canadian: However, Roy would have likely become a Canadian citizen a long time ago if the Immigration Department had not lost his citizenship application file, according to Toronto Star. Canadian diplomatic missions offer emergency assistance to citizens if they run into such problems as being abducted or arrested and detained. The family of 53-year-old Aniruddha Kumar Roy said so far they have received little assistance from Canadian authorities because he is a permanent resident, not a citizen. The same level of help is not afforded to permanent residents who hold citizenship of a different country. It is really heartbreaking that the Canadian government can't intervene or were not able to get any update from the Bangladesh government, said Roy's younger brother Achintya in an interview. In Roy's case, he is a Bangladeshi citizen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

filippo grandi: That doesn't appear to be in the cards, however, as the federal government announced this week the number it will take via the UN will remain the same, although it will increase the number of privately sponsored refugees, according to CTV. It expects to take in 43,000 refugees next year -- 3,000 more than this year -- but the number of government-assisted refugees will remain stagnant at 7,500. Filippo Grandi said Friday he believes Canada can maintain its champion role by ramping up resettlement programs to help share the burden with countries facing an influx of refugees needing a new home. Grandi said he will call on the federal government to go further when he meets with officials Monday. Positive, but also that Canada can do more and must to keep that position. It's a positive message because Canada is an important, leading country in refugee matters from every perspective, he said in Montreal where he attended several events and met a resettled refugee who works at a local hospital. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration detainees: The woman is the 10th person to die in immigration detention in the last five years and at least the sixteenth since 2000, according to Metro News. Immigration detainees are not criminally charged, but are detained on an indefinite basis, either because they have been deemed a danger to the public, are unlikely to show up for their deportation or because their identity is in doubt. The agency, which has the power to arrest and jail non-citizens, would not disclose the woman's identity, country of origin or her cause of death, as per its usual protocol. The average length of detention last year was 19.5 days, but there is no limit to how long someone can stay in detention and some cases drag on for months or years. An immigration detainee's detention is reviewed every 30 days by the quasi-judicial Immigration and Refugee Board, but where the person is detained is at the sole discretion of CBSA officers and is not subject to any oversight. In Ontario, immigration detainees are held either at the Immigration Holding Centre, a minimum-security facility in Etobicoke exclusive to immigration detainees, or in maximum-security provincial jails, where they are treated as sentenced criminals and those awaiting trial are. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iraqi side: Still, rather late off the mark, taking credit for the Tuesday terrorist attack in New York City, not till overnight Thursday posting a boastful claim on an Arabic language newspaper for the truck-on-pedestrians rampage that killed eight and injured a dozen, according to Toronto Star. Perhaps they needed that time to check their Rolodex for known acolytes, although Daesh has never needed actual confirmation to stake ownership of violence in the past. Squeezed on both the Syrian and Iraqi side by coalition forces, Daesh also known as ISIS lost more of its shrinking patch of territory along the border this week. A soldier of the Islamic state the bulletin bragged about Sayfullo Saipov, regurgitating details that appear culled from media reports, while simultaneously repeating its claim for last month's slaughter in Las Vegas. And propaganda is pretty much all Daesh has left, while transforming from territory-holding de facto emirate to, it hopes, transnational organization picking up the pieces. Any misfit-wacko-lone wolf will do for propaganda purposes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

monarchist heritage: The Ontario Legislature, with its proudly monarchist heritage, was only too happy to provide a soft landing, according to Toronto Star. Being the polite colonials we were here in Central Canada, such rebellious sentiments toward Mother England were unimaginable not so long ago; surely he'd be safe here in Queen's Park of all places forevermore. It had found a more hospitable home than the one for which it had been made India, its original owner, had declared independence from British colonial rule more than 20 years before and was still eagerly in the process of dumping leftover monuments. But Canada 150, a fractious sesquicentennial if ever there was one, has done well to disrupt even the best-laid plans. Edward himself may remain amid the trees of Queen's Park, the only real threat to his position being pigeon droppings, but on the river his startlingly convincing doppelganger plays out as mere flotsam, which let's be real here seems no more than an honest appraisal of the current moment. Old Edward can be seen drifting south down the Don River every Sunday this month, a stubborn monument to a time seeming less and less relevant by the day. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

