New Articles - January, 2012

New funding will attract foreign trained health workers, study best practises

By Betty Ann Adam, the Vancouver Sun | Link to Article 

Removing obstacles that prevent internationally trained health-care professionals from working in Saskatchewan is the goal of $5 million in new

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Gatineau immigrant guide draws human rights complaint

By CBC News | Link to Article

A Moroccan immigrant living in Gatineau, Que., whose personal information was shared among city officials and leaked to him via email, has filed a formal complaint with Quebec's Human Rights

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Son of slain Chinatown restaurant worker thanks Toronto, pledges to carry on

By the Star | Link to Article

Enbo Cui last saw his mother in 2007, when she left China for Toronto to pursue the family’s immigrant dream.

Nearly five years later Cui, 22, finally arrived on Canadian soil to see Guang

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Bid to curb female feticide pushes hot buttons of abortion and culture

By Joe Friesen and Carly Weeks, the Globe and Mail | Link to Article

Abortion and multiculturalism, two of the most contentious areas of Canadian public policy, were placed on a

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We all benefit from a common language

By Douglas Todd, The Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

A Richmond woman has been get-ting the bureaucratic brush-off in her efforts to restrict the pre-dominance of Chinese-language signs in her hometown.

Despite Richmond officials

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Fisher: Canada should target bright and best Europeans as immigrants

By Matthew Fisher, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

BARCELONA — Canada must not be shy about taking advantage of Europe's financial distress. The Harper government should target some of the continent's best and

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Vancouver Spring Show embraces wealth of cultures beyond Chinese

By Chuck Chiang, Vancouver Sun | Link to Article

Vancouver Spring Show

Sunday, 7:30 p.m.

Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts

Tickets: $28-88 from ticketstonight.ca or 604-362-8559

VANCOUVER

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Metro Vancouver is bad for immigrants' health - but why?

By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun  | Link to Article 

Why is Metro Vancouver so hard on immigrants' health?

This bad news about Metro was buried in a recent report from Statistics Canada, which surveyed 7,000 immigrants and found

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The changing face of Canadian diversity

By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun  | Link to Article 

The common wisdom, from Italy to the United States, is that resistance to immigration magnifies in direct correlation to how much a country's citizens struggle economically.

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Loophole lets foreign pilots fly here in Canada

By ANDREW DUFFY, OTTAWA CITIZEN | Link to Article 

An Ottawa-based pilots association wants the federal government to ground charter airlines' use of temporary foreign workers to fly Canadians south in the winter.

The

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