party coffers: He was reelected as an Independent in the 2008 election and sat as such until he resigned his seat in 2009 after a cancer diagnosis, according to National Observer. His 2008 electoral race was full of barriers, Casey said in an interview. In 2007, Casey, then a member of the Conservative Pary, was expelled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper after he voted against the budget, claiming that it broke the Atlantic Accord with his province and Newfoundland and Labrador. According to election laws, Independent candidates have to start with zero monetary funds members affiliated with a party have access to party coffers . That puts Independents at a disadvantage on sighs, pamphlets and advertising, Casey said. It is stacked against Independents. And after the election, any money leftover in an Independent's campaign has to be put back into government coffers as opposed to a party riding association, for example . ; The system is unfair, Casey said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: In dollar terms, the vast majority of Canadian oil imports -- about 64 per cent -- came from the U.S. last year, while 18 per cent came from Saudi Arabia, six per cent from Azerbaijan and three per cent from Norway, according to CTV. Nigeria, the United Kingdom and Algeria were also sources of imports last year into Canada. Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter, for all the latest politics news Scheer raised the idea in a recent speech, stating Canada shouldn't buy oil from rogue states with poor human-rights and environmental records, like Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. Canada hasn't imported any crude from Iran or Venezuela in recent years. Pedro Antunes, chief economist for The Conference Board of Canada, said outright oil independence is not a big economic issue for the country. Meanwhile, virtually all the millions of barrels of crude oil Canada exports each day are sold to the United States. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

home game: I have never missed a minute of a game in 24 years, he told CTV News, according to CTV. This included Game 6 of the NBA semifinals on Saturday, when the Raptors beat the Milwaukee Bucks to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history. He's a staple at courtside and around the city, and a global audience recently saw him demonstrate his belief that the power of sports can unite everybody. After enduring the ups and downs that come with attending every home game since the team started back in 1995, his patience appears to have paid off. He's become such a fixture courtside that it's not uncommon for Torontonians to stop and ask to take pictures with him -- as if he were a player on the team. He'll be present Thursday night for the greatest moment the Raptors have had yet. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

unverified website: The article makes the untrue claim that Canada has granted residency to all Kenyans who were illegally living in Canada and applied to remain, according to CTV. This latest fake news story follows a near-identical report that was published on the same website last month, claiming Trudeau had begged Nigeria for one million immigrants. The latest report, published on an unverified website called CBTV, falsely claims that Trudeau pleaded with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to allow one million Kenyans to enter Canada under a new Employment and Migration Programme designed for immigrants. Both articles were shared widely on social media, prompting Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to respond. If you have seen this link on your social media timeline, don't fall for it. In early May, Canada's High Commission in Kenya debunked the fake news story in a tweet that read, Fake News Alert. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

climate election: Perhaps more significantly, the results showed how environmental concerns can transcend the political issues that dominate most European Union elections, according to CTV. The European election was a climate election, declared Anna Kretzschmar, a German in her 20s who was out in a Berlin park with her young child. Provisional results Monday showed the left-leaning Greens coming in fourth in the balloting with 69 seats, an increase of 17 from the last election, five years ago. Kretzschmar welcomed the lift the Greens received in Sunday's vote, saying it would give them a stronger voice to raise the alarm about global warming. Among other things, the Green movement has strongly backed scientists' calls for the 28-nation bloc to end all greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century, a goal that would require an epic shift in Europe's economy away from fossil fuels. I think we are more affected by climate change than we realize, she added. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

miller: That's no easy task when tuition and living costs for one year amount to 113,000 CAD. So she has turned to crowdfunding for help, according to CTV. The 24-year-old Brampton, Ont. resident had scholarships to help her graduate from the University of Ottawa with a double major in economics and political science in May 2018. But she did and now she needs to pay for it. Miller grew up in a family of nine that struggled to make ends meet. I applied to Harvard not because I expected to get in, but because I was living out one of my life mottos the only thing worse than rejection is not knowing,' Miller writes on her GoFund Me page. But her parents always put value on a good education. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sports fans: It's hooked casual sports fans, ensnared pop culture junkies and most notably, enticed diehard Leafs fans to put aside their blue-and-whites to cheer for Canada's sole NBA team as they face the Golden State Warriors in the Finals, according to CTV. But Toronto has always been a hockey town, and even this remarkable Raptors run likely won't change that, say some observers including bar manager Adam Zizzo. As became evident with the hordes of revellers that spilled onto downtown streets following Saturday's thrilling Game 6 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in the NBA's Eastern Conference final, the prospect of a Canadian team winning a very American trophy is a potent rallying cry. We noticed a lot of our regular Leafs fans definitely hop onto the Raptors bandwagon after the Leafs get knocked out every year, chuckles Zizzo, manager at the Hurricanes Roadhouse Restaurant, located just west of the Annex neighbourhood, a student enclave. We don't get too many chances to go deep into the playoffs with any of our teams very often so when one of them makes it, I think everyone kind of gets the team spirit. I think it's just having someone to root for, you know. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

