Harper Government to introduce new model of “inviting” immigrants from 2015

PS. image courtesy CIC,  NorthumberlandView.ca and South Asian Generation Next,  31 October 2013, P-6.

Economic immigration is slated to increase to 63 per cent in 2014. The remaining 37 per cent will consist of family class immigrants, refugees and others admitted under humanitarian programs.

 

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• News Release — Planning for Success, Putting Canada First  www.cic.gc.ca
• Fed Generosity for Canadian Immigrants! Target figure, 265000 immigrants for 2014, by Minnie Mahendru - October 30, 2013  
• Canada aims to open doors to 265000 immigrants in 2014, Toronto Sun ‎- 5

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto among 50 Most Amazing World's University Libraries

PS. This list of academic libraries is a random selection, the authors/compilers @ bestmastersprograms.org don't mention any benchmarks!!! The following opening para does not show any methodology of ranking:

If there’s anything the editors of BestMastersPrograms.org love more than classes and books, it’s universities and libraries. It’s no surprise, then, that university libraries rank right up there among our favorite places. We’ve researched the most interesting, intriguing, and beautiful college libraries from around the globe to come up with this list of the 50 most amazing university libraries in the world. This is the biggest, most comprehensive list of its kind. If you love university libraries as much as we do, then you’re going to love this!

Despite the randomness, some libraries takes this on its face value (e.g., Library Blog: The Gothic Column | University of Connecticut; The Library in the News 2013 | Cornell University Library;Our RISD — A World-Class Library;2013 national competition project | Library Redesign #192;Keeppy The Most Amazing And Unusual Buildings Structures)

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada) @

The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World

Extract:

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto houses Canada’s largest collection of historic and publicly accessible books. The library’s comprehensive collection includes religious manuscripts, groundbreaking scientific documents, political writings and exquisite etchings from the 17th century. Some of the most notable pieces in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library include original Shakespeare folios, a proof copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species, Newton’s Principia Mathematica and two copies of the Nuremberg Chronicle that date back to 1493. The collection also features fragments of Egyptian papyrus manuscripts, rare Hebraica and Judaica documents and 25,000 political publications that are part of the Robert S. Kenny Collection.

20 Things Worth Knowing About... Rob Ford's popularity

info courtesy:   Stephen Abram

From New York magazine, just in case you don't know that we have our share of Yahoos in Toronto. Rob Ford's popularity poll are reported today to have increased! By Dan Amira

Bedbugs in library books make news once again

Public Libraries in Toronto, Oshawa, University of Arizona Main Library, and so many made news then with bed-bugs, but now it is the turn of Utah University Library... (see news archives, below)

• Bed Bugs Cause Closures at U of U Library, University of Utah`s Marriott Library, OCTOBER 28, 2013

From News Archives (Bugs ready for check-out / check-in):

• Bed bugs found inside library books at (Toronto Public Library) TPL, CTV , Sep 3, 2013 
• Kalamazoo Public Library closes 2nd branch due to bed bugs - YouTube  
• Bed bugs found in Hamden library - YouTube  
• Bed bugs in Tulsa library - YouTube  
• Bed bugs found in Kzoo library books - YouTube  
• Bed Bugs Shuts Down Michigan Library - AOL On
• Bed bugs infest library - YouTube  
• Many More videos at YouTube
• Bed Bugs Shut Down University of Arizona Main Library
• Bed bugs in Toronto reference library, and two other branches ...  
• Bedbug FAQs | Burnaby Public Library   
• So, Your Library Books Might Have Bedbugs | TIME.com
• Bed Bugs and Libraries - Strathcona County Library  
• Bedbugs battle still underway at Vancouver libraries - British ... - CBC  
• Don't Let the Book Bugs Bite - Library Journal  
• No bed bugs in North Shore books - News - North Shore News
• Richmond Public Library-Bed Bug Information
• Bed Bug Prevention and Containment Policy
• Windsor Public Library Bed Bug Policy
• Are There Bedbugs in Your Library Books? Here's How to Spot
• Bed bugs check out of Oshawa library, oshawaexpress.ca 
• "Bedbugs in libraries" story backlash, or why to listen to entomologists

Schulich School of Business targets India, Macleans.ca -- But prospects in India???

