acceptance rate: Since January, The RCMP have intercepted more than 15,100 people entering through unguarded border entry points from the United States, after President Donald Trump came into power and issued a series of executive orders to expedite deportation of foreign nationals and ban immigration from certain countries, according to Toronto Star. Of the 10,790 asylum claims received from March to September of this year, the refugee board has processed 592, or 5.4 per cent. The data were released this week by the Immigration and Refugee Board. Of those claims 69 per cent, or 408 cases, were granted asylum, while 141 were rejected. The acceptance rate for the border-crossers is even higher than the 63-per-cent overall rate for asylum-seekers in 2016. Forty-three other claims were either abandoned or withdrawn. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

accommodation secularism: What happened to the moral centre With Bill 62 this week the Liberals are pandering to their base political instincts, according to CTV. They are perceived as soft on the reasonable accommodation/ secularism file so they passed what arguably is one of the stupidest and meanest laws to ever float down the Grande All e; it is legislation smacking of dog whistle politics. Despite some obvious linguistic transgressions, they did believe in civil liberties and now I am not sure what they believe in, if anything. It's all about October 1, 2018 Election Day in Quebec . It's part of the Liberal's grand scheme to steal the soft identity vote from the CAQ and PQ. The Liberals desperately need to shore up the francophone vote, and in the 340 and some days until the election they will portray themselves as the guardians of Quebec values. Except it doesn't. The light version less filling tastes great. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

agencies scramble: It takes time, according to CTV. An estimated 600,000 Rohingya have now entered Bangladesh from Myanmar, fleeing violence that the United Nations has called textbook ethnic cleansing. Suddenly, we just can't take thousands of people in, Major Ashik bin Jalil of the Bangladesh Armed Forces told CTV's Peter Akman. While many of them are now in crowded refugee camps inside Bangladesh, those along the border are being forced to wait in limbo in overcrowded, filthy conditions as Bangladesh and humanitarian agencies scramble to create more spaces for them. With journalists banned from the border zone, aid workers showed pictures of the squalid no man's land. This cannot go on, said J.J. Simon, who works with UNICEF. It is a paddy field, with water around, there is no sanitation, there is no clean water, there is no food. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bangladesh: Report author Simon Ingram says about one in five children in the area are acutely malnourished, according to Toronto Star. The report comes ahead of a donor conference Monday in Geneva to drum up funding for the Rohingya. The UN children's agency has issued a report that documents the plight of nearly 340,000 children caught up in the crisis, who account for 58 per cent of the refugees who have poured into Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, over the last eight weeks. Many Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh have witnessed atrocities in Burma no child should ever see, and all have suffered tremendous loss, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a statement. The New York Times Article Continued Below The refugees need clean water, food, sanitation, shelter and vaccines to help head off a possible outbreak of cholera a potentially deadly water-borne disease. Our correspondent reports from a sprawling makeshift city that houses hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people, driven from their homes by Burma's military. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

biography neurasthenic: That was the kind of Chopin we grew up with back in mid-20th century North American suburbia genteel parlour music, almost cloyingly sweet, according to Vancouver Observer. The notion was only enhanced by what little we knew of the composer's biography neurasthenic, retiring, a creature of salons with an agoraphobic dread of the concert stage, a Frenchified exile from his native Poland, tragically thwarted in love, succumbing to consumption by the age of 40. She meant it appreciatively, no doubt. Poles, it turns out, have a very different take on him. They're obviously onto something, as anyone can hear listening to such passionate outpourings as his bombastic Revolutionary Etude. To them, he's a Lion of the Keyboard, revolutionary both in his music and his nationalist politics. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

u.s: Bolton said pardons don't erase convictions or the facts of cases, according to The Chronicle Herald. She said the pardon issued by President Donald Trump only mooted Arpaio's possible punishments. The request denied Thursday by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton was aimed at clearing Arpaio's name and barring the ruling's use in future court cases as an example of a prior bad act. The pardon undoubtedly spared defendant from any punishment that might otherwise have been imposed, Bolton wrote. Arpaio's attorneys appealed Thursday's decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It did not, however, 'revise the historical facts' of this case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

