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Closing ceremony is unparalleled

akcanada — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:03:37 +0000

There’s a reason we come, despite the nonsense. There’s a reason we come to the Olympics still, every two years now, despite the fact that sometimes you get William Shatner or the odd, massive inflatable moose. What with all the overdone stagecraft and security hassles, the butt-covering parsing of words or the smugness of IOC officials […]

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Four seeking asylum, make refugee claims

akcanada — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:06:41 +0000

Four people who entered Canada as Olympic spectators have sought to stay in the country as refugees, Canadian immigration officials said yesterday. Just who the asylum seekers are and where they came from has not yet been made public. But Johanne Nadeau, spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said the four arrived from countries whose […]

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Iqaluit handles summit without a hitch

akcanada — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:10:50 +0000

Iqaluit pulled it off, with ease. The financial world’s biggest power brokers – from World Bank President Robert Zoellick to U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner – came and went during the two-day G7 finance ministers’ summit without a hitch. Other than a slight slowdown in their Internet speed, most of the residents in this small […]

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Be wary of Haiti immigration scams: officials

akcanada — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:14:11 +0000

Canadian immigration officials are warning members of Montreal’s Haitian community to be wary of companies promising to help accelerate the immigration process for their loved ones affected by last week’s earthquake. For a second day in a row, hundreds of Montrealers have queued in front of the Montreal offices of immigration consulting firm Immigration International […]

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Harper to reveal G8, G20 agendas at Davos forum

akcanada — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:46:52 +0000

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has travelled to Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum, where world leaders will brainstorm the best way to combat the current financial challenges facing the global economy. Harper will spend the next day and a half in Davos, where he will mingle with business executives, other world leaders and […]

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Wife of minister given Order of Ontario

akcanada — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:26:39 +0000

Seven medical doctors top the list of inductees into this year’s Order of Ontario, including the wife of a freshly minted cabinet minister. Dr. Samantha Nutt, a co-founder of the charity War Child Canada, received the honour Monday just one week after her husband, Dr. Eric Hoskins, was sworn in as Ontario’s minister of citizenship […]

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A ‘happy day’ as Haitian orphans arrive in Canada

akcanada — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:51:49 +0000

OTTAWA-Twenty-four Haitian orphans stepped off an Air Canada A330 on Sunday into frigid cold to begin new lives in Canada. The children, ages 9 months to 11 years, were wrapped in blankets and whisked into the Canada Reception Centre. They are the first wave of some 180 expected to be approved for adoption by Canadian […]

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Refugee claimants suckered at border

akcanada — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:17:19 +0000

https://www.akcanada.com/ Unscrupulous immigration consultants at the U.S. border are preying on asylum seekers heading to Canada by selling them bogus application forms for use in making refugee claims, officials say. Refugee groups in both countries warn claimants they are not required to purchase or bring application forms when they show up at border crossings to […]

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