census numbers: Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city, according to National Observer. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an Hola, Ciao, Namaste, Salaam or Marhaba. Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. Ironically, it's Quebec's language law and immigration policies that encourage trilingualism, said Jack Jedwab, head of the Association for Canadian Studies, who helped obtain the data. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

paris agreement: But, in a fundamental and glaringly crude way, Trump is a lens through which to view our world over the last year, according to National Observer. He embodies the rise of the political and social right. Here are five of the most important global stories, in my view, to cross our news streams and how they were related ; 1 The year of Trump He is everywhere, and in the 24-hour news cycle, he has become boringly predictable. He zealously flirts with dictators. He pulled the US out of the COP-21 Paris Agreement, believes climate change to be a Chinese-concocted hoax, and promotes coal. He is unabashedly xenophobic and enthusiastically foments anger among his base against foreigners, just as he repeatedly attempts to seal off America's borders. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

saskatchewan years: To talk about a prairie populist from Saskatchewan 40 years ago, that wasn't a negative connotation, that was someone who was fighting for the people and against some of the big icons of central Canada whether it was banks or railways or the other parties, Scheer says, according to National Observer. In this political cycle, populism in some circles has a negative connotation. Populism hasn't always been a dirty word in Canada, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer points out. For Scheer, that connotation is one he finds himself fighting against, as opponents routinely seek to paint Conservatives as one step away from the hard right base of the populist movement that put Trump in office. The left will argue the government is always best placed to respond to any given issue, and if people don't agree, they don't care about the subject, he says. In 2018, he'll seek to counter that narrative by presenting a new approach. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

november republicans: Though official candidate filing doesn't start until mid-February, the Democrats are quickly approaching the number of House and Senate seats they contested in 2016 and hope to strongly contest each seat in November, according to Metro News. Republicans used a similar full-court candidate strategy in 2010 to seize control of both chambers for the first time in 140 years. Eager to reassert their longtime influence on North Carolina politics, the Democrats already have already fielded an unusually large pool of candidates for 100 seats in the 170-member bicameral legislature. They've held veto-proof majorities since 2013, allowing them to impose a right-leaning agenda including broad tax cuts, abortion restrictions and taxpayer-funded grants for children to attend private schools. While Democrats regained a bully pulpit when Gov. They also passed the state's bathroom bill, later partially repealed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

alias grace: Another great Canadian book character, Anne of Green Gables, has had plenty of onscreen and onstage life in her time, but this year she has had a decidedly feminist portrayal much sassier and darker than the character has ever been interpreted before, according to Toronto Star. And this time around she's simply called Anne. Who would have thought 20- and 30-year-old books would grab the imaginations of TV watchers around the world as much as Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace have, for example Clearly, her razor-sharp observations about authoritarian societies in terms of the first, and anti-immigrant sentiment among other issues in the latter have struck a chord. And coming to the big screen in April is an adaptation of Richard Wagamese's 2012 novel Indian Horse, which some of us know from school reading lists. Here are our suggestions Article Continued Below Roughing It in the Bush Can't you imagine Susanna Moodie and Roughing It in the Bush getting the TV treatment but, as with Anne, acknowledging the darker bent of our story While Moodie talks about the struggle to bring some sort of order to her rough life, there should also be an emphasis on the Indigenous narrative that was going on at the same time, better reflecting the totality of this nation's experience. There are plenty of other books out there books still being taught in our high schools and universities that are ripe for adaptation to the big screen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

bangladesh-myanmar border: The contrast could not be more striking with what is happening with the Rohingya at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, according to The Chronicle Herald. Consider the facts an exodus more than 600,000 official refugees, an estimate that does not include countless families who have fled under the radar and have not been captured by official statistics. Many Canadians were busy with the purchases of gifts and the preparations of delicious meals and had heartwarming family reunions during this Christmas week. All these refugees have escaped into Bangladesh from the hell of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar where they used to live. Most fled with nothing but their clothes and had to risk their lives to cross the river between the two countries. Many have had family members raped and killed by soldiers in the Myanmar army and their houses burnt to the ground. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

