amazon: In the face of a spreading pandemic, they warn inaction is enough to wipe out many indigenous people, according to CTV. The Associated Press spoke to four agents who work with indigenous peoples in the farthest reaches of Brazil's Amazon, and they were unanimous in their conclusion The national Indian foundation, known as FUNAI, is hardly doing anything to co-ordinate a response to a crisis that could decimate ethnic groups. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's repeated promotion of developing the vast Amazon has for months prompted indigenous activists, celebrities and agents on the ground to sound the alarm. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox There's not enough protective equipment for agents who enter indigenous territories or meet with native people in cities. Food deliveries only began last week -- a month after indigenous people were instructed to remain in their villages -- and remain vastly insufficient. Necessities like kerosene and gasoline are in short supply. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

aunt ludivine: Adya Bhartia, 9, decided to interview a close family friend who she calls Aunt Ludivine, and made her comic about the process of the assignment coming together, but Bhartia didn't see the project as work, according to CTV. It was more like a fun time I had on my hands, interviewing people and I love making Pixton comics and I like writing stuff, Bhartia told CTV News Toronto Tuesday. The Grade 3 students at Jackman Avenue Junior Public School gathered the stories through personal interviews, then wrote the scripts and designed the comics' backgrounds and avatars using a program called Pixton. Bhartia says the project was a learning experience and discovered she had some similarities to her subject, because she too is an immigrant. The people who are really polite, try and help you. My favourite thing about Canada was the really kind people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ice: The quality, appearance, and size of shaped frozen water can distinguish a good drink from an outstanding one, according to Georgia Asian. And if you want to be one of the best bars in the world or if you take your home cocktail-making seriously you have to have crystal clear ice. If you've ever ruined a drink by using stale cubes from your freezer that had been sitting there for who knows how long, you know what we mean. Free of cracks, cloudiness, and other imperfections, crystal clear ice melts much more slowly than the standard cubes found in most people's kitchens. Assuming you have too much time on your hands and the right tools, you could make your own, by filling a picnic cooler full of water and freezing it. With little in the way of dilution, drinks retain their flavour, temperature, and integrity much longer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

marginalized citizens: Ignoring our fellow citizens who are homeless or destitute serves to humiliate the poor, according to Rabble. Marginalized citizens stay quietly in line, unable to live free for want of basic resources, and unwilling to challenge society at large. Canadians enjoy freedoms protected within the Constitution; but that does not prevent far too many Canadians from living unfree, lacking daily necessities and left aside by economic and social injustice. As Frances Fox Piven has argued, the poor and their allies have the power to disrupt, occupy government offices, take to the streets, demonstrate, attract media attention and make society pay attention. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to impose major disruptions themselves. The power to disrupt and rage in protest has been a powerful weapon in creating social change. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shan state: Big international syndicates already active in the Golden Triangle are well positioned to take advantage of regional heroin demand and produce synthetic opioids alongside other drugs, the agency's regional representative, Jeremy Douglas, said in a statement, according to CTV. The UN agency warned that the development suggests that Southeast Asia is poised to become a significant source of synthetic drugs for other parts of the world. The discovery during a series of drug raids in Myanmar's Shan state suggests a market for the drug has been created in the region, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime said Monday. What has been unearthed through this operation is truly off the charts, and it is clear that a network of production facilities like those found would not be possible without the involvement and financial backing of serious transnational organized criminal groups, Douglas said. The Golden Triangle, a remote jungle area where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, was once a major source of the world's opium and heroin. Massive amounts of methamphetamine and other drugs and their components were also seized in what the agency described as one of the largest and most successful counter-narcotics operations in the history of the country and region. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

asian immigration: The Komagata Maru was a ship bearing 376 migrants from British India, most of whom were disallowed from entering Canada in 1914 as a part of a larger move against Asian immigration to Canada in that period, according to National Observer. The centenary of this incident was commemorated in 2014 with a range of events across Canada, and particularly in British Columbia, with the participation of a wide range of activists, scholars, artists, and members of the public. Here is what they say... What is the legacy of the Komagata Maru We, scholars of the languages, histories, cultures, and religions of South Asia, write as a group in recognition of the significance of the Canadian government's apology for the Komagata Maru incident that will take place in Parliament by the Prime Minister on May 18, 2016. This apology has been long awaited, and represents a valuable demonstration of the acceptance of responsibility and admission of contrition. Its story relates to many pressing current social problems the need for equitable, transparent, and just immigration policies and procedures, and a generous response to the urgent needs of refugees. What next There are many possible legacies for the Komagata Maru incident. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian waters: The border authority alleges that the truck contained five duffel bags that held approximately 60 kilograms of cocaine, according to CTV. The truck driver, a Canadian citizen, was placed under arrest. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP US 3 million worth of cocaine was found May 9 after a truck was stopped for inspection at the Peace Arch Border Crossing, which links Surrey, B.C. and Blaine, Wash. Two days later, a heavier haul was allegedly discovered in duffel bags on a boat that entered American waters at another border crossing between B.C. and Washington. The vessel was seized along with approximately 225 kilograms of marijuana, CBP said. CBP said it was able to track the boat from Canadian waters as it made its way to a marina in Sequim, Wash., where it was allegedly found to be carrying marijuana. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

