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• Apartment vacancy rates hold steady at 2.6 per cent across Canada: CMHC
  The Canadian Press, December 13, 2007
  OTTAWA - The apartment vacancy rate in Canada's 34 major cities remained unchanged at 2.6 per cent in October compared with the same month last year. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says strong job growth and high immigration continue to cause strong demand for rental housing.
• French-speaking nanny is barred from job in B.C.
  Times Colonist (Victoria), December 13, 2007
  A French-speaking Victoria family can't hire a francophone nanny from Rwanda because an immigration official said she didn't speak English well enough to function in B.C.
• Province raised immigration fees to attract companies
  The Daily News, December 13, 2007
  Province House Cornwallis recommended $75k; government made it $100k plus extras
• Trucking firm complains others hiring away its foreign drivers
  Saskatchewan News Network, Published: Thursday, December 13, 2007
  SASKATOON -- The owner of a Saskatoon area trucking company says it's too easy for other trucking companies to hire away his new immigrant drivers.
• Refugee rapist skips out on deportation Former Sudanese has been free since conviction, pending ruling on his status
  The Edmonton Journal, Dec.13, 2007
  EDMONTON - An Edmonton woman says she isn't surprised the man who brutally raped her stepdaughter two years ago and was freed into the community earlier this month has disappeared while awaiting deportation.
• Why the Montreal region is not attractive to newcomers
  The Gazette, Published: 8 hours ago
  High taxes, exclusionist attitudes and nationalism are some of the reasons
• Province pushed for higher fees for N.S. nominee program: minister
  The Canadian Press, 13.12.2007
  HALIFAX - Nova Scotia increased its fees for immigrants entering its controversial nominee program in 2002 so more businesses would become interested in getting involved, Immigration Minister Len Goucher said Wednesday.
• Québec, 11e ville la plus attrayante au Canada
  Le Soleil, dec. 13, 2007 La ­ville de Qué­bec a ­tout ce qu’il ­faut ­pour col­ler à el­le les nou­veaux tra­vailleurs et in­ves­tis­seurs. On­ziè­me ­ville la ­plus at­trayan­te au Ca­na­da, el­le se clas­se pre­miè­re ­dans la pro­vin­ce.
• MP pays to free deportee
  Toronto Sun, Wednesday, Dec.12, 2007
  An Albanian mother of three who went into hiding to avoid deportation from Canada was ordered released from jail yesterday after Etobicoke MP Boris Wrzesnewskyj agreed to post $12,000 in bonds in a rare move.
• Jumping into talent pool
  Toronto Sun, Wed, December 12, 2007
  They have foreign experience that's not recognized here. So what's a new immigrant to do?
• Cornwallis: Not our idea to charge immigrants $100k
  The Chronicle Herald, Wed. Dec 12 - 5:32 AM
  It was the province’s idea to have economic-class immigrants pay $100,000 for a placement with a Nova Scotia business, even though the figure was 33 per cent more than the company running the program proposed, the company’s president says.
• Aqsa Parvez's death lays bare flipside of immigration
  Toronto Star, Dec 12, 2007 04:30 AM
  The news item was on the front page but easy to miss. Short-ish, below-the-fold, it was accompanied by a blurry picture of a young girl with long hair. But the two lines just below the headline yesterday were shocking: a father in Mississauga attacked his daughter during a confrontation about hijab.
• Gangster's deportation deadly? Reportedly killed in Somalia; had warned life would be in peril
  Winnipeg Free Press, Wed Dec 12 2007
  A violent Winnipeg street gang member who claimed deportation to his native Somalia would be akin to a "death sentence" has reportedly been killed, the Free Press has learned. Canadian immigration officials and a Winnipeg lawyer said Tuesday they are investigating reports that Hussein Jilaow met a violent end shortly after his forced return home earlier this year.
• Integration of immigrants can be a paying proposition
  The Gazette, Published: 3 hours ago
  Census data tell us that immigration is becoming an ever more important source of population growth in the Montreal area.
• Man accused of torture didn't hurt anyone, refugee board told
  The Province, Wednesday, December 12, 2007
  A guard who was with a former Croatian refugee when he allegedly killed and tortured prisoners of war in his homeland in 1991 said yesterday Josip Budimcic didn't hurt anyone.
• Feds pump cash into Peel to aid newcomers
  The Brampton Guardian Tuesday December 11 2007
  BRAMPTON - New immigrants looking for jobs, language training and other help getting settled should profit from millions in federal funding announced for regional agencies.
• Immigration hearing over, decision pending for accused Croatian war criminal
  The Canadian Press, Dec. 12, 2007
  VANCOUVER - An accused Croatian war criminal living on B.C.'s Saltspring Island will likely have to wait until the New Year to see whether he will be stripped of his refugee status.
• Quebec Columnist fingers tabloid for fanning fire in 'accommodation' debate
  Le Messager, 11 décembre 2007 à 16:30
  Quebec journalist Lysiane Gagnon Quebec Columnist fingers tabloid for fanning fire in 'accommodation' debate If, as the saying goes in politics, a week is an eternity, what can be said of a year? It was about that long ago that the initial rumblings of the 'reasonable accommodation' issue first started to be heard.
• Worker scarcity overshadows banner quarter at Major Drilling
  Toronto Star, Dec 11, 2007 04:19 PM
  THE CANADIAN PRESS MONCTON–A deepening shortage of capable workers in Canada is the only major problem for Major Drilling Group International Inc. (TSX: MDI), the global mining driller's chief executive said Tuesday while presenting the fast-growing company's best-ever quarterly results.
• For refugees, more chaos at the border
  Macleans.ca, December 11, 2007
  The Phelan ruling on refugees could cause havoc
• Citizenship amendments fall short, say critics; urge all-new legislation
  The Canadian Press, 11 December 2007
  OTTAWA - Critics are urging the federal government to draft a new citizenship act rather than implement patchwork reforms to the "archaic" legislation now on the books.
• Opening doors to C-K; municipality eyeing new immigrants to boost population
  The Chatham Daily News, December 11, 2007
  Chatham-Kent is looking to increase its stagnant population at a time when birth rates have been on the decline for years.
• High tuition drives away foreign students, grads
  The Daily News, Halifax, December 11, 2007
  Exorbitant tuition fees for international students does not align with Nova Scotia's immigration strategy, says a student representative hoping for some changes in the upcoming funding agreement between the province and universities.
• Steady erosion in francophone numbers
  Language N.B. had largest drop in francophone population of any province between 2001 and 2006