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Canada: New $1.9m grant helps agency promote immigrant hiring A local agency that works with Ottawa employers to remove barriers to recruiting and retaining skilled immigrants says it will expand its activities after receiving a $1.9-million provincial grant. Hire Immigrants Ottawa will form a new working group focused on the biotechnology sector, complimenting the present working groups concentrated on the health care, information technology, finance and public sectors. 'Bridging programs works,' said Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Michael Chan in a statement. The Ottawa Business Journal

Canada: Border Services eyes charges against man who crashed plane An American registered sex offender who walked away from a plane crash near Sooke will walk from the hospital into the embrace of Canada Border Services, where he could face... Canada: Sikh MP fights back against nanny abuse allegations Toronto: A lawyer for embattled Indian Canadian MP Ruby Dhalla, who has been accused of exploitation by her three nannies, Friday called the charges 'an organised' conspiracy to destroy her... Canada: Immigration boosts New Brunswick's population growth OTTAWA - New Brunswick is benefiting from the loss of jobs in Ontario's manufacturing sector, especially in the auto industry, an analyst says. Charles Cirtwill, executive vice-president of the Atlantic...

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Canada: Program helps foreign nurses adjust to culture

Dharen Brar spent three years earning a diploma to become a registered nurse in India and worked in the intensive care unit of a hospital there before moving to Calgary in 2003. She knew there would be language barriers to...
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Canada: Gov't moves to aid refugee relatives of Tamil-Canadians

Some Tamil-Canadians say the military war in Sri Lanka might be over, but protests in Toronto will continue to show support for humanitarian aid and human rights for Tamils there. 'Now more than ever, Tamil Canadians need to hear from...
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Canada: Immigration probes background of pilot who crashed in B.C.

VICTORIA - The American pilot of a small plane that crashed Monday night near French Beach will be questioned by the Canada Border Services after weapons were found on the Piper-Comanche aircraft. The man, 64, emerged from the crash with...
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Canada: Border concerns to be discussed during U.S. DHS chief's visit

WASHINGTON - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is planning to make her first visit to Canada next week amid lingering concerns in Ottawa over statements that raised questions about her understanding of security issues along America's northern border. While...
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Canada: M.P.'s case focuses attention on nanny program

OTTAWA - If there's a silver lining in the Ruby Dhalla affair, it may be for the organizations who have long sought better protection for thousands of Filipinas who come to Canada each year to work as nannies and caregivers....
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Canada: Imm. Minister weighs options in case of released killer

The Canadian Immigration Minister's office is looking at all options to get a convicted Bosnian murderer back into custody. Elvir Pobric was convicted of the execution-style shooting of two men in Bosnia back in 1992. He served 3 years of...
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Canada: Seems Like Yesterday - Western Standard

While a far more severe problem in the United States, Canada has a substantial underground workforce. Unable to enter the country legally, rarely because they pose a genuine security risk to the country, they over stay student and tourist...
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Canada: Whose Rights Are Really Being Trampled? - Christie Blatchford

Torontonians feel they're being asked to suck up without complaint the complexities of an issue they're expected to accept on faith By Christie Blatchford The truth is, no one really knows how many Tamils are in Toronto, or Canada. There...
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Canada: Sorry, But They Are Not Canadians - Werner Patels

By Werner Patels But one thing that plays in America's favour is its "melting pot" approach to integrating newcomers - far superior to Canada's multiculturalism. Immigrants to America don't have to give up their traditional cultures and languages from back...
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Canada: Imm. Minister miffed at own dep't over Bosnian killer affair

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is vowing to take urgent' action against his own officials who are refusing to say if a Bosnian fugitive killer has been released. Kenney's spokesman Alykhan Velshi said the minister is troubled by the decision of...
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Canada: One of four smuggling suspects released on bail

Provincial court Judge David Walker granted bail Thursday to four people the RCMP accuses of smuggling people into the United States. Walker banned publication of evidence and arguments at the bail hearing in St. Stephen provincial court, as requested by...
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Canada: Caregiver advocate disputes MP's account on passports

A caregivers advocate testified Thursday that she had an unpleasant conversation with Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla to retrieve a passport and other personal documents a caregiver alleged were being withheld by the Dhalla family. Agatha Mason's testimony at the Commons...
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Canada: Mounties arrest four on smuggling charges

RCMP have arrested four people, including two from New Brunswick, they say were attempting to smuggle migrants into the United States. The arrests made Wednesday are part of an ongoing RCMP investigation, which began in the province more than a...
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Canada: Immigrant care-giver advocate disputes MP's testimony

