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job training: Manner education is mandatory, but vocational skills improvement is offered only after a year in the camps, according to CTV. Voluntary job training is the reason the Chinese government has given for detaining more than a million ethnic minorities, most of them Muslims. Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the dominant Mandarin language and follow strict rules on everything down to bathing and using the toilet, scores that determine if they can leave. But a classified blueprint leaked to a consortium of news organizations shows the camps are instead precisely what former detainees have described Forced ideological and behavioural re-education centres run in secret. The papers also show how Beijing is pioneering a new form of social control using data and artificial intelligence. The classified documents lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime, to rewire their thoughts and the language they speak. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

european countries: Certainly that was a project the right wing benefited from but the reason many European countries gave up a degree of independence from each other is they saw the vice that the cold war presented, according to Rabble. They heard the US muse about limited nucelar war and believed that if they were not powerful enough, unified enough, the cold war would be fought, perhaps even as a hot war, on their territory. We are independently able to choose which of the two powers will beat us up.I know this question lies at the heart of the Brexit debate becuase it is one of the reasons the European project got off the ground. Both France and the UK developed nukes in part to have an independent force becuase they never trusted their ally, the US. Today the UK is trying to decide which of the two evils on the table they should take remaining in the EU, without a chance to get out or even renegotiate for a generation or to leave and become potentially a colony of the US without any bargaining power. They have no idea what they are contemplating. In the middle of this debate you have people in the UK talking about a NAFTA style deal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

awareness messages: However, more than one-third of Quebec women aged 50 to 69 do not participate in the Quebec Breast Cancer Screening Program PQDCS whose letters are used as prescriptions to make free appointments for mammograms, without going through a doctor, according to CTV. In Montreal, the ratio is one in two women, which prompted the Canadian Cancer Society to focus on the language barrier, lack of literacy and other barriers in its awareness messages. People in their 50s and 60s are encouraged to have a mammogram every two years to quickly detect breast cancer, which is the most common and the second deadliest form of cancer among women. The organization is now adapting its efforts to better reach women from ethnocultural communities and low socio-economic status, among others. We want to try to get in touch with these communities in the future, said V ronique Gallant, Program Manager for the d partement de la pr vention et de la promotion de la sant . To this end, the Canadian Cancer Society will focus on lightened information materials, word-of-mouth and the creation of new partnerships to spread its message, says Gallant. These women will receive the letter from the screening program, but there is still a barrier to understanding the information. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

power: It's also an opportunity to set the groundwork for your political agenda to stay in power, according to CTV. The post 2019 election cabinet effectively tips the hand of Trudeau and the Liberals on what they might hope to be their path to staying in power, and you might be surprised that it's not managing western alienation and the wellness of the federation. Of course, for any prime minister, it's about managing and deploying the talent that voters give you with the goals you want to achieve. Right now, the Liberals and Conservatives remain tight in the national polling. Unpacking the cabinet configuration points to a number signals from the Liberals. The Liberals trail the Conservatives by 40 percentage points in the Prairies and are only marginally ahead of the Bloc Quebecois in the province of Quebec. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

survey data: Out of all those households, one-fifth were already in a subsidized unit and waiting to either move to a new home, or have someone from the household move out on their own, according to CTV. Although they make up a small portion, there were some clear differences in perceptions of affordability. The survey data, the first of its kind on wait times for social housing, shows 173,600 households, or nearly two-thirds, were waiting at least two years. Renters in social housing, in particular, reported being more satisfied with costs than those in the private market. It also points to the urgency of a federal government response, and that we should be doing as much as we can as soon as we can, he said. Tim Richter, CEO of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, said they are some of the best numbers he has seen. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