• Schulich School of Business targets India, Macleans.ca   

• India, foreign varsities: degrees of separation
• India Needs Education Reforms – OpEd,  Eurasia Review
• Foreign varsities get independent access to India 
• India Lost What Over FDI --  
• Foreign varsities no panacea,  By Gourav Vallabh New Indian Express
• India hopeful on foreign colleges to raise quality of education 

Canada grant's her honorary citizenship, Malala's emerging impact in East and West

Canada to grant honorary citizenship to Malala Yousafzai, Reuters Canada, Sat Oct 19, 2013

Extract: OTTAWA (Reuters) - Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, will be granted honorary Canadian citizenship, the Canadian government announced on Wednesday. ... She will join an elite group of foreign honorees who include South Africa's Nelson Mandela and Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi."

 On the same shelf:

• Why many Pakistanis have turned against Peace Prize nominee ... The Globe and Mail
• Pakistani satire of Malala conspiracy theories taken as real conspiracy theory
  Washington Post (blog)
• Brown Moses Blog: Malala Yousafzai - When Satire Goes Bad 
• Malala: The real story (with evidence) - DAWN.COM by Nadeem Paracha  
• Malala Satire Snags Iran's Press TV - Outlook
• Pakistan's Dawn wanted to 'make fun of conspiracy theorists'  
• Didn't see point in Malala satire piece for Dawn  
• Hate mongers on rampage The Nation  
• More Malala Malaise New York Times (blog)
• “Brand Malala”: Western exploitation of a schoolgirl  worldobserveronline.com
• Deconstructing the Malala phenomenon Indian Weekender
• Why the Nobel Peace Prize isn't very different from Miss Universe, Firstpost  
• Truth about Malala: Fraud unearthed! Press TV 
• Pakistan's Malala or Not? Huffington Post
• Malala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex | Assed Baig Huffington Post
• Why Malala should have won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize Washington Post (blog)  
• Malala Yousafzai wins Sakharov prize 'for freedom of thought
• I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai
• Did Malala Teach Us Anything?   By BINA SHAH, The New York Times --
• Malala Yousafzai: Education Activist (Essential Lives) Rebecca Rowell
• Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai Multiple Authors
• Malala Ujjol Kamal
• Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism Karima Bennoune
• Malala and modernity The News International
•  The lesson of Malala rises above east-west sensitivities - FT.com
•  The Diary: Mishal Husain on Malala Yousafzai, the niqab debate  
• Pakistani Girl, a Global Heroine After an Attack, Has Critics at Home, By SALMAN MASOOD and DECLAN WALSH The New York Times --

  Extract: ... In the end, Ms. Yousafzai did not win the Nobel Prize. That went to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. But after a week of intense news coverage, during which she released her memoir and won a prestigious European award for human rights, Ms. Yousafzai’s stature as a symbol of peace and bravery has been established across the world — everywhere, it seems, except at home.

New specialist physicians can’t find jobs in Canada, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons

• Study shows growing number of new specialist physicians can’t find jobs in Canada Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Number of specialized doctors who are unemployed growing, study finds Toronto Star
• New medical specialists report says 1 in 6 can't find work  CBC.ca  
• Medical specialists have trouble finding work  Montreal Gazette 
• Doctor shortages a myth? Nearly one in six new medical specialists can’t find work, report suggests, National Post 
• BC medical specialists struggle to find work  Vancouver Sun

North American Union? Diane Francis Pushes US-Canada Merger

Huffington Post Canada ‎-  1 Oct, 2013
It's time for Canada to merge with the United States.

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• Diane Francis on a Canada-US merger | The Current with Anna ...
• USA-Canada Merger? - Off-Topic - Giant Bomb
• Writer's idea that Canada and US should merge likely DOA - Yahoo!
• A Canada/US merger? | Watch GlobalNews Videos
• The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada
  Jerome R. Corsi
• Goodbye America, Goodbye Britain
  Alan & Pat Franklin

Why Margaret Atwood wants to change the lyrics of O Canada

The Globe and Mail

 ANN HUI  Oct. 01 2013,  
"A group of prominent Canadian women are campaigning once again to change the lyrics of O Canada to be more “gender-neutral.” At issue is the line: “True patriot love in all thy sons command."

"At issue is the line: “True patriot love in all thy sons command.” According to Restore Our Anthem, a group that includes writer Margaret Atwood and former prime minister Kim Campbell, these lyrics are exclusionary of women, and do not reflect the original intent of Robert Stanley Weir, who wrote the English words for O Canada in 1908."

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