Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
Ask not what Ottawa can do for you? [immigration guide]
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
March 16, 2010
What distinguishes Canada from so much of the non-Western world is that, human rights commissions notwithstanding, the government is restrained from interfering in personal matters of religion and thought… The 68-page guide devotes less than half a page (roughly 14 lines) to the totality of our traditional ordered liberties, including habeas corpus. And those 14 lines are merely a list with no elaboration or examples.
Tags: immigration
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Offside calls on Jason Kenney [same-sex marriage]
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Mar. 13, 2010
For Canada’s new Citizenship and Immigration study guide to stay at its current length and include the words “Same-sex marriage was legalized nationally in 2005” – words cut, as we learned last week… we would’ve had to lose the words “Canadian children have collected hockey cards for generations.”
…Imagine you were raised somewhere you’d be discriminated against or beaten senseless or risk untimely death because of your hockey-card collection – or that you yourself, while uninterested in collecting cards, beat other people in your homeland with impunity the second you discovered that they owned a deck.
Tags: immigration
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Our home and native – and adopted – land [diversity]
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Mar 14 2010
Race, religion, colour and ethnicity have always defined some parts of our multiple identities (aboriginals, Catholics, Chinese, Germans, etc.). Similarly, there have always been two Canadas – urban and rural. What is different today is that most non-whites live in cities. But why should that be of greater concern than, say, the Ukrainians and Poles tilling the Prairies in earlier generations? The lament about “two Canadas” in the context of colour is misguided. Ditto the worry over “ethnic ghettoes.” Do we have “white ghettoes”?
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism
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Does multiculturalism kill enthusiasm for the welfare state?
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Posted: February 12, 2010.
… it is incontrovertible that social democracy and the welfare states face serious practical challenges today. Their survival is not in question, but they are no longer as self-confident as they once appeared.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism
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Hot resumés can’t thaw Canada’s cold shoulder [newcomers finding work]
Friday, February 12th, 2010
Published On Fri Feb 12 2010.
…the organizations set up to help them do not seem interconnected, and they seem to compete, rather than cooperate, with each other…
“In Sweden there is a law: each company with over 60 employees has to hire at least one person with a disability. So, here, why not a law: each company of 60 employees or more has to engage a newcomer.”
Tags: disabilities, immigration
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