wall: Wall reminisced about giving up his private identity for a public one when he first ran for office in 1999, according to National Observer. He said he never lost a feeling of awe when he walked through the front doors of the legislature to represent his community. Wall is retiring next month after holding the Swift Current seat for the Saskatchewan Party for almost 20 years. I have been humbled and blessed with the honour of my working life, Wall told his colleagues and many guests sitting in the gallery. I'm so grateful to my colleagues and my family. I've gotten too much credit for the good things and not enough blame for the bad things. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

pamela geller: Pamela Geller, co-founder of Stop the Islamization of America SIOA is scheduled to appear at a speaking engagement organized by the Jewish Defence League JDL at Canada Christian College on December 18, according to NOW Magazine. The JDL, which has come under increasing scrutiny from its own supporters in the Jewish community over its alignment with neo-Nazi and anti-immigrant groups at anti-Muslim rallies in Toronto and around the GTA in recent months, is promising a barnburner. An American blogger described as the world's top Islamophobe, has been invited to speak in Toronto. A promotion for the event on the group's website says the evening will include excerpts from the documentary Can't We Talk About This The Islamic Jihad Against Free Speech, which features interviews with far right Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has also written the forward to Geller's new book, and many other heroes of freedom. An exclusive meet Pamela dinner is also being organized the day before the Canada Christian College event. Geller's speech will be followed by a one-on-one interview with Rebel Commander Ezra Levant of Rebel Media, the only truthful media outlet daring to talk about radical Jihad and radical Islam, according to the JDL promo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

idea: But a handful of new organizations are trying to channel that anger into reinvigorating the country's democracy by luring fresh faces into a political establishment widely seen as closed off and unrepresentative, according to CTV. The idea was simple how to turn indignation into political action, said Jose Frederico Lyra Netto, a co-founder of Acredito, one of the new non-partisan movements. After one of the deepest recessions in its modern history, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America and more than a year under what may be the most unpopular president in the world, Brazilians are desperate for something different - so desperate that some are calling for the return of a military dictatorship. Acredito and another group called Agora! hope to each field about 30 candidates in next year's elections who have never held office before. Their efforts focus on state and federal legislatures. They're asking people across the country to help create their platforms by suggesting solutions to Brazil's thorniest issues inequality, crime, failing schools and an aging population with a faltering social security system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

effervescent excitement: So after years of toiling and hoping and working disposable jobs, Tran is now a movie star, the kind of person who holds hands with Laura Dern at media events and considers Gwendoline Christie a good friend, according to The Chronicle Herald. I know, right Let me pinch myself real quick, Tran said, her effervescent excitement bright and obvious. The 28-year-old was about to give up on her dreams of becoming an actress when she landed a breakthrough role in The Last Jedi. I am just trying to stay present and really trying to experience every moment of this. Tran was plucked from obscurity to play Rose Tico, a Resistance mechanic in The Last Jedi. It still feels very impossible and very much like it's all a big dream or something. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

executive commission: But Hungary and Poland have taken none at all, while the Czech Republic has accepted 12, according to Metro News. The EU's executive Commission sought reasons why but was given no satisfactory explanations. Under the plan, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic were supposed to take in a combined 10,000 people. The Commission said Thursday that the three remain in breach of their legal obligations and have given no indication that they will contribute to the implementation of the relocation decision. The refugee relocation plan was adopted in a legally-binding vote by a majority of EU member states, but not the three refusing to take part. Their cases are being referred to Europe's top tribunal, the Court of Justice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

journalism theory: But to a lot of us in community and alternative media, it's what we've always done, according to Rabble. According to traditional journalism theory, it's the job of a journalist to tell people what's going on. Solutions-focused media is a new concept to many mainstream journalists. But once they get that information, what happens afterwards isn't a journalist's job anymore. Solutions-focused media turns that on its head. Put out the info and let whatever is going to happen, happen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

jubilee auditorium: Looking for a gift for the football fan in your life The locker room sale at Commonwealth Stadium Saturday may be the ticket, according to CBC. Doors open at 10 a.m. for season seat holders and from noon until 2 p.m. for the general public. The lights on Candy Cane Lane flicker to life Friday along 148th Street between 92nd and 100th Avenues in support of the Edmonton Food Bank. The Muttart Conservatory's feature pyramid is showcasing holiday events. Alberta Ballet's version of The Nutcracker is on until Sunday. Muttart Conservatory A Christmas classic hits the stage at the Jubilee Auditorium. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

