dahlia katz: See listing, according to NOW Magazine. Rating NNNNBroken Social Scene band leader Kevin Drew's debut as an actor and playwright is a hilarious, insightful and moving look inside the music industry and the anxious psyche of a mid-career rocker who begins to doubt his hit-making skills. Photo by Dahlia Katz A&R ANGELS by Kevin Drew Crow's Theatre . At Streetcar Crowsnest 345 Carlaw . Runs to December 9. 20- 50. crowstheatre.ca. Clearly drawing on his own experiences and creative anxieties, Drew conjures an intriguing fantastical conceit to explore these personal and professional worries where writing a hit song is quite literally a matter of life and death. No pressure, right The problem is that the duo seems to have lost their touch, and with suicides piling up, they fall under scrutiny from their heavenly overseer, a gregarious A&R artists and repertoire executive Maurice Dean Wint who, along with his underling Graham Cuthbertson attempt an intervention. In the story, Drew and Billy Talent lead singer Ben Kowalewicz play a duo of songwriter angels who magically appear in the final moments of suicide attempts with one chance to perform an original song that convinces the person to live. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

artists i: Recently, though, for the first time, my knees buckled on seeing a work of art, according to Vancouver Courier. We were in Florence, and visiting the Accademia is among the many Things To Do. I appreciate great art, but I've never really obsessed on it. We found an English-language tour with a tremendous tour guide and went on an adventure among original paintings by artists I'd only heard or read about.article continues below Trending Stories Welcome to Meat Loaf's Vancouver neighbourhood Vancouver developers fear 'alarming' land prices hinder profit Visiting the old Vancouver post office's ghost world Greater Vancouver home prices to drop 21 per cent by 2019 analysis The tour eventually took us into a hall filled with Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures the finished works, apparently, had been looted by Napoleon's soldiers. That's when my knees gave, just a little. At the far end of the corridor, in an atrium reserved solely for that work, lit by natural light, stood David. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

cent: For instance, loneliness rates are lower than expected, in part because the new survey questions differentiated between being alone and feeling lonely, according to Vancouver Courier. While 14 per cent of respondents said they feel lonely often or almost always, 34 per cent say they never feel lonely. Those challenges still exist today but the 2017 survey also offers some positive insights that speak to how people are forging connections between each other and their city.article continues below Trending Stories Greater Vancouver home prices to drop 21 per cent by 2019 analysisSFU students design social media plan to help isolated Marpole seniors Court ruling mixed blessing for polyamorists Central Park Mansion memoriesrelated Survey says Vancouver a lonely place to be There is more hope, says Kevin McCort, the foundation's president and CEO, of the findings outlined in Connect & Engage A Survey of Metro Vancouver 2017. Nine in 10 said they have someone they can depend on in times of need. Before drawing too many black-and-white conclusions, it's important to note that the survey questions in 2017 were not the same as they were in 2012. And 18 per cent of respondents are quite okay with their alone times, thank you very much. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

abdullah demir: Hollstein was treated at the local hospital and released, according to Toronto Star. At a news conference Tuesday, he credited the kebab shop owner, Abdullah Demir, as well as Demir's wife and son, with intervening to save his life. Andreas Hollstein, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union CDU was at a kebab shop in the west German town of Altena on Monday evening when a man asked if he was the mayor, shouted criticisms of his asylum policies and then lunged with a foot-long blade. Read more Opinion Angela Merkel suffers, and so does the world Article Continued Below EU court rejects Hungary, Slovakia appeal in refugee case Germany's immigrant population hits new high in 2016 I'm sure that if they hadn't reacted like that, I wouldn't be alive now, Hollstein said, his neck wrapped in bandages. react-empty 159 Demir, who is of Turkish family origin, told the German tabloid Bild that the mayor had just ordered a Turkish kebab sandwich when the perpetrator, who appeared to be drunk, confronted him. Hollstein said, he thinks he wouldn't have survived without the help of the restaurant owners. /react-text Martin Meissner/The Associated Press The state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, said security services believed the attacker, who was taken into custody, had a political motive. I myself am hungry and thirsty, the assailant said, according to Demir, while the mayor keeps bringing more refugees. react-text 166 Abdullah Demir and his son Ahmet Demir, right, stand in their kebab restaurant in Altena, Germany. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

