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australian universities: International students have been Australia's most lucrative industry after mining, with China the largest source of foreign students, according to CTV. They stand to become among the first classes of passenger to exempted from an Australian ban on travel from China that has existed since Feb. 1. International students would be allowed to come to Australia under approved plans to study at nominated institutions, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said after a pandemic meeting with state leaders. Newsletter sign-up Get The COVID-19 Brief sent to your inbox The students would return to Australian universities in a very controlled setting, Morrison said. This is something that I'm sure we would all welcome happening again, but it has to be done with the appropriate quarantine entry arrangements and biosecurity and all of those matters being addressed, Morrison said. He gave few details, but said well thought-through proposals had been forwarded by state government on how their return could be achieved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: Far from it, according to Georgia Asian. But several people I respect who've lived in Quebec have told me that they've felt the vibe of racism on occasion. Not every sovereignist is racist, of course. Racism isn't exclusive to Quebec. But it's less frequently espoused by political leaders elsewhere, because they know there's a high political price to pay in an increasingly diverse country. It's on display in every part of Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

everyone: Despite the facts, everyone just acts like it's the truth, according to Rabble. Do facts just not matter Reply The police fatally shot twice as many unarmed white people 19 than black 9 in 2019. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fellow slaves: As a teenager, Dong-hyuk and his fellow slaves were constantly famished and wardens preyed on their hunger to get them to accuse each other of crimes, according to National Observer. The betrayed were tortured and executed, the betrayers rewarded. In it, Harden tells the story of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person ever to have escaped from one of North Korea's forced labour concentration camps. It was the only way to procure an extra scrap of food. It was every person for themselves in this North Korean hell. All were encouraged to turn in friends, family, and parents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

height company: Rating NNNNNThe late Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal company hasn't performed in Toronto in about three decades, which makes their Luminato show Kontakthof the most anticipated dance show of the season, according to NOW Magazine. The company doesn't disappoint. See listing. The massive 1978 work, one of those featured in Wim Wenders's haunting 2011 documentary/homage Pina, still feels startlingly fresh and invigorating. But what a treat to see Bausch's gloriously diverse in age, ethnicity, language, height company perform this nearly three-hour piece, bringing years of experience to a work they know so intimately. It's a work of such power and universal appeal that in the past decade and a half it's even been restaged for non-dance-professional seniors called Kontakthof At 65 and adolescents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

krysten ritter: The bad news is that this will have to be the last case for Krysten Ritter's bitter, superpowered private investigator, since Netflix cancelled the series earlier this year as the final blow in its purge of Marvel series, according to NOW Magazine. But for what it's worth, both Ritter and her show get to go out with a solid season that lets Jessica be Jessica in all her bullheaded, resourceful, pissed-off glory. Rating NNNNThe good news is that Jessica Jones is back. Assuming the last five episodes are as strong as the first eight made available for preview, anyway. After last season's wobbly depiction of its antagonists, this guy feels like a worthy successor to the impulsive, insecure monster David Tennant played in Season 1. This season picks up with Jessica and her foster sister Trish Walker Rachael Taylor still understandably estranged after the events of Season 2, though their paths cross when Trish becomes New York's latest superpowered vigilante and they both wind up on the trail of a serial killer who believes he's smarter than both of them put together. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

media briefing: We now hope that the provincial governments will step up further in areas that are their exclusive jurisdictions, like education and certain services for minority-language communities, Trudeau said Friday at his daily media briefing, according to CTV. One legal analyst said the ruling broke new ground on liability that could open the door to compensation when government policies violate other charter rights. The high court sided with British Columbia's francophone school board, at least in part, in a dispute over French-language education in the province, saying lower courts interpreted constitutional protections too narrowly. The court case began a decade ago when the board, Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique, and the parents of students alleged the province had breached a Charter of Rights and Freedoms provision guaranteeing minority-language education. After a long trial, the school board and parents won a partial victory, including an award for charter damages arising from unpaid student transportation costs. They sought orders requiring the province to change how it funds French-language education, fix problems with inadequate facilities in a number of communities and offer compensation for its failure to provide proper funding. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