results: This strict new legislation basically criminalizes the procedure and treats anyone seeking an abortion or attempting to administer one as a criminal who could face life in prison, according to National Observer. But this didn't just happen. The recent backsliding on women's rights we've witnessed in Alabama and seven other U.S. states, has many of us reeling. The groundwork for this gigantic step backwards for reproductive freedom was initially taken two years ago. I had stayed up late, watching the results trickle in, desperately hoping that what was materializing before my eyes would turn out to be a bad dream.A man who had been recorded bragging about sexually assaulting women, because they let you do it when you're famous had just been declared the next president of the United States. After Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency, I vividly remember waking up the next day in a bit of an exhausted daze. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mexican border: Our pitch to Canada is to do more, said Mark Manly, the Mexico representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, according to CTV. Manly was in Ottawa earlier this month for meetings with the federal government to look for ways for Canada to help resettle more of the migrants that have arrived in Mexico. Mexico is feeling the squeeze from an unprecedented exodus of people fleeing Central American countries and some of the worst violence from nations not at actually war is forcing families northward. The request comes as the United States takes a harder line on its Mexican border, with President Donald Trump branding the caravans of migrants as being laced with violent criminals bent on destabilizing his country. Asylum seekers reaching Mexico from Honduras, El Salvador and Venezuela caused a 103-per-cent spike in claims in 2018 over the previous year, from almost 15,000 to about 30,000, says the UNHCR. Manly said that many migrants have good settlement prospects in Mexico because of its growing economy and need for foreign labour, but women and girls fleeing gang violence as well as members of the transgender and gay communities need to be resettled elsewhere because they are not safe. Canada, Mexico and the U.S. are pushing to have their new version of the North American Free Trade Agreement ratified soon as Vice-President Mike Pence visits Ottawa this week to give that a renewed push. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

multi-national ballot: Here's a look at that massive exercise in democracy, a multi-national ballot by the European Union's only democratically elected institution. ------ WHO, WHEN, WHAT ON THE EU VOTE Europe's voting marathon kicked off Thursday in Britain and the Netherlands, according to CTV. Voters in Ireland turned out on Friday, and those in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Malta and Slovakia on Saturday. More than 400 million voters in 28 nations had the right to vote over the past four days. On Sunday, people in the remaining 21 EU nations cast their ballots. Seats in the European Parliament are doled out proportionally based on a nation's population. Voters in each EU nation chose some of the 751 lawmakers in the European Parliament, which sits in both Brussels and Strasbourg, France. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

parking lot: They said the suspect was arrested after allegedly punching at least one other person, according to CTV. Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette said the altercation was unacceptable and that such violence has no place in Quebec. Police arrested a 47-year-old man after a skirmish broke out between the suspect and a few others including a taxi driver in the parking lot of the Centre culturel islamique de Quebec shortly after noon on Saturday. But he insisted the incident was not connected to the government's proposed secularism bill, which would prevent some employees in the public sector, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols on the job. There is absolutely no link between Bill 21 and what happened, Jolin-Barrette said in Montreal, where he was attending the Coalition Avenir Quebec party's general council meeting. It would also require those receiving public services to uncover their faces when necessary for identification. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

party: The final two candidates are then offered to the Tory membership at large for an election, according to Rabble. It could take two to six weeks for MPs to whittle down the leadership contenders From 24 June - Top Two Tory candidates are offered to Tory members Once Tory MPs have whittled the leadership contenders down to the top two in a series of votes - the lucky two will be be put to a vote by Conservative Party members. Nominations to stand will close in the week beginning June 10 before it is put to several rounds of votes. July 26 - New Tory leader selected and becomes PM The Tory party hierarchy has said it wants a new Tory party leader to be selected by the Parliamentary recess - which is likely to be on July 26. September 29-October 2 - Conservative Party conference The Tory gathering in Manchester this autumn will be the natural time for a new leader to take the stage and try to unite the fractured party. The new leader will become Prime Minister and form a government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

embassy statement: He encouraged the Chinese government to engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama or his representatives, without preconditions, to seek a settlement that resolves differences, it said, according to CTV. Branstad also raised long-standing concerns about the lack of consistent access to the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Terry Branstad also expressed concerns regarding the Chinese government's interference in Tibetan Buddhists' freedom to organize and practice their religion, an embassy statement said. The rare visit to the TAR and neighbouring Qinghai province ran from Sunday through Saturday. He also met with senior Tibetan religious and cultural leaders, the embassy said. Hosted by the Tibet Autonomous Region government, Branstad was given access to important religious and cultural sites, including the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Norbulingka, and Sera Monastery in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

