds itself into the message, in how people read it, in how they might respond to it, according to National Observer. If you've ever been on Facebook or Twitter, and odds are you have, you get this. The medium is the message, McLuhan said. In an era of unfiltered information information once culled and corrected by journalistic gatekeepers before it met the eyes of the masses Canadians can no longer believe much of what they read online. As of last month, President Donald Trump had made nearly 10,000 false or misleading claims since assuming office one of his most recent that wind turbines cause cancer . In short, the degree to which we've grown desensitized to bad information cannot be overstated. And who has time for fact-checking What people are reading Ontario's purchase of natural gas plants will cost ratepayers and the environment, critics say Doug Ford went against COVID-19 health advice to visit his cottage What our best and brightest are pretty sure is happening with wildlife Well, the Washington Post does, at least with regards to one person. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

london school: Similar results were obtained for those of Asian or Asian-British ethnicity, who are 1.62 times more likely to die as a result of COVID-19, according to CTV. There have been reports already in the U.K. that people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds that they seem to be at an increased risk of being on intensive care and dying from COVID, explained Liam Smeeth, a clinical epidemiology professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine LSHTM . Smeeth is also the co-lead of the study. According to the study released Thursday, black people are about twice as likely to die from COVID-19 compared to those who listed their ethnicity as white, at a ratio of about 1.71. We knew there was an increased risk in these groups it's a matter a trying to disentangle why that risk is happening and therefore, what we can do about it. Previous studies have hypothesized that this increased risk of death among black and Asian ethnic groups may be due to higher prevalence of underlying health conditions such as cardiovascular disease or diabetes. Complete coverage at newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The study was conducted by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine LSHTM . It is based on the electronic health records of more than 17.4 million adults in the U.K. between February 1 and April 25, making it the largest study on COVID-19 conducted by any country to date. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shifts shape: Give up All are environmentally smart enough to use disposable cutlery made of wood, according to Georgia Asian. If you've ever accidentally heated a plastic fork, you know that although it shifts shape it's still a hunk of plastic, as it will be generations from now, which is bad news for landfills. Now add golf courses, yacht clubs, movie-catering companies, and Big White Ski Resort to the mix. They can't provide an answer on how long it takes plastic to degrade, says Darrel Scorah of year-old Vancouver company Ecoware Biodegradables which he runs with his sister Amber. When you grow up in Vancouver, he says, You have that connection to natural surroundings. Scorah is a graduate of BCIT's entrepreneur-focused Venture Program, while Amber's background is in sales. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

testimony manshaus: Manshaus has acknowledged the facts but denies the accusation, saying he opposes non-Western immigration, according to CTV. Broadcaster NRK said that during his testimony Manshaus claimed the white race will end up as a minority in their own home countries and criticized those who blackmail national socialism. Philip Manshaus appeared at a court west of Norway's capital and denied charges of murder and terror read to him by a prosecutor, the Norwegian news agency NTB said. In court, Manshaus, 22, described how he killed his 17-year-old stepsister, Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen, by shooting her four times -- three in the head and one in the chest -- with a hunting rifle at their home in the Oslo suburb of Baerum. Shortly after that, Manshaus said he drove to a nearby mosque where three men were preparing for Eid al-Adha celebrations. Ihle-Hansen was adopted from China as a 2-year old. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

charles officer: Charles Officer's Unarmed Verses, a study of the upheaval and creativity in Toronto's Villaways housing community, won the best Canadian feature documentary award, while Pau Ortiz's The Other Side Of The Wall, about a family of Honduran immigrants in Spain, was named best international feature documentary, according to NOW Magazine. Both awards are accompanied by a cash prize of 10,000. Hot Docs runs straight through the weekend, but North America's largest documentary festival held its awards ceremony last night at the Isabel Bader, handing out 12 awards and some 67,000 in cash and prizes. If you missed Radheyan Simonpillai's cover story on Officer and Unarmed Verses last week, here you go; the film has its final Hot Docs screening today Saturday May 6 at 3 15 pm at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. The special jury prize for Canadian feature documentary, which includes 5,000 cash, went to Carlo Guillermo Proto's Resurrecting Hassan, about a family of Montreal buskers grieving the loss of a child. Expand Resurrecting Hassan won a special jury prize for Canadian feature documentary. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

