cuts: Friday marks a year since the Progressive Conservatives were elected and began their budget cuts, according to National Observer. In April, Ford's government laid out its plan to eliminate an 11.7-billion deficit from their budget, titled Protecting What Matters Most . That phrase has been used repeatedly to justify their cuts, including reductions in the budgets of 13 ministries, as well as a blueprint of shrinkage across public sectors and programs impacting everything from trees to libraries to financial assistance for victims of crime. He also vowed to create a government for the people that would rein in spending. In commenting on the government's decision to adjourn till Oct. 28, one week after the federal election, Conservative house leader Todd Smith said the PC government has achieved so much. Here's a list of everything the Ford government has cut in its first year in office What people are readingI wonder who will march with Indigenous Peoples Golden Horseshoe not included in Ontario's stage two reopen for now Seeking to explain Nova Scotia shootings shooter an injustice Cap and Trade Ended electric and hydrogen vehicle incentive program Cut 700 green energy projects Shut down White Pines Wind Project Proposed cuts to protections of species at-risk Removed electric vehicle chargers from GO station parking lots Slashed 50 per cent of flood management funds given to conservation authorities Eliminated funding for 50 Million Tree Program Ended Drive Clean, a mandatory biannual emissions test program for vehicles and light-duty trucks more than seven years old Axed the Green Ontario Fund, which provided funds through cap and trade to help make properties more free prescription medication given to those under 25 through the Pharmacare program Cancelled the opening of new overdose prevention sites Cut the Liberals' promised 2.1 billion over four years for new mental health funding to 1.9 billion over 10 years Revoked current and future funding for the College of Midwives of Ontario Dissolved Local Health Integration Networks and merged them under one new umbrella body called Ontario Health Slashed the number of paramedic service providers from 59 to 10Proposed ending OHIP's medical emergency coverage for Ontarians travelling outside the country Planned to cut 200 million from Public Health services, impacting 35 health units. The Ontario premier agreed, adding recently that his government was moving at lightning speed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

home: The complete list of winners Our show wrap-up 8 10 P.M. Tallying up the results Joan Marcus / Boneau/Bryan-Brown Fun Home and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, above, led the pack with five Tony Awards each, according to Rabble. An American in Paris and The King and I each won four awards. Notable wins included Curious Incident with best play, Fun Home with best musical, Alex Sharp of Curious Incident with lead actor in a play, and Kelli O'Hara of King and I with lead actress in a musical. The Audience won two, and Skylight, Something Rotten!, Wolf Hall Parts One & Two and You Can't Take It With You each won one.-- Noelene Clark Read more8 05 P.M. Larry David presents the last award Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions7 59 P.M. Josh Groban, 100-plus member choir makes Twitter cry7 56 P.M. WINNER 'Fun Home' wins best musical Fun Home wins best musical.7 53 P.M. Neil Patrick Harris winks at his Oscars flop The Tonys fixture, presenting the award for lead actress in a musical, took the opportunity -- his first major awards-show appearance since his rather ignoble performance as Oscars host -- to acknowledge his misstep.7 48 P.M. WINNER Kelli O'Hara of 'King and I' wins lead actress in a musical Kelli O'Hara wins actress in a leading role in a musical for her performance in The King and I. 7 44 P.M. Phylicia Rashad's 'In Memoriam' intro goes over extremely well7 44 P.M. WINNER 'Fun Home's' Michael Cerveris wins lead actor in a musical Michael Cerveris wins actor in a leading role in a musical for his performance in Fun Home. 7 43 P.M. Backstage with Ruthie Ann Miles Her advice to her younger self Evan Agostini/Invision/APHere in the press room at the Tony Awards, the same question is being asked of each winner who stops by What advice would you give your younger self The answers tend toward the general Be brave; slow down and smell the roses; don't expect success to come overnight. Miles said she was actually studying to be a dentist when she made the switch to acting, a move that has served her well. Ruthie Ann Miles, though, gave one of the most surprising answers of the night Don't be a dentist! Miles said without hesitation as she stood on stage with the Tony she had just won for her performance in The King and I. Miles' win was for featured actress in a musical, but the stage was not her first calling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mulroney: Stevie Cameron, author of On the Take, the 1994 bestseller about corruption during the Mulroney years, according to National Observer. In the summer of 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron and other world leaders arrived at a swanky resort located two hours north of Toronto to take part in the annual G8 Summit. But if I had to pick one prime minister over the other between Harper and Mulroney I would pick Mulroney. As it turned out, the resort lies in the riding of then federal Industry Minister Tony Clement. He would later claim the money was dispersed for the G8 Summit. At that time, no one knew that Clement had lifted 50-million from the public purse money originally allotted by parliament for alleviating congestion at Canada's borders and spent it beautifying his Parry Sound-Muskoka riding on things like parks, walkways, toilets and gazebos. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people: Problem is, there's no published research that supports the figure, according to National Observer. It's based on years of sloppily collected RCMP data that doesn't examine the actual problems underlying violence against Indigenous women, and is grounded in racist assumptions about Indigenous people. The number was cited by white nationalist Faith Goldy, former editor-in-chief of The Walrus magazine Jonathan Kay and reams of others on social media who sought to undermine the report's finding that Canada's treatment of Indigenous people is genocide. What we have is people cherrypicking evidence and choosing evidence that supports their point of view without sharing with the public the limitations of what they're relying on, or putting that information in context, said Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and member of the Gitksan First Nation. For three years, the inquiry studied systemic violence against Indigenous women and girls, delivering its final report and recommendations Monday. It's really disturbing to me, because how are we to engender an understanding in Canadians about the experiences and the contributions of First Nations, M tis and Inuit people when there's this kind of fabricated evidence being shared around What people are readingI wonder who will march with Indigenous Peoples Golden Horseshoe not included in Ontario's stage two reopen for now Seeking to explain Nova Scotia shootings shooter an injustice collector The federal government began the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in late 2015, and appointed five commissioners the following August. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