core responsibilities: See all of the profiles here, according to NOW Magazine. Expand What do you do in your industry I'm the partnerships lead at the DMZ at Ryerson University. We're showcasing the speakers who will be there to discuss how technology is impacting our lives and what's to come in the future. My core responsibilities are to increase the quantity and quality of corporate engagements at the DMZ. We are fortunate to work with Fortune 500 companies such as Facebook, BMO and IBM who are committed to helping shape the future of Canadian innovation. The one technology advancement that has impacted my life is the ability to access the Internet on my mobile device. Name one technology advancement that has impacted your life more than any other. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

question period: Knowing that I won't be prime minister, I discontinued that process, Scheer said, according to CTV. During the fall federal election campaign, Scheer confirmed that he had dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship after it was first reported by The Globe and Mail, saying he was in the process of renouncing his American citizenship. In an interview on CTV's Question Period with Evan Solomon, Scheer said that after deciding to step down as leader, he halted the process. When the story of his dual citizenship first broke in October, Scheer said he met with embassy representatives in August to renounce his citizenship and had submitted his paperwork to formalize it. Asked why the change of heart, Scheer cited personal reasons. However, that paperwork was never formalized, and so Scheer continues to hold dual citizenship status. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anyone contrast: We had a few speeches, according to National Observer. We mingled. There were about 10 of us, children excluded. We left. What were they there to do Were we really a threat to anyone Contrast this with the marches, the street patrols, the banner drops and the rallies of our city's far right, and a deeply unsettling image takes shape in Quebec City, extremist groups like Atalante Qu bec and Soldiers of Odin distribute food, hold vigils at public parks and monuments and march through the streets, often with no visible police presence. As we were walking away, I realized that two police cruisers full of cops were monitoring us nearly as many officers as the 10 of us at our little rally. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bill: The bill would update the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include the terms gender identity and gender expression, according to Georgia Asian. I'm proud to say that moments ago, I introduced legislation, Bill C-16...that would ensure that Canadians will be free to identify themselves and to express their gender as they wish while being protected against discrimination and hate because as Canadians, we should feel free and safe to be ourselves, Wilson-Raybould said. Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, MP for Vancouver Granville and a member of the We Wai Kai Nation, introduced Bill C-16 on the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Previous bills for transgender rights have not passed into law. Welcome and thank you for being here. Here is Wilson-Raybould's speech Gilakas'la Good morning everyone. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

conduct surveys: The project, which started in 2012, brought together scientists and Indigenous leaders to conduct surveys, interviews, and workshops from Vancouver Island to Alaska, according to Georgia Asian. Go here for a collection of articles and releases connected to the timeline of the project. The paper, published as an open-access article on May 12 in People and Nature, a journal of the British Ecological Society, considered the research generated by a collaborative initiative called Coastal Voices. It involved the Haida, Heiltsuk, and Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations. The apex predator of coastal kelp-forest ecosystems has successfully moved back into many of its former territories, from Alaska to southern Vancouver Island recovery efforts in Washington state, Oregon, and California are ongoing and less successful at the present time. The experiences of northern Vancouver Island's Kyuquot/Chekleset First Nations and southern Alaska's Sugpiaq people from the villages of Port Graham and Nanwalek were heavily surveyed, as they have lived with the recovery/reintroduction of sea otter populations since the 1970s and 1950s respectively . On its website, the Coastal Voices goal is described as follows Through the lens of traditional knowledge and western science, our goal is to collect and share information to build a respectful dialogue to better equip coastal communities and policy makers with socially just and ecologically sustainable strategies to navigate the changes that come with the recovery of this key predator the sea otter . After the near-extinction of the sea otter on North America's West Coast in the 18th and 19th centuries due to ruthless exploitation by the commercial fur trade, international protections enacted in the early 1900s started populations of the marine mammal on the road to recovery. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trans: According to B.C. Adolescence Health Surveys, about 15 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth in romantic relationships report dating violence, which is three to six times higher than heterosexual peers, according to Georgia Asian. Risks are even higher for trans and non-binary youth, SARAVYC executive director Elizabeth Saewyc stated in a news release. The funding is part of Canada's Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence. In the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey, 24 percent of trans and non-binary adolescents who were in relationships reported dating violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bymike adams: After 16 seasons battling it out on the basketball court with some of the best professional athletes in the world, the former Indiana Pacer understands just how much the human body can withstand before it starts to break, according to NOW Magazine. Throughout his career, Harrington endured a number of injuries, some of which threatened to bring his game to an end. ByMike Adams Published on May 15, 2020 Share Tweet Comment Al Harrington is no stranger to pain. But it was only after he discovered the healing benefits of cannabidiol CBD that his attitude toward recovery changed. These operations produce a variety of medical marijuana products, such as live resins and CBD cream, for both athletes and the average citizen living with chronic pain. Harrington has since spun his appreciation for cannabis into an entrepreneurial slam dunk with his companies Viola Extracts and Harrington Wellness. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