party meetings: I can reassure you that we love each other, the premier said at the CAQ's party meetings in Montreal on Saturday morning, according to CTV. This morning I asked Sonia Lebel and Simon Jolin-Barrette to kiss each other in front of everybody... not on the mouth. This week there were reports of a rift between immigration minister Simon Jolin-Barrette, the champion of Bill 21, and justice minister Sonia LeBel. I can reassure you we love each other francoislegault addresses rumours of friction between ministers. A handful demonstrated outside the hotel that CAQ ministers are staying at. CTVMontreal qcpoli Kelly Greig Kelly Greig May 25, 2019 Environment Young people from the group Pour le Futur Montreal were demanding a meeting with Legault to talk about climate change. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ban: Nationally, 49 per cent of respondents said they would not favour such a ban, but 37 per cent said they would support it, according to CTV. The proposed ban would not extend to elected officials, but a question about whether it should was included among questions about how Canadians in different provinces feel about religions and religious signs. A majority of Quebecers canvassed in the survey agreed that federal, provincial and local politicians shouldn't be allowed to wear hijabs, crucifixes or turbans on the job. The Leger Marketing poll was done to gauge public sentiment in light of a proposed secularism law in Quebec that would ban public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols. Because online panels aren't fully random samples of the population, no margin of error for the results can be calculated. The survey of respondents, drawn from an online panel, canvassed the opinions of 2,215 adults across Canada between May 3 and 7. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

decision friday: Our criminal justice system holds out a promise to all Canadians everyone is equally entitled to the law's full protection and to be treated with dignity, humanity and respect, wrote Justice Michael Moldaver, according to CTV. Ms. In a 4-3 decision Friday, the Supreme Court said evidence about Cindy Gladue's sexual history was mishandled in a 2015 trial that ended in Bradley Barton's acquittal on a first-degree murder charge. Gladue is no exception. Her life mattered. She was a mother, a daughter, a friend, and a member of her community. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

clay-court rio: The 20-year-old Shapovalov burst onto the scene a couple of years ago when he upset Rafael Nadal at the Canadian Open, according to CTV. He is now up to No. 23 in the rankings. What's not typical is that they have simultaneously broken into the world's elite ranks of tennis players -- and will all be worth watching when the French Open begins Sunday. The 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime's breakthrough came at the start of this year when he reached the final of the clay-court Rio Open. I grew up with Felix and Bianca and to see how far we've come, to see Bianca lifting up a Masters trophy, my mind is exploding, Shapovalov said in a recent interview. Then things really started heating up in March when Andreescu, who is also 18, beat five seeded players when she won the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California as a wild card entry; and Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime -- as a qualifier -- both reached the semifinals of the Miami Open. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

sara: Sara Nelson in her own words on building a fighting labor movement, the proud history of democratic socialism in America, how workers ended the shutdown, and how they'll stop Trump, too, according to Rabble. On May 10, 2019, Association of Flight Attendants president Sara Nelson gave a speech to the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America's annual Eugene Debs Lucy Gonzalez Parsons A. Philip Randolph Dinner. ANDREW Images This article was first posted by Jacobin. We reproduce the speech here in full, lightly edited for online publication. I'm here because aviation's first responders did me the great honor of electing me to lead our union. Good evening, sisters and brothers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

power religion: The Muslim NGO leader took to Facebook to complain that the stamp was another example of how Islam was being bullied since Pakatan Harapan came to power in May last year and that it could lead foreigners to think Malaysia is a Christian state when in fact, the stamp was part of a series on places of worship in Malaysia, which was first issued in 2016, two years before Harapan came to power, according to Rabble. Religion in New Malaysia must be a unifying force and there must be no room for political desperadoes to abuse it to justify kleptocracy, intolerance or extremism of any form. The most recent example is the statement by a Muslim NGO leader regarding Pos Malaysia issuing a stamp featuring St George's Church in Penang. As Malaysia is a multi-religious society, it is incumbent upon the state and all citizens to respect all religions and in fact, this is the first of the five Rukunegara principles Belief in God, which is based on the fundamental constitutional principle that Islam is the official religion of the federation while other religions and faiths can be practised in peace and harmony without any form of discrimination. The Quran said, Let there be no compulsion in religion... 2 256 and to you your religion, to me mine 109 6 . Religion is a great social force if used for the good of society and nation and the world at large. This is in full conformity with Islam, which clearly accepts the people's right to follow the religion of their choice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