protests: Large protests also took place across the U.S. and overseas, including in London, Paris, Berlin and Sydney, collectively producing perhaps the largest one-day mobilization since Floyd's death 12 days ago at the hands of police in Minneapolis, according to CTV. The dozens of demonstrations capped a week of nearly constant protests that swelled beyond anything else the nation has seen in at least a generation. Military vehicles and officers in fatigues closed off much of downtown Washington to traffic ahead of the planned march, which authorities estimated would attract up to 200,000 people. After frequent episodes of violence in the early stages following Floyd's death, the crowds in the U.S. shifted to a calmer tenor in recent days. Both protests unfolded peacefully. In Philadelphia and Chicago, marchers chanted, carried signs and occasionally knelt silently. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

tobias enverga: According to a federal government announcement, the expanded Canada-Philippines Air Transport Agreement offers airlines greater flexibility to use flights of other countries' airlines through code-sharing and for airlines to alter prices in response to consumer demand, according to Georgia Asian. Raitt made the announcement in Mississauga with Sen. There were 430,000 one-way passenger trips between the two countries last year, which is up 22.5 percent since 2008. Tobias Enverga, who's the first member of Canada's upper chamber of Philippine descent. The Philippines was the largest source of immigrants to Canada between 2006 and 2011. There were 662,605 Canadian residents who self-identified as being of Philippine descent in the 2011 census, according to Statistics Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

u.s .,: This is the fifth year in a row that Canada has led the world in this category, as far as Brazilians are concerned, according to Georgia Asian. According to UBC political-science PhD candidate and Liu Institute scholar Deborah Barros Leal Farias, the reasons include relatively easy access to Canadian visas; cheap program prices; and fewer culture clashes when compared to the U.S., among other reasons. That's because Canada is once again Brazilians' first choice in where to go to study English, followed by the U.S. and the United Kingdom this is according to the Brazilian Educational and Language Travel Association, after surveying 89 Brazilian travel agencies . In addition, Brazil's consul general to Vancouver, Sergio Florencio, confirmed in an interview in his office that Vancouver, among all Canadian cities, is Brazilians' first choice as a place to study English abroad for both short or long periods. Farias and Florencio, through the consulate, offered free evening classes about Brazil to Vancouverites last September at SFU Harbour Centre. Here, the weather is great when comparing to Manitoba, for example. Florencio said he thought that Vancouver's relatively amenable climate and natural beauty are the main reasons for our city coming out on top. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

velvet fist: The other recipients include Indigenous rights activist Cindy Blackstock and former Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke, according to NOW Magazine. Klein's involvement in politics and social justice goes back to her undergraduate days and editing role for the early feminist publication The Velvet Fist. The honour, in recognition of Klein's social activism and entrepreneurship, was awarded during the university's convocation ceremonies on Thursday June 6 . Klein was among six recipients celebrated by the university this year. Later, Klein worked in student politics and the campus newspaper at York University before launching NOW Magazine with co-founder Michael Hollett in 1981. Says Klein, It is tougher now than ever to be creating cool and interesting media that is both self-sustaining and continuously challenging of the mainstream let's face it, patriarchal media narrative. Her dedication to fierce, independent journalism has continued ever since as a former president of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression and board member of the Washington, D.C.-based Association of Alternative Newsmedia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

