kenney: And he's cynically betting that Canadians, unwilling or unable to investigate the matter on their own, will give him the benefit of the doubt, according to National Observer. But he's wrong. When Jason Kenney claims, without evidence, that Alberta's oilsands have been targeted by a cabal of American philanthropic foundations, he speaks with the confidence of someone who thinks his claims are unfalsifiable, impossible to disprove. His claims are, in fact, falsifiable. And, in this four-part series, we will prove it by systematically debunking nine key myths associated with Kenney's scare-mongering rhetoric. We know this because we examined them After nine months spent investigating public charity records on Candid, America's most comprehensive foundation and charitable monitoring site, we found that every core tenet of the foreign-funding conspiracy theory is false. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

insurance number: In the scheme, a citizen received a call from someone purporting to be a police officer, speaking English, according to CTV. It is targeting Quebecers all over the province, but particularly in the Monteregie region. The agency warned Quebecers to be wary of suspicious calls. The so-called officer asked the citizen for their name, social insurance number and other personal information, the SQ wrote in a press release on Friday. In some cases, the SQ added, the fraudster would ask for the citizen's bank information, warn them of other potential frauds. If the citizen refused to give their information, the fraudster would threaten arrest. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ukrainian famine: It is estimated up to 10 million people died, according to CTV. But Dougal Mac Donald, listed as a sessional instructor in the U of A's Department of Elementary Education, denies that the famine was an act of genocide, and he's coming under fire for his controversial views. The 1932-33 Ukrainian famine was recognized in 2008 by Canada and nine other countries as an act of genocide perpetuated by the Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin. In a Nov. 19 Facebook post, Mac Donald called the Holodomor a myth. Trudeau's support for the anti-communist, pro-Nazi Holodomor myth is no accident, he wrote. He said the genocide was a lie perpetuated with fake photographs and news stories and spread by former Nazi collaborators. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

face unprovoked: We feel there's a two-tier system at CBSA, said CIU national president Jean-Pierre Fortin, according to CTV. One for the managers, and one for the employees, our members. The video, which runs just under two minutes, features two alleged incidents where the Customs and Immigration Union CIU says supervisors assaulted employees but were never disciplined. Fortin said incidents reported by its workers include a male supervisor who physically assaulted a female officer in front of a witness, and a manager who punched a border services officer in the face unprovoked. In a written statement, CBSA media relations manager Ashley Lemire told CTV News, in part The CBSA is committed to providing a work environment where all employees are treated with respect and dignity. CTV News is unable to independently verify the allegations and when asked, Fortin declined to go into details, but said he was fairly certain neither of the cases were before the courts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

frontera: Video of Trailer - Frontera by Animals of Distinction, Live music by Fly Pan Am Other big national and international names span Free Admission, in which U.K.-based provocateur Ursula Martinez builds a real brick wall on stage; FRONTERA, another monumental-scale, hyperenergized dancework by Holy Body Tattoo alumna Dana Gingras's Animals of Distinction; Old Stock A Refugee Love Story, a concert-drama created by Halifax's acclaimed 2b Theatre Company, and presented with Touchstone Theatre and UBC Theatre and Film; choreographer and performer Dana Michel interweaves vocal contortions and movement into her deeply personal Cutlass Spring at the Scotiabank Dance Centre; Veda Hille and Theatre Replacement present the musical memoir Little Volcano; and 6th Man Collective and The Theatre Centre bring the basketball-theatre mashup Monday Nights, according to Georgia Asian. The Vancouver International Children's Festival will copresent Macromatter's High Water, a playful piece in which a performer builds entire worlds inside a fish tank. Happening in venues around town, the interdisciplinary fest includes Vancouver-created premieres like Electric Theatre Company's production of Carmen Aguirre's magic-realistic creation Anywhere But Here; City Opera Vancouver's 1934-Germany-set The Last Cabaret; Wen Wei Dance and the Turning Point Ensemble's calligraphy-inspired Flying white - ; contemporary artists Mike Bourscheid and Justine Chambers's six-dancer game Idealverein; and Musqueam playwright Quelemia Sparrow's epic Skyborn A Land Reclamation Odyssey, with the Savage Society. Micromatter's High Water is at the Nest from February 1 to 5. sh Tanasiychuk Coming from farther afield, Australia's Back to Back Theatre presents The Democratic Set, in which members of the community help make 15-second video portraits; Lebanon-U.K. artist Tania El Khoury brings her poetic ode to the violence of Syria, called Garden Speaks, here; and South Korean-Belgian artist Jaha Koo folds 20 years of South Korean history into one narrative in Cuckoo. The free opening weekend party includes performances by De Bastion, DJ Deaf Wish, and Cyma Space following the premiere screening of The Democratic Set at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. This year Club PuSh features Myles de Bastion, DJ Deaf Wish, Cyma Space, Crystal Precious, House of La Douche, and Pearle Harbour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