carbon price: Yet their constitutional challenge failed, according to National Observer. And though they bray at redoubled volume about an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, odds are low that they will succeed there either. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe was supported in court by premiers Doug Ford of Ontario, Blaine Higgs of New Brunswick, and Jason Kenney of Alberta; all bellowed that they were going to win. The Saskatchewan Court's decision was split. This 3-2 split is not what it seems. Three judges found that the law creating the federal carbon price is fully constitutional under Parliament's power to make laws for Peace, Order and Good Government, or POGG. The other two judges dissented, finding it unconstitutional. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hospital system: Still, it acknowledged that VA Secretary Robert Wilkie had wrongly asserted publicly without evidence that the drug had shown benefit on younger veterans, according to CTV. The VA, the nation's largest hospital system, also agreed more study was needed on the safety and effectiveness of the drug and suggested its use was now limited to extenuating circumstances, such as last-ditch efforts to save a coronavirus-stricken patient's life. In responses provided to Congress and obtained by The Associated Press, the VA said never encouraged or discouraged its government-run hospitals in any way to use the drug hydroxychloroquine on patients even as President Donald Trump heavily touted it for months without scientific evidence. In the first week of May, 17 patients had received the drug for COVID-19, according to VA data obtained by The Associated Press. VA has not endorsed nor discouraged the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients and has left those decisions to providers and their patients, the VA said. The department declined to say how many patients had been treated with hydroxychloroquine for the coronavirus since the start of the virus outbreak in January, but a recent analysis of VA hospital data showed that hundreds of veterans had taken it by early April. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

video referencing: In 2018, he ran for mayor of Mississauga, Canada's sixth largest city, and finished in second place with 13.5 percent of the vote, according to National Observer. He has also created videos targeting Muslim leaders in government including Liberal MP Iqra Khalid and worked with Rebel Media. Kevin Johnston is a 47-year-old man who runs the Freedom Report a network of sites that frequently shared anti-Muslim views. Full disclosure he has also made a video referencing this reporter. That same year he was charged with a hate crime after a lengthy investigation into numerous incidents reported to police involving him and the information he spreads on his social media. In 2017, he offered a 1,000 prize to anyone who could send him a video of Muslim students praying in high schools, so he could put a stop to it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border restrictions: Or he would stay with Safari and their two Canadian-born children -- ages four and nine -- in Windsor, where she works as a hotel guest services superviser and a personal trainer, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Darden has been living a cross-border life throughout his relationship with Safari, easily travelling back and forth between the nearby cities each week. Either he would hunker down just across the way in Detroit, where he works at a casino and has family, including his mother and his 18-year-old daughter. But with border restrictions in place, he stayed with Safari and their two young kids who need him the most right now. It's definitely not easy seeing families torn apart, Safari says. Plus, his teenage daughter in Detroit would be better able to understand the situation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mulroney government: The last great fight of Macdonald's life had been to sustain the National Policy and to block the Liberal Party's drive for a renewal of reciprocity or commercial union with the United States, according to Rabble. The 1988 federal election campaign pitted multinational and Canadian business on one side against trade unions, social movements and much of Canadian civil society on the other. It is ironic that the party's final electoral victory was in aid of the implementation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement that had been negotiated between the Mulroney government and the Reagan Administration. The Liberals and the NDP declared that, if elected, they would tear up the FTA; the Conservatives committed themselves to implementing the free trade deal if they were returned to office. Under the nation's first-past-the-post electoral system, however, the Conservatives won a majority of seats in the House of Commons and the Canada-U.S. FTA came into effect on January 1, 1989. In the election, between them, the Liberals and the NDP won 53 per cent of the votes cast by Canadians, while the Conservatives won 43 per cent of the popular vote. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rwanda years: Josephat Gichuki, the tenant in this threadbare home, calls to ask if I have heard the news, according to Rabble. We talk now and again, our conversations mostly prompted by the slightest of wisps of news about Rwanda's octogenarian outlaw. Download PDFPrint Article May 16th, 2020 1 43 pm News of the arrest in Paris, France of Felicien Kabuga, the man long accused of funding the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda 26 years ago, has now reached a one bedroomed house in Pangani estate, Nakuru, Kenya. Today I can hear excitement underneath his drawl. I am very very happy. I ask to interview him on his thoughts and call back eight minutes later. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

