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Québec veut encourager les Noirs à se lancer en affaires

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Devant le faible taux d’entrepreneurs au sein de la communauté noire, le gouvernement du Québec a annoncé hier un investissement de 2,7 millions de dollars en trois ans afin de favoriser l’entrepreneuriat chez les Noirs. Selon des statistiques de 2001, 3 % de personnes de race noire sur une population de 150 000 au Québec [...]

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Tags: Immigration · Économie/Economy

Iraqis choose Sweden as new home : Thank you neo-cons and zionists

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[That includes any writers or intellectuals pro-zionist like Faye, Fallaci, Del Valle, ....]
Halim Ibrahim and his family are among the half of all Iraqis who choose Sweden as their destination when they flee to Europe from their war-torn homeland.
“We wanted to get as far away from Iraq as possible,” said 50-year-old Halim, standing outside [...]

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Tags: Immigration · International

Cauchemar au Pays d’en Haut : Val Morin, ville hindoue !

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Un jour par an, Val-Morin, ville de 2500 âmes, devient la capitale de l’hindouisme en Amérique du Nord. Hier, 30 000 hindous ont défilé dans les rues pour célébrer le rituel du Kavadi aux abords du temple situé dans les Laurentides.
La grande majorité des visiteurs sont de l’Ontario. Les autres viennent des États-Unis, du Sri [...]

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Tags: Immigration · Resistance

Zimbabwe ‘grope’ doctor faces three more counts

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A ZIMBABWEAN doctor accused of sexually assaulting female employees at the Royal Columbian Hospital in Canada last year is facing three more charges.
Floyd Sekeramayi, 32, was originally charged with three counts of sexual assault on Dec. 15, last year, but he is now facing a total of six sexual assault charges.
Sekeramayi appeared briefly at New [...]

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Canada’s Policy on Immigrants Brings Backlog

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The point system has helped Canada compete with the United States and other Western powers for highly educated workers, the most coveted immigrants in high-tech and other cutting-edge industries. But in recent years, immigration lawyers and labor market analysts say, the Canadian system has become an immovable beast, with a backlog of more than 800,000 [...]

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«Asta la vista, BABY !», Schwarzenegger exorte les Latinos

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Comment les élèves latinos peuvent-ils améliorer leurs résultats scolaires? Le gouverneur de la Californie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a une suggestion. «Éteignez la télé!»
«C’est assez simple, a-t-il dit dans un discours à San Jose il y a une dizaine de jours. Vous devez apprendre l’anglais. Je sais que je vais me faire critiquer pour avoir [...]

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Tags: Immigration · Multiculturalism(e)

B.C. “Chinese only” Political Party is born!

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[I thought this was Canada?-ed]
British Columbia’s newest political party has bold plans, a platform still to be worked on and its four founders keen to make an impression on voters – those who can speak Chinese, at least.
The Nation Alliance Party is believed to be the first party formed based on ethnicity. Its mission [...]

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Violent Hispanic gang spreading in Canada

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Their names sound as benign as any high school sports team, but their presence is increasingly deadly.
Some of Canada’s 100-plus identified street gangs have worked their way into the public realm through high-profile arrests, or their own bloody acts of aggression, such as Toronto’s Galloway Boys, Malvern Crew, Ardwick Blood Crew and the Jamestown [...]

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Jamaican workers and students are coming to Canada

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUK8lnx3EFU

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Jamaican workers and students are coming to Canada

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http://www.chbc.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14246

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Burnaby begs for resources to assist surging refugee population

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“But the influx (of refugees) has caught the city off-guard and the Vancouver suburb is struggling to cope with formidable challenges while dealing with seeming indifference from Ottawa.”
Is this the kind of “enrichment” that open immigration is supposed to bring to Canada?
FULL STORY

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Quebec town outlines societal ‘norms’ for would-be immigrants

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A sign at the entrance of this rural Quebec town says: Herouxville welcomes you. Unless, that is, you plan on stoning a woman to death, sending your kids to school with a kirpan or covering your face other than on Halloween.

The town council of Herouxville, a sleepy town dominated by a towering Roman Catholic church, [...]

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‘Lost Canadians’ a bigger problem than thought

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CBC News has found that the number of people who have been stripped of Canadian citizenship – the so-called ‘Lost Canadians’ – is far greater than the federal government has let on.
Immigration Minister Diane Finely originally stated that her department was handling 450 cases of people affected by an obscure immigration law called the 1947 [...]

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Gypsies plead guilty to liquor store robberies

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A group of Romanian refugees will have to wait another two weeks to find out how much more time they will spend in Calgary’s remand centre.
The six, four women and two men who call themselves gypsy refugees, pleaded guilty to theft over $5,000 Thursday.
The group was accused of robbing two liquor stores in January by [...]

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Liberals playing Immigration Card

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The opposition in the House of Commons is like a pack of wolves, constantly on the lookout for weakened ministers. Falter and the pack will turn on you, as Rona Ambrose will testify.
This week, the Liberals targeted Diane Findley, the Immigration Minister, whom they have identified as one of the weaker members of the government [...]

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De quoi se mêle “Libération” ?

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(Cyberpresse.ca, 16 fév 07) Le code de vie de Hérouxville xénophobe selon Libération
Le journal français Libération qualifie vendredi matin de «croisade xénophobe» la campagne menée par les habitants de Hérouxville pour imposer un «code de vie» aux immigrants qui seraient tenter de s’installer chez eux.
Ce «bled de 1338 habitants» a adopté en janvier un «code [...]

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AIDS, TB, Malaria and Bird Flu Spread Unchecked in Burma

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Government policies in Burma that restrict public health and humanitarian aid have created an environment where AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria and bird flu (H5N1) are spreading unchecked, according to a report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In that report authors Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, director of the Bloomberg School’s [...]

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Number of HIV-Positive Immigrants to Canada Triples in One Year, Immigration Department Says

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Canada in 2003 recorded three times as many HIV-positive immigrants as the year before, according to government statistics, Canada’s National Post reports. Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the country’s immigration department, began requiring mandatory HIV screening for immigrants in 2002 and recorded 677 HIV-positive immigrants in 2003, a “hefty jump” from the 276 HIV-positive immigrants recorded [...]

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Canada to accept 810 refugees from Myanmar

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Canada marked World Refugee Day on Tuesday by announcing it will welcome more than 800 refugees from Myanmar later this year.
Immigration Minister Monte Solberg and Jahanshah Assadi, a representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, made the announcement in a joint statement.
“Welcoming these refugees, who have endured a prolonged state of limbo in [...]

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Canadian town to immigrants: you can’t stone women

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Immigrants to the small Quebec town of Herouxville must not stone women in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them, according to an extraordinary set of rules made public by the local council.
The declaration, published on the town’s Web site, has deepened a debate in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province over how tolerant [...]

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