montr al: I totally believed my statement, and it worked out perfectly fine for me, according to Rabble. I was accepted for a Master's program in Finance at the d' cole des Hautes tudes Commerciales de Montr al now HEC Montr al . While all of my professors spoke and lectured in French, most of our readings were done in English. At that time, I was applying for graduate business school, and I remember I kept including this line in my applications Quebec gives me the opportunity to have an excellent French education in a North American context. I was one of the very few racialized students in the program, let alone a Muslim woman with a headscarf. At that time, there was not a social debate about la la cit very little discussion about religious symbols, and nothing at all about the Charter of Values nor the niqab. There was always a malaise the first time I would show up in class among other students with my headscarf, but that would somehow dissipate as soon as I spoke French. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people: More than 1,000 attendees were at the show, held across the street from the Adelanto Detention Center, the largest in the state, according to Metro News. You think a detention centre is a place where people are being fed and taken care of, but these people are only getting one meal a day, which is often like a sandwich, Miguel, who was raised in Los Angeles, said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. That's why he decided to headline a free Schools NotPrisons concert in California to bring more awareness to the issue last month. They sleep on the floor. The treatment is crazy, he added. The children that are being held there are sleeping under one blanket. ... The food they are serving isn't edible because it's been spoiled or there are maggots in the food. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

population plan: They also help find business opportunities for them, particularly in rural parts of the province, according to CBC. Province searching for 'rural immigration agents'Sonny Gallant asks Islanders to champion rural immigration strategy Here are the province's 12 immigration agents that will help steer government's population plan for Prince Edward Island 10347345 Canada Inc. as Abegweit Immigration Aim 4 Inc. The agents are businesses that help find potential newcomers who want to move to the Island. Bether Capital PEI Inc. Confederation Capital PEI Ltd Cox & PalmerKC Immigration Services Inc. Can-nection Immigrant Business Investments Ltd. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rohingya villages: CTV News' Daniele Hamamdjian has been touring with the newly-appointed envoy and told CTV News Channel that he spent much of the day in meetings where he was given information about the challenges facing Bangladesh as it tries to cope with the swelling refugee population, according to CTV. Since violence erupted in Rohingya villages in Myanmar's Rakhine state in late August, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought safety in Bangladesh. Bob Rae, the former Ontario premier and interim leader of the federal Liberal party, met with officials in the city of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Friday to learn more about the refugee crisis. Myanmar's security forces conducted brutal raids on Rohingya villages in what they call clearance operations in retaliation for what they describe as attacks by Muslim insurgents. Rae will be visiting Bangladesh and Myanmar with a small team, which includes Canada's High Commissioner to Bangladesh Benoit Prefontaine, to gain a better understanding of both sides of the conflict. The United Nations has labelled the state-led violence as ethnic cleansing. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

soad ali: It's so nice, they are all so kind to us, said Ali, according to CTV. She is from Cairo, and has been living at Le Pont for the past month with her two young daughters, as have several other families. The church on Lacordaire St. in the east end has been housing asylum seekers such as Soad Ali and her family for several weeks. They are waiting for refugee claims to be processed, and as they wait the church's staff, volunteers, and the claimants mingle. We are all together, eat together, said Ali. We cook to each other, no one alone. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

amy lam: For Amy Lam and Jon McCurley of artist duo Life of a Craphead, the matter-of-factly titled performance art piece King Edward VII Equestrian Statue Floating Down The Don is meant to inspire questions, according to NOW Magazine. The project took on greater resonance when Charlottesville happened, says Lam, referring to the Unite The Right rally in Virginia in August that left 19 injured and one dead. Depending on where you stand on the debate over whether cities should retain or remove contentious public monuments, the sight of a King Edward VII statue floating down the Don River might strike you as either celebratory or controversial. The violence erupted over the removal of a statue of Confederate soldier Robert E. Lee. There will be staff around the trail providing context, but I think even people who don't have an idea of the stories and history can discover it for themselves. Because of those events, a lot of questions we're getting surround the conversation over the removal of statues, adds Lam, noting that the performance isn't just about the public monuments debate but highlights the hidden history of the Don. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jesse dougherty: Amazon spokesperson Allison Reader says plans for the second office have been in the works for quite some time and are independent of the city's bid, according to Vancouver Courier. Amazon goes where the tech talent goes. Whether that augurs well for Vancouver's bid to host Amazon's HQ2 is a matter of intense speculation.article continues below Trending Storiesrelated Sales clerks, warehouse packers among jobs headed for scrap heap I have absolutely no idea about HQ2 but I'm as excited as everyone to find out, Jesse Dougherty, a general manager of Amazon's web services and site manager of Amazon's current Vancouver headquarters, said to the press following Friday morning's announcement. Vancouver is one of those places, she said, citing fabulous education resources and tech workers. What drives us is the availability of awesome talent, said Dougherty, a UBC grad who grew up on the Sunshine Coast and, after moving away for his career, has fulfilled his dream of being able to work in the tech industry close to home. It's about wanting to go where the talent is rather than make the tech talent come to us. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