legislature: Wall is retiring next month after holding the Swift Current seat for the Saskatchewan Party for almost 20 years, according to CTV. He told the legislature he never lost a feeling of awe when he walked through the front doors of the legislature to represent his community. Wall gave his final speech to the house after an hour of memories and praise shared by colleagues and opponents alike. I have been humbled and blessed with the honour of my working life, Wall told his colleagues and many guests sitting in the legislature gallery. Wall, saying he believed renewal would be good for the Saskatchewan Party and the province, announced in August that he was retiring. He said the names on the doors of ministry offices change, but the institution of democracy will remain. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

libyan camps: But Hungary and Poland have taken none at all, while the Czech Republic has accepted 12, according to Toronto Star. The EU's executive Commission sought reasons why but was given no satisfactory explanations. Under the plan, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic were supposed to take in a combined 10,000 people. Read more Migrants living in inhuman' Libyan camps, say African and EU leaders Article Continued Below Analysis How Poland became a breeding ground for Europe's far rightEU court rejects Hungary, Slovakia appeal in refugee case The Commission said Thursday that the three remain in breach of their legal obligations and have given no indication that they will contribute to the implementation of the relocation decision. react-empty 164 Their cases are being referred to Europe's top tribunal, the Court of Justice. The plan never worked well. The refugee relocation plan was adopted in a legally-binding vote by a majority of EU member states, but not the three refusing to take part. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

people abdi: They fall through the cracks of the various systems that do not work in the interests of Black, racialized and poor people, according to Toronto Star. Abdi arrived in Nova Scotia in mid 2000 with his sister, and two aunts. What about the children who never even got a chance Abdoul Abdi's situation is one that dozens of people find themselves in. The family was granted permanent residency under a sponsored refugee program. By the age of nine, he had become a permanent ward of the state. Within a year of arriving, he and he sister were apprehended by children's services. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

nova scotia: The Hadhads arrived in Nova Scotia as refugees from Syria and formed Peace by Chocolate in a small barn in Antigonish in August 2016, according to The Chronicle Herald. Success was immediate and accelerated when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the chocolate in a speech he gave to the United Nations in the fall of that year. Next year, they intend to expand nationally and into the U.S. All of this comes less than 18 months after the Syrian chocolatiers began operating in Canada. Trudeau's praise precipitated so many orders the company was forced to shut down its website for a while. Ingredients include local fresh organic honey and pure juices. The box of 15 chocolates now sold by Sobey's features white, milk and dark chocolate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wife: Holding their hands, he rushed them towards the back door of their house in Rakhine, Burma, according to Toronto Star. But the soldiers were already there. He quickly gathered his two daughters, his toddler son, and his wife who was 6 months pregnant. They grabbed his two daughters and took them into the surrounding forest. They ran for two days and one night. Maqsood couldn't help them, he just ran with his wife and son, away from the screams of his two young girls. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

wren dosant: It also aims to prep some of these students for a career in the force, according to CBC. Camp Brombal kicking off its 15th year I learned that it's not an easy job, said E.J. Lajeunesse grade 12 student Emily Kader. Windsor police celebrated them for completing an ethnic and cultural exchange program, that shows the teens what police officers do every day. There's a lot of gear you have to wear during the physical test and that was really hard. Wren Dosant said he hopes students are able to figure out if policing is for them or not, through the program. Sgt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

year range: In return, millions of dollars in commissions are being paid to middlemen often Canadians. '1111915587851', 'playlist Selector' 'container Selector' ' container23473128', 'ciid' 'caffeine14438809' ; Is Canadian citizenship for sale 3 47 Estimates by top industry insiders of just how much the citizenship by investment business is worth each year range from 1 billion to 10 billion, according to CBC. One of the biggest attractions for potential investors is the visa-free access the passports offer to more than 100 countries, including the European Union. Industry insiders paint a picture of a multi-million dollar industry that runs in large part through Canada, connecting wealthy individuals from areas like China, Russia and the Middle East to citizenship by investment programs around the world. Without that access, citizens of some countries like China or Russia have to go through the paperwork of applying for separate visas for each country they want to visit. Antigua and Barbuda's program was designed by Don Myatt, a former Canadian federal public servant who worked with Henley and Partners, which designs and markets citizenship by investment programs. Canadians aren't only involved in promoting the programs they're also designing and running some of them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

factory girl: Opens Friday December 8 . See listing, according to NOW Magazine. Rating NNNNAki Kaurism ki's been telling the same stories for decades now. Subtitled. His films are about unlikely connections that make the world a little warmer for the people in it. His latest, The Other Side Of Hope, reworks the premise of his 2011 drama, Le Havre, with an older European once again helping a displaced person from the Middle East find his way in a new country, but just six years later the state of the world imbues that plot with considerably more urgency. From Lights In The Dusk to The Man Without A Past, and The Match Factory Girl to Drifting Clouds, they're all about compassion and an abiding faith that people will heed their better angels. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