OTTAWA - The woman who phoned Ruby Dhalla to retrieve the personal documents of a caregiver in Ms. Dhalla's employ says the story the Liberal MP told a Commons committee about that conversation was far from accurate. "She has a...
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Canada: Secret hearing slated for Bosnian killer

A Canadian immigration adjudicator has ruled the public can't observe the detention review of a landed immigrant from Bosnia who's been the subject of an international manhunt for the past 13 years for murdering two men. That means the hearing...
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Canada: Church deacon faces deportation to China

Worshippers of a North York church are stepping up their fight to stop the deportation to China of a 'popular' deacon and soon-to-be pastor. Shunyu Piao, 56, and her supporters, say she'll be jailed in China for converting people into...
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Canada: Liberal MP denies abuse allegations by foreign workers

Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla and two caregivers from the Philippines, one of whom broke down crying, exchanged allegations of exploitation at a Commons committee hearing Tuesday. Dhalla several times raised the prospect that widely publicized allegations by the two foreign...
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Canada: Rural areas decline as immigrants flock to cities

A new report on immigration in Ontario says that its growth in urban centres will have an unintended side effect: small towns and rural areas will see their population shrink and possibly vanish. The report by two Ryerson University experts...
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Canada: Winnipeg finds favor with newcomers

Despite the tough times of economic uncertainties and massive job losses, Winnipeg expects its economy to grow by 1.1 per cent this year. Winnipeg is the third most economically stable city in the country with an unemployment rate as low...
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Canada: Toronto A 'Multicultural Paradise'? What Was Cato's Wilkinson Smoking? - Kathy Shaidle

By Kathy Shaidle The same day Wilkinson's article appeared online [http://www.theweek.com/article/index/95748/The_immigration_fallacy], thousands of Toronto Tamils took to the streets in what eventually became a four-day long demonstration that blocked rush hour traffic and waved the flag of a banned terrorist...
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Canada: Multiculturalism on the Retreat - George Abraham

By George Abraham The latest test came to an end in Ottawa last week when 30,000 Tamil Canadians staged one of the largest public displays of ire in this capital's history. Over the previous two weeks, the demonstrators had carried...
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Canada: Holes in The Multicultural Quilt - Klaus Rohrich

By Klaus Rohrich The five-day blockade of one of Toronto's major north-south thoroughfares and the threatened protest in Toronto by some 100,000 Tamils to stop the Sri Lankan government from definitively ending the Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka is an...
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Canada: Former KGB agent ordered to leave country

Burnaby resident and former KGB agent Mikhail Lennikov has received a deportation notice, ordering him to leave Canada on May 26 at 5 a.m., but the father is hoping to stay to see his son graduate from high school. The...
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Canada: Two Iranian activists barred from entering country

Leading dissidents from Iran were insulted and humiliated by visa officers at the Canadian Embassy in Tehran before two were barred entry to Canada for a conference at York University, organizers said yesterday. The two are Reza Alijani, a journalist...
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Canada: Gov't to act to curb flow of asylum-seekers

Tensions over a surge in refugee claims from the Czech Republic to this country surfaced during Stephen Harper's visit to the Eastern European nation yesterday when its prime minister said Canada is soft on asylum seekers. Czech Prime Minister Mirek...
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Canada: Report urges flexibility for nannies who quit jobs over abuse

Nannies who quit their jobs because they are mistreated should be given more time to meet requirements to become permanent residents of Canada before being deported, says a new report. 'No one should feel that they have to tolerate mistreatment...
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Canada: Convicted Bosnian killer back in custody

A Bosnian man convicted in the execution-style murders of two men has been taken into custody by local border officials. Elvir Pobric, 37, was released on bail in Calgary after a provincial court hearing Wednesday in connection with two fraud...
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Canada: Czech PM says country too soft on asylum seekers

Canada is "soft" on asylum seekers, says Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek. Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who didn't exactly bristle at the comment, was very quick to comment that the flow of refugee claimants from the Czech Republic to Canada...
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Canada: U.S. man faces charges after crossing border with weapons

GOODLANDS, Man. - An American citizen faces 15 charges after a vehicle with weapons, ammunition and fuel containers ran the Manitoba-U.S. border. RCMP say Michael Calteaux, 49, of no fixed address faces charges under the Canada Customs Act and well...
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Canada: Probe reveals border guards allowing criminals to enter

OTTAWA - Border guards have been breaking rules in allowing hundreds of serious criminals to come to Canada, says an internal review. The Canada Border Services Agency allowed 535 people convicted of serious crimes to enter the country last year...
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