swearing-in ceremony: That's just one of the details about the prime minister's new cabinet that are starting to become clear after Wednesday's swearing-in ceremony, which left onlookers wondering what exactly some ministers will be doing, according to CTV. More details will emerge when Trudeau eventually releases the mandate letters he's written to each of his 36 ministers. They'll be handled by Dominic LeBlanc, who sits in cabinet as president of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. But some additional information about the structure of cabinet and the roles of various ministers is already starting to dribble out. A new Parliament begins soon Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter Traditionally, various regional ministers have been assigned responsibility for each of the six agencies across the country. For instance, it's now clear that the prime minister has bowed to pressure to ensure closer political involvement in the operation of regional development agencies -- although not quite in the way many Liberals had hoped. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ek: Horvat's first book, What Does Europe Want The Union and Its Discontents was co-authored with i ek, according to Rabble. He has since modelled his writing style after i ek's, and Poetry from the Future is no exception. Horvat's claims to radical novelty are ironic, however, since his work seems to be a poor imitation of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek. It makes constant cinematic allusions; it relies heavily on jokes, Eastern European jokes in particular, purposefully catered to a Western audience; it invokes random encounters from his travels; and it unimaginatively uses the same old i ekian-inspired jargon to talk about the real, the imaginary and any adjacent theories of insurrections that have for so long been regurgitated by leftist theorists. Their ideas formed what is loosely known, nowadays, as the field of critical theory. The Frankfurt School philosophers, gathered at the Institute of Social Research in the interwar period, included Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Walter Benjamin. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

evening service: He urged Thais to not ignore the women and children trafficked for sex or migrants enslaved as fishermen and beggars, according to CTV. All of them are part of our family, he told an estimated 60,000 people in the stadium for the evening service. During an open-air Mass at Bangkok's national sports stadium, Francis denounced the scourges afflicting the poorest of the region. They are our mothers, our brothers and sisters. The UN drug and crime agency said in a report this year that trafficking for sexual exploitation accounted for 79% of all trafficking cases in Thailand from 2014 to 2017. The United Nations considers Thailand a key trafficking destination as well as a source of forced labour and sex workers who are trafficked at home or abroad. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

party leaders: For years, Jordan led a band of misfit conservatives who grappled not so much with Democrats, but Republicans helping drive two GOP speakers of the House out of town, killing bills that didn't pass purity tests, shutting down the government, according to Rabble. Jordan became such a despised member of his conference that some of his colleagues began suggesting to party leaders that they redistrict him out of his seat. The square-jawed Ohio congressman used to coach wrestling and understands that conflict even in government proceedings is a matter of physics leverage, pressure, aggression, submission. But, in a recent meeting in the basement of the Capitol, on the eve of the first hearings of the impeachment inquiry, Jordan spoke to his Republican colleagues like a coach trying to spark the will to win.ADAD This process is anything but fair! he said, according to people in the room. The moment highlighted an extraordinary turn in Jordan's career from tormentor of leadership to leader himself a tacit acknowledgment that in President Trump's Republican Party, the Lord of the Gadflies now oversees a pretty big kingdom. Standing in front of his rapt colleagues, Jordan accused Democrats of trampling the president's right to defend himself and encouraged his fellow Republicans to attack the proceedings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

services agents: While it was reported that Michele took her own life the evening of November 5 at the notorious Leclerc prison, it would be more accurate to conclude that her life had been stolen from her long ago by male abusers, police, judges, social services agents, media, and a system that refuses to believe or understand the reality of male violence against women, according to Rabble. While Michele had tried with the greatest of dignity to win back piece after piece of her life through the years, she tragically ran out of hope three weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear her appeal for a second time.A former U.S. resident, Michele had been sought since 2010 for extradition from Canada to the state of Georgia to face trial for the alleged crime of interstate interference with custody. Despite having saved herself and her children nine years ago from an abusive ex-spouse, Michele was treated as a serious criminal by a Canadian state that, despite white ribbons and feminist window dressing, refused to acknowledge and believe the well-established history of abuse she and her children had suffered. The Supreme Court's refusal to hear her case in October was the final leg of a nine-year legal odyssey that required Michele, as part of her bail conditions, to turn herself in to custody each time a court was about to pronounce on her fate. Since 2010, she'd been jailed at various times for periods up to six months, and forced to live under a house arrest regime that kept her cooped up for 23 hours a day in a modest Lac-M gantic apartment. But by this fall, Michele had had enough of prison. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