appeal thursday: That's despite a massive push by the agency to find more resettlement spaces for the estimated 1.2 million people it believes will need new homes next year at a time when finding those spots is becoming harder and harder, according to The Chronicle Herald. The UNHCR's Filippo Grandi made a passionate appeal Thursday to the UN Security Council a body on which Canada is hoping to gain a seat in four year's time for more action and advocacy in the face of multiplying crises around the world displacing tens of millions of people. But it might be half-hearted applause while the federal government is set to increase the number of privately sponsored refugees, the number they'll take via the UN remains the same. Many refugee-hosting states, particularly those neighbouring conflict zones, keep their borders open and generously host thousands sometimes millions of refugees, Grandi said. The United States, which for years has been the largest recipient of UN-referred refugees, appears poised to more than halve its intake in 2018, going from a cap of 110,000 planned admissions in 2017 to just 45,000 in 2018. But certain states often those least impacted by refugee flows, and often wealthy ones have closed borders, restricting access to asylum and deterring entry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bangladesh: Much of the area used to be forested but the trees have been cut to make way for the shelters, so the occasional rampaging wild elephant tramples through, according to Toronto Star. That's how Michael Dunford describes what's become of Bangladesh's lush, southeastern countryside since late August when 600,000 traumatized Rohingya Muslims fled Burma in what's been described by many including Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland as ethnic cleansing. More than two-thirds are women and children, many of whom were victims of sexual violence or some continuing form of exploitation. They've swelled the ranks of fleeing Rohingya in Bangladesh to 900,000. The former Ontario premier and ex-interim Liberal leader arrived Wednesday in the South Asian region as Burma's fleeing Muslim population continues to seek refuge in Bangladesh, already one of the world's poorest countries. Read more What can Bob Rae do to help solve Burma's Rohingya crisis Walkom Article Continued Below Trudeau names former Ontario premier Bob Rae as special envoy to Burma That's just some of the scene that awaits Bob Rae, Canada's newly appointed special envoy to the Rohingya refugee crisis. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian provinces: That means 10,000 more newcomers will be allowed into the country in 2018 compared with this year, according to CBC. The numbers will rise to 330,000 in 2019 and 340,000 in 2020, the government has said. Canada has set a goal to accept nearly 1 million immigrants over the next three years, with 60 per cent of those newcomers coming in as economics migrants, in order to offset a shrinking workforce due to an aging population. We're not in a panic about this because we know it's gradual, Lee Yuen, who is the CEO of the Centre for Newcomers, told the Calgary Eyeopener on Thursday. Government of Canada Alberta brings in the third most immigrants of all Canadian provinces, she said, and is expected to rise to second place in the coming years. And we're getting the information ahead of time, unlike with the Syrian influx coming in where we had very little time to prepare and we really needed to figure out what we were going to do in a new way. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

chinese immigrants: Council also voted to adopt other recommendations of a report that detailed the historic wrongs, according to Metro News. Those recommendations include applying for UNESCO World Heritage status for Chinatown and making the report accessible to the general public and to public school students. The apology is planned for April 2018 and will be delivered in Toishanese, a dialect spoken by the early Chinese immigrants to Vancouver, which has mostly fallen out of use but will be used as an homage to their struggles. Speakers told council of the discrimination their parents and grandparents faced. Jennifer Gauthier/For Metro Pender Street in Vancouver's Chinatown. They also expressed concern about the future of Chinatown, an area that has seen soaring land values, the loss of many stores that sold traditional Chinese food and other products, and fewer shoppers as more recent immigrants from China opt to shop elsewhere. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