facebook post: The issue stems from a Dalhousie Student Union decision not to endorse Canada Day celebrations or hold celebratory events on campus, according to The Chronicle Herald. The decision prompted outcry from some groups, like the Nova Scotia Young Progressive Conservatives, who said in a Facebook post the student union should be helping instill pride in our country, not boycott it on our most significant national holiday. Masuma Khan, a member of the student council executive, is under investigation for an online post that another student alleges discriminated against white people. Khan, a fourth-year international development studies student, called the celebrations an ongoing act of colonialism and used a hashtag that referred to white fragility. I stand by the motion I put forward. Be proud of this country For what, over 400 years of genocide she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration debate: Arreola, who was brought to the U.S. illegally at age 14, is among about 100 medical students nationwide who are enrolled in DACA, and many have become a powerful voice in the immigration debate, according to Metro News. Their stories have resonated with leaders in Washington. Whether she becomes a doctor depends on whether Congress finds an alternative to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump phased out last month. Having excelled in school and gained admission into competitive medical schools, they're on the verge of starting residencies to treat patients, a move experts say could help address the nation's worsening doctor shortage. Our country will have said, 'You cannot go treat patients.' The Chicago-area medical school was the first to openly accept DACA students and has the largest concentration nationwide at 32. It's mostly a tragedy of wasted talent and resources, said Mark Kuczewski, who leads the medical education department at Loyola University's medical school, where Arreola is in her second year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

metal spikes: The requirements established to realize U.S. President Donald Trump's vision call for a fence that is impenetrable, it's unscalable, said Roy Villareal, acting chief patrol agent of the San Diego border sector, according to Toronto Star. They can't dig under it. Lined up next to each other, the nine-metre-tall concrete and steel sample barriers some with extra-stout reinforced bases, others topped with metal spikes certainly look ominous. They can't cut through it. Read the latest news about U.S. President Donald Trump Maybe the fence-hoppers were unlucky, or had chosen an ill-advised, hide-in-plain-sight strategy, but either way their experience is suggestive of how many Mexicans feel about Trump's wall no matter how it's built, it's not going to work. Even these big warning slabs of concrete, the teeming construction site, and police and helicopters patrolling both sides of the border weren't enough to stop a half-dozen would-be migrants from hopping the existing fence earlier this month and landing smack in the middle of the project, according to U.S. border officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nova scotia: The issue stems from a Dalhousie Student Union decision not to endorse Canada Day celebrations or hold celebratory events on campus, according to CTV. The decision prompted outcry from some groups, like the Nova Scotia Young Progressive Conservatives, who said in a Facebook post the student union should be helping instill pride in our country, not boycott it on our most significant national holiday. Masuma Khan, a member of the student council executive, is under investigation for an online post that another student alleges discriminated against white people. Khan, a fourth-year international development studies student, called the celebrations an ongoing act of colonialism and used a hashtag that referred to white fragility. I stand by the motion I put forward. Be proud of this country For what, over 400 years of genocide she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

public-sector employees: It also obliges anyone seeking public services like taking public transit to have uncovered faces, according to CBC. Quebec face-covering law called a 'dog's breakfast' by author of landmark reportEXPLAINER What you need to know about Quebec's religious neutrality legislation The demonstration against the law was organized along the 80 bus route on Parc Avenue during morning rush hour. Bill 62, passed on Wednesday in Quebec's National Assembly, prohibits public-sector employees including doctors, teachers and daycare employees from covering their faces. Some bus drivers honked to show their support. Protesters also lined up at other stops along the route, which runs from Parc Extension, a diverse neighbourhood in the northern part of the city, through Mile End to Place-des-Arts Metro station downtown. This bus driver is covering his face in support of the protestors CBC Hayward About 50 people stood at the stop at the intersection of Parc and St-Viateur Street. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

