News Articles Prior to 2011

Trafficking In False Promises

Trafficking in false promises Immigration tricksters in Punjab region prey on Indians who hope for new lives in Canada Rick Westhead SOUTH ASIA BUREAU Jan 29, 2009 04:30 AM Kapurthala, IndiaOne morning in February 2007, Harvinder Singh read an ad … Continue reading

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Rudyard Griffiths: Canada Pays The Price Of Immigration On The Cheap

Rudyard Griffiths: Canada pays the price of immigration on the cheap Posted: January 27, 2009, 8:00 AM by NP Editor Full Comment, Rudyard Griffiths One of the enjoyable things about writing for the National Post is the feedback you get … Continue reading

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Burmese Refugees Struggle To Resettle In Canada

Burmese refugees struggle to resettle in Canada By Marianne White Canwest News Service January 27, 2009 (Reprinted from January 3, 2009) QUEBEC : Rahima Begum holds a crumpled sheet in her hands that seems to have been folded and looked … Continue reading

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3000 Would-Be Immigrants Used Fake Quebec Health Cards : Report

3,000 would-be immigrants used fake Que. health cards: report Canwest News Service January 24, 2009 10:01 PM MONTREAL Quebecs health-care insurance board and the RCMP have uncovered a ring of about 3,000 north Africans allegedly using fake medicare cards to … Continue reading

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United Way President To Join CSIS Watchdog

United Way president to join CSIS watchdog DANIEL LEBLANC Globe and Mail January 24, 2009 OTTAWA — The head of United Way Toronto, Frances Lankin, is taking a side job as a member of the federal watchdog that oversees Canada's … Continue reading

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Minister Kenney Announces Appointments And Re-Appointments To Immigration And Refugee Board Of Canada

Minister Kenney Announces Appointments and Reappointments to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Citizenship and Immigration Canada Jan 23, 2009 12:28 ET OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Jan. 23, 2009) – The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, … Continue reading

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Gov’t Of Canada Announces Projects To Honour and Celebrate Chinese-Canadians

Government of Canada announces projects to honour and celebrate Chinese-Canadians Vancouver, January 23, 2009—The Government of Canada is launching four projects designed to reach out to youth and the Chinese community and raise awareness of the Chinese Head Tax and … Continue reading

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NB’ers Third Oldest In Country

NBers third oldest in country Miramichi Leader–A5 By Benjamin Shingler Canadaeast News Service Published Friday January 23rd, 2009 FREDERICTON – New Brunswick has one of the oldest populations in the country and the trend shows no signs of reversing any … Continue reading

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Punjab Cops’ Fame Draws Dismay In Canada

Punjab cops' fame draws dismay in Canada By NOUMAN KHALIL South Asian Focus Wednesday January 21 2009 Canada will be short-changed with the “least number of deserving immigrants from India” if the Punjab state police or the government authorities there … Continue reading

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Suncor Cuts Spending Again

Suncor cuts spending again Oilsand giant's 2009 target of $10 billion now less than a third of that By Dave Cooper With files from Darcy Henton, Calgary Herald and Bloomberg News, The Edmonton Journal; With files from Calgary Herald and … Continue reading

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Military Deserter Ordered Deported From B.C.

Military deserter ordered deported from B.C. By Tiffany Crawford Canwest News Service January 20, 2009 An American army deserter who has been living in B.C. in an attempt to avoid serving in the U.S.-led war in Iraq has joined a … Continue reading

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Credit Unions Launch Immigrant Loan Program

Credit unions launch immigrant loan program By Our Staff Halifax Chronicle Herald Tue. Jan 20 – 4:46 AM Nova Scotia credit unions are accepting applications for a new financing program for immigrants. The small business financing program, announced in December, … Continue reading

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Toronto Immigration Key To Growing University Applications

Toronto immigration key to growing university applications Posted: January 19, 2009, 1:17 PM by Shane Dingman Joanne Laucius, Canwest News Service OTTAWA — More Ontario high school students have applied to university this year than in any other than 2003, … Continue reading

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Gov’t Of Punjab Commits To Do More In Fight Against Bogus Immigration Consultants

Government of Punjab Commits to do More in Fight Against Bogus Immigration Consultants Citizenship and Immigration Canada Jan 16, 2009 09:56 ET CHANDIGARH, INDIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 16, 2009) – During a meeting with Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney, … Continue reading

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Change The Things You Can

Change the things you can Rudyard Griffiths National Post Published: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Discussion about what should be in the upcoming federal budget has focused almost exclusively on how tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct cash infusions for troubled … Continue reading

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More Gitmo Inmates May Look To Canada

More Gitmo inmates may look to Canada Jim Brown THE CANADIAN PRESS Jan 14, 2009 05:54 PM OTTAWA Omar Khadr isn't the only Guantanamo inmate who could look northward if the incoming Obama administration carries through on its promise to … Continue reading

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Paraplegic Deportee In Canadian Custody

Paraplegic deportee in Canadian custody UPI Published: Jan. 14, 2009 at 6:45 PM WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Jan. 14 (UPI) — A wheelchair-bound deportee was taken into custody in Canada Wednesday after skipping a deportation flight to Britain, authorities said. Paraplegic Chris … Continue reading

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Disliking P.E.I. Decisions, Adviser To Immigration Program Resigns

Disliking P.E.I. decisions, adviser to immigration program resigns THE CANADIAN PRESS Last updated at 8:18 AM on 08/01/09 CHARLOTTETOWN—-A senior adviser with a controversial immigration program on P.E.I. says he has resigned his post over what he believes were bad … Continue reading

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Unprecedented Heat Will Trigger Global Food Crisis

Unprecedented heat will trigger global food crisis MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT From Friday's Globe and Mail January 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM EST TORONTO The world faces a perpetual food crisis because global warming will likely lead to massive and simultaneous crop … Continue reading

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Polygamy In Canada Stretches Beyond Bountiful

Polygamy in Canada stretchs beyond Bountiful Lena Sin Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, January 08, 2009 VANCOUVER — While the discussion on polygamy has largely focused on B.C.'s polygamist community of Bountiful, a long-time Canadian activist says she believes it … Continue reading

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