business association: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an Hola, Ciao, Namaste, Salaam or Marhaba, according to CBC. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a bonjour instead of the English-French mix, bonjour/hi. I set the oldest trap in the book,' Lis e says of bonjour/hi controversy The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian press: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an Hola, Ciao, Namaste, Salaam or Marhaba, according to CTV. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a Bonjour instead of the English-French mix, Bonjour/Hi. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ctv viewers: The pair discussed the top 10 defining issues of 2017, based on thousands of questions from CTV viewers, according to CTV. In no particular order, here are 10 key takeaways from their conversation. 1 Trudeau thinks Trump is a 'disruptive force' When asked whether he thought U.S. President Donald Trump's exchange of rhetoric with North Korea's Kim Jong Un was dangerous, Trudeau said Trump has demonstrated that he's a bit of a disruptive force. This was one of the highlights from CTV Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor Lisa LaFlamme's sit-down interview with Canada's leader, which aired Friday evening on CTV News. He does unpredictable things and sometimes they have positive impacts, sometimes they have negative impacts, he said. His one word to describe Trump Consistent. The prime minister acknowledged they disagree on a number of issues -- but that's what makes it important to have a strong, but frank, relationship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hamzawy lives: All the defendants are accused of insulting the judiciary by making statements that were made public either on TV, radio, social media or in publications that the court found to be inciting and expressing contempt toward the court and the judiciary, according to The Chronicle Herald. The court ordered Morsi to pay 1 million Egyptian pounds 56,270 as compensation to one of the judges. Hamzawy lives in exile. It also ordered 23 of the defendants, including Morsi, to pay 1 million Egyptian pounds each to a powerful union of judges known as the Judges Club, state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported. The 2016 deal between the two countries sparked rare protests in Egypt. Also on Saturday, another court sentenced prominent activist and rights lawyer Mahinour el-Masry to two years in prison over participating in an illegal protest against the government's transfer of two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, lawyer Taher Aboelnasr said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

immigration detention: Another 20 were killed in circumstances that CPJ cannot confirm were related to their work, according to Rabble. A record 262 journalists were imprisoned around the world, with Turkey, China and Egypt topping the list for the second year in a row. The list includes 42 journalists and four media workers killed, some while covering war, others murdered in retaliation for their reporting. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump wages a relentless campaign to discredit journalism in the U.S., often with rhetoric that could potentially incite his followers to violence. Emilio Gutierrez Soto is being held in immigration detention in El Paso, Texas, along with his 24-year-old son, Oscar. Trump's policy of ramping up mass deportations could even send one Mexican journalist, currently jailed in the U.S., back to Mexico, where he might be killed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

rohingya muslim: But in the hate-filled reality of the world they live in, Setara can only do these things alone when she takes off her Islamic veil and crosses through a pair of checkpoints into the predominantly Buddhist state capital, where her government will not allow the love of her life to set foot, according to Toronto Star. That's because Setara's husband is a Rohingya Muslim, an ethnic group the United Nations has called one of the most persecuted on the planet. They visit old friends, share a meal with family, dip their toes into the warm surf of the Bay of Bengal. Setara, meanwhile, was born a Buddhist and part of the ethnic Rakhine, who despise the Rohingya and see them as foreign invaders from Bangladesh. It's also risky in a nation where security forces have driven more than 730,000 Rohingya into exile since 2016, carried out large-scale massacres and burned hundreds of villages in a campaign the UN and human rights groups have described as ethnic cleansing. react-empty 164 In Sittwe, Burma, Setara tells no one she is married to a Rohingya. Read more Burma treatment of Rohingya Muslims called dehumanizing apartheid' in new report Article Continued Below U.S. declares Burma is committing ethnic cleansing' against Rohingya Muslims Opinion The Rohingya are enduring a hell on Earth Marriage between the two communities is extraordinarily rare. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

trump: When the DREAMers chanted their chants, calling on the president and Congress to pass a law, now, to give them permanent legal status in the United States, her cry rang out a beat longer than her fellow activists', her tone a little rawer, as if she was convinced that Trump himself might hear her, according to Metro News. Clean DREAM Act . . . She leaned back, her eyes closed in concentration. Without it, she would have still been the loudest person there. Now! It was genuine emotion. Loera has decided to be loud, she said later, because of all the times she has been silenced. It was also a calculated decision. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

woman zips: Mark Wysocky says it is hard to separate texting drivers from drunken drivers as he cruises down a suburban interstate highway, according to Metro News. Both weave. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. They speed up and slow down for no obvious reason and get too close to other cars. There's one, he says, as a woman zips past. They endanger their lives and others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

