coronavirus pandemic: The court's major clash over presidential accountability could affect the 2020 presidential campaign, especially if a high court ruling leads to the release of personal financial information before Election Day, according to CTV. The justices heard arguments in two cases by telephone Tuesday that stretched into the early afternoon. But the court seemed less clear about exactly how to handle subpoenas from Congress and the Manhattan district attorney for Trump's tax, bank and financial records. The court, where six justices are age 65 or older, has been meeting by phone because of the coronavirus pandemic. The justices will meet by phone before the end of the week to take a preliminary vote on how those cases should come out. There was no apparent consensus about whether to ratify lower court rulings that the subpoenas to Trump's accountant and banks are valid and should be enforced. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

creek: I invited artists to create works that spoke to this vision, according to Georgia Asian. Squamish Nation carver Wes Nahanee contributed a small woodblock. Do I dare say goodbye Lee Maracle from Goodbye Snauq In 2010, I organized a mapping workshop for the False Creek Watershed Society to call attention to what existed ecologically in this region not long ago and what we could imagine for our common future. The map of present-day False Creek inspired him to shape a salmon along the shoreline, but the landmass on the east side and the salmon's head were absent. In 1916, Vancouver's government initiated a project that brought countless wheelbarrows of soil excavated from the Grandview Cut to fill in the Flats. Nahanee's headless salmon was recalling the False Creek Flats the eastern third of the waterway which had been an intensely rich coastal wetland for millennia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

grade classroom: King's assassination sent shockwaves across the United States, according to Georgia Asian. The very next day, in the small town of Riceville, Iowa, the topic was brought up in Jane Elliott's Grade 3 classroom. On May 23, Elliott will be talking about racism and prejudice at Vancouver's John Oliver Secondary a clip of Indecently 1 of 2 2 of 2On the night of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when a single shot from James Earl Ray's rifle ended his life. Elliott was anxious to talk to her third graders about King's death, but when she heard them use racist remarks to discuss his work, she knew she had to intervene. Over the next few days, Elliott transformed her classroom into a social laboratory. I knew it was time to deal with this in a concrete way, not just talk about it, Elliott would later tell ABC reporters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

novel coronavirus: Savoie said one particularly shrewd move by the government of Premier Blaine Higgs was creating an all-party COVID-19 committee, which he said prevented any infighting or cheap shots, according to CTV. Nobody could point fingers because they were all on the same committee, sworn to secrecy, and they became part of the process. Savoie, the Canada Research Chair in public administration and governance at the University of Moncton, said in a recent interview that the Tory minority government was quick to take measures to address the novel coronavirus. I think it served the government extremely well and served the province well, he said. They jumped on it quite early. If you look at the data 120 cases and no deaths. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sound: Nobody knows exactly how one of Montreal's signature cultural events got started, according to an ethnologist who has studied the festival and says it could be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, according to National Observer. But while Monique Provost says there are several theories, she admits it's hard to know where the truth lies. Named for the drum beats that characterize its soundtrack, the bohemian gathering has become a must-visit for tourists as well as locals, who dance, play or lie on picnic blankets to the sound of dozens of beating drums. According to some who have spoken to Provost, the event began in 1979 when Don Hill, a now-deceased street musician, plastered signs around town looking for 100 people who played the djembe, a goblet-shaped West African hand drum, for a drum circle on Mount Royal. While Provost credits Hill, she notes that the mountain in the middle of Montreal had already been a site for intercultural drum exchanges before he arrived. What people are reading Canada wants to extend U.S. travel ban'Alberta didn't contain it' COVID-19 outbreak at oilsands camp has spread across the country Court overturns Ford government's decision to cancel partially built wind farm Hill's ensuing hundred drummers workshop drew curious crowds and formed the basis of the signature Montreal event, according to Provost, who wrote her doctoral thesis on the history of djembe in Quebec. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

