Little-known program dominates Canada’s massive guest-worker scheme

Douglas Todd: A labour leader is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about the vast International Mobility Program (IMP). He’s afraid bosses want it that way.

Union leader Mark Olsen is frustrated Canadians know almost nothing about Ottawa’s international mobility program. And he’s afraid company bosses want it that way.

The program is the vast federal guest worker program that now brings by far the most newcomers into Canada — with more than one million in the country now.

It’s also the program that Olsen believes makes it most easy for employers to exploit guest workers, which in turn harms Canadian workers.

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Harris Interview with Local Pennsylvania Reporter Turns into Disaster

Vice President Kamala Harris, during her second interview on Friday since joining the race, undermined her record in the Biden-Harris administration by stating the administration’s policies are not fit for the “twenty-first century.”

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Blame Trump For Everything Bad In The Whole World Says Blackie’s Star

Donald Trump’s fear-mongering about migrant crime is fuelling hate in Canada and the world

When I was 9 years old and my immigrant family moved to Holland Landing, Ont., to operate the hamlet’s sole Chinese food restaurant, I was told often by well-meaning locals that we were “good immigrants,” and the “right type” to let in. As early as the age of 9, it was pressed upon me that bad immigrants exist and they take away jobs, they commit crimes and they cannot be trusted.

I was a child, so I was seen as harmless and my family hardworking. As a grown woman, a professor no less, I am told I am stealing jobs from more deserving white Canadian men. I am frequently dismissed as a “diversity hire” or was told by seemingly well-meaning white colleagues that I’m “so lucky to be a woman of colour right now” — a notion that dismisses my qualifications and hard work.

She mentions Canadian issues such as Trudeau’s foreign student scam without laying blame where it rightly belongs.

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E.U.’s Gas Car Ban: Italy Warns Of Industry ‘Collapse’

Italy is asking the European Union to scrap its internal-combustion vehicle ban, saying it’ll trigger an industry “collapse” if it proceeds as scheduled.

The news was reported by Reuters on Sunday. The 27-nation bloc is scheduled to ban all internal-combustion car sales in 2035. By that date, cars sold within member nations must have no carbon emissions. That means no plug-in hybrids, no hybrids, no gas and no diesel. Electric and hydrogen cars will be the only immediately available options, barring some unforeseen propulsion type.

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PSAC’s spiteful protest against back-to-office rules points to a bigger problem

It’s fun to imagine the planning that went into the campaign launched this week by the Ottawa chapter of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the largest union representing federal government workers.

“Okay, team, what’s the best way to make the case that we shouldn’t go back to the office, two years after everyone else did?”

“Ooh! Why don’t we call for a boycott of Ottawa small businesses that are still trying to scrape themselves off the pavement after COVID-19 shutdowns, the convoy siege and the abandonment of downtown?”

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Israel’s prime target: the hunt for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

A group of Israeli hostages were huddled in a tunnel in Gaza a few days after they had been dragged from their homes on 7 October, when the man who had plotted their abduction appeared out of the subterranean gloom.

His hair and beard were grey and his dark-ringed eyes stared out from under thick black brows. It was a face familiar to them from a thousand broadcasts and newspaper stories: Yahya Sinwar. The Hamas leader in Gaza was the most feared man in Israel, even before he ordered the October raid in which 1,200 people – two-thirds of them civilians – were killed and 250 taken hostage.

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‘I’m not going anywhere’: Justin Trudeau says he won’t resign if Liberals lose Montreal byelection

OTTAWA — A combative Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he’s not going to resign as Liberal leader if his party loses a high-stakes Montreal byelection on Monday, the same day his minority government is slated to return to Parliament without the NDP promising to prop it up.

In an interview on the Montreal radio station CJAD 800, Trudeau said he will stay on regardless of the result in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, a riding held by the Liberals’ former justice minister David Lametti from 2015 until he resigned from federal politics earlier this year.

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ABC Denies Giving Harris Questions in Advance as Furor Over ‘Bias’ by Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis Intensifies

ABC, facing mounting accusations of bias in its moderation of Tuesday’s presidential debate, is forcefully denying giving the questions in advance to Vice President Harris, or otherwise colluding with her campaign.

“Absolutely not,” a spokesman for ABC News told the Daily Beast on Friday. “Harris was not given any questions before the debate.”

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Trial of convoy protest leaders concludes

It started more than a year ago, took nearly 50 days in a courtroom and may not be decided until next year, but the trial of two leaders of the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa finally ended Friday.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber pleaded not guilty to mischief, intimidation, obstruction and other charges.

Crown prosecutors called 16 witnesses and presented hours of video evidence and numerous social media posts in an effort to prove their case.

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Seven ‘cruel and manipulative’ men latest jailed for sexual abuse of girls in Rotherham

Seven men were jailed for sexually abusing two girls in Rotherham in the latest convictions under the UK’s biggest-ever law enforcement operation against child sex abuse.

The defendants regularly picked up the victims in their cars and gave them cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis and money, Sheffield Crown Court heard.

The girls would then be assaulted, forced to perform sexual acts or raped.

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Trudeau government attempt to quash UNRWA funding review case struck down

OTTAWA — Efforts by the federal government to quash an ongoing court case seeking a judicial review of Canada’s funding of a contentious UN agency were struck down in court this week.

On Wednesday, Federal Court Justice Glennys McVeigh dismissed a challenge by the government, who claimed the court had no jurisdiction over the government’s decision to fund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA,) and that decisions to support international humanitarian causes are made solely by the executive authority of ministers of the Crown.

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