adult generations: Recently I've been invited to speak in places like Panama, New York, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, Vancouver, British Virgin Islands, Thunberg tweeted in December, according to Georgia Asian. But sadly our remaining carbon budget won't allow any such travels. With the hashtag istayontheground, she's focusing the world's attention on greenhouse gases created by the aviation sector. Adult generations in countries like mine have used up our resources, she continued. He's also a vocal opponent of speak out against flying This week at the Congress of the Humanities 2019 conference at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus, academics flew in from a multitude of locations. My generation won't be able to fly other than for emergencies, in a foreseeable future if we are to be the least bit serous about the 1.5 warming of the leaders of this movement in her country is Olympic gold-medal-winning biathlete Bj rn Ferry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

voter segments: Whichever way Peterborough-Kawartha votes, so goes the election at least that's been the case for the past 40 years, according to CTV. So the question everyone is asking is which way will this riding vote in on June 7 Its demographic makeup may offer some clues. This is the third in a series of blogs leading up to the provincial election that will look at voter segments their party preferences and key ridings. While the province has millions of different voices, our analysis shows that there are seven prominent segments, or voter groups, who tend to decide the outcome of an election Urban Affluence, Orange Heartland, Red Core, Blue Ontario, Boomer Battleground, Multicultural Families and Young & Urban. By looking at this riding through a demographic lens we can see that Peterborough-Kawartha is home to a large number Blue Ontario voters. You can find a more detailed summary of the key voter segments, here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bybill weinberg: The May 31 decision came in a case originally filed as Washington vs, according to NOW Magazine. Sessions, although Jeff Sessions has since stepped down as attorney general. ByBill Weinberg Published on June 6, 2019 Share Tweet5 Comments Efforts to have cannabis rescheduled were moved forward last week by a 2-to-1 ruling of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, finding that the Drug Enforcement Administration must act promptly if formally petitioned to take another look at the question. It challenged the DEA's refusal to reconsider in a timely manner the current classification of cannabis as a Schedule I controlled substance the most restrictive category under the federal Controlled Substances Act, along with heroin. Another co-plaintiff is disabled Iraq combat veteran Jose Belen, who uses medical cannabis to control his post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Court Mandates DEA Alacrity'The Second Circuit ruling does not actually decide the case but places it in abeyance while calling upon the DEA to ensure that any rescheduling petition is adjudicated with alacrity, as in sooner rather than later. Morphine and cocaine, in contrast, are actually in the less restrictive Schedule II. The case was brought by the Cannabis Cultural Association and is named for one its co-plaintiffs, retired professional football player and Super Bowl Champion Marvin Washington, who aspires to obtain grants under the Federal Minority Business Enterprise program for cannabis businesses specifically ones that would make cannabis available to sports professionals and others to reduce opioid dependency and addiction. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

guys sound: It's the same idea as the video that comedian Daniel-Ryan Spalding made about what gay guys sound like when they say the kinds of the things that straight guys say to them, according to Georgia Asian. It's basically the Shit People Say meme remixed, and we can probably expect a flurry of more of these kinds of videos if not already . In the meantime, here's what it sounds like when Asian people say what white people say to them. Even if you did, it can still serve as a reminder of how it feels when the tables are turned. By the way, I have white friends. RELATED STORIESEthnicity and LGBT issues When homophobia and transphobia are linked to race Join the discussion Comments16 Comments Really Jun 6, 2014 at 6 54pmI have a friend who is African-American and lived in Hong Kong for years, has a Singaporean Chinese wife and speaks Mandarin. Video of If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say You can follow Craig Takeuchi on Twitter at twitter/cinecraig. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