world war: But if Sturges's earlier The Magnificent Seven bound itself just a bit too tightly to the structure of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Great Escape builds its own distinct style and thematic preoccupations, even as its influences remain clear, according to Rabble. The absence of brutal ground warfare in The Great Escape reflects Struges's personal experience during World War The director served as a captain in the Army Air Corps and spent a large portion of his time shooting documentaries and instructional films for the military. The filmmaker's treatment of the massive POW escape from a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland alludes to a similar and iconic sequence from Grand Illusion Illusion, Jean Renoir's no less furious and eloquent articulation of the faux civility of warfare. In The Great Escape, the filmmaker largely evades the action and horror of war, instead focusing on an immense creative process the building of the tunnels that will help a group of prisoners, led by Royal Air Force squadron leader Roger Big X Bartlett Richard Attenborough get out from under the Luftwaffe. This tactic allows for members of the uniformly excellent cast to highlight their personalities through their respective characters' varied areas of expertise, from James Garner's fast-talking and resourceful Scrounger to Steve McQueen's incorrigible Cooler King to Donald Pleasance's mild-mannered Forger. Each member of the dedicated team of soldiers, who come from various Allied Forces, provides a skill that helps the effort to build the tunnels, conceal the activity, and ultimately execute the thrilling escape. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

maturity level: Anna Banerji, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, explains that whether or not a child should wear a face mask depends partly on their age and maturity level, according to CTV. Older children, she says, are more likely to understand the reason behind wearing a mask, and should consider doing so when going out in public. Dr. This is not likely to be the case for younger children, she says, who may have a harder time putting and keeping a mask on even if they're over the age of two. Probably what they're going to end up doing is spend more time fiddling with it. Complete coverage at newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox I think for younger kids, like a two, three or four-year-old good luck in keeping a mask on, she told CTVNews.ca over the phone on Friday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

media posts: A New South Wales Liberal candidate has disavowed social media posts that expressed support for repealing the right of gay couples to adopt, and warning against Muslim immigration, according to Rabble. Allan Green, the Liberal candidate for Greenway in Sydney's west, said the posts which were made when he was a candidate for the Christian Democratic Party did not reflect his personal views. Updated at 12.00am EDTFacebook Twitter 11.52pm EDT 23 52 Naaman Zhou Oh, one more post, because I missed this from Naaman Zhou. In 2012, Green shared a letter written by a Christian pastor to the Sydney Morning Herald that said the Islamic community has grown to 800,000 in Australia . Our national leaders must exercise foresight and act now to keep Australia the way we know it; otherwise who is to say what the result will be in the years to come when the Islamic community has achieved a population growth into millions of residents, the letter said. The checklist listed values such as stopping taxpayer funding of obscene homosexual Mardi Gras repealing homosexual adoption and refusing homosexual fostering and repealing the same-sex & defacto relationship register . Only the CDP was awarded ticks for all these boxes with the Liberal party given question marks or crosses. In a post from 2015, Green shared a Christian values checklist from the CDP during the 2015 state election. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

offer advice: In October 2001, then energy minister Richard Neufeld appointed a three-member scientific review panel, chaired by former University of Victoria president David Strong, according to Georgia Asian. Its mandate was to offer advice in four areas related to offshore oil and gas exploration, including whether any specific government actions should be taken prior to removing the provincial moratorium. Shortly after taking office in 2001, it appointed a six-member B.C. Liberal caucus subcommittee, which included future energy minister Blair Lekstrom, to seek public input on lifting a provincial moratorium on offshore drilling. The B.C. moratorium had been announced by the Social Credit government in 1989. Tankers carrying crude oil from Alaska travel west of Haida Gwaii and Vancouver Island and enter Juan de Fuca Strait on their way to Washington-state oil refineries. This came 17 years after the federal government announced a moratorium on offshore drilling and on crude-oil tanker traffic passing through Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

piece features: Brighton Rock also boasts lots of quasi-documentary location filming, bringing to mind a contemporary film like Jules Dassin's more resolutely urban The Naked City, according to Rabble. The opening set piece features a chase through Brighton's byways, as the tight-knit gang led by Pinkie Brown Richard Attenborough attempts to corner reporter Fred Hale Alan Wheatley whose expos on rigged slot machines got their former leader killed. The film's formal construction adds considerably to its overall effectiveness The confluence of Harry Waxman's moody monochrome cinematography and Peter Graham Scott's razor-stropped editing ensures the film comes across as exhilaratingly as the amusement park rides that figure in the titular seaside resort. The pursuit ends on a dark ride on the pier, where Pinkie proceeds to push Hale to his death. The one major character introduced later is poignantly impressionable Rose Carol Marsh a waitress at the upscale restaurant that down-market Pinkie patronizes in order to retrieve some potentially incriminating evidence. The sequence isn't just a masterpiece of machine-tooled assemblage, from the stolen street shots to the impressionistic depiction of Hale's demise, but it also succinctly establishes most of the main characters and their interrelations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

