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Getting tough won’t help real refugees
TheStar.com – Opinion – Getting tough won’t help real refugees: Our system exists to protect refugees, so why put higher priority on rejecting non-refugees?
July 24, 2009. Janet Dench, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CANADIAN COUNCIL FOR REFUGEES
What to do? People who don’t need Canada’s protection are making refugee claims. Surely it should be a simple matter to quickly exclude the undeserving from the claim process. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has recently said that he is looking to the United Kingdom for inspiration in order to do just this.
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New leadership for First Nations
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – New leadership for First Nations
July 24, 2009
In an era of scripted conventions, the Assembly of First Nations leadership race was anything but. Shawn Atleo needed eight gruelling ballots over two days before emerging as the AFN’s new national chief.
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A new chief, a new mood
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – A new chief, a new mood: The AFN’s Phil Fontaine preferred negotiation. But assertiveness is increasingly seen as the best way to restore nationhood
Jul. 24, 2009. Calgary – William Johnson
You can bet on this: The Assembly of First Nations, under newly elected national chief Shawn Atleo, will be far more demanding, provocative, denunciatory, muscular and pre-emptive than it was under Phil Fontaine.
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Reinventing the AFN
NationalPost.com – Opinions/Editorial – Reinventing the AFN
Published: July 23, 2009
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Skilled immigrants squeezed out as temporary workers flock to Canada
TheGlobeandMail.com – Politics – Skilled immigrants squeezed out as temporary workers flock to Canada: Record number of short-term workers given permits to fill shortages last year, study finds
Jul. 22, 2009. CAMPBELL CLARK, OTTAWA
Canada is still bringing in temporary foreign workers at a near-record pace despite the recession, but a new study argues our immigration policy’s increasing focus on filling jobs will hamper the economy over time by squeezing out qualified permanent immigrants.
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System fails immigrants and nation
TheStar.com – Opinion – System fails immigrants and nation
July 22, 2009. Naomi Alboim
Immigration to Canada is fundamental to the nation’s social and economic well-being. Immigration can fill jobs, promote trade and innovation, generate investment and grow our population.
But the system is in trouble.
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The criminals among us
TheStar.com – SpecialSections – The criminals among us: Not as many lawbreakers as Canadians believe are members of visible minorities, survey shows
July 21, 2008. Jim Rankin, Betsy Powell, Staff Reporters
On any given day in Canada, on any busy city bus, on any main street, take a look around. There are criminals among us – about 10 per cent of adults. Picture the 50 people on the bus, and ask yourself, which five are criminals?
Many Canadians identify the wrong people.
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Time to engage our First Nations
TheStar.com – Opinion/Editorial – Time to engage our First Nations
July 20, 2009
Ask Canadians what most embarrasses them and many would likely say the condition of our First Nations communities.
Yet the subject rarely gets national attention until there’s a crisis, such as the unsafe drinking water that forced the evacuation of Kashechewan in 2005 or the more recent epidemic of H1N1 flu that swept across reserves in Manitoba.
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Multicultural Canada in the 21st Century
policyresearch.gc.ca – Cultural Diversity – Multicultural Canada in the 21st Century: Harnessing Opportunities and Managing Pressures
July 2009
Government of Canada / Policy Research Initiative / Cultural Diversity < http://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=rp_mult_index >.
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Changes in the Ottawa-First Nations relationship must go both ways
NationalPost.com – Full Comment – Changes in the Ottawa-First Nations relationship must go both ways
Posted: July 20, 2009. John Ivison
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