crisis group: The question of how the democratic institutions and relatively open society of this leading East African nation will respond is a bellwether for the continent, where democracy evolves in some places and authoritarianism takes root in others, according to Toronto Star. This is not just about Kenya, said Murithi Mutiga, a Nairobi-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. The girls scrambled to safety in a scene that captured the anguish of a flawed democracy facing protracted pressures unless Kenya's rival camps can somehow accommodate. It's about the idea of moving toward greater and greater political competition and freedom and against those that say, Let's privilege economic development and forget political liberalism for now.' Read more Kenya Supreme Court nixed election result after commission refused to allow investigation, judges say Kenya election commissioner resigns, says new vote cannot be fair Article Continued Below President Uhuru Kenyatta wins re-run election in Kenya Kenya is in a lull after a bruising election cycle in which an Aug. 8 vote was nullified by the Supreme Court because of flaws, and an Oct. 26 repeat vote was boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga. While most of the country of 45 million was calm, some areas were hit by ethnic tensions, violent protests, sporadic arson and looting and deadly police gunfire during clashes. President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner both times. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration detainees: The woman is the 10th person to die in immigration detention in the last five years and at least the sixteenth since 2000, according to Toronto Star. Immigration detainees are not criminally charged, but are detained on an indefinite basis, either because they have been deemed a danger to the public, are unlikely to show up for their deportation or because their identity is in doubt. The agency, which has the power to arrest and jail non-citizens, would not disclose the woman's identity, country of origin or her cause of death, as per its usual protocol. The average length of detention last year was 19.5 days, but there is no limit to how long someone can stay in detention and some cases drag on for months or years. An immigration detainee's detention is reviewed every 30 days by the quasi-judicial Immigration and Refugee Board, but where the person is detained is at the sole discretion of CBSA officers and is not subject to any oversight. Article Continued Below In Ontario, immigration detainees are held either at the Immigration Holding Centre, a minimum-security facility in Etobicoke exclusive to immigration detainees, or in maximum-security provincial jails, where they are treated as sentenced criminals and those awaiting trial are. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration lawyer: School board candidates Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel are featured on the campaign mailers with deport stamps on their pictures, according to Metro News. The ads are in violation of state election law, because they do not identify who paid for them. Edison Township residents received the anonymous mailers Wednesday, NJ101.5FM reported . The mailers evoke the campaign slogan of President Donald Trump while claiming Chinese and Indian residents are taking over the town. Patel, a Democratic committeewoman and immigration lawyer, said she's disgusted by the pamphlets. To see the word 'deport' on my picture ... really it's just outrageous. I was born and raised in New Jersey, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

israeli lobby: The CJN story examines a documentary entitled Quebec4Palestine, where Khadir offers his thoughts about his experiences as an MNA in dealing with the issue of Israel-Palestine, according to Rabble. The CJN quotes him as stating in the film that The dynamics of politics is completely controlled when it comes to the Palestinian issue...by the Israeli lobby and that ...there was a direct link to some lobby that was authorizing or not authorizing Quebec politicians' support of this. The organizations' positions were recently given a platform in the Canadian Jewish News CJN . Independent Jewish Voices Canada IJV has looked into the CJN story and the statements made there by B'nai Brith and CIJA. What follows is our response. The CJN then quotes Khadir as saying Unfortunately, as we know, money talks a lot in politics... In that case, the pro-Israeli -- the pro-extremist politics of Israel -- lobby is very strong. CIJA accused Khadir of believing that Jews control the worldwide media and economy, as well as global politics. B'nai Brith accused Khadir of promoting antisemitic tropes, stating that Khadir believes Jews or Zionists control the political system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

obama administration: Those immigrants, known by supporters as Dreamers, are in limbo after Trump announced he was ending temporary deportation protections granted by the Obama administration and giving Congress until March to come up with a fix, according to Metro News. Democrats have indicated they want to use a year-end spending bill to force action on Dreamers. Instead, they said, a solution would likely wait until next year for some 800,000 immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children. Their votes will likely be needed to pass spending legislation to keep the government running, so the Trump-GOP stance may not end up prevailing. Tom Cotton of Arkansas after exiting the meeting with Trump. No immigration bill on the omnibus or any other must-pass piece of legislation in 2017, said GOP Sen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