passengers download: Passengers were allowed to enter the stations only if they were asymptomatic and cleared thermal screening, according to CTV. They are required to maintain social distancing on board and are given hand sanitizers when they enter and leave. Special trains departed from several large cities, including New Delhi and Mumbai. Indian Railways also is requiring that passengers download a government-run contact tracing smartphone app before boarding the train. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Thousands of passengers waited in long, serpentine queues outside New Delhi's railway station, the hub of India's rail network. Critics say the Aarogya Setu app endangers civil liberties in how it uses location services and centralizes data collection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cannabis economy: ByBill Weinberg Published on May 11, 2019 Share Tweet2 Comments It won lurid headlines when three Illinois residents were arrested by the FBI in Humboldt County last month in an alleged plot to rip off a local cannabis grower to the tune of 3 million, according to NOW Magazine. The case goes to trial in federal court in San Francisco this month. It's a case that crystalizes the xenophobic stigma still attached to Northern California's cannabis economy. Although none of the three have actually been charged with kidnapping, that is word being bandied about in reportage based on the claims of an informant. As you might expect, attorneys for the accused tell a very different story. The accused co-consiprators allegedly discussed plans to abduct a courier for the target and make him suffer until he gave up the location of his boss' stash of cash and cannabis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

saudi citizens: Despite efforts to diversify the economy, the kingdom continues to rely heavily on oil for revenue, according to CTV. Brent crude now hovers around 30 a barrel, far below the range Saudi Arabia needs to balance its budget. Saudi citizens will also lose a bonus cost-of-living allowance that had been in place since 2018, according to the country's finance minister. The kingdom has also lost revenue from the suspension of Muslim pilgrimages to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, which were closed to visitors due to the virus. The United Arab Emirates said Monday it currently had no similar plans to raise taxes. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The new measures are the most drastic yet by a major Gulf Arab oil producer since oil prices plunged by more than half in March, signalling that neighbouring countries may also seek to impose higher taxes on residents this year. (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.

world war: But if Sturges's earlier The Magnificent Seven bound itself just a bit too tightly to the structure of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, The Great Escape builds its own distinct style and thematic preoccupations, even as its influences remain clear, according to Rabble. The absence of brutal ground warfare in The Great Escape reflects Struges's personal experience during World War The director served as a captain in the Army Air Corps and spent a large portion of his time shooting documentaries and instructional films for the military. The filmmaker's treatment of the massive POW escape from a camp in Nazi-occupied Poland alludes to a similar and iconic sequence from Grand Illusion Illusion, Jean Renoir's no less furious and eloquent articulation of the faux civility of warfare. In The Great Escape, the filmmaker largely evades the action and horror of war, instead focusing on an immense creative process the building of the tunnels that will help a group of prisoners, led by Royal Air Force squadron leader Roger Big X Bartlett Richard Attenborough get out from under the Luftwaffe. This tactic allows for members of the uniformly excellent cast to highlight their personalities through their respective characters' varied areas of expertise, from James Garner's fast-talking and resourceful Scrounger to Steve McQueen's incorrigible Cooler King to Donald Pleasance's mild-mannered Forger. Each member of the dedicated team of soldiers, who come from various Allied Forces, provides a skill that helps the effort to build the tunnels, conceal the activity, and ultimately execute the thrilling escape. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

augusto pinochet: But then, six years later, her mother and stepfather decided to take and her younger sister away from their comfortable school life here, and move back to strife-ridden South America to join the underground resistance, according to Georgia Asian. The ensuing seven years found Aguirre bouncing between Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina via arduous mountain passes, chicken buses, and overnight trains. The first momentous event was in 1973, when General Augusto Pinochet's coup forced her family to flee Chile for Canada. She had to drop all contact with new friends every time her family moved on, living in a constant state of dread that her parents would be arrested. The years of her tumultuous teens are evocatively detailed in her first book, Something Fierce Douglas & McIntyre a new memoir that illuminates what it's like to come of age amid terror. Eventually, at just 18, Aguirre put herself in further peril, joining the resistance against Pinochet's right-wing regime herself. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