circuit court: The little-noticed ruling by a three-judge appellate panel last week noted that it's the first decision of its kind in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, setting the legal standard for pretrial release of immigrants in criminal cases across a territory that includes Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, according to Metro News. The 10th Circuit noted that the Bail Reform Act requires judges to decide the pretrial detention of deportable immigrants on a case-by-case basis, considering various factors to determine the risk a defendant might flee. A federal appeals court has ruled that judges cannot deny bail to immigrants in criminal cases solely because they are living in the country unlawfully and could be deported before trial. While doing so, judges cannot consider the possibility of involuntary deportation, the panel said. We don't do blanket analysis of people and that is where we have gotten. At issue in this case was whether a defendant can be considered a flight risk solely because the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer, which is essentially a formal notice requesting the U.S. Marshals Service to contact ICE before a person is released. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

closed-doors visit: Trump lunched with GOP senators at the Capitol and declared it a love fest, as he had his previous closed-doors visit, according to The Chronicle Herald. But the day underscored the party's yearlong problem of unifying behind key legislation even a bill slashing corporate taxes and cutting personal taxes that's a paramount party goal. But its fate remained uncertain, and a planned White House summit aimed at averting a government shutdown was derailed when President Donald Trump savaged top Democrats and declared on Twitter, I don't see a deal! It's time to stop tweeting and start leading, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer retorted after he and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi rebuffed the budget meeting with Trump and top Republicans. Tuesday's developments also emphasized the leverage Democrats have as Congress faces a deadline a week from Friday for passing legislation to keep federal agencies open while leaders seek a longer-term budget deal. In a party-line 12-11 vote, the Senate Budget Committee managed to advance the tax measure to the full Senate as a pair of wavering Republicans Wisconsin's Ron Johnson and Tennessee's Bob Corker fell into line, at least for the moment. Republicans lack the votes to pass the short-term legislation without Democratic support. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

democracy party: Catholics had to apply to attend through their local churches to enter the park venue, and many dressed in matching outfits or with hats bearing the pope's image, according to CTV. Before Mass, Francis looped around the park in his open-sided popemobile, waving to the crowds that continued to pour in as the service began. Local authorities estimated some 150,000 people turned out at Yangon's Kyaikkasan Ground park for the Mass, but the crowd seemed far larger. Local government officials and senior members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party were on hand, as were members of Myanmar's mostly Christian Kachin minority, wearing traditional dress. His trip has been overshadowed, though, by Myanmar's military operations targeting the Rohingya Muslim minority in northern Rakhine state. Francis has said his aim in coming to Myanmar is to minister to its Catholic community, which numbers around 660,000 people, or just over 1 per cent of the population of about 52 million. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fiction: Many should be, according to Rabble. The artificial divide between works of fiction and nonfiction is well illustrated by the false narratives about Indigenous people found in Canadian school books. Published by Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade COAT . View as PDFby Richard Sanders History textbooks are not found in the fiction section of the library. These texts have been key to promoting patriotism and faith in the nation-building project called Canada.' Achieving this goal has usually been far more important than conveying disturbing truths about the unjust treatment of First Nations by Europeans.A good example of what anthropologist Bruce Trigger called the nationalistic history-writing of the post-Confederation era can be found in the disturbingly infantile, but still-quoted textbooks of Henry H. Miles. Describing Jacques Cartier as a noble specimen of a mariner, Miles began his 1872 history text with this sycophantic drivel Canada was discovered in the year 1534, by Jacques Cartier a man in whom were combined the qualities of prudence, industry, skill, perseverance, courage, and a deep sense of religion.1Miles' naive, hero-worshipping view of Cartier reflected his efforts to reconcile English and French Canadian histories.2 In contrast to this conciliatory approach, Miles exhibited the virulent, officially sanctioned racism towards First Nations shared by most French- and English-speaking Canadians. He penned such widely read tomes as The Child's History of Canada 1870 A School History of Canada 1870 and The History of Canada under French R gime, 1535 1763 1872 . These texts for elementary and middle schools venerated the supposed European heroes who discovered Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hamilton centre: The Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion HCCI and the Hamilton Immigration Partnership Council launched Hamilton ForAll today, according to CBC. The campaign involves handing out posters showing commonalities between longtime residents and new arrivals. Now they've launched a campaign aimed at making Hamilton more welcoming to newcomers. The goal is to make people realize we're all Hamiltonians, said Yohana Otite, HCCI program manager. In particular, Trump said he would ban immigration from some Muslim majority countries, and build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. The message is 'You don't just belong in Hamilton, you are Hamiltonian.' The idea came after the U.S. presidential election, when now-president Donald Trump focused on immigration in his campaign. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