report: Report author Simon Ingram says about one in five children in the area are acutely malnourished, according to Metro News. The report comes ahead of a donor conference Monday in Geneva to drum up funding for the Rohingya. The U.N. children's agency issued a report that documents the plight of children who account for 58 per cent of the refugees who have poured into Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, over the last eight weeks. Many Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh have witnessed atrocities in Myanmar no child should ever see, and all have suffered tremendous loss, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a statement. Ingram also warned of threats posed by human traffickers and others who might exploit children in the refugee areas. The refugees need clean water, food, sanitation, shelter and vaccines to help head off a possible outbreak of cholera a potentially deadly water-borne disease. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

shipbuilding strategy: Around the same time, the company also received criticism from the union for hiring a Spanish naval outfitting contractor to bring in employees for carpentry work on the Arctic and offshore patrol ships it is currently building as part of its 60-billion contract to build new vessels for the Canadian navy, according to The Chronicle Herald. Irving is the prime contractor for the combat portion of the government's National Shipbuilding Strategy and, in addition to building six Harry DeWolf-class Arctic offshore patrol ships, Irving is also building the navy's new fleet of up to 15 Canadian surface combatants starting in the 2020s. In the winter, The Chronicle Herald learned Irving was holding job fairs in Eastern European cities such as Gdansk, Poland, and had hired a full-time, permanent international recruiter. The creation of long-term jobs in Canada has been consistently sold as one of the major benefits of the program. Irving says only 13 workers have been hired internationally at this time. But Unifor Local 1 says it is concerned that 27 ironworkers have been hired into the shipyard from Lithuania and Romania throughout the months of September and October. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

syrian refugees: Why don't you go back home ' Rivalry fuels racism at high school football game Grade 11 student Moiad Alhamoud, his brother and four of his friends are Syrian refugees who attended the game and said they heard the racial slurs and had things thrown at them, according to CBC. They was like, 'Where did you came from You shouldn't be here. The administrators issued a statement to parents on Thursday evening after CBC News reported that some people in the stands at the game Sept. 29 yelled at Syrian students at the game and taunted them with racial slurs. Just leave,' said Alhamoud. We work proactively to promote kindness, understanding, appreciation, and inclusion of all cultures, races, and backgrounds through in-class and out of class learning opportunities such as assemblies, curricular-based learning, and extracurricular activities, the statement reads. Racism not tolerated, schools say Administrators for both schools said in the statement they want everyone to know that racism is not accepted or tolerated in either school or at extracurricular events. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

taliban attacks: Taliban attacks in Afghanistan kill 58Taliban claims responsibility for wave of deadly attacks In the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber walked into the Imam Zaman Mosque, a Shia mosque in the western Dashte-e-Barchi neighbourhood where he detonated his explosives vest, killing 30 and wounding 45, said Maj.-Gen, according to CBC. Alimast Momand at the Interior Ministry. The Afghan president issued a statement condemning both attacks and saying that country's security forces would step up the fight to eliminate the terrorists who target Afghans of all religions and tribes. The suicide bombing in Ghor province struck a Sunni mosque, also during Friday prayers and killed 33 people, including a warlord who was apparently the target of the attack, said Mohammad Iqbal Nizami, the spokesperson for the provincial chief of police. The U.S. government strongly condemned the attacks in Kabul and Ghor, as well as other attacks carried out across Afghanistan this week. No group immediately claimed responsibility for either attack, the latest in a devastating week that saw Taliban attacks kill scores across the country. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

work-ready immigrants: The changes will begin on Jan. 2, 2018, when the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program AINP streams and categories will be consolidated under a single stream with one set of standardized eligibility criteria, according to Metro News. According to the governmen, the AINP will become simpler for applicants and more efficient for government and more responsive to Alberta's emerging labour market demands. According to a release from the province, the changes will spur growth by nominating work-ready immigrants to fill labour-market needs. Immigrants are a valued part of our workforce and communities. These changes will simplify processes, reduce wait times and make it more fair for applicants across all sectors to apply for permanent residency in Alberta. Helping them settle successfully is crucial to the ongoing prosperity of our province, said labour minister, Christina Gray. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