death penalty: Canada remains extremely concerned that China chose to apply the death penalty, a cruel and inhumane punishment, at the retrial on Jan. 14, 2019, Global Affairs Canada said in a statement, according to National Observer. The foreign ministry also thanked Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the Czech Republic for sending representatives to the hearing. The show of solidarity did not diminish Canadian worries over the fate of Robert Schellenberg of British Columbia. Schellenberg's new sentence was meted out six weeks after the RCMP detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition warrant, plunging Sino-Canadian diplomatic relations to a new low. What people are reading Pipeline projects, the pandemic and the question journalists fail to ask Yes, oil is dead. Nine days after Meng's arrest, two other Canadians ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and entrepreneur Michael Spavor were detained in China on allegations they had violated China's national security. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

infowars: The now-removed Facebook page is associated with a website called Summit News, which is run by Paul Joseph Watson, editor of the controversial website Infowars, according to National Observer. Summit News hosts all of Watson's content, much of which is cross-posted verbatim on Infowars. Facebook took down the page after being asked about it by National Observer. Both Watson and Infowars were banned from Facebook last week, but Watson was circumventing the ban by repackaging his content under a different brand name and posting it on the platform. Why should Canadians care about this U.K.-based media personality He's part of a global far-right media network with an epicenter right here in Canada. A week after his initial ban from Facebook, his content was still available on the platform, through Summit News' Facebook page. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

montreal-based supplier: Trudeau says the discovery speaks to the government's rigorous verification system overseen by the Public Health Agency of Canada, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The prime minister did not name the price the government will pay for the sub-standard respirators, which are used to protect against the COVID-19 virus. About eight million of 11 million N95 respirators shipped to the government from China through a Montreal-based supplier failed to meet specifications, federal officials said Friday. Trudeau says some of those leftover N95 masks -- so-named because they are supposed to screen out 95 per cent of small particles -- may be distributed for non-medical use. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 9, 2020. Canada continues to experience a shortage of personal protective equipment PPE amid a global surge in demand triggered by the pandemic while Canadian manufacturers scramble to pivot to PPE production. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

novel coronavirus: Four years later, when a novel coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, China on an unprecedented scale, thousands of the city's care workers were in life-threatening danger due to a shortage of personal protective equipment PPE . Concerned Canadians, regardless of ethnic backgrounds, opened their hearts to support the Red Cross Canada's China COVID-19 Response Appeal, as well as initiatives by Doctors Without Borders, according to Georgia Asian. Some Canadians spontaneously shipped protective gear to hospitals and individuals in the then epicentre of the pandemic. They were in urgent need to cope with the unprecedented natural disaster in northern Alberta. These are just a few of many examples demonstrating Canadians' care and compassion for others, reflecting their fundamental principles and humanitarian values. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

saint john: Just read the writing on the wall, according to National Observer. Like health care, housing is a right The independent, non-partisan agency has run mock election drills in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Gimli, Manitoba and Saint John, New Brunswick to prepare and establish who plays what role in an election crisis. The Elections Canada chief electoral officer and his team have run through an array of scenarios in partnership with Canada's security organizations, political parties and the federal public service, preparing for such issues as What happens if there's a data breach, and it is not known whether it's domestic or foreign interference What if there's a cyber attack on a political party How will Elections Canada respond to misinformation about the electoral process What people are reading Pipeline projects, the pandemic and the question journalists fail to ask Yes, oil is dead. We haven't had to do this in the past, Perrault said in an interview with National Observer. I don't think we've ever been so prepared. I've been working with Elections Canada for over 12 years now. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

vice president: Beauty industry watchers and cosmetics companies say consumers are gravitating toward a more low-maintenance and natural look, according to CTV. People are staying at home and paying more attention to their health, prompting them to shift focus to their skincare rather than their makeup routines, they said. Not on their shopping lists makeup and perfume. With the stay-at-home order in effect since early March, there really isn't any need to apply makeup the way we were before, Larissa Jensen, vice president and beauty industry analyst with market research firm NPD Group. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Makeup sales were down 22% in the first quarter versus a year ago, according to NPD, while fragrance sales declined 13%. Part of what's made things worse is that social distancing and self-quarantining have become barriers to trying on makeup in stores. And then there's the awkwardness of wearing any kind of makeup under a face mask, especially sticky lip gloss. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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.