depression boehner: He left behind the largest House GOP majority since the Great Depression, according to Rabble. Boehner, who turned 70 Sunday, returned on Tuesday to a very different Capitol, one that had transformed from the heated partisan battles during his nearly five years as speaker into a complete cauldron caught in a constitutional standoff.ADOn Sept. 24, 2019 exactly four years after the pope gave Boehner a blessing in private House Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-Calif. stood solemnly before the cameras outside her office to announce the beginning of an official impeachment inquiry against President Trump over his pressure to compel Ukrainian officials to investigate his domestic rivals.ADThe man who publicly announced his retirement by singing Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah walked into a Capitol enmeshed in trench warfare, both sides digging in for a protracted constitutional showdown that will last well into the winter. Sitting behind the pope, wiping away tears, John A. Boehner R-Ohio had his moment of clarity He would resign as House speaker, announcing it to his colleagues the next morning. Officially there to unveil a portrait that will hang in a venerated room just off the House floor, Boehner brought with him one last bid to get his former colleagues to embrace a style that charmed friends and enemies alike. I'd like to think we were able to disagree without being disagreeable, Boehner told several hundred well-wishers inside Statuary Hall. He remains an eternal optimist who views the world as a glass half full usually with red wine in one hand, a Camel cigarette in the other, handkerchief stuffed into his coat pocket to wipe away his ever-flowing tears.AD It doesn't cost anything to be nice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

focus: Watch as Prime Minister Trudeau's new and expanded cabinet is announced I'm very excited today to be able to get down to work the way Canadians asked us to in this last election, according to CTV. To pull together the country, focus on issues of economic growth for the middle class, to fight climate change, and to keep Canadians and their communities safe. With additional emphasis on middle class and regional prosperity and a new approach to representation, a dozen current ministers are taking on new portfolios and seven rookies are now in cabinet, two of whom were elected for the first time in 2019. That is our focus, and this is the team to do that, Trudeau said during a post-ceremony media availability. The majority of the 37-member cabinet are MPs from Ontario and Quebec, four from British Columbia, one from Manitoba, and one from each of the Atlantic provinces. Who's who Complete list of Justin Trudeau's Liberal cabinet Trudeau has reshaped the lineup of ministries, with several new titles, and consolidations of some cabinet responsibilities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

mass immigration: Both events can be explained by the mass immigration of cheap labor, according to Rabble. The combination of these events presents an immediate threat to democracy. if page width onload 479 document.write ' ' ; ; The inflation-adjusted wages of low-skilled workers would now be double current levels, if they had kept up with the historic trend which is driven by the advance of technology and knowledge . But the incomes of the rich have gone up at about double the historic trend rate, as shown in Figure 1. The incomes of the rich, however, accelerated upward. Clickherefor my sources and notes. The ratio of the top 1% of incomes to unskilled income has quadrupled since 1972, to a level far exceeding the previous peak in 1928. Similar things happened from 1820 to 1910. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

daniel announcement: In Halifax, faced with a similar situation, Mayor Mike Savage showed a great deal of political leadership in saying, 'It stops now,' and decreed a moratorium and told police, 'You aren't stopping anybody until we have clear rules in place that will stop checks based on simply a hunch or suspicion or you're in a high-crime neighbourhood, Coun, according to CTV. Marvin Rotrand said in an interview before his motion was adopted. Chief Daniel Kinsella's announcement comes as Montreal unanimously adopted a motion Monday night calling for a stop to the practice by police officers there, with the councillor behind the motion citing Halifax as an example of leadership. The Montreal motion is not binding, because the city's police force answers to the provincial Public Security Department, not city hall. It also calls on Montreal city council to ensure police respect their commitment to come up with a new street check policy by March. The motion calls on the police to immediately stop unfounded street checks and asks the provincial government to adopt legislation regulating police stops across Quebec. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

policy measures: The Fuel Price Transparency Act FTPA will give the B.C. Utilities Commission BCUC powers to collect information from private oil and gas companies related to market conditions and factors that explain how companies set the prices that citizens pay for fuel, according to Georgia Asian. By pulling back the curtain, these companies will be publicly accountable for unfair markups and cost increases that cannot be explained, Ralston said. This legislation sends a message to oil and gas companies the days of setting your prices in total secrecy have come to an end. It will also produce a common set of facts moving forward, allowing us to properly evaluate other policy measures to bring fairness to the price at the pump. The tabling of the Fuel Price Transparency Act follows the publication of a report by the BCUC that sought to explain why gas prices are higher in southern B.C. compared to most of the rest of Canada. Through the spring of 2019, gas prices in many regions of B.C. hovered around 1.70 per litre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