year-end: Without it, she would have still been the loudest person there, according to Toronto Star. When the DREAMers chanted their chants, calling on the president and Congress to pass a law, now, to give them permanent legal status in the United States, her cry rang out a beat longer than her fellow activists', her tone a little rawer, as if she was convinced that Trump himself might hear her. Our year-end series looks at some of the causes that got us riled up at universities, online and in the Loera, at four-foot-11 the smallest person at the rally across the street from the White House, brought a megaphone to amplify her voice. Clean DREAM Act . . . Article Continued Below She leaned back, her eyes closed in concentration. It was also a calculated decision. react-empty 180 Loera has decided to be loud, she said later, because of all the times she has been silenced. Now! It was genuine emotion. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

appeals court: Robart limited that part of the injunction to refugees who have a bona fide relationship with people or entities in the United States, according to CTV. He also said that refugees who have formal agreements with refugee resettlement agencies were covered under his order. Just before Christmas, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle imposed a nationwide injunction that blocks restrictions on reuniting refugee families and partially lifted a ban on refugees from 11 mostly Muslim countries. The government does not want to include resettlement agencies. That means the highest court indicates it disagrees with the appeals court on that point, the lawyers say. Government lawyers filed a motion Wednesday saying that although the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has interpreted the bona fide relationship to include connections to resettlement agencies, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed that ruling. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

border wall: Trump said on Twitter Friday The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc, according to Metro News. He added We must protect our Country at all cost!The battle over immigration has been delayed until next year. President Donald Trump is saying there won't be protection for young immigrants brought into the country illegally unless he gets funding for a border wall and other items. Democrats want protections for the young immigrants, who are referred to as Dreamers. But while there is significant bipartisan sympathy for these immigrants, GOP demands for Trump's border wall and for immigration agents have proved difficult to resolve. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

business association: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an hola, ciao, namaste, salaam or marhaba, according to Toronto Star. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a bonjour instead of the English-French mix, bonjour/hi. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Article Continued Below Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada claims: Given the ever-present possibility of a complete disregard for truth on both sides, which government might be more credible in this instance Let us consider the background, according to Rabble. Last week Venezuela declared Canada's charg d'affaires in Caracas persona non grata. In the recent tussle between Caracas and Ottawa, for instance, Venezuela says it is trying to protect itself from foreign interference while Canada claims it is promoting democracy and human rights. In making the announcement, the president of the National Constituent Assembly Delcy Rodriguez denounced Craib Kowalik's permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela. Following Washington's lead, Ottawa has also imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials and supported opposition groups. Is Rodriguez's explanation for expelling Kowalik convincing In recent months, foreign minister Chrystia Freeland has repeatedly criticized Venezuela's elected government, and Canada is part of the so-called Lima Group of foreign ministers opposed to President Nicol s Maduro. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canadian press: The reality on the ground in Montreal, however, is that customers to the city's stores and restaurants would likely be just as comfortable with an Hola, Ciao, Namaste, Salaam or Marhaba, according to Metro News. Census numbers from 2016 reveal Montreal is by far the country's most trilingual city. Quebec made international headlines when its legislature voted 111-0 in November in favour of a motion calling on store clerks to greet customers with a Bonjour instead of the English-French mix, Bonjour/Hi. The data were specially ordered by Montreal International, a business association, and provided Friday to The Canadian Press. Nearly 850,000 Montrealers know at least three languages and more than 40 per cent of the city's immigrants are trilingual. Statistics Canada's figures indicate more than 21 per cent of Montrealers can speak at least three languages, compared with 11 per cent of Torontonians and 10 per cent of people in Vancouver. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

category: Having that category really allows us to expand who we can open our doors to.'- Dorothy Keating Recent data shows there are 2,000 fewer people in the province than there were just a year ago; Newfoundland and Labrador is the only province in Canada to see its population drop over the last 12 months, according to CBC. Need for entrepreneur category Board chair Dorothy Keating said while the provincial government has taken some steps toward attracting new immigrants, the board would like to see the creation of an entrepreneur category to its immigrant nominee program so that the province can bring in business owners from other countries. John's Board of Trade says it's time for the province to change its immigration rules. Not-so-new Canadian How welcoming is N.L. for immigrants Foreign student says immigrants leaving N.L. because finding meaningful work too difficult Under the current program, people must be sponsored with a job lined up in the province to apply for immigration. In an emailed response to CBC, a spokesperson for the Department of Advanced Education, Skills and Labour said the government is exploring opportunities to introduce new categories to its immigration policy, and already supports international students looking to establish businesses through the startup visa program. If they are entrepreneurs, and we get this category open to welcome individuals in who will create their own positions and positions for others, that will allow us to really expand on who can come in and what can be achieved here, Keating said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