supreme court: More coverage from CTV News Vancouver B.C.'s minority NDP government, which took power on a promise to use every tool available to stop the expansion, swiftly announced plans to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, according to CTV. Our government said from the outset that we would stand up for British Columbia's environment, our economy and our coast, said Attorney General David Eby. The unanimous ruling from the B.C. Court of Appeal represented a major win for the project, which the federal government and Alberta see as crucial to getting more oilsands crude to overseas markets. Thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity would be put at risk by a diluted bitumen spill. A five-judge panel agreed that the amendments to B.C.'s Environmental Management Act were not constitutional because they would interfere with the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines. The province filed a constitutional reference question to the Appeal Court that asked whether it had the authority to create a permitting regime for companies that wished to increase their flow of diluted bitumen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

barbados-born star: It's all a facade, said the Barbados-born star who has become the first black woman to launch a major Parisian fashion house, according to CTV. Pressure Of course... I'm passionate about what I do, so there's pressure every single second. But on the inside it was another story. It's not like crumbling pressure, but it's like 'You better get it good, girl. ' News of the singer's groundbreaking deal with LVMH, the world's largest luxury group, shook up the fashion industry earlier this month. At age 31, that's no mean feat. Rihanna is the first woman, and the first person of colour, to create a major brand under the luxury giant from scratch. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

citizen: According to the U.S. Border Patrol, one of the smuggled individuals is a citizen of the Dominican Republic, while the other is a citizen of Mexico, according to CTV. The pair were detained as they attempted to enter a vehicle waiting for them, and the driver of the vehicle, a Canadian, was arrested. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

school project: League chairman David Finch said the move was unhelpful to Canada's identity as a constitutional monarchy, according to CTV. Downloading a print may be fine for a folder in a child's school project; but it ultimately discourages the hanging of display-sized photographic portraits of a beloved sovereign in government offices and public places right across the country, Finch said in a press release. The Monarchist League of Canada said it was informed by the Canadian Heritage department that it will no longer print portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, and the image will be available by download only. It will particularly impact on folk who are not tech-savvy, those who don't use computers and those living in medium and small-sized communities where there may not be copy shops to hand, and certainly not copy shops with large-sizes of coated stock or the capacity to print such an item. Finch said commercial printers had quoted him about 50 cents per picture, claiming cost to the government is entirely insignificant. The league said it was supportive of the government's move to reduce printing and welcomed the ability to download the picture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

acosta children: The new series is headed by the shows original creators Amy Lippman and Christopher Keyser comes as millions of Latinos in the U.S. wrestle with the uncertainty around deportations and aggressive immigration enforcement under the Trump Administration, according to CTV. The original series, which ran from 1994 to 2000 on Fox, centred on the Salinger family whose parents died in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Disney announced this month that the Sony Pictures Television retooled Generation X-era show will air on the Freeform network and will star a Latino cast. The new show will follow the Acosta children as they work through an unsettling future when their parents are abruptly deported to Mexico. Lippman told The Associated Press she and Keyser have turned down previous offers to bring back the show over concerns they didn't want to simply recycle the same storyline with new actors. It will star Brandon Larracuente, Emily Tosta, Niko Guardado and Elle Paris Legaspi. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ever-delayed separation: Although just less than half of the 17 candidates have made it to the studio others are represented by recorded stump-speeches that have all the confidence and polish of hostage videos they are crammed onstage like horses at the starting gate, according to Rabble. Brexit, announces moderator David McCullagh. In the last of Prime Time's three European Election debates, this special broadcast must contend with the sheer volume of candidates for the Midlands-North-West mega constituency. And they're off! Or, in Luke Ming Flanagan's case, and by his own admission, way off. On the whole, the opinion here is that Brexit, this ever-delayed separation, is both regrettable and dangerous and that Ireland is better off in Europe. Asked about encouraging Irish voters in Britain to vote Leave, Flanagan, seeking re-election, explains he had hoped for a jolt to this project of an ever-closer union and now appears to be more careful what he wishes for. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hair follicles: By simply plucking a few hairs from your head, extracting and analyzing the cells, and storing them at cryogenic temperatures, the company says it can provide biological life insurance in the form of healthy, preserved cells that can be later transformed into stem cells to treat disease providing that advancements in genetic therapy have been made by the time you are diagnosed, according to CTV. Cell therapy is rapidly emerging as the future of healthcare, Drew Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Acorn Biolabs, told CTVNews.ca. Toronto-based Acorn Biolabs has developed a non-invasive method of preserving the genetic material found in the cells of human hair follicles. We need to work on banking our cells in advance so that when we are sick we have a source of cells that will drive the success of all of these potential therapies. In 2012, scientists from Britain and Japan were awarded a Nobel Prize after discovering that adult cells could be transformed into embryo-like stem cells that could regrow tissue in damaged organs. Regenerative medicine is widely seen as the next big step healthcare innovation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.