News Articles Prior to 2011

Canada’s Debt To Jump To $630 Billion In 5 Years : TD Bank

Canada's debt to jump to $630B in 5 years: TD Bank CBC News Last Updated: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | 9:18 PM ET Comments389 Recommend117 Canada's total debt will jump more than 30 per cent by 2013-14 under current economic … Continue reading

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Former KGB Takes Sanctuary At Vancouver Church

Former KGB takes sanctuary at Vancouver church Updated: Tue Jun. 02 2009 18:36:53 ctvbc.ca A former KGB agent threatened with deportation Wednesday morning has taken sanctuary in a Vancouver, B.C., church. Former Soviet translator Mikhail Lennikov moved to Canada 11 … Continue reading

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Ottawa Skeptical Of Roma Persecution As Flood Of Refugee Claimants Grows

Ottawa skeptical of Roma persecution, as flood of refugee claimants grows By Giuseppe Valiante National Post Posted: June 02, 2009, 6:12 PM by Rob Roberts The flood of Roma refugee claimants into Canada is hastening with 653 applications since January … Continue reading

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Court Offers No Reprieve For Former KGB Officer

Court offers no reprieve for former KGB officer The Canadian Press Updated Mon. Jun. 1 2009 8:45 PM ET VANCOUVER — A former KGB officer living in British Columbia is facing deportation to Russia after a federal court rejected his … Continue reading

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Indian Students Flock To Canada

Indian students flock to study in Canada Global Visas Ranjan Chakraborty June 01 2009 Canadian immigration is taking measures to attract Indian students with a new pilot project which will enable students who want to study in Canada to gain … Continue reading

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Roma Refugees Take Up Residence At Pearson Airport

Roma refugees take up residence at Pearson airport CTVToronto.ca Updated: Sun May. 31 2009 4:18:24 PM A group of Roma refugee claimants have made themselves at home at Pearson International Airport, waiting to meet with immigration officers who will decide … Continue reading

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CSIS Forced To Reveal Info On Secret Sources In Harkat Case

CSIS forced to reveal info on secret source in Harkat case Tonda MacCharles Ottawa Bureau May 31, 2009 09:25 PM OTTAWA—-The reputation and credibility of CSIS, Canada's spy agency, is on the line Monday. Defended by director Jim Judd as … Continue reading

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Immigration Raids Firm, 8 Detained

Immigration raids firm, 8 detained Mexican greenhouse workers in custody Sharon Hill The Windsor Star Published: Friday, May 29, 2009 The Canadian Border Services Agency has detained eight people after a Wednesday immigration raid at a Leamington business. “CBSA officers … Continue reading

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Crackdown Planned For Foreign Worker Program

Crackdown planned for foreign worker program Star investigations Fears of visa, work permit fraud prompting Ottawa to tighten up on its landed immigrant system Nicholas Keung IMMIGRATION REPORTER Comments on this story [] (17) May 24, 2009 04:30 AM Ottawa … Continue reading

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Court Finds Rwandan Guilty Of War Crimes

Court finds Rwandan guilty of war crimes With conviction in 1994 genocide, Canada begins to live up to international legal system it helped create LES PERREAUX MONTREAL From Saturday's Globe and Mail Saturday, May. 23, 2009 03:27AM EDT Canada moved … Continue reading

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Hallway Culture Clash

Hallway culture clash In a Toronto apartment building, a feud has broken out over a neighbourly 'hello.' What hath multiculturalism wrought? Matthew Coutts National Post Published: Friday, May 22, 2009 In trying to adapt to a patchwork of often conflicting … Continue reading

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Job Seekers With Asian Names Face Discrimination

Job seekers with Asian names face discrimination Canadians with English names are called back more often for job interviews, UBC study finds David Karp Vancouver Sun Published: Thursday, May 21, 2009 Canadians with Asian names face a daunting level of … Continue reading

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The Real Moral Of Nannygate

The real moral of nannygate Thomas Walkom The Toronto Star May 16, 2009 04:30 AM Comments on this story : (27) Hidden behind the delightfully juicy contretemps over how Brampton MP Ruby Dhalla treated her Filipina nannies lies a larger, … Continue reading

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Canadian Refugee Claims By Czech Minority Surge After Arson Attack On Family

Canadian refugee claims by Czech minority surge after arson attack on child Ottawa says visa-seekers pursuing economic opportunity, not escaping persecution By Peter O'Neil and Wency Leung Canwest News Service May 16, 2009 Three Molotov cocktails hurled into a family … Continue reading

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Bosnian Killer Secretly Freed Pending Immigration Hearing

Bosnian killer secretly freed pending immigration hearing By Sherri Zickefoose Calgary Herald May 15, 2009 CALGARY A convicted double murderer who escaped a Bosnian prison and came to Canada as a refugee is walking free after being released from custody … Continue reading

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Mounties Arrest 4 For Smuggling Humans

Mounties arrest 4 for smuggling humans By Diana Graettinger Bangor Daily News BDN Staff May 14, 2009 ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick—The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested four people Wednesday in what they characterize as an organized crime group involved in … Continue reading

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Caregivers And Employers Tread Fine Line Over Duties

Caregivers and employers tread a fine line over duties Kathryn Blaze Carlson National Post Published: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 As Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla faces public allegations of mistreating three former caregivers, nannies and their employers across Canada are privately … Continue reading

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Kenney Is Just The Latest To Confront Canada’s Refugee Industry

Kenney is just the latest to confront Canada's refugee industry. The others lost William Bauer The National Post Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:00 AM by NP Editor Jason Kenney, the federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, recently announced his intention … Continue reading

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Alberta Employment Counsellors Shift From Headhunting To Coaching Jobless Workers

Alberta Employment counsellors shift from headhunting to coaching jobless workers The Canadian Press May 10, 2009 CALGARY Less than year ago, Bruce Cameron was run off his feet trying to find workers for thousands of vacant jobs. Today, he's run … Continue reading

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Tory Minister Kenney Denies Conspiracy Against Ruby Dhalla

Tory minister Kenney denies conspiring against Ruby Dhalla The Canadian Press May 10, 2009 OTTAWA Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is dismissing claims by Ruby Dhalla's lawyer that the Liberal MP is the victim of a conspiracy mounted by people bent … Continue reading

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