interpreter monday: The Elko Daily Free Press reports that 47-year-old Jose de Jesus Segundo-Huizar entered his plea through an interpreter Monday in Elko District Court in the slaying of Carmen prosecutors agreed to drop five additional counts as part of a plea-bargain arrangement, according to Metro News. Authorities have said a motive for the slaying was unclear, but that Segundo-Huizar said he knew lived in Jerome, Idaho. A former Idaho ranch hand who is not a United States citizen faces up to life in state prison without parole and possible deportation after pleading no contest to killing and decapitating a northeast Nevada woman in 2016. He remains jailed in Elko pending lived with her boyfriend in the small town of Ryndon, Nevada. Her severed head was later found buried about a mile from her body northeast of Elko. Judge Al Kacin says she was struck with a hammer or similar object before she died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

james ivory: The wins, following the film's box-office success in limited release over the weekend, confirmed Call Me By Your Name co-starring Armie Hammer and scripted by James Ivory as one of the year's top independent film candidates for the Academy Awards, according to The Chronicle Herald. The last three best feature winners at the Gothams have gone on to win best picture at the Oscars Moonlight, ''Spotlight and Birdman. Luca Guadagnino's film about a 17-year-old's first love in northern Italy also scored best breakthrough actor for newcomer Timothee Chalamet. Above all, 'Call Me By Your Name' is about compassion and transmission of knowledge, said Guadagnino, accepting the award. It came in with a leading five nominations, including best feature, and it left with the largest haul. But Get Out was equally triumphant Monday night at the star-studded ceremony, held at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

kensington palace: At a news briefing on Tuesday, officials at Kensington Palace announced the venue and month of the nuptials, according to CBC. They did not release an exact date. George's Chapel in May. Prince Harry & Meghan Truly, Madly, Deeply on The Passionate Eye The Queen will attend the ceremony and the Royal Family will pay for it, a palace news release said. They include when Harry's father, Prince Charles, married Camilla, now the Duchess of Cornwall, in April 2005. Other royal weddings have been celebrated at the church. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

luca film: The wins, following the film's box-office success in limited release over the weekend, confirmed Call Me By Your Name - co-starring Armie Hammer and scripted by James Ivory - as one of the year's top independent film candidates for the Academy Awards, according to CTV. The last three best feature winners at the Gothams have gone on to win best picture at the Oscars Moonlight, Spotlight and Birdman. Luca Guadagnino's film about a 17-year-old's first love in northern Italy also scored best breakthrough actor for newcomer Timothee Chalamet. Above all, 'Call Me By Your Name' is about compassion and transmission of knowledge, said Guadagnino, accepting the award. It came in with a leading five nominations, including best feature, and it left with the largest haul. But Get Out was equally triumphant Monday night at the star-studded ceremony, held at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

oyez: Oyez, according to Toronto Star. The proclamation is done and dusted. Oyez. It's time to have a seat. Monday morning delivered a spot of brightness that spread cheer in defiance of the bleak times a blue-blooded prince is turning a biracial commoner into a princess. Fan ourselves back to cool and calm after going all aflutter with the news of a royal marriage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

reporters committee: Their treatment led to years of litigation over Trump's labour practices, and in 1998, despite frequent claims that he never settles lawsuits, Trump quietly reached an agreement to end a class-action suit over the Bonwit Teller demolition in which he was a defendant, according to Toronto Star. For almost 20 years, the terms of that settlement have remained a secret. The workers were paid as little as 4 an hour for their dangerous labour, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all. But last week, the settlement documents were unsealed by Loretta A. Preska, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York, in response to a 2016 motion filed by Time Inc. and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. In a 21-page finding, Preska wrote that the Trump Parties have failed to identify any interests that can overcome the common law and First Amendment presumptions of access to the four documents at issue. Preska found that the public's right to know of court proceedings in a class-action case was strengthened by the involvement of the now-president of the United States. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