statistics canada: The latest data, collected by Statistics Canada in 2018, shows the average Canadian police officer makes 99,298, according to CTV. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police earned the most, at 102,821, followed by municipal police officers serving communities of 100,000 or more, at 101,112. Decades of data collected by Statistics Canada shows how much police forces spend, where that money goes and how much officers are paid. Average salary among police forces 2017/2018 Police officers who earned the least, on average, were from Quebec, making 87,245. Kelly Sundberg, a criminologist with Mount Royal University, said general duty police officers have a tough job and they should be compensated for danger pay. That's still significantly higher than the median Canadian household income of 61,400 for families and unattached individual in the same year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

access: See subscription options Just 1.99 per week for unlimited DIGITAL access A subscription is required after exceeding complementary 3 content limit, according to Rabble. The Frontiersman Print Subscribers Unlimited digital access is included with your subscriptions Activate Now Support your local newsroom. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: For 17 years, Charmaine Nelson has asked new students at McGill University if they knew that slavery occurred in Canada, according to CTV. She can recall just one student who said that they did. To Indigenous and Black educators in Canada, it's a relationship that has been left out of history books. Most only knew of the Underground Railroad, the network of safe houses and secret routes for enslaved people in the U.S. to escape to Canada that was used from approximately 1833 to 1865. We're obscuring, falsifying and completely erasing in many instances a 200-year history and we're enshrining a 30-year history, said Nelson, an art history professor who has researched the visual culture of slavery, in a phone interview with CTVNews.ca. But Canada's history with slavery goes back much further. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

changes: Job losses, business closures and a drop in immigration are expected to adversely impact Canada's housing markets, according to CTV. CMHC foresees a whopping nine per cent to 18 per cent decrease in house prices over the next 12 months due to higher mortgage debt and increased unemployment. Come July 1, it will be harder for Canadians to qualify for a new mortgage due to changes announced last week by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation CMHC . The changes have come about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to CMHC. The health crisis is affecting all sectors of the Canadian economy, including housing. To help reduce the risk and protect future home buyers, the corporation is implementing new changes to it's underwriting policies for insured mortgages. They will also limit gross and total debt servicing ratios to their standards of 35 per cent and 42 per cent, respectively. The changes will mean that you will have to establish a minimum credit score of 680 for at least one borrower, up from 600. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

eishia hudson: While some have been calling for funding to be redirected to community organizations, the Grand Chief of Manitoba's northern First Nations thinks police policies need to change, according to CTV. You can tell there's a breakdown in the system and the larger picture needs to be changed because our people are dying, said Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak Grand Chief Garrison Settee. Momentum has been growing across Canada for communities to defund or abolish their police services in the wake of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis. Settee pointed to the deaths of three Indigenous people, including 16-year-old Eishia Hudson, who've been shot and killed this year in encounters with Winnipeg police. Settee said their deaths highlight the need for change. Manitoba's police oversight agency, the Independent Investigation Unit, is investigating the circumstances surrounding Hudson's death and the shooting deaths of Jason Collins, 36, and Stewart Andrews, 22. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hobbit films: Let's start by stating the bleeding obvious, shall we As Poldark, Aidan was FIT particularly when topless - .2, according to NOW Magazine. He played a dashing vampire in Being Human And, since Twilight, vampires are always hot, aren't they 3. Praise be!So we thought we'd celebrate the man that's set to get us all hot under the collar of a Sunday night Because, erm, why not ! Poldark heartthrob Aidan Turner SPLITS from girlfriend as new series returns From making scything sexy to being pretty nifty with a sword', here's 32 reasons we love Pol Aidan 1. And then a dwarf in The Hobbit films Yeah, dwarves don't do it for us quite so much, but somehow Aidan made his character Kili a legitimate hunk4. Whilst as himself, he reminds us of yet another We've been Team Aidan ever since SATC. We've even got the t-shirt, which is handy.READ MORE TV NEWS 6. As Poldark, he reminds us of one of our other fictional crushes There's definitely a touch of the Mr Darcys about him, isn't there And Aidan agrees He's a literary hero strong and rebellious. 5. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

eyes: Only his eyes were visible, the report stated, according to Georgia Asian. Moreover, he was carrying backpack on his front. He was also wearing a cap. The man is black. The woman, whose identity was redacted, filed a complaint. Was it a case of racial profiling A female friend of the man believed it was. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shore: Reached by phone in North Vancouver, NSMBA program director Mark Wood told the Georgia Straight that his group's motto has never been more apt, according to Georgia Asian. We're writing the book on modern trail-building techniques and how it's applied in the Pacific Northwest, the 44-year-old said. That's the mission statement of the 2,500-member North Shore Mountain Bike Association, or NSMBA, a nonprofit volunteer organization formed in 1997. Mountain biking on the North Shore has grown from its infancy 20 years ago into adolescence in the early 2000s and, since NSMBA renewed our trail-building efforts in 2009, is now in the adult stage of progression. When it comes to mountain biking, we've only just begun to reinvent the North Shore, he said by phone. B.C. Bike Race organizer Dave Howells backed up Wood's assessment with one of his own. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

