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Harper speech in Davos – couldn’t be more clear where he is going
Stephen Harper’s speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland could not have been more clear about where Canada is headed. Ottawa will undertaking pragmatic major transformations that will...
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VIDEO: On the ethnic outreach trail with Jason Kenney
Check out our stories at: http://www.canada.com/life/Jason+Kenney+maintains+workaholic+pace+reaching+ethnic+communities/6171238/story.html...
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Canadian resident without medicare gives birth in hotel
Giving birth can be a pretty traumatic experience. Giving birth in a hotel bathtub, well, that’s nearly impossible to imagine these days. However, for Brennan Armstrong, originally from Ontario, and...
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Five-year sponsorship bar set to crack down on marriage fraud
The government is introducing a five-year sponsorship bar to crack down on bogus marriages of convenience. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced Friday that starting immediately, spouses will...
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Feds unveil new language rules for low-skill provincial immigrants
Thousands of newcomers destined for low-skilled jobs Canadians don’t want in far-flung parts of the country will now be subject to mandatory language testing, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney...
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France Election: Anti-Muslim?
The French go to the polls this weekend for the first round of voting in the presidential election. Some say the election rhetoric has taken on an anti-Muslim tone. Pictured, Mohamed Merah. His rampage...
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Conrad Black: what people think of his possible return to Canada
Conrad Black could be on his way back to Canada. That much was confirmed today when it was reported that Citizenship and Immigration Canada approved a one-year temporary resident permit for the former...
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Government releases dummies guide on immigration plan
OTTAWA – Little more than a week after Postmedia News published an article dubbed Immigration for dummies: what transformational change means for newcomers in an attempt to make sense of Canada’s...
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Five more added to CBSA’s most wanted list
OTTAWA — The Canada Border Services Agency has added five new names to its most wanted list and just days ago gave the boot to criminal Damion Rami Butler more than four months after he was apprehended...
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Unusually defensive Kenney lashes out at media
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Vic Toews isn’t shy when it comes to chastising the media and other critics on issues related to both his portfolio and his personal life. Neither is beleaguered...
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Employment Minister Jason Kenney’s reputation under attack over temporary...
OTTAWA — In the midst of a fresh eruption of abuse allegations surrounding the government’s troubled temporary foreign worker program, is Jason Kenney’s reputation as a capable taskmaster taking a...
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Coyne: Let’s take the ‘temporary’ out of temporary foreign workers
The Great Temporary Foreign Workers Panic of 2014 may be about to blow itself out. Some time in the next couple of weeks Employment Minister Jason Kenney will announce a number of reforms to the...
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Immigration minister defends move to strip offending dual nationals of...
By Jim Bronskill OTTAWA — The public thinks it is “absolutely legitimate” to strip dual nationals of their Canadian citizenship if they commit acts of treason, terrorism or espionage, says the federal...
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Foreign worker program to get overhaul Friday from Harper Conservatives
OTTAWA — The Harper government announces reforms to the controversial temporary foreign worker program on Friday. The announcement will be made by Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Immigration...
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Feds drag feet on inspections of places that employ temporary foreign workers
OTTAWA — Not one Canadian employer of temporary foreign workers has been inspected to date despite a Conservative government promise to do so during last year’s initial overhaul of the controversial...
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Coyne: Reforms to temporary foreign workers program not good policy
The unveiling of Jason Kenney’s reforms to the temporary foreign workers program was a sight to behold: a technical briefing, followed by an exhaustive ministerial press conference, accompanied by...
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Den Tandt: Kenney’s clampdown on temporary worker program a deft, savvy move
Jason Kenney’s overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was a deft, decisive, politically savvy move in a government not known, any longer, for such responsiveness. At one stroke the employment...
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How Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati became a ‘one-man opposition’ to the...
Rocco Galati insists he is neither cynical, nor jaded. But over the course of a 45-minute chat this week, the Toronto lawyer attacked the government for being a “machine” that doesn’t care for the...
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Amid calls for more visas for foreign workers, some Americans fight back
By Laura Wides-Munoz And Paul Wiseman Kelly Parker was thrilled when she landed her dream job in 2012 providing tech support for Harley-Davidson’s Tomahawk, Wisconsin, plants. The divorced mother of...
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Immigration officer’s decision on failed asylum seeker Jose Figueroa was...
A senior immigration officer’s decision to deny permanent residency to a failed asylum seeker because of his links to a resistance movement in El Salvador did not take into account “exceptionally...
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