resource-based economy: Trudeau is set to unveil his first post-election cabinet Wednesday morning, according to National Observer. The shuffle is to be the first sign of the tone Trudeau will set as the head of a minority government that has to balance a climate change emergency with Canada's natural resource-based economy. They also want him to give prominent attention to reducing the anxieties of workers whose jobs are disappearing, possibly even with a new cabinet portfolio dedicated to helping reshape the economy with this transition in mind. We need to see a very holistic and ambitious approach to tackling our challenges, said Isabelle Turcotte, federal policy director at the Pembina Institute. Now what How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts That has to include, said Turcotte, making climate change part of the decision-making process in every ministry. What people are reading Wilkinson becoming environment minister, O'Regan taking energy file reports Nearly 3 billion people have lost their freedom in the name of ensuring public order. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

apples smell: The changeable weather sun, then scudding clouds that arrive full of rain and inevitable humidity in between just serves to exacerbate the scent and fruitfulness of it all, according to Rabble. A scent that lingers long after you have left the market or the shop ... especially the apples why is it that apples smell so strongly and persistently Strong and persistent is the pleasure I get from putting autumn produce in its place, ripping open nets of chestnuts or mandarins and watching them skittle in a bowl, attempting my own private Caravaggio with two pomegranates, three pears and a quince that may never get cooked, and putting the pumpkin on the shelf like an ornament. Pumpkins and squash, the rabble of roots and their greens, the first fennel and the last grapes, freckled apples, pears and fuzzy-felt quinces, wild and tame mushrooms, pomegranates, green-black kale and red-stalked chard, the first artichokes and green-tinted citrus, smooth, chocolate brown chestnuts with all this to wear, no wonder the market, corner shop and supermarket shelves look so gorgeous. I get less pleasure from cutting pumpkin, having almost lost a finger last year. I disagree you need to discipline them or delegate the task. You must woo an autumn squash, wrote Molly O'Neill in her book A Well Seasoned Appetite. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

corner segment: For those of you who were hoping to see Bart here, I can tell you from experience I went through something similar at the CBC with the Hockey Night in Canada theme song -- I think I hid in my condo for a week, former Sportsnet president Scott Moore told the packed conference room, according to CTV. You get everything from the Twitter lynch mobs coming after you to death threats. The last Coach's Corner segment and Don Cherry's departure were still hot talking points among the sports media executives on the panel even though Yabsley was not in attendance. So for Bart to have been here today, it would have been all anybody wanted to talk about, and I think that would have been unfair to him and unfair to the conference. Cherry's firing and its ramifications have dominated the Canadian news cycle since his departure was announced. A schedule conflict was the reason for Yabsley's absence, a Sportsnet spokesperson said via email. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

canada: To also help with a growing sense of western alienation, many analysts believe the Trudeau government will put heightened emphasis on the role of minister of intergovernmental affairs, according to CTV. Some sources suggested that Trudeau's cabinet will be bigger than before, with Ministry of Environment and Climate Change likely split into two portfolios. A new Parliament begins soon Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter After the Tories' sweep of Western Canada in last month's election, some senior officials have hinted at the idea of having regional ministers who could represent concerns of communities across Canada. The Liberal cabinet is also expected to be gender balanced once again. Trudeau announced last month that he'd be unveiling his new cabinet on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Senior government officials are finalizing choices for the new cabinet over the next few days, but changes to portfolios are known to have occurred just hours before the official swearing in. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