vector: Some three week later, on March 17, I stepped off a plane, back home, with reason to wonder if I was a walking, talking vector for the coronavirus, according to Rabble. My wife, Jane, and I, longtime New Orleans area residents, were in Mexico, which had yet to get the memo about not hugging your friends or eating in crowded restaurants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cashier shifts: She told CTV News she joined the company as an associate manager, and had plenty of managerial experience, but wasn't given an adequate opportunity to prove herself, according to CTV. I was given only cashier shifts, which kind of didn't make much sense, Lewis recalled. Karissa Lewis, 27, who is Black, worked at Artizia's Yorkdale location in the Toronto area for five months. Managers should have management shifts. Lewis said she raised her concerns with the manager that had been training her She was kind of giving me the run around and saying, Oh this is normal.' Lewis said. Lewis, who quit Aritzia in February, said she also remembered being asked to vacuum the store twice, a task she didn't see other managers perform. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

credit bob: The B.C. Liberal government won u2019t disclose the values of the other three bids. credit Bob last-minute 575,000 replacement of Astro Turf installed in 2010 at Empire Fields forced relocation of FIFA Women u2019s World Cup Canada 2015 training sessions until June 1, according to Georgia Asian. City hall converted the north-south field into two east-west fields as part of a 10.5 million project completed this spring. Polytan distributor Centaur Products got a 1.327 million contract to install a new field for the Women u2019s World Cup. The original 2011 budget was 5.17 million. credit Bob 1 of 3 2 of 3Five months after FIFA, soccer's world governing body, emphatically reaffirmed that Canada would host the first Women's World Cup WWC played entirely on artificial turf, pitch politics are yielding to questions about economics. At the end of May, the public-owned home of the Vancouver Whitecaps and B.C. Lions replaced its 2011-installed synthetic pitch at a cost of 1.327 million. United States national-team captain Abby Wambach led the failed switch-to-natural-grass movement and told ESPN in early May that FIFA turned down Ohio-based Scotts Miracle-Gro's offer to pay for grass pitches at all six WWC venues, including that of the July 5 final host, B.C. Place Stadium. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dim-sum carts: Tsui Hang was the Granville Strip hangout where you could order cold tea late at night tea pots filled with beer, according to Georgia Asian. The original opening for the swish new 130-seat restaurant with a 14-seat wooden bar was slated for March. the powerhouse team pictured the place abuzz with dim-sum carts by day and drink carts by night for cocktails, not cold tea . COVID19 messed with those plans, but the restaurant's time has come. Cold Tea Restaurant occupies the former home of Tsui Hang Village Restaurant 1193 Granville Street which also inspired its name. After first launching takeout and delivery recently, it is now open for dine-in service pandemic-style, of course, with the tableside service on hold for the time being . You'll find fresh takes on banh mi, bao pork belly, pulled chicken, coconut-and-lemongrass tofu, and more wontons, dumplings, pot stickers shrimp and vegan verities noodle dishes, wings, brochettes, spring rolls, wok dishes, crispy chow mein, salad bowls, char siu, pho, and congee . The list of reimagined, contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese dishes goes on. Here's the lowdown on all-day dim sum har gow, chicken paws, siu mai, BBQ pork buns, vegetarian bean curd, Dicky's Dumps pork and chives, shrimp and scallop, or vegetarian all go for 5 each. Then there's Lai Fun Carbonara, the namesake noodles served with five-spiced cured bacon, cream, sous-vide egg, parmesan, green onion, and chili threads; and the Spliff a roll with cucumber, jicama, mango, green apple, sweet peppers, mint, cilantro, chives, lettuce, and tamarind dipping sauce. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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health threats: Could we train our brains to prevent this stress from becoming lodged in our brains, so we can bounce back faster from stress and even collect a kernel of wisdom from the experience fixed / / / text Perhaps, according to Rabble. Neuroscience research points to the stress-reactive circuits in the emotional brain as a trigger of toxic stress. The uncertainty and constant health threats surrounding the coronavirus pandemic have upended our lives. text We may need two vaccines one to protect us from the coronavirus and another from the toxic effects of too much stress. These circuits are made of neurons that can guide us to respond ineffectively to stress. Instead of the brain orchestrating a symphony of effective self-regulatory processes and moderation, we have a garage band of dysregulation and extremes, which can cause chronic stress and rising rates of emotional, behavioral, social and physical health problems. fixed 767px ' .matches A300 ; hearst Place Ad A300 ; e fixed 767px ' .matches B300 ; hearst Place Ad B300 ; e fixed / / / text As a health psychology professor, I work on emotional brain training to help people deactivate and rewire the circuits that cause this stress overload. zone text A new crisis in emotional health text Scientists have been exploring these issues for over a century. Once triggered, they unleash a cascade of stress chemicals. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