ctv news: Freeland, who despite no longer being foreign affairs minister has retained the responsibility for the Canada-U.S. file in part to see the trilateral trade deal through to its conclusion, made the trip because ratification in the U.S. may be getting closer, according to CTV. Wednesday evening Freeland met with Lighthizer and Mexico Undersecretary for North America Jes s Seade behind closed doors. Her trip south comes as the Democrats and the U.S. administration are very close to concluding negotiations on adjustments to the new NAFTA, sources tell CTV News. She called it a good trilateral meeting and said she was glad to be in D.C. working on getting the deal across the finish line. A new Parliament begins soon Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter In advance of American Thanksgiving, the three countries have been meeting to talk about potential alterations that would encourage the progressive Democrats to come on board with supporting the agreement to ensure that the ratification moves forward. She said she's been in regular contact with both her U.S. and Mexican counterparts throughout the week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

marc-andre leclerc: Later, he is to announce his picks for the Conservative shadow cabinet, which will include keeping some longtime critics in their roles and promoting other up-and-comers, according to CTV. A new Parliament begins soon Sign up for our Capital Dispatch newsletter But the calls are also including frank conversations about the debate raging over his leadership, according to several people who have spoken with Scheer in recent days but were not given permission to disclose the content of the calls. First up on Thursday is an announcement of his leadership team, the MPs who will marshal the Conservatives in Parliament. Two people from Scheer's innermost circle -- Hamish Marshall and Marc-Andre Leclerc -- no longer have formal roles in guiding his political future. In addition to being his closest aides during the campaign, Marshall and Leclerc were instrumental in Scheer's razor-thin win over rival Maxime Bernier after 13 rounds of voting in the 2017 Tory leadership race. Marshall's contract as the Conservatives' national campaign manager has expired and Leclerc, who had been Scheer's chief of staff, was fired over the weekend. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

obaseki: Godwin Obaseki as an economic adviser to Comrade Oshiomhole was largely unknown across the state, according to Rabble. So, selling him to the electorate was a tall order. Felix Nwaneri reports adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; hat do you think could be the rationale for the political battle raging in Edo State between Governor Godwin Obaseki and his predecessor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole If you cast your mind back to the campaigns in 2016, you will almost think it was Comrade Oshiomhole that was seeking a third term. Coupled with this was the fact that he had never voted in Edo State. There is also Don Pedro Obaseki, who enjoys some public space popularity. His family, the Obasekis, are prominent in the state, especially Gaius Obaseki, the former Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC and another Oyuiki Obaseki, now late. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