right rally: There's no easy way out, says Mayor Michael Signer, according to NOW Magazine. The recovery is going to continue for years. Months after Charlottesville, Virginia, became the scene of a deadly Unite The Right rally, residents are still dealing with the trauma. It's not just the physical violence that people were subjected to. Last week, more than 700 people in the community attended a workshop on healing, says Signer, who was in Toronto on November 29 to deliver a lecture at Ryerson University entitled Democracy In The Age Of Trump Trials, Tribulations And Resilience, as part of the student-led International Issues Discussion series on contemporary issues. It's also the visual violence, the actual terror that occurred. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

anti-corruption crusader: Saakashvili said he will not turn himself in, though prosecutors were welcome to see him at the camp outside the Supreme Rada where about 100 supporters gathered, according to Toronto Star. I'm ready to host their investigators here at the camp, he said. Ukrainian authorities accuse Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's former president and now an anti-corruption crusader in Ukraine, of colluding with Ukrainian businessmen to topple President Petro Poroshenko. From the very beginning they refused to register my party, then stripped me of my citizenship, then lied. It was the police's second unsuccessful attempt to arrest Saakashvili in as many days. Shame on you. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

board: Rocco and Niagara Falls resident Patrick Elliott, 46, are jointly charged with two counts of making, using and transferring a forged document, according to Toronto Star. Hamilton police Det. Patrick Rocco, 57, of Fonthill is charged with three counts of fraud under 5,000 that police say relate to credit card transactions that occurred during his time as human resources superintendent with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Dave Place said it is alleged falsified documents were submitted to the U.S. Department of State relating to citizenship for personal gain. Rocco voluntarily left the Hamilton school board in 2015 to take a top administration job with the Toronto District School Board. But Place said he could not reveal what kind of documents were forged, or for what reason. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

conference theme: The conference theme, Building Stability and Creating Opportunity Lessons from Atlantic Canada, aligned with the commitment to collaboration among all regional stakeholders to attract and retain international students, according to The Chronicle Herald. Part of the AAU's mandate is to enable and promote inter-institutional collaboration, as well as partnership with the private sector, governments and communities. That was the topic of a presentation made by the Association of Atlantic universities the AAU at the recent Conference Board of Canada leaders' roundtable on immigration in Halifax. Our region has the most rapidly aging and declining population in Canada, and the lowest attraction and retention rates of new Canadians of any part of Canada. As the region's domestic population continues its steady decline, the value of international students to future institutional sustainability grows in importance. Yet, over the past 10 years, enrolment of international students in our universities has increased by more than 100 per cent! Today there are close to 14,000 international students studying in the region, representing nearly 20 per cent of total full-time university enrolment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration partnership: Huda Hussein, who works as a project coordinator for the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, told CBC News Wednesday that the free lawn signs are a push back against recent anti-Islam rallies in the city, according to CBC. We want to have that conversation so that people think about this is a country of immigration and we are all striving to create a more welcoming community in the region, she said. The signs were handed out Wednesday at downtown London's Covent Garden Market. London Middlesex Local Immigartion Partnership Maria D'Souza, mariad lmlip.ca ; 519-663-0551 ext 240London Cross Cultural Learner Centre Suzanne La Rose, slarose lcclc.org; 519-432-1133LUSO Community Centre, Jacob Winter, jacob lusocentre.org; 519-452-1466South London Neighbourhood Resource Centre, Mohamed Al-Adeimi, MAlAdeimi slnrc.ca; 519-686-8600 ext 7029 Hundreds of people turned out at London City Hall in August in two opposing protests, that pitted anti-Islam protesters in an, at times, tense shouting match against counter demonstrators. Hussein said the free signs are a perfect time to address the problems that fuelled the protests earlier this summer. Mayor tells Londoners to 'stand up against hate' as white supremacist plan rally2 arrested at anti-Islam rally in London, Ont. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

daycare plans: David Lau, executive director of VIRCS, told All Points West host Jason D'Souza the need for child care, especially for infants, is so acute that the centre started receiving wait-list requests even before daycare plans were formally announced for the building it purchased in June, according to CBC. Province announces 33M to create 3,800 new child-care spaces B.C. NDP say universal child care won't come until after February budget announcement With help from the 371,173 in provincial funding, Lau said, we're hoping to build a trauma-informed daycare service. The Victoria Immigrant and Refugee Centre Society's planned daycare for 28 infants and children, in partnership with Family Services of Victoria, is among the projects eligible for provincial funding to create 948 new child-care spaces in Victoria and Vancouver Island communities stretching from Ucluelet to Campbell River. He said it is a model that was developed in Australia, although he is not aware of a similar daycare in Canada. VIRCS already operates programs for older children and youth including an adjustment support group for ages six to 11 to help immigrant and refugee children overcome challenges such as grief, separation from family members, isolation and traumatic experiences. With the sorts of kids that go through our centre and also Family Services of Greater Victoria, we do have some kids who go through and they could definitely use some help, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