housing agency: CMHC routinely does stress tests to estimate what could happen under various severe conditions, but chief executive Evan Siddall said the stress tests focus on what's considered to be plausible scenarios, according to CTV. We did, back in January, look at a pandemic scenario that was not as severe as this, Siddall said in a teleconference to discuss CMHC's annual financial report for 2019. The housing agency also cautioned that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is unpredictable and beyond its worst-case estimates prior to the outbreak. And I'm sure that you'd understand that the realm of plausibility has expanded significantly as a result of all the experience we've had. He said preliminary figures indicate that about 10 per cent of homeowners across Canada have chosen to defer their mortgage payments, although the rate seems to be higher in parts of the country that rely heavily on the oil and gas industry. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Siddall said the federal Crown corporation -- which provides market analysis for housing-related industries, mortgage insurance for lenders and funding for public housing projects -- is now revising its estimates on an expedited basis based on experience during the spring and summer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee camps: This column is part of a package on the impact that the spread of Covid-19 will have on immigration, according to Rabble. For more, see Tracy Walsh on how to prevent coronavirus from decimating refugee camps, and the Bloomberg Editorial Board on the post-pandemic changes needed to fix U.S. immigration policy. Search first keyup' ; ; listener ; ;No matching results for ''Tip Try a valid symbol or a specific company name for relevant results Cancel Sign in Mailif window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && U.S. Markets open in 5 hrs 16 minsS&P 2000 window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && May Make Attitudes to Immigration Healthierif window.performance window.performance.mark && && Mishra Bloomberg May 6, 2020if window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && window.performance window.performance.mark && && 06 May 2020 13 00 40 06 May 2020 13 00 40 GMT headline Virus May Make Attitudes to Immigration Johnson, Donald Trump, Germany, migrant / 2Virus May Make Attitudes to Immigration Healthier Bloomberg Opinion -- As the coronavirus pandemic continues, Bloomberg Opinion will be running a series of features by our columnists that consider the long-term consequences of the crisis. It's hard to find the words to express my debt, the ordinarily garrulous British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said as he emerged from a close encounter with death last month. In recent weeks, doctors, nurses and care workers for the British National Health Service NHS have garnered the kind of heartfelt respect and gratitude that New York City firefighters elicited after 9/11. His main debt, Johnson significantly added, was to two nurses, Jenny from New Zealand and Luis from Portugal, who stayed at his bedside for 48 hours in an intensive care unit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wednesday night: On Wednesday night, Hot Docs unveiled Brothers In The Kitchen, a live documentary about the long, perilous journey of Tamil refugees from Sri Lankan civil war zones to the back of your favourite souvlaki spots, according to NOW Magazine. The performance at the Centre for Social Innovation had two women standing in a kitchen preparing payasam, a Tamil dessert similar to rice pudding, for a limited audience of about 150. He isn't alone in that observation. At the intimate and interactive gathering, speakers shared traumatic memories, with support from video installations, a live band and dancers whose fluid Bharatanatyam movements channelled the show's poetry, and on occasion, horror.A few technical glitches during the experimental production were welcomed as part of the collaborative process, and the audience was sometimes called on to read archival newspaper clippings aloud. Author Amarnath Amarasingam remembered the strangers who'd aggressively knock on his door in Toronto, collecting money for the Tamil Tigers from Tamil families weighed down by guilt over what they'd left behind. The CBC's Manjula Selvarajah hid at a bar until it was her turn to grab the mic and tearily offer a heartbreaking childhood memory of rioters trying to break into her house during Black July, the anti-Tamil pogrom that killed thousands and displaced many more. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cp photo: And just him, according to National Observer. The Conservatives in office were like a parrot sketch on loop, without the humour. Who could forget - well, we already have, haven't we - the previous occupant of the defence portfolio, Jason Kenney Kenney, who never saw a day of military combat in his life, made false claims about the Canadian military that were directly contradicted by NATO itself, tweeted a misleading photograph about Muslim women, and misled the public about a FAKED CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY. That's just for starters. Government employees impersonate new citizens for staged ceremony in 2012.CP photo But there they all are, reeking with the fresh stench of converted sinners, ladelling out the sanctimony like there's no tomorrow. What people are reading Feds vow to fix gap in commercial rent-relief program Have Americans gone crazy Not just another statistic And there's Tom Mulcair leaping and jumping at their heels. Draping themselves in the honour of the fallen to bray at a decorated war veteran who mis-stated his role in a military offensive, for which he's apologized. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

department friday: Some said they felt the measures Smithfield has taken would protect them from another virus outbreak, while others were not confident that infections could be halted in a crowded plant, according to CTV. Lydia Toby said she was kind of worried as she entered the plant before 6 a.m. for her first shift in over two weeks. Employees reporting for work in Smithfield Foods' ground pork department filed through a tent where they were screened for fever and other signs of COVID-19. Managers met employees in her department Friday and explained they had installed dividers on the production line and would require everyone to wear masks. In the wake of an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump ordering meat plants to remain open, Arkansas-based Tyson Foods was also resuming limited production Monday at its pork plant in Logansport, Indiana, where nearly 900 employees tested positive. I think it's going to be OK, Toby said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

morishita: We've managed to calm it as we came into the weekend and we've seen the numbers kind of go and we've seen the recoveries come around, according to CTV. The city currently sits at 1,005 cases with five deaths. Two weeks ago we were at zero, now we're just under a thousand, said Brooks mayor Barry Morishita. They have also recorded a ton of testing. I think that's why the numbers have grown to the extent they have, said Morishita. 3,500 were tested asymptomatically that's nearly a quarter of our population. We have tested a lot more than any jurisdiction. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.