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Liberals Block Refugee Reform

Editorial board: Liberals block refugee reform By National Post editorial board June 8, 2010 The biggest impediment to refugee and immigration reform in this country is the federal Liberal caucus. That has always been the case, but their backbenchs obstinacy … Continue reading

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Feds To Crack Down On Crooked Immigration Consultants

Feds to crack down on crooked immigration consultants By BRYN WEESE, Parliamentary Bureau The Toronto Sun Last Updated: June 8, 2010 10:49am OTTAWA – Crooked immigration consultants beware. The feds are gunning for you. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Tuesday … Continue reading

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Advice To Summer Vacationers : Enjoy Your Parks While You Can

The following bulletin was written by B.C. Environmentalist Tim Murray +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Advice to Summer Vacationers: Enjoy Your Parks While You Can. Is the promise of Habitat Forever like the promise Of “Peace In Our Time”? For those who recall the … Continue reading

Posted in Bulletins - 2003 to Dec 31 2010, Environmental Effects, Environmental Effects pub. before Jan 2018, Weekly

Far-Right Anti-Islam Party Set To Double Seats In Dutch Election

Far-right anti-Islam party set to double seats in Dutch election Telegraph.com Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Jun 2010 The far-right Party for Freedom, which has campaigned on a ticket of ending the “Islamic invasion”, is expected to double its representation in … Continue reading

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Ed Balls : Brown Failed To Heed My Warning On Immigration

Ed Balls: Brown failed to heed my warning on immigration The Labour leadership contender Ed Balls claimed that he had warned Gordon Brown for 18 months that he needed to address voter concerns over immigration and indicated his Gillian Duffy … Continue reading

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Canadians With Dual Citizenship Warned Of Risk When Travelling Abroad

Canadians with dual citizenship warned of risks when travelling abroad The Canadian Press June 07, 2010 12:55 p.m. OTTAWA – The federal government is warning Canadians with dual citizenship of the risks they could face when travelling abroad, and is … Continue reading

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People Could Be Threat To Ecology

People could be threat to ecology JOSH GORDON The Age June 6, 2010 http://www.theage.com.au/national/people-could-be-threat-to-ecology-20100605-xlxz.html The Rudd government will consider adding ''human population growth'' to a key list of ecological threats that underpins Australia's environmental laws. Environment Minister Peter Garrett has … Continue reading

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Economic Slump Hits Population

Economic slump hits population By Tim Colebatch The Age (Melbourne), June 5, 2010 Australia's population boom is deflating fast. Net long-term arrivals in Australia have slumped 25 per cent in recent months, with arrivals of permanent settlers down to a … Continue reading

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Desert Sees Rich Pickings In Asylum Influx

Desert sees rich pickings in asylum influx By Paige Taylor The Australian, June 4, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/desert-sees-rich- pickings-in-asylum-influx/story-e6frg6nf-1225875244983 Desert publican Robbie Johnson cannot wait for immigration workers to start spending their wages in his bar when they arrive with 30 asylum-seeker … Continue reading

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Christmas Island Exodus To Mainland

Christmas Island Exodus to Mainland By Paul Maley and Paige Taylor The Australian, June 4, 2010 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/christmas-island-exodus-to-mainland/story-e6frgczf-1225875247579 More than 700 Afghan and Sri Lankan boatpeople could be flown from Christmas Island in what would be the largest transfer of asylum-seekers … Continue reading

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Immigration Minister Uses Veto Rarely

Immigration minister uses veto rarely Australian Associated Press, June 4, 2010 http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/immigration- minister-uses-veto-rarely-20100604-xkli.html Immigration Minister Chris Evans says he would very, very rarely use his new powers to veto skilled migration applications. The Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee is … Continue reading

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Australia To Overhaul Temporary Migrant Visa Program

Australia To Overhaul Temporary Migrant Visa Program By Rachel Pannett Dow Jones Newswires, June 4, 2010 http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201006040031dowjonesdjonline000004&title =australia-to-overhaul-temporary-migrant-visa-program CANBERRA -(Dow Jones)- Australia's government unveiled plans Friday to overhaul its migrant visa program, starting by halving the range of temporary work … Continue reading

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French Interior Minister Convicted of Racial Insult

French interior minister convicted of racial insult Agence France Presse, June 4, 2010 http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/french-interior-minister-convicted-of-racial-insult_73723.html A court convicted France's Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux on Friday of making a racial insult about a young man of Arab origin. The Paris court fined … Continue reading

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Ex-Mayor Offers Dutch Voters Return To Tolerance

Ex-mayor offers Dutch voters return to tolerance By Arthur Max The Associated Press, June 4, 2010 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gCT2SPInaRW_ZLAc_Gj-vs1gGKYgD9G4EML81 AMSTERDAM—-Job Cohen is out to make a point. At a time when male-dominated political parties preach anti-Islam exclusion, the message of the Dutch … Continue reading

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National Debate Over Arizona Law Shifts To Local Stage, Campaign Trail

National Debate Over Arizona Law Shifts to Local Stage, Campaign Trail FOXNews.com, June 4, 2010 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/04/national-debate-arizona-law-shifts-local-stage-campaign-trail/ The debate over Arizona's immigration law is reverberating on Main Streets across the country, as national attention on the policy has led some cities … Continue reading

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Nevada Officials Defend Early Release Program To Deport Illegal Immigrant Prison Inmates

Nevada Officials Defend Early Release Program To Deport Illegal Immigrant Prison Inmates By Sean Whaley The Nevada News Bureau, June 4, 2010 http://www.lvtsg.com/imho/2010/06/nevada-officials-defend-early-release-program-to-deport-illegal-immigrant-prison-inmates/ Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty said a program the state initiated a few years ago to … Continue reading

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Arizona Governor Brewer Wants Separating Fence Completed

Ariz. Gov. Brewer wants separating fence completed By Suzanne Gamboa The Associated Press, June 4, 2010 http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ariz-gov-brewer-wants-541526.html WASHINGTON—-Facing off over illegal immigration, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer told President Barack Obama that Americans 'want our border secured' and called Thursday for … Continue reading

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Details Of Controversial PEI Immigrant Program Will Remain Private

Details of controversial P.E.I. immigrant program will remain private Provincial Nominee Program offered Canadian visas to immigrants who invested $200,000 on the Island with some of the money going to companies who hired the immigrants The Canadian Press, June 4, … Continue reading

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Two Villawood Centre Managers Sacked

Two Villawood Centre Managers Sacked The Sydney Morning Herald, June 3, 2010 http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/two-villawood- centre-managers-sacked-20100603-x8s3.html Two managers have been sacked and two others have been transferred following the escape of six people from Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. Nine people initially … Continue reading

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People Smuggler Gives Evidence In Perth

People Smuggler Gives Evidence in Perth By Lloyd Jones The Sydney Morning Herald, June 3, 2010 http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/people-smuggler- gives-evidence-in-perth-20100603-x5dp.html A convicted people smuggler has told a Perth court he had to pay off authorities in Indonesia when he organised boats to … Continue reading

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