court documents: Their names are rarely widely known, according to Toronto Star. But Mitchell Ivers of Threshold Editions, a conservative imprint of the New York-based publishing house Simon & Schuster, is getting an unlikely moment in the limelight after a manuscript he worked on surfaced in a high-profile court case. Their work advising, shaping and cutting a piece of writing to make it more readable is done in private. The markup of Milo Yiannopoulos' Dangerous, which statements in court documents say were largely made by Ivers, became a sensation on social media on Tuesday. Read more Milo Yiannopoulos appearance at UC Berkeley sparks clash of extremes Article Continued Below Milo Yiannopoulos quits Breitbart over pro-pedophilia comments Milo Yiannopoulos loses book deal, CPAC role over comments on pedophilia Delete irrelevant and superfluous ethnic joke, the editor writes in one comment. react-empty 163 This entire paragraph is just repeating Fake News, he says later. Perhaps it was the earnestness with which the editor went about his task, writing clipped, direct notes of feedback to the conservative media figure, who made a name for himself by making outrageous statements designed to raise people's ire. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

desautel: Desautel, a member of the Lakes Tribe in Washington state, argued in provincial court that he was exercising his constitutional right to hunt for ceremonial purposes, according to The Chronicle Herald. The Lakes Tribe was described in court as a successor group to the Sinixt people, who lived, hunted and gathered in B.C.'s Kootenay region prior to first contact with European settlers. Richard Desautel was charged under the Wildlife Act with hunting without a licence and hunting big game while not a resident of B.C. after he shot and killed an elk near Castlegar in 2010. The provincial court acquitted the man in March, but the Crown appealed to the higher court, arguing that Desautel is not an Aboriginal person of Canada and not entitled to rights under the constitution. For the Sinixt, that declaration has weighed on the collective psyche for generations, Underhill said. Desautel's lawyer, Mark Underhill, said the argument goes back to a 1956 declaration by the federal government that said the people of the small First Nation in the Kootenays were extinct. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

fire spread: The 3 1/2-year-old-boy, his mother and another child were able to flee their first-floor apartment, according to CTV. But they left the apartment door open behind them, and it acted like a chimney that drew smoke and flames into a stairwell. A dozen people died and four others were fighting for their lives a day after the flames broke out in the century-old building near the Bronx Zoo. From there, the fire spread throughout the five-story building, authorities said. At least 20 people scrambled out via fire escapes on a bitterly cold night, but others could not. The city housing department said investigators would look into why the door did not close automatically, though Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was nothing problematic about the building that contributed to this tragedy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mexican journalist: In a statement Thursday, the National Press Club said the board will consider Emilio Gutierrez Soto's request again, according to Metro News. Spokespeople for the board could not immediately be reached for comment. The two are being held at an immigration detention centre in El Paso, Texas, not at a detention centre in Sierra Blanca, Texas.A corrected version of the story is below Board to reconsider Mexican journalist's US asylum request Board to reconsider asylum request of Mexican journalist who believes he will be killed if deported The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals will reconsider the asylum request of a Mexican journalist who believes he will be killed if deported. The Press Club and other press freedom advocates have highlighted the case and those of other reporters who claim their lives were in danger. He fled north with his then-teenage son and entered the U.S. in 2008, seeking asylum. Gutierrez says he began receiving death threats after writing articles alleging military forces were robbing and extorting local people in Chihuahua, Mexico. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

language skills: In an interview with Ottawa Morning, Showler said the biggest barrier to finding work, and integrating into Canadian life, is language, according to CBC. They can't get enough language skills within the 12 months to find work that would support a family of five, six or seven. Peter Showler is part of a group that has helped four Syrian families resettle in Ottawa. Showler said English as a second language training ESL can't help refugees if they can't get to the classes. The mother ends up staying home for the first six or seven months because they're taking care of a young child because they can't get into daycare. Often what happens is the father gets into ESL quite quickly, he said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.