albanian separatists: The 1998-1999 war left more than 10,000 people dead and 6,500 missing, according to CTV. Forensic scientists are still searching for hidden graves. At the time, an armed uprising by ethnic Albanian separatists had led to a bloody Serb crackdown, an international humanitarian crisis and a NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo, then a Serbian province. Hasani, 74, keeps four pictures always close to his heart, one for each of his missing sons. It's been almost 21 years, but their father has not lost hope of seeing them again. Fadil, then 32, Gazmend who was 24, Armend, age 20, and 15-year-old Hasan were seized on June 8, 1999, the day before Serbia signed a deal with NATO to withdraw from Kosovo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

costume party: While conservation scientists have sounded the alarm for decades, for many politicians and many voters the concept of climate change remains too abstract and too obscure a possibility, for political strategists and corporations focused on short-term goals and actions that increase electability and/or profitability -- to take on with any real gusto, according to National Observer. And yet, even if countries don't appear prepared to tackle global warning, it hasn't stopped many of them from actively preparing for one of its major and dire consequences climate refugees. Perhaps nothing can better illustrate the mass denial that climate change seems to engender in the West than so much focus on a costume party for the rich while the world around us is burning. And according to author and journalist Todd Miller they're preparing for it in the worst way possible not by attempting to mitigate and tackle the root causes, but with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies. Author Todd Miller says countries are preparing for climate-driven migration with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies. Instead of coming together, the world is tragically turning more inward. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

family cooking: Scarborough has some wonderful food, and our student body at the Scarborough campus is just amazingly diverse, says Jeffrey Pilcher, a professor who adds that much of the work done through Culinaria is student-led, according to NOW Magazine. We just turn them loose to research the stuff they know their own family cooking, the restaurants they go to. Do the origins of biryani or the international migration of the pork bun sound like research you could sink your teeth into That's just some of the work being done at the University of Toronto, Scarborough UTSC 's Culinaria Research Centre, said to be the largest food studies research centre in North America. What they come back with is oftentimes really quite amazing. The growth of the program has also been driven by increasing student interest. A food studies minor program launched at UTSC in 2016, and Pilcher says a major will hopefully soon follow. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

photovoltaic panels: Those talking points include the assertion that solar power is wildly inefficient, something director Jeff Gibbs demonstrates by visiting a solar farm in Michigan where photovoltaic panels convert just under 8 percent of the energy in sunlight to electricity, according to National Observer. But that efficiency rating is, as the photovoltaic-focused publication PV Magazine puts it, from another solar era Today's typical silicon solar panels operate at around 22 percent efficiency. Following the release of Planet of the Humans, the controversial new climate change documentary executive produced by Michael Moore, fossil fuel backed climate denial groups are bashing wind and solar power with renewed vigor, regurgitating the film's flawed, ancient talking points about the supposed poor performance and unreliability of these energy sources. And a new crystalline material called perovskite could soon raise the solar efficiency bar much further. But even the best semiconductors only capture a fraction of the light that strikes them. Solar photovoltaic cells the individual units that form a solar panel, like the shingles on a roof are wafer-like devices made of materials called semiconductors that are capable of converting sunlight to electrical energy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

prevention measures: Local health coordinator Abu Toha Bhuiyan said the two refugees had been put into isolation, and authorities stepped up prevention measures and were scaling up testing, according to CTV. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox In early April authorities imposed a complete lockdown on the surrounding Cox's Bazar district after a number of cases, restricting all traffic in and out of the camps. Health experts have been warning for some time that the virus could race through the sprawling, unsanitary camps that have been home to the refugees since they fled a military offensive in Myanmar more than two years ago. Bangladesh authorities also forced aid organisations to slash their camp presence by 80 percent. The first coronavirus case was confirmed in Bangladesh in early March, and the pandemic has since worsened with at least 283 people dead and nearly 19,000 infected -- figures some experts say are highly under-reported. Rights groups and activists have expressed concerns that the camps are hotspots of misinformation about the pandemic because of an internet ban imposed last September. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rap song: A Little Late with Lilly Singh debuted last September and airs on NBC and on Global in Canada, according to CTV. It made the Indian-Canadian actress-comedian-writer the first woman of colour to host a daily late-night show on a major broadcast network. The 31-year-old revealed the news in a video on her You Tube account, where she first rose to fame under the pseudonym Superwoman. In announcing season 2 on her You Tube page, Singh performed a humorous rap song and thanked her supporters while in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. I had to learn a new world of things I didn't know, and my new home was so outside my comfort zone, Singh raps in the video posted Wednesday. The post also sees her connecting with friends and fans, and donating to various causes, via video conferencing and physical distancing measures in Los Angeles where she now lives. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.