p.e.i .,: P.E.I. deficit for 2016-17 closes at 1.3MMore immigrants coming to Atlantic Canada, but retention rates low report Those 177 immigrants represent roughly two-thirds of program participants who were eligible to have their deposits refunded in 2016-17, according to CBC. We're trying to grow our population ... It's working in ways. Among the 177 immigrants in the business-impact category of the PNP, who had their deposit money withheld, the province says the vast majority did not open a business on P.E.I., even though that was a key component of their agreement with the province. Can it be improved Of course it can be improved. - Heath Mac Donald, Minister of Economic Development and Tourism However, Economic Development and Tourism Minister Heath Mac Donald said even though the nominees didn't open businesses, most were still living on P.E.I. one year after arrival. So we're seeing, even though they're coming here with the intention to set up a business, they're actually staying. In that regard, he said the program is working. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

question period: She was talking about Liberal MP Adam Vaughan Spadina -- Fort York, Ont. whom she accused of confronting her on the bus Wednesday over something she had said during question period earlier that day, according to CTV. The Conservative MP had shouted something out of turn during an exchange on Canada joining the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a moment of heckling that prompted the Speaker to remind her she should not be yelling when she does not have the floor. He stopped and hovered over me, began to wave his hand in my face, chastise me and intimidated me, Wong, the MP for Richmond Centre, B.C., said Thursday in the House of Commons as she rose on a point of order. So, that was the topic of conversation, but Wong, 69, said in an interview that Vaughan behaved in such a way that when she got off the bus, she said to everyone around her This is a form of elder abuse! She said she is always up for a debate, but believed this was something else. She accused Vaughan of sexism and ageism. I am not afraid of doing that, but intimidating me in that bus, I don't think this is the proper way of behaviour as a member of Parliament, said Wong. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

question period: She was talking about Liberal MP Adam Vaughan Spadina Fort York, Ont. whom she accused of confronting her on the bus Wednesday over something she had said during question period earlier that day, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Conservative MP had shouted something out of turn during an exchange on Canada joining the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, a moment of heckling that prompted the Speaker to remind her she should not be yelling when she does not have the floor. He stopped and hovered over me, began to wave his hand in my face, chastise me and intimidated me, Wong, the MP for Richmond Centre, B.C., said Thursday in the House of Commons as she rose on a point of order. So, that was the topic of conversation, but Wong, 69, said in an interview that Vaughan behaved in such a way that when she got off the bus, she said to everyone around her This is a form of elder abuse! She said she is always up for a debate, but believed this was something else. She accused Vaughan of sexism and ageism. I am not afraid of doing that, but intimidating me in that bus, I don't think this is the proper way of behaviour as a member of Parliament, said Wong. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

refugee advocates: That's despite the refugee agency's repeated call for nations to take in more of the 1.2 million people it has identified as being in need of resettlement next year, according to CTV. Canada's plan was met with disappointment by refugee advocates who accuse the Liberals of seeking to privatize the country's commitments to refugees. But the plan released this week by the federal government proposes no increase in the number of refugees Canada will accept through the UN in 2018. The number of privately sponsored refugees is set to increase, but advocacy groups also point out there is a massive backlog of cases in that program. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen has pledged to clear that over the next two years, saying the government likes the private program because it both saves them money and has better integration outcomes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

suu kyi: Suu Kyi arrived in the state capital, Sittwe, in the morning and headed to restive northern Rakhine where many Rohingya villages were located, according to CTV. During a 2015 election campaign, she visited southern Rakhine, where there hasn't been much conflict. Her visit to Rakhine state comes as Suu Kyi is under intense international scrutiny for her response to the exodus, which the U.N. has called ethnic cleansing, and as her government said it is working on a plan to repatriate those who fled to Bangladesh. The state counsellor just arrived but she is heading to Maungdaw, northern Rakhine, with the state officials, said Tin Maung Swe, a deputy director of the Rakhine government, using Suu Kyi's official title. More than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when security forces in Buddhist-majority Myanmar began what they called clearance operations in response to deadly attacks on police outposts by insurgents. Government spokesman Zaw Htay would not release Suu Kyi's plans for the trip until later because of security concerns. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.