home ownership: With restaurants, shopping, and other forms of entertainment off the table, many Canadians are spending less, but most of us aren't getting any richer, according to CTV. Millennials -- a generation defined by economic precarity -- are well aware that most universal rules aren't equally useful for everyone. Gone are the days -- if they ever existed -- when cutting back on lattes was the key to financial freedom and staying away from avocado toast was a one-way ticket to home ownership. The Canadian Press spoke with three Canadian millennials who shared the most overrated pieces of financial advice they've ever received. The Toronto-based founder of Requity Homes grew up in China, and says her parents taught her the importance of paring back her spending from a young age. CUT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY SPENDING 31-year-old Amy Ding was raised with frugality at the fore. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

intercultural solidarity: And she hoped that her book would educate city planners on how to advance the project of multiculturalism . A more robust sense of identity must be able to embrace cultural autonomy and, at the same time, work to strengthen intercultural solidarity, she wrote, according to Georgia Asian. The word mongrel in her title referred to how hybrids are often less susceptible to disease than purebreds in the animal world. In it, she argued that metropolitan regions that embrace diversity have distinct advantages over those that veer toward fundamentalism and creating ethnic silos. And there's little doubt that diversity can enhance economic resiliency in an increasingly interconnected world. In comparison to many other regions in recent years, Metro Vancouver has been remarkably successful in bringing together people from a multitude of cultural backgrounds. Many of the world's most dynamic cities including Paris, Taipei, New York, London, Istanbul, and Hong Kong have traditionally been havens for migrants. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

combat racism: In an effort to address systemic racism in Canada, CTVNews.ca asked readers to share their experiences of discrimination, according to CTV. Here are some of those experiences and reflections on what can be done to combat racism in the country. While many Canadian leaders have denounced the death of Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes, his death has also prompted some to claim that systemic racism doesn't exist in Canada as it does in the U.S. Canadians who have faced discrimination disagree, saying racial tensions do not stop at the border. CHARLYN NONO Oakville, Ont. resident Charlyn Nono was shopping with her 18-month-old daughter at Walmart when a code Adam safety alert was called for a missing 7-year-old boy wearing blue. I think that she looks just like me and she calls me mom in public, but when the code Adam was called I was approached by two Walmart employees and they grilled me on whose child I had in my cart, Nono said in a phone interview on June 4. Nono identified as Black however her daughter is mixed race and has very light skin. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

members: Eligible immediate family members will be spouses, common-law partners, dependent children and their children, parents, and legal guardians, according to CTV. In order to be allowed in, the family members must have a plan to stay in Canada for at least 15 days, and they will have to self-quarantine for 14 days as soon as they enter the country. This new policy, announced by the federal government on Monday, will allow immediate family members from the United States, as well as from other countries, to be able to enter Canada under a series of stipulations. The family member in Canada who will be welcoming their loved one in will have to confirm they have a suitable place for their family to self-isolate for the first 14 days of their stay, where they will be able to access food and medication. It will be possible for foreign nationals with immediate family in Canada to come for 14 days or less, but they need to prove that their reason to come is not discretionary and that they can comply with the quarantine. Their place of quarantine cannot be where they would have contact with a vulnerable person such as a senior or someone with pre-existing medical conditions, unless that person consents. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

week reply: I hope someone asks her about this this week! Reply, according to Rabble. A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published on April 1 cited the potential for presymptomatic transmission as a reason for the importance of social distancing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.