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Gay Groups Urged To Sponsor Resettlement Of Sexual Refugees

Gay groups urged to sponsor resettlement of sexual refugees By Norma Greenaway The Canwest News Service (Canada), June 29, 2010 http://www.canada.com/life/groups+urged+sponsor+resettlement+ sexual+refugees/3217358/story.html Ottawa — Gay and lesbian organizations should 'step up to the plate' and privately sponsor the resettlement in … Continue reading

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Jason Kenney Trumpets Hard-Fought Immigration Reform

Jason Kenney trumpets hard-fought immigration reform By Gloria Galloway The Globe and Mail (Canada), June 29, 2010 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/jason-kenney-trumpets-hard-fought-immigration-reform/article1623276/ Immigration Minister Jason Kenney took time Tuesday to do a little crowing about his refugee-system reform, which with the help of opposition … Continue reading

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Big Australia : The View From Labour Heartland

Big Australia: the view from Labor heartland By Sallie Don The Australian, June 28, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/big-australia-the-view-from-labor-heartland/story-e6frgczf-1225884948320 In Labor's western Sydney heartland, Julia Gillard has impressed young Chinese students Zhou Qia and Rocky Lin. The couple, who hope to make a … Continue reading

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Immigration Policies Expected To Change As High-Growth Target Goes

Immigration policies expected to change as high-growth target goes By Niccola Berkovic and Milanda Rout The Australian, June 28, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/immigration-policies-expected-to-change-as-high-growth-target-goes/story-e6frgczf-1225884954009 Sustainable Population Minister Tony Burke says the government will adjust immigration policies so populated regions are not stretched. But … Continue reading

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Home Office Announces Cap On Non-EU Migration

Home Office announces cap on non-EU migration (AFP) June 28, 2010 LONDON The Home Office unveiled plans to limit the numbers coming to live and work in the country for the first time Monday, cutting visas for skilled non-European Union … Continue reading

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Foreign Workers May Need Private Health Care To Work In UK

Foreign workers may need private health care to work in UK Foreign workers face having to use private health care if they want to work in the UK to ease the social pressure of immigration, the Home Secretary has signalled. … Continue reading

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Wealthy Chinese Put House Hunting On Vancouver Vacation Itinerary

Wealthy Chinese put house hunting on Vancouver vacation itinerary Attractions include quality of education, quality of life and the stability of Canadian society, consultant says By Derrick Penner Vancouver Sun June 28, 2010 Comments (53) VANCOUVER—Mainland Chinese interest in Metro … Continue reading

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Gillard Rejects ‘Big Australia’

Gillard rejects 'big Australia' Josh Gordon The Age June 27, 2010 http://www.theage.com.au/national/gillard-rejects-big-australia-20100626-zb1g.html PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has declared she does not believe in a ''big Australia'', signalling a major shift in policy on the nation's burgeoning population growth. In her … Continue reading

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Kevin Rudd Missed Chance To Act

Kevin Rudd missed chance to act Dennis Shanahan, Political editor From: The Australian June 26, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/kevin-rudd-missed-chance-to-act/story-e6frgczf-1225884507206 In late December Labor's electoral strategy group decided on a two-part plan for the summer of 2010 and the Rudd government's first election. … Continue reading

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New Plans To Deport Somali Criminal

New plans to deport Somali criminal By DEAN PRITCHARD QMI Agency Canoe.ca June 26, 2010 WINNIPEG – If at first you don't succeed … Canadian immigration officials will try for the second time to deport Somali refugee and convicted criminal … Continue reading

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Canada Orders Review Of Visa Policy

Canada orders review of visa policy By Dipankar De Sarkar The Hindustan Times, June 26, 2010 http://www.hindustantimes.com/Canada-orders-review-of-visa-policy/Article1-563224.aspx The Canadian government has ordered a review of its immigration law and practices after angering New Delhi by denying visas to several Indian … Continue reading

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Ottawa Caps Number Of Skilled Immigrants

Ottawa caps number of skilled immigrants No more than 20,000 applications to reduce backlog Nicholas Keung Immigration Reporter thestar.com Published On Sat Jun 26 2010 The federal government will cap at 20,000 annually the number of visa applications from skilled … Continue reading

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Twenty Other States Considering Copying Arizona Immigration Law

Twenty Other States Considering Copying Arizona Immigration Law JOHN MILLER The Huffington Post 06/25/10 06:13 PM BOISE, Idaho Arizona's sweeping new immigration law doesn't even take effect until next month, but lawmakers in nearly 20 other states are already clamoring … Continue reading

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The Immigration Debate We Don’t Want To Have

The immigration debate we dont want to have Aqsas murder raises some extremely troubling questions about integration Margaret Wente From Thursday's Globe and Mail June 24, 2010 After the sensational 2007 murder of Aqsa Parvez, the 16-year-old girl who disobeyed … Continue reading

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No More Apologies !!

NO MORE APOLOGIES Once again, Canadians have heard our federal government apologizing—this time to the families of victims of the bombing in 1985 of an Air India flight from Toronto to India. The bombing killed about 330 people and was … Continue reading

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Another Effort Is Under Way To Put SB1070 On Ballot

Another effort is under way to put SB 1070 on ballot By Alia Beard Rau and Kevin Kiley The Arizona Republic (Phoenix), June 23, 2010 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/ 06/23/20100623Latinovote0623.html A Green Party candidate for governor has pulled paperwork to try to get … Continue reading

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Mexico Challenges Arizona’s Immigration Law

Mexico challenges Arizona's immigration law The BBC News (U.K.), June 23, 2010 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10386190.stm Mexico has waded into a legal challenge to a new immigration law in the US state of Arizona. In papers submitted to a US federal court, the … Continue reading

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Some Canadian Politicians ‘Under Foreign Influence’

Some Canadian politicians 'under foreign influence' BBC NEWS Page last updated at 12:32 GMT, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 13:32 UK The director of Canada's security services said that at least two high-ranking provincial politicians were believed to be under the … Continue reading

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Human Smuggling Charges Laid In Nova Scotia

Human smuggling charges laid in Nova Scotia Canwest News Service June 23, 2010 SHELBURNE, N.S. Two men have been charged following an RCMP investigation into human smuggling after border officials found 10 people who sailed into a Nova Scotian port … Continue reading

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Obama Requests $600 Million For Border Security

Obama requests $600 million for border security The president's emergency funding request would pay for more Border Patrol agents, drones, National Guard troops and more. By Peter Nicholas The Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2010 []http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/22/nation/la-na-border-patrol-20100623 Washington, DC — The … Continue reading

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