noodles: It launched online Nov. 27 as part of the CBC's Keep Calm and Decolonize program curated by Jesse Wente, according to Rabble. Five Canadian filmmakers -- including the award-winning Indigenous documentarian Alanis Obamsawin and LGTBQ activist-director John Greyson -- are asked to respond to Buffy Sainte-Marie's call in the title as the country marks 150 years of Confederation. Marco's Oriental Noodles packs layers into its three minutes. All five films were posted on launch day. In Marco's Oriental Noodles, a person enjoying a bowl of ramen in the fictional town of Longbrook, Sask. Shia, who runs the PPF production company with his two brothers, is well-known for doing commercial work but has been crafting more artistic work in the last decade, evidenced by his acclaimed animation Flutter at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

puerto rico: This is my time to move on, the congressman said at a Chicago news conference, according to Metro News. I want to take my energy and abilities to somewhere where I know I want to place them. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, a Democratic party leader on efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration laws, announced Tuesday he won't seek re-election next year after 13 terms. Oscillating between emotional and spirited, Gutierrez refused to call it a retirement, saying he still plans on advocating for immigrant rights and for storm-damaged Puerto Rico, where his family is from. He appeared alongside Cook County Commissioner Jesus Chuy Garcia and endorsed him as his replacement. After his term ends in 2019, he said he'll travel nationwide with his family and wants to do it while he's healthy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rohingya muslims: But he lamented how Myanmar's people have suffered and continue to suffer from civil conflict and hostilities, and insisted that everyone who calls Myanmar home deserves to have their basic human rights and dignity guaranteed, according to The Chronicle Herald. Rohingya Muslims have faced state-supported discrimination in the predominantly Buddhist country for decades, deprived of citizenship and unable to access basic services such as adequate education and health care. Francis didn't cite the crackdown or even utter the contested word Rohingya in his speech to Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other authorities and diplomats in the capital. In August, the army began what it called clearance operations in Rakhine state following an attack on police posts by Rohingya insurgents. In his most anticipated speech of his weeklong trip to Myanmar and Bangladesh, Francis expressed support for Suu Kyi's efforts to bring about reconciliation among different groups after decades of military dictatorship. The violence, looting and burning of villages has forced more than 620,000 Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

state prosecutors: The security authorities believe that there was a political motive to this attack, said Armin Laschet, premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to CBC. The attacker was identified by authorities as 56-year-old German national Werner S., whose full name was withheld because of German privacy laws. A man who witnessed the attack in the town of Altena told German television that a man, probably under the influence of alcohol, wounded the mayor with a 30-centimetre-long knife while shouting criticism of his asylum policy. He was arrested and state prosecutors in Hagen are treating the incident as an attempted-murder case, media reported. Artists build replica of Berlin Holocaust memorial outside home of far-right German politician How the refugee crisis has affected German politics The 57-year old mayor, Andreas Hollstein, is a father of four and a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party. No one was immediately available at the prosecutors office. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

lobby caf: The menu's rooted in the history of the building a Victorian, British Empire diaspora sort of era, says executive chef John Sinopoli Table 17, Ascari Enoteca . We wanted to create a menu that was really only of Toronto, something you wouldn't necessarily see in other places, according to NOW Magazine. It's the kind of dishes that were served 80, 90, 100 years ago, but obviously, through the lens of modern taste and execution. Four months on from the Broadview's grand re-opening, the Civic's turn-of-the-century-chic dining room is finally open, adding a more stately culinary presence to the casual breakfasts and lunches served in the adjoining lobby caf and the modern, multicultural party eats upstairs. Expand Natalia Manzocco The hotel's revitalization, as a whole, was driven by the building's history in one particularly literal case, Design Agency, who spearheaded the transformation, actually replicated a 1900s-era wallpaper unearthed on the walls during the demolition. Sinopoli says the original Broadview Hotel didn't even have a kitchen. But for the team behind the restaurant Sinopoli, Erik Joyal and chef de cuisine Joey Agostino Richmond Station, Skin and Bones there was no such legacy to follow. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