italian: With all the celebration, however, it's easy to forget that the story of Italian immigration to Vancouver is one that saw much hardship along with the joy, according to Georgia Asian. Following Italy's unification in 1871, the southern part of the country was impoverished and overpopulated. For many years at this time, Commercial Drive has come alive during the neighbourhood's annual Italian Day street party and what a time it'll be again this year, with an expected 300,000 guests arriving on June 10. With little opportunity to better themselves, the resulting diaspora saw almost nine million Italians depart for the Americas in search of pane e lavoro, or bread and work . Scores of these southern Italians found their way to British Columbia in the 1880s, lured by railroad, mining, and forestry work. Italians came here looking for a better opportunity to rear their children and find happiness for themselves. The railroad brought a lot of jobs for immigrants, says author Ray Culos, a local historian and an expert on Italian immigration. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wsu: Administrators of both universities, which are affiliated, said Saturday's graduation for the technical university would be refocused on students, with a nursing graduate as the only speaker, according to CTV. Ivanka Trump visited WSU Tech's National Center for Aviation Training last fall. Administrators at Wichita State University and WSU Tech announced the decision late Thursday, just hours after they had announced that the president's daughter would be speaking to WSU Tech graduates. She responded in a tweet, saying, Our nation's campuses should be bastions of free speech. Listening to one another is important now more than ever! The tweet included a link to You Tube video of her telling the students who finished their degrees amid a global pandemic, You are a wartime graduate, and that their training has prepared them for exactly this moment. Cancel culture and viewpoint discrimination are antithetical to academia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bonnie henry: Bonnie Henry demonstrated that the primary source of COVID-19 infections in B.C. came from travellers from Europe, Eastern Canada, and Washington state, according to Georgia Asian. She showed this with a series of charts featuring different colours. In presentation touching on epidemiology and genomics, Dr. They represented strains of the virus from different regions. According to Henry, this wasn't a surprise because those with the disease had travelled from that region. The first positive test results for COVID-19 in B.C. in January revealed a strain similar to the one in Wuhan, China. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

book deadline: Coel stars as Arabella, a London writer and social media star, according to NOW Magazine. While procrastinating a major book deadline, she heads out to a bar where someone spikes her drink. But after watching a couple of its 12 half-hour episodes, you get a strong sense the British TV creator and actor is undertaking an exercise in demythologizing. Her memory is spotty but slowly she pieces together that she was sexually assaulted. Through an almost discursive structure, I May Destroy You flashes back and forward to flush out the lives of people testing boundaries and confronting impulses. This incident causes her to question everything her close relationships, her childhood memories and her behaviour toward others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

census data: For example, Black Canadians make significantly less money than non-racialized Canadians regardless of how long their families have lived in Canada, according to CTV. First-generation Black Canadians make an average income of nearly 37,000, compared to an average income of 50,000 for new immigrants who are not members of a visible minority. The most recent census data from 2016 shows that Black Canadians face far steeper economic challenges than white Canadians and other racial groups. That wage gap doesn't go away over time. Those numbers are troubling but not surprising, says Andrea A. Davis, chair of York University's department of humanities and co-ordinator of the university's Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Third-generation Black Canadians make an average income of 32,000, compared with 48,000 for Canadians who aren't a visible minority a demographic that, due to the way census data is collected, includes Indigenous Canadians, who also experience income disparity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

credit cards: The residents of Montague, P.E.I. had made it a habit of budgeting using cash in envelopes but since fears of transmission of COVID-19 has given widespread pause to handling bills and coins, the two have entirely shifted to using a credit card for expenses, according to CTV. I just don't want to be touching money right now, says Elliott, but she can't foresee how shifting entirely away from cash would work in a place where every few houses has a table selling plants and produce and fishermen sell freshly caught lobsters right from their boats. They haven't touched it since. They aren't going to take cards or e-transfer for that, Elliott told CTVNews.ca. She's not going to take credit cards. We buy free-range eggs for 3 a dozen from a woman who raises chickens on an old school bus. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

employment losses: The increase in the unemployment rate, which topped the previous record of 13.1 per cent set in December 1982, came as more people started looking for work, according to CTV. The monthly labour force survey showed that men gained back more jobs than women in May, resulting in a wider gender gap in employment losses as a result of COVID-19, and that the pandemic continued to disproportionately affect lower-wage workers. Still, the unemployment rate in May rose to 13.7 per cent, the highest level in more than four decades of comparable data. The increase in the number of jobs -- which mirrored a similar bump in the U.S. -- came after three million jobs were lost over March and April and about 2.5 million more had their hours slashed. Combined with the increase in jobs, Statistics Canada said the country recovered 10.6 per cent of employment losses and absences related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Statistics Canada said the number of people who worked less than half their usual hours fell by 292,000 in May. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

