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The Not So Great Replacement: Canadian Colleges Privatize Canadian Permanent Visas By Promising Them To South Asian Early Education Majors | Blog Posts

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Northern College traditionally drew its students from the province of Ontario’s vast, sparsely populated hinterland, a region dominated by miners and loggers. Today, a whopping 82 percent of the public college’s students come from abroad—nearly all from India.
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or students from abroad, the institutions can be a conduit to permanent Canadian residence, and for Canada, the students help reduce labor shortages and increase the country’s flagging productivity.
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despite many foreign students’ initial reluctance to study at a place as remote as Northern, Dr. Penner, the college’s president, believed she held an ace: Graduates of Northern and other public colleges may apply for a post-graduation work permit that could lead to permanent residence and citizenship.

“We can say, if you come here, we can pretty well guarantee that you could stay here and live and make a home for yourselves,” Dr. Penner said.
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Dozens of international students are immediately hired after graduating, allowing them to apply for permanent residence, Ms. Holmes said.

Drop the charges against Indigo ‘Peace 11’ protesters | Opinions | Al Jazeera

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People peacefully protesting a Canadian business for openly supporting the Israeli military as it commits egregious war crimes should not be branded antisemites and treated like common criminals.

On November 22, Canadian police conducted coordinated pre-dawn raids on seven homes across the greater Toronto area and made 10 arrests. They broke doors, ordered suspects out of their beds, and went on to completely ransack every single room and confiscate computers, cars and other private property, in some cases in the presence of terrified children and the elderly.

The suspects, known to their supporters collectively as “the Peace 11” – including one that was arrested separately on November 14, were professors, community organisers, legal workers and labour activists, targeted for the ostensibly dangerous offences of plastering posters and splattering washable red paint on the window of a Toronto branch of the Indigo book store chain.

 They had taken action against the store, like hundreds of others across Canada, to protest the material support Indigo’s owners have long been providing to the Israeli military.

And these early morning raids, during which peaceful protesters were treated as violent criminals and humiliated in front of their family members, are not even the most troubling aspect of this intimidation campaign.

The media coverage of the protest action and its aftermath, the nature of the charges, and the police messaging on the case, raise serious questions about abuse of police powers and systemic anti-Palestinian discrimination in Canada.

It seems the raids were designed to terrorise, and scare into silence, Canadians who have been taking to the streets in large numbers in Toronto over the past few weeks to call for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.

Police serve hot coffee to anti-Israel protesters in Toronto Jewish area; sparked outrage

Anti-Israel protesters blocked bridge in Toronto’s Jewish neighborhood, protesting Israel’s attack on Gaza; local police provided coffee

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Anti-Israel protesters blocking a bridge within the largest Jewish community of Toronto, the capital of Canada's province of Ontario, were served hot coffee by the local police.

When one of the protesters was asked how he got coffee from the police, he replied: “It’s not from the police. Someone brought it for us, and the police won’t let them in. So, the police have become our little messengers.

Mayoral event in Nathan Philips Square interrupted by demonstrators - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow's annual skating event did not go as planned, demonstrators used the opportunity to address the politician and media.

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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow held the annual Mayor’s Skating Party in Nathan Philips Square Sunday, which was interrupted by demonstrators.

While addressing the media about the free skating event, Chow was interrupted several times by protestors with megaphones waving Palestinian flags.

Several security guards stepped in to create a barrier between the mayor and the demonstrators.

After she exited the rink, demonstrators could be heard saying to skaters “while you’re skating, bombs are dropping.”

Three anti-Israel protesters arrested for defying bridge demo ban | National Post

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Anti-Israel protesters once again attempted to occupy the Avenue Road overpass in Toronto on Saturday

Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw announced last week that demonstrations would no longer be permitted on the bridge, and that future protesters would face arrest.

Despite that warning, protesters began arriving at the overpass — located amid Toronto’s largest Jewish neighbourhoods — Saturday morning, where police were waiting.

The Avenue Road bridge is located in Canada’s largest and most diverse Jewish communities, within a kilometre of nine synagogues and several Jewish businesses, homes, schools, daycares and community centres. Protesters and their advocates insist the demonstrations are meant to inform rather than intimidate.

Protesters on the bridge were seen carrying signs depicting Adolf Hitler and related Nazi imagery.

Jewish residents have said they felt intimidated and harassed by the protests.

Anti-Israel activists soon began picketing outside of Jewish-owned businesses and community centres, and targeting politicians they perceive as being pro-Israel.

Protesters set up a noisy demonstration outside of the Montreal home of Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly on Saturday morning, a day after she issued a government statement that rejected the claims by South Africa at a UN court accusing Israel of “genocide.”

About three-dozen protesters appeared at Joly’s home, setting up a tent as well as a loud speaker, and accused her of complicity with the alleged “genocide.”

Anti-Israel demonstrators were expected to disrupt a number of events on Sunday.

A Toronto anti-Israel group planned to sabotage a Sunday afternoon family ice skate at Mel Lastman Square, hosted by Toronto City Councillor Lily Cheng, Liberal MP Ali Ehsassi and Ontario PC MPP Stan Cho.

Anti-Israel protesters were also expected to disrupt a vigil marking the 100th day of Israeli hostages being held captive by Hamas, scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. Sunday at Nathan Phillips Square in downtown Toronto.

Two anti-Israel groups were also planning a 4 p.m. rally at the Israeli consulate at Bloor and Yonge streets.

In addition, starting at 7:30 p.m., a rally of community leaders and politicians in support of Israel will take place at Toronto’s Congregation Habonim to mark the hostages’ 100 days of captivity, near Bathurst Street and Glencairn Avenue.

1990s Hong Kong migration is considered the core reason why modern Vancouver looks like the way it does today.
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And to really understand how that dominant Hong Kong wave took shape, we have to board a flight back in time and look at a very specific countdown clock
3:543 minutes, 54 secondsthat started ticking in 1984. And that was a year the Sino British joint declaration was signed, solidifying a
4:014 minutes, 1 secondterrifying deadline. On June 1st, 1997, the UK would hand over Hong Kong back to China.
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fear peaked dramatically in 1989 following the TMN square crackdown in Beijing