michael ferguson: Lemay made the comments as she, other government officials and auditor general Michael Ferguson testified at the House of Commons public accounts committee, according to National Observer. Lemay's comments echoed those made on the weekend by Liberal MP Steve Mac Kinnon. There is no former system to go back to, she said, adding that her department has no choice but to attempt to stabilize Phoenix at least in the short term. The parliamentary secretary to Public Services and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough said there is currently no alternative system that can quickly replace Phoenix. On Tuesday, he told the committee the government needs to work in two phases to resolve the pay system fiasco. Ferguson last week issued a blistering report on Phoenix, warning that stabilizing it will take years and cost more than 540 million. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pierre trudeau: Trudeau, a gregarious people-person, has remarked before on the difference between his approach to politics and that of his aloof, cerebral father, according to National Observer. And he offered that as an explanation for their different approaches to attempting to right historic wrongs. Certainly, a number of people have highlighted, and I have this reflection as well, that my father might have had a different perspective on it than I do, Trudeau acknowledged during a social policy conference Monday at the University of Toronto. He came at it as an academic, as a constitutionalist. Back in 1984, Pierre Trudeau rebuffed pressure to apologize and compensate Japanese Canadians who were interned and stripped of their property during the Second World War. I come at it as a teacher, as someone who's worked a lot in communities, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

spies: It was assumed that they could be easily blackmailed into leaking state secrets to foreign spies, if those spies found out about their sexual orientation, according to National Observer. It was a dark period of threats, midnight raids, invasion of privacy and hatred towards the LGBTQ2 community that would eventually become known as the gay purge. Since the start of the Cold War, he explained, federal employers had been investigating, sanctioning and sometimes firing staff that were gay or suspected of being gay. It lasted for decades. It was almost as if it served as a lesson to anybody 'If you want to work in the federal government, don't even think about being out,' because the people who were identified correctly or incorrectly certainly suffered. I did everything I could to remain in that closet and not to come out, because believe me, it was a career-ending move, Rousseau, now the executive vice-president of the Canadian Labour Congress, told National Observer. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bank transaction: First, there was the trading company that required he pay high-priced rent of 1,500 for a small apartment belonging to the firm's owner, largely using up his 2,000 salary, he says, drawing arrows back and forth on the page, according to Metro News. He shows each bank transaction for the payments on his smart phone. He is explaining life as an employee at two businesses set up under P.E.I.'s controversial business immigration system. Then, there was the more recent job at a service firm, where the owner asked him to return about 500 monthly of his salary, he added, drawing a circle around the two hours a day, to emphasize what he'd be returning in cash. I felt angry about that. When I refused, they just fired me, he said during an interview. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian immigration: The ownership stream of the provincial nominee program has been criticized by immigration lawyers as a side door to entering the country, with over half of last year's participants losing their 150,000 deposit to the province after they didn't open a business, according to CBC. Three foreign students have alleged to The Canadian Press that some participants in the program are requesting their employees give back a portion of wages in cash, and they are calling for better monitoring. Foreign students allege abuse of P.E.I. PNP business immigrationP.E.I.'s PNP program leading to double standard for Canadian immigration, says lawyerP.E.I. withholds 18M in PNP deposits from immigrant investors James Aylward, the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, says it's important to stop the province from becoming financially addicted to the deposits it receives from immigrants who don't stay on Prince Edward Island or open a business. Peter Bevan-Baker, the leader of the Green Party, is also calling for a review, saying the province's auditor general should become involved. MORE P.E.I. NEWS Best Christmas movies to watch, chosen by 5 P.E.I. filmmakers MORE P.E.I. NEWS Winning lotto ticket for 1M prize sold in Summerside The province has said it's setting up a tip line to report abuses, and says there are success stories from the nominee program, along with some business immigrants who will stay and help boost the province's population. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

catholic church: While the international community has condemned Myanmar's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims as ethnic cleansing, the Catholic church has resisted the term and defended Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the only hope for democracy, according to The Chronicle Herald. At the crowded Kutupalong refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, Mohammad Rafiq said he was very happy when he heard about the visit by Francis. Francis will be treading a difficult diplomatic line on his visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar, where he is due to arrive Monday afternoon. The 20-year-old fled Myanmar last month. We are hoping that with his talks and his efforts, we will get all of that back. Our rights, our minority community and our citizenship have been snatched by the Myanmar government, Rafiq said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.