adsbygoogle: Thus, the political equation in Ogun state presents a paradox to the old order whereby the incumbents no longer call the shots when it comes to succession processes. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; By and large, while relating the scenario to the realities on ground, one is quick to add that political patronage has come to questioning. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; March 9, 2019 was the day of reckoning when the good people of Ogun State, in their magnanimity, unanimously gave their mandate to the candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC Prince Dapo Abiodun, as governor. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; However, the aftermath of the emergence of the APC candidate didn't go down well with the then governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, an arch-rival and a political godfather of the candidate of the Allied Peoples' Movement APM Mr Adekunle Akinlade, who was defiant of persuasions and pleas from well-meaning Nigerians to concede defeat, but decided to head to the tribunal to challenge the victory of his hitherto bosom friend. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; True to type, his Amosun adopted party APM approached the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, but the matter was thrown out for lack of merit, in what the three-man panel chaired by Justice Yahaya Halilu described as lazy, deficient and shallow . adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; As if undone, it appealed the verdict of the tribunal at the Court of Appeal, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state capital, while the appeal went the same way as it was at the tribunal. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push google ad client enable page level ads true ; While delivering the judgement on Monday, November 11, 2019, the five-man panel presided over by Justice Abubakar Yahaya, who was unavoidably absent, but read by Justice Muhammed Ambi-Usi Danjuma, and who led three others, Justices Isaiah Olufemi-Akeju, Jamilu Yammama Tukur and Moore Adumein, dismissed the appeal of the APM candidate and his party which he said, it lacks merit and it is therefore, struck out . In the unanimous decision, Justice Danjuma averred that the 10 grounds of the appeal filed by the APM and its governorship candidate challenging the victory of Governor Dapo Abiodun lacks merit. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push google ad client enable page level ads true ; The respective objections raised by the two appellants APM and its candidate are over-ruled and the emotions have no merit, answers to them are sustained and the two motions are dismissed read Justice Danjuma. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; Earlier, at the Ogun State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in the Petition No, according to Rabble. EPT/OG/GOV/01/2019, a three-man panel chaired by Justice Yahaya Halilu, in a 400-page verdict threw out the petition of the APM and its candidate and upheld the electoral victory of Abiodun as governor. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; With all the evidence of the APM witnesses, it was argued that by virtue of Section 285 9 of the Constitution every pre-election matter is subject to the provisions of the said Section 285 9 of the Constitution. However, the bequeathed practice is gradually fizzling out and it is paving ways for a new crop of followers and members that are weary of perfidy, but have chosen to take their destiny into their own hands. That the submission of Form CF001 on 25th October, 2018 by the 2nd Respondent to the 1st Respondent clearly, preceded the 9th March, 2019 Governorship Election, therefore evidently a pre-election matter, and therefore, any complaint arising from or based on alleged false information contained in the affidavit of the form CF001 submitted on 25th October, 2018 must be brought within 14 days of the accrual of the cause of action i.e within 14 days of 25th October, 2018 this he submitted is a Constitutional requirement. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; We agree no less with the submission of the Senior Counsel to the 2nd Respondent that the operative phrase in section 285 9 is every pre-election matter and the timely prosecution of same. Section 138 1 e was clear as to its provision. The mischief sought to be suppressed by the introduction of section 285 9 is to ensure unlike the provision prior to the amendment, that pre-election matter are instituted and determined with utmost dispatch. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; We also hold the strong view that any interpretation which embraces the commencement of pre-election matter such as in the instant petition outside the 14 days of the accrual of the cause of action as prescribed by the constitution will definitely defeat the legislative intention behind section 285 9 of the Constitution. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; We also found support that the issue relating to form CF001 Exhibit P331 is a pre-election matter in suit CA/A/2019 BARUWA VS APC delivered on 6th may, 2019 by the court of Appeal a copy of which was tendered in as Exhibit P35C . Tribunal observed and held that there was no scintilla of proof in respect of the allegation that 2nd Respondent submitted CF001 containing false information. adsbygoogle window.adsbygoogle .push ; That failure of the 2nd Respondent to disclose the Universities he attended or graduated in Exhibit P331' can not by any stretch of fertile imagination or brilliance of the Counsel address amount to false information. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

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.