unionize amazon: One bright red poster says, Unionize Amazon and Tax Bezos in large white letters, according to Rabble. It offers a glimpse into a potential upcoming battle for Sawant now that she beat her rival, the business-backed Egan Orion, despite his unprecedented financial support from Amazon. One wall is plastered with every imaginable poster on policies she's pushed for, including rent control and 15 an hour minimum wage. The collection is her labor of love and frequently updated with the day's latest struggles, says Sawant, who is sitting at a long table in her office Tuesday with a mason jar filled with apple cider It's from PCC Community Markets, a local food cooperative whose workers, she happily reveals, are unionized . Is Amazon taking revenge on a Seattle socialist after she took on company Read more She's been up since well before 5am, juggling a day packed with media interviews and council meetings. She says that she hopes other candidates like her across the world take note of this major victory. But you wouldn't know it by the rapid-fire analysis she provides of her recent momentous win. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

annalisa harris: Her chief-of-staff, Annalisa Harris, is at the centre of the controversy, according to CTV. TVA cited anonymous sources who said Harris had an authoritarian management style. The accusations have not targeted mayor Montgomery according to TVA Nouvelles, who first reported on the investigation. CTV News could not reach Harris on Friday. I'm not the type of mayor who will hide and just throw things under the carpet. Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante said she was open to the comptroller's investigation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

college: She apparently attended an unaccredited Christian college called the University of the Nations, according to Rabble. She says she was part of a United Nations panel, but the U.N. has no record of her participation. She claims to be an alumna of Harvard Business School and a graduate of the Army War College even though she did not receive any degree from either institution. She even went so far as to create a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it. A grifter himself, Trump has filled his administration with people who either lack professional qualifications or ethical standards and often both. Chang would never have been appointed by any other president, yet she fits right into an administration headed by a president who notoriously created his own phony Time magazine cover. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

hunting waterfowl: The birds ingest lead when they scavenge the carcasses of animals killed with lead shotgun pellets or rifle bullets that contain the toxin, Hope said, according to CTV. The Canadian government banned lead for hunting waterfowl two decades ago, and non-toxic shot is now required to hunt most migratory game birds across the country. The Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society, or OWL, in Delta, B.C., is currently treating two eagles for lead poisoning and it can see up to 20 raptors each year, said long-time raptor caretaker Rob Hope. Lead shot is also prohibited for all types of hunting in 55 national wildlife areas. It's unclear how many birds are being poisoned and the source of the lead poisoning is hard to pin down, said John Elliott, a research scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in B.C. In addition to spent ammunition, the birds can also ingest lead through fishing tackle. But pellets and bullets containing lead are still widely used to hunt large game and upland game birds, such as grouse or pheasant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

post view: Any politician worth his or her salt has steered well clear of it since at least 1992, when U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot used it in a speech before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, according to CBC. Perot didn't intend it as an insult, but as a way to emphasize the human cost of inner-city crime and drug abuse on urban black communities. Craig Robertson/Postmedia News National Post View November 15, 20195 10 PM ESTFiled under Full Share this story National Post View Marking the end of a hockey era Tumblr Pinterest Google Linked In You people is a dangerous term, filled with racial innuendo. The words touched a nerve, however. I'm not sure that in the area of civil rights he has the cultural sensitivity that's required or the staff to advise him. As the president of the Tucson branch of the NAACP put it Ross Perot worries me. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

audience members: After a 45-minute panel, audience members were given the opportunity to ask Dubas and the other panellists questions and a university student asked about increasing diversity in sports, according to CTV. I think that other sports have done a far better job than hockey has in that regard, said Dubas, after citing a recent media report about the lack of diversity in hockey. Dubas spoke about needing a wider range of voices in hockey on Thursday night at the MLSE Foundation's speaker series. What I would say is that I know that our team was at the top of the list with about 16 per cent of our front office staff being women. More than 300 people were in attendance for the event at MLSE Launchpad, a facility in Toronto's downtown core owned by Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, that is dedicated to using sports to enrich the lives of youth. Toronto FC general manager Ali Curtis and MLSE chief technology officer Humza Teherany were also on the panel moderated by TSN's Lindsay Hamilton. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

orr: I know Grapes better than anybody, Orr said, according to CTV. He's not a bigot and he's not a racist. In an interview with Boston radio station WEEI on Thursday, Orr called the decision to sack his former Bruins coach disgraceful. This guy is the most generous, caring guy that I know. It's a new world I guess. What they've done to him up there is disgraceful, it really is. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.