editorial line: Repubblica has reported regularly on an escalation of incidents by Forza Nuova and other right-wing and skinhead movements targeting migrants, according to Metro News. The paper's editorial line has also favoured proposed legislation to accelerate citizenship for children born in Italy to immigrants. They carried a banner reading Boycott L'Espresso and Repubblica. In a statement on its Facebook page, Forza Nuova said it was declaring war on Repubblica and L'Espresso, accusing it of carrying out the genocide of the Italian people by supporting the citizenship sentiment has been rising in Italy, as in the rest of Europe, thanks to the influx of would-be refugees of many nationalities arriving on boats from Libya. Last week, a group of skinheads interrupted a meeting on housing migrants in the northern city of Como and read an anti-migrant manifesto, prompting calls for the Interior Ministry to formally dissolve such groups. Tensions have grown more acute as Italy heads into general elections next year, with a centre -right coalition including the anti-immigrant Northern League trying to regain the premiership from the Democratic Party. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration system: We are aware of it, we are absolutely concerned and are opposed to people taking advantage of international students, Hussen said outside cabinet, according to CTV. We urge all of the effected parties to contact the P.E.I. provincial nominee program folks to deal with this and we'll do whatever we can to help the province. Ahmed Hussen said in Ottawa Wednesday he's expecting the Liberal provincial government to take action on the issue, but also said in general he's pleased by a provincial immigration system that is being criticized by some immigration lawyers as lacking sufficient oversight. On Nov. 26, The Canadian Press reported on three international students who described how they were required to return a portion of their pay to owners of businesses set up under the ownership stream of the provincial nominee program. All of the students are international students from China, and they were concerned about repercussions on their current employment prospects on the Island if identified. In one case, a student said he was fired when he refused, and in two other cases, the students said they agreed to give back a portion of their income in cash. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

media barons: Within a few short years, oligarchs, media barons and officials who weren't loyal to Putin personally were eliminated, according to Toronto Star. As Russian anti-corruption crusader, Bill Browder says, the cost to those oligarchs who wished to remain in business and untouched by the Kremlin, was 50 per cent of everything they had, making Vladimir Putin one of the richest people in the world. Hope for any Western-style democratic reform was lost when Boris Yeltsin handed his country to the unremarkable former KGB officer in 2000. Russia's press, which was remarkably open and free in the early 2000s, was quickly silenced, as Putin ordered police raids of major media networks, which were expropriated by the state, broken up and sold to his friends. Anna Politkovskaya, who questioned Russia's war against Chechen separatists, was gunned down in an elevator in her apartment block. Journalists who questioned the Kremlin's tactics were silenced with assassin's bullets. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

midnight friday: With money for federal agencies running out at midnight Friday, Republican leaders plan to push a bill through Congress this week financing the government through Dec. 22, according to CTV. That would give bargainers time to work through their disagreements, but they will need Democratic votes to succeed. Trump's comments risked roiling a White House meeting with congressional leaders of both parties planned for Thursday aimed at averting a shutdown and sorting through year-end disputes over the budget, immigration and other issues. Democrats have been using their leverage to insist on spending boosts for health care, infrastructure and other domestic programs that would match increases Republicans want for defence. Trump ended safeguards against deportation three months ago but has expressed an openness to restoring them. Democrats are also seeking an agreement to extend protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mike finnerty: In conversation with Daybreak host Mike Finnerty on Wednesday, he explained why he wants to temporarily curb immigration, boost the birth rate among Quebecers and encourage shop clerks to say bonjour rather than bonjour/hi, according to CBC. Here's the full interview, edited for length and clarity. The latest opinion poll, released Saturday by L ger for Le Devoir, had the CAQ in top spot, four percentage points ahead of the Liberals, and far ahead among francophones, a crucial voting block. Mike Finnerty Are you leading the polls because voters like you and your party, or because they are sick and tired of the Liberals and Parti Qu b cois Fran ois Legault I think it's both. But also they are happy about the measures we propose to put more money in families' wallets. I think that yes, after 15 years of Liberal governments, Quebec needs change to replace a worn-out government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.