dre ngozi: He described feeling like an outsider when his family first moved to Toronto, but the steady roar radiating from the sold-out crowd at the Great Hall suggested that things have changed, according to NOW Magazine. For Majid, his partner, Jordan Ullman, and all of the acts on night one of Red Bull Sound Select's 3 Days In Toronto micro-festival, the city has both welcomed them and propelled them to the forefront of the buzzy electronic R&B genre. Rating NNNNAs trance-inducing synth diffused through their headlining set, Majid Jordan singer Majid Al Maskati mused about the plight of immigrants. Red Bull Bass Camp alum Chris LaRocca started the show promptly downstairs in Longboat Hall after an initial DJ set by Dre Ngozi and Nino Brown. Almost immediately after LaRocca's final strum, Ngozi and Brown resumed the high-energy B2B that guests grooved to as they'd poured in. He hushed the noisy crowd with his dreamy falsetto and swapped piano for guitar just as seamlessly as he switched from his heavenly head voice to a confident belt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

lecture thursday: John's, according to National Observer. She especially emphasized the number of people who struggle to represent themselves after being denied legal aid. We have a justice system to be proud of but it does not always do the job it was created for, Beverley McLachlin, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, told a public lecture Thursday at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. The cut-off can be quite low, she said of funding restrictions. Is that access to justice I don't think so, she told the standing room only audience. Lost in a system they don't understand, and that seems incompatible with their reality, the accused lose faith in the system and in justice itself, and they give up. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

americans: The attackers spoke Arabic and Tamashek, and were light-skinned, Baringay Aghali, told The Associated Press by phone from the remote village of Tongo-Tongo, according to Metro News. Who were these men and how did they know the Americans would be there that day No extremist group has claimed responsibility for the deadly ambush on Oct. 4 and the languages reportedly spoken by the jihadists are used throughout the Sahel including Tamashek, spoken by ethnic Tuaregs. In this remote corner of Niger where the Americans and their local counterparts had been meeting with community leaders, residents say the men who came to kill that day had never been seen there before. The ambush of U.S. troops in Niger has been the centre of controversy in America because President Donald Trump has been criticized in some quarters, including by one grieving family directly, for the way he spoke to the wife of one of the soldiers slain in that operation. It is led by Adnan Abu Walid who built ties with various extremists before forming his own group. The Niger attack appears to be the work of the Islamic State of the Sahel, a splinter group of extremists loyal to the Islamic State group who are based just across the border in Mali, according to interviews with U.S. officials and authorities here in the vast Sahel region bordering the Sahara Desert. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

drinking alcohol: A photo surfaced on social media appearing to be Lopez sprawled out on the casino floor, according to CTV. Two weeks after the incident, he told The Ellen Show he stopped drinking alcohol. The last time he was in town to perform at Caesars Windsor in February 2014, he was arrested. The comedian's career also encompasses TV and film. There are only a few single tickets remaining for the show. His stand-up comedy features race and ethnic relations, including Mexican-American culture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

festivals: The Indian Festivals Club of Nova Scotia was founded in 2013 by a group of South Asian immigrants who wanted to celebrate special events that would create bridges between cultures, according to The Chronicle Herald. It was a way of sharing the traditions from the land they left behind with their new neighbours in their adopted communities. This weekend you can fill your boots with a blaze of brightness at the Halifax Exhibition Centre as the Indian Festivals Club of Nova Scotia presents Diwali, the Festival of Lights. This generous impulse very common among associations of new Canadians indelibly adds to the cultural diversity in our province by opening a window into other cultures and giving us the ladder through which to step inside. Aptly, for millions of people around the world and the many new Canadians living among us Diwali celebrates new beginnings. With the demise of the Multicultural Festival last year after 32 years, maybe it is now time for individual cultural associations to make their stamp. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

