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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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Triumph of invective abuses us all [power more concentrated, federal politics more abusive]
TheStar.com – Columnist – Triumph of invective abuses us all
July 21, 2009. James Travers, OTTAWA
As power becomes more concentrated, federal politics becomes more abusive. Trend line or new order, the shift from institutional to individual authority is having a profound, far-from-positive impact on what now passes as informed public debate.
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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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Consultations to address affordable housing shortage
TheStar.com – Canada – Consultations to address affordable housing shortage
July 20, 2009. Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice reporter
Toronto waiter Anthony Clarke is a model tenant. For 15 years he has paid his rent on time, kept his College St. apartment clean and respected his neighbours.
But since 2001, his landlord has hit him with a flurry of eviction notices Clarke says are aimed at replacing him with a new tenant who will pay more rent in the trendy west-Toronto neighbourhood.
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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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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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Jail ‘a lazy response to poverty’
TheStar.com – Crime – Jail ‘a lazy response to poverty’
July 19, 2008
Imagine pockets of cities where so many residents are in jail and prison, and for so long, that by the time they are released their incarceration will have cost more than $15 million. Imagine these people being released and returning home to the same place and conditions where the trouble began and, within two years, 4 in 10 are back behind bars.
It is a costly human migration pattern, and it is real.
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Prisons poisoning natives
TheStar.com – SpecialSections/Crime – Prisons poisoning natives: Jails turn out to be ‘gladiator schools’ for the many aboriginals who end up there
Jul 20, 2008. Sandro Contenta, Feature Writer
HOBBEMA RESERVES, Alberta–On the walls of Jonathan Napoose’s family home are portraits of Jesus Christ and embroideries of the Last Supper, vestiges of the Catholic upbringing he received from his mother.
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Beyond the rez: AFN chiefs must engage Canada’s first nations in the world outside their communities
TheGlobeandMail.com – Web-exclusive commentary – Beyond the rez: AFN chiefs must engage Canada’s first nations in the world outside their communities
Jul. 20, 2009. Waubgeshig Rice
Children who grow up on the reserve don’t see much beyond what’s right in front of them. It can be a simple, tough life that doesn’t extend past immediate family, the cousins, aunties, uncles and grandparents who live down the road, and school. A lot of the time, it’s a one-bedroom house without power, running water or the luxuries that other Canadian families enjoy.
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