geneneral gowon: The year was 1970 and the day was January 15, according to Rabble. On that date in history, Major-General Phillip Efiong, Biafra's chief of general staff and interim head of state announced the end of the two-and-a-half year armed conflict that took the lives of an estimated two million human beings. Working together and not against each other will alter our trajectory and carry us further. Though Geneneral Gowon had declared the war as having no victor, no vanquished', which was widely hailed, the reality on the ground was far from the magnanimous picture he painted. In fact, Igbos were let in to what was to come way before the war ended with the Abandoned Property Edict of 1969. Every Igbo man, regardless of prior financial standing prior to the was was handed a meagre twenty pounds to start all over. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

george floyd: It is recognizing that policing itself is a form of harm, says author Robyn Maynard, whose book Policing Black Lives chronicles the history of state violence against Black people in Canada, according to National Observer. What do we need to prioritize instead of these massive, bloated policing budgets, of over a billion dollars in the case of Toronto. The death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer last month has revived calls to defund police amid frustration that reforms such as more sensitivity training for officers and the use of body cameras has not stopped police violence, which disproportionately targets people of colour. What would it mean to direct that towards people's real needs she asks. What people are reading It's time to call out denialism on racism and on climate change Canada's managed forests have turned into super-emitters, and 2018 set a record Inside Amazon with a fired whistleblower and former Maren Costa and Tim Bray But the concept of actively diverting funding from Toronto's police force, which has a long-acknowledged history of racial discrimination, is not on the agenda for John Tory, the city's mayor. This is a project that in many ways is calling for us to imagine and think about the possibility of safety entirely differently, she says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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rahul gandhi: Is he auditioning to be an Anchor, chatting up well known faces Or is he trying to show he has an open mind But after 11 yrs in parliament this appears an amateurish & lazy arm-chair politics, according to Rabble. K. C. Singh ambkcsingh June 4, 2020 Is Rahul, I wondered, testing a new career option as television anchor Or reinventing himself after the routing by the Modi-Shah juggernaut in two consecutive Lok Sabha elections His political status today remains indeterminate as after resigning and being incommunicado for months, he is back at the forefront of the Congress. Wonder if Rahul Gandhi is looking at career change. Aspiring politicians have been known to write books both to come to terms with themselves as also to create their public persona for political gain. That began his journey to the White House; he used personal charisma and cited his family's sacrifice during the war in which his eldest brother died in a mid-air plane explosion. John F. Kennedy, already a US senator, drew attention to his own war-time heroics by penning Profiles in Courage in 1956, which retold stories of eight United States senators as heroes in the Second World War. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anders tegnell: Swedish authorities have advised people to practice social distancing, but schools, bars and restaurants have been kept open the entire time, according to CTV. Only gatherings of more than 50 people have been banned. Sweden has stood out among European nations and the world for the way it has handled the pandemic, not shutting down the country or the economy like others but relying on citizens' sense of civic duty. I think there is potential for improvement in what we have done in Sweden, quite clearly, Anders Tegnell of the Public Health Agency told Swedish radio. Denmark has had 580 coronavirus deaths, Finland has seen 320 and Norway has had 237, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox Sweden, a nation of 10.2 million people, has seen 4,468 deaths linked to COVID-19, which is far more than its Nordic neighbours and one of the highest death rates per capita in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

block parties: This proves George Orwell's premise that governments will say one thing while they do the opposite, according to Georgia Asian. Vision Vancouver is proposing city-wide block parties as a means to engage citizens, rather than including people in meaningful discussions on how they want their city to develop over the next 30 years. Meanwhile, the Mayor's Engaged City Task Force is released with great fanfare declaring the virtues of earlier public involvement in the planning process. The Official Development Plan and Regional Context Statement is Vancouver's overarching plan. All of the city's development and land use policies are bundled up into this one document and presented with a plan to Metro Vancouver for approval. It will direct all development in the city of Vancouver for the next 30 years, which presently includes proposals to hand over regional designation of large swaths of the city, yet it is being fast-tracked through the system without public involvement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hong: There are roughly 300,000 Canadians currently living in Hong Kong, according to CTV. All of those people are Canadian, and of course, dear Canadians living in Hong Kong, you are very, very welcome to come home anytime, Freeland said. She made the comment during a press conference Wednesday, just hours after U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared in an op-ed that his country would be willing to open the door to almost three million Hong Kong citizens. As the tensions continue to boil over in the region, Freeland would not commit to bringing in any specific amount of asylum seekers from Hong Kong. Canada continues to be a country that welcomes immigrants and asylum seeks from around the world, Freeland said. She did, however, emphasize Canada's general continued openness to those seeking refuge from dire situations abroad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.