five-ish stories: Five-ish stories above King Street one recent morning, Ai Weiwei wore the many miles and 30-plus cities of the trans-national promotion tour for Human Flow, his new documentary on the endlessly cascading global refugee crisis, like a yoke around his neck, according to Toronto Star. This is much more effort than making the film, he shrugs. And fair enough. But it's hard to get people to sit for two hours in a theatre. It's important to be informed. That's why I hope you guys can convince people to see the film. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

government officials: Rouleau said the potential investors are not looking to immigrate to the province, though he said he's urging government officials to make policy changes that he said would bring more wealthy immigrants here, according to CBC. New Brunswick is Canada's only province with a shrinking population Give cities bigger role in immigration, N.B. advocate tells MPs New 'social' lab focuses on retaining and attracting immigrants in N.B. I'm talking with them, Rouleau said. Pierre Rouleau is running a new company called Prexport Canada that he says will help Chinese investors identify New Brunswick businesses they can buy. Some leaders of the government, the Liberal government, are interested in knowing a little bit more about, 'What is it, Pierre, that you would have done ' or 'What is it that should done They are on a learning path. I don't want to change it all but to modify it in a way that will allow more investment, Rouleau said. The Provincial Nominee Program, which gives provinces the power to sponsor and fast-track immigration applications for federal approval, could be improved, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration proceedings: The justices also ruled that deciding whether a permanent resident is inadmissible to Canada depends on the maximum sentence on the books at the time they committed the offence and not at the time their immigration proceedings begin, according to Toronto Star. Read more About 1,400 immigrants a year ordered removed from Canada for residency non-compliance Article Continued Below Study shows Canadian immigration system's shift toward migrant workers Thousands of immigrants quietly giving up permanent resident status Thursday's decision means the federal public safety minister must now decide anew whether Thanh Tam Tran, who came to Canada from Vietnam as a teenager decades ago, ought to have his permanent status reviewed in light of his criminal past. react-empty 157 Tran was convicted in 2012 for his role in running a marijuana grow-op. In a unanimous decision, the court said conditional sentences do not count as jail time when it comes to deciding whether permanent residents convicted of a crime should lose their status in Canada. At the time of his conviction, the offence carried a maximum 14-year jail term, but he was given a 12-month conditional sentence to be served in the community. Tran took the government to court to stop the immigration proceedings. The government began a process to revoke his permanent residency under a section of immigration law that renders a person inadmissible to Canada if they're convicted of serious criminality, defined as an offence that carries a maximum 10-year penalty or a conviction that results in at least six months behind bars. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jail time: The justices also ruled that deciding whether a permanent resident is inadmissible to Canada depends on the maximum sentence on the books at the time they committed the offence and not at the time their immigration proceedings begin, according to CTV. Thursday's decision means the federal public safety minister must now decide anew whether Thanh Tam Tran, who came to Canada from Vietnam as a teenager decades ago, ought to have his permanent status reviewed in light of his criminal past. In an unanimous decision, the court said conditional sentences do not count as jail time when it comes to deciding whether permanent residents convicted of a crime should lose their status in Canada. Tran was convicted in 2012 for his role in running a marijuana grow-op. The government began a process to revoke his permanent residency under a section of immigration law that renders a person inadmissible to Canada if they're convicted of serious criminality, defined as an offence that carries a maximum 10-year penalty or a conviction that results in at least six months behind bars. At the time of his conviction, the offence carried a maximum 14-year jail term, but he was given a 12-month conditional sentence to be served in the community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

page questionnaire: Zarate, 54, is charged with murder in the shooting death of office worker Kate Steinle, 32, in July 2015, according to Metro News. Opening arguments in the case are scheduled for Monday. Six women and six men were selected Wednesday for the trial of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate after jury candidates answered a 14-page questionnaire that probed their views about Latinos, immigration and guns. Steinle was on a summer evening's stroll with her father on the pier crowded with pedestrians when she was shot. The bullet struck her heart and she died in her father's arms. She collapsed into her father's arm, whimpering help me, Dad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.