I dunno how she got made into some queen of canada r&B or some mary j blight canada version when she's not
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I dunno how she got made into some queen of canada r&B or some mary j blight canada version when she's not
Elements of immigration system 'out of control,' says federal minister as pressure to make changes increases
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She thought she had the Drake stimulus package from appearing at his Northstars concent two years ago.
The problem is that Mary J Blige exists. When I was in school, one of my teachers owned a local label distributed by Warner. She flat out explained that American labels refuse to lush Canadian artists if they have an equivalent already. So July was screwed from the jump. She never stood a chance. Canada has such a small population, especially of black people, that unless we get the American co-sign we fail, or hit a ceiling. Same thing happens to white artists too. Bif Naked never stood a chance with Gwen Stefani being popular. FeFe Dobson's persona was kind of jacked by Rihanna. But American labels, which are the parent of the Canadian labels, decide who gets that push or not.She thought she had the Drake stimulus package from appearing at his Northstars concent two years ago.
remember when i said this and a poster named bnew said nah its not true?
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‘Huge spike’ in population adding to pressures on Ontario ERs | Globalnews.ca
Of approximately 22,000 acute care beds in Ontario hospitals, more than 6,000 are occupied by patients who should be in another more appropriate setting.
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Rural municipalities call for end to oil industry tax break
Municipalities say makes no sense to maintain tax breaks when industry thriving
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Rural municipalities call for end to oil industry tax break
Municipalities say makes no sense to maintain tax breaks when industry thrivingPaul Cowleyabout 19 hours ago
Rural municipal leaders say it is time to restore a tax break put in place when the energy industry was struggling with plunging world oil prices.
Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver told municipal leaders in a letter following that convention that a three-year tax holiday on new wells and pipelines will be lifted as planned after the 2024 tax year.
However, a well equipment tax dropped at the same time will not be coming back.
“I feel like we’re still catering to the oil industry and the last couple of years have been pretty good to them and they’re still riding on the backs of our ratepayers,” said Lacombe County Reeve Barb Shepherd.
Well equipment tax revenue is plowed directly into the county’s road programs, she said.
“To me that’s the support for the infrastructure that is needed while those guys are driving their heavy equipment up and down our roads,” she said.
“They’re not going to reinstate that and I’m not sure why.”
In Lacombe County, the tax generated on average $25,000 per well.
“We’re not talking about chump change here. For some municipalities, it will probably be in the magnitude of several hundred thousand dollars.
Municipalities have also been awaiting a promised assessment review of oil and gas properties but there has been nothing so far.
A 35 per cent reduction on shallow wells and pipelines introduced in 2019 is also continuing as is are depreciation adjustments for lower-producing wells that result in lower tax bills.
“These two measures were intended as a bridge to the implementation of new assessment models and will therefore be extended until the Assessment Model Review is completed and the regulated assessment models for wells are updated,” McIver says in his letter to Lacombe County.
Rural Municipalities of Alberta chair Paul McLauchlin said he has brought the issue up numerous times with government.
“It’s actually really disappointing. Really, it’s using municipal tax to incentivize drilling, which makes sense when you have a low oil and gas price.
“But the problem we have with it is when you have a high oil and gas price you’re actually leaving money on the table because wells don’t need to be incentivized when the price is high.
“The intent of that tax is to assist in the upkeep, care and attention of roads that are in the service of the drilling activities.”
McLauchlin said he has told various government ministers that continuing the tax break amounts to incentivizing an industry already incentivized by high commodity prices.
“That does not make sense. It’s just not recognizing that commodity prices drive the industry.”
He has so far not received a convincing answer as to why some tax breaks remain in place.
“I think there is an extremely powerful oil and gas lobby that has the ear of government and somehow has convinced this government taxes are a bad thing.
“(However) taxes pay for the infrastructure that helps the oil and gas industry.”
McLauchlin said rural municipalities are happy to do their share and forgo some tax revenues when the province’s premiere industry is struggling. But that is not the case now.
I mean jully black was never even as big as deborah cox or tamia
I never said that
remember when i said this and a poster named bnew said nah its not true?
‘Huge spike’ in population adding to pressures on Ontario ERs | Globalnews.ca
Of approximately 22,000 acute care beds in Ontario hospitals, more than 6,000 are occupied by patients who should be in another more appropriate setting.
again, i never said that.
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Number of international students now exceeds one million, official figures show
More than one million study-permit holders reported in Canada, with half of them in Ontario
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Number of international students now exceeds one million, official figures show
More than one million study-permit holders reported in Canada, with half of them in Ontario
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Number of international students now exceeds one million, official figures show
MARIE WOOLFOTTAWA
PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO
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A first-year Northern College student, Harnek Brar, tends to a roti on the stove with his roommates, Jatin Arora and Amit Kumar, right, in the communal kitchen of their building, in Timmins, Ont. on Nov. 9, 2023.NASUNA STUART-ULIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
The number of international students in Canada now exceeds one million, according to official figures that show an increase that has escalated far faster than the government’s own internal forecasts.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told The Globe and Mail that at the end of December, there were 1,028,850 study permit holders, with just over half of them in Ontario.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller is preparing to cap the number of international students, and has called on the provinces to stop licensing sub-standard private colleges that he says churn foreign graduates out like “puppy mills.”
International student numbers have increased rapidly from 637,855 in 2019 to 807,260 in 2022, and concerns have been expressed that many students, including from India, are being exploited by agents who recruit them to attend private colleges in Canada with poor standards, support and facilities.
The IRCC said that of the more than one million study permit holders – who include school, college and university students and those pursuing “other studies” – 526,015 were in Ontario, 202,565 were in British Columbia, and 117,925 were in Quebec. There were only 10 international students studying in Nunavut and 18,695 in Saskatchewan.
In October, the Immigration Department told Conservative MP Garnett Genuis in a written parliamentary answer that at the beginning of the academic year in September, 1,015,744 people held a valid study permit, allowing them to come to Canada.
Just over a third of them were studying at institutions accredited by Universities Canada, which represents nearly 100 universities, the department said in a written parliamentary answer.
An IRCC document from August, 2023 sent to universities last year, obtained by The Globe, forecast that applications from foreign students would reach 949,000 in 2023, and just over one million in 2024.
But the written reply to Mr. Genuis, by Paul Chiang, parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Marc Miller, in October showed that by Sept. 30, the numbers of study permit holders had already topped one million.
India is the top source country for international students in Canada, followed by China.
Bahoz Dara Aziz, spokesperson for Mr. Miller, said at the end of last year, the number of study permit applications processed for Indian students dropped sharply owing to a diplomatic dispute over the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.
In October, India stripped 41 Canadian diplomats of their diplomatic immunity, Canada said, adding that it moved the diplomats out of India before the measure took effect. The situation affected Canada’s ability to process study permit applications from India at the time, she said.
Mr. Genuis said the disclosure that only 343,470 of the 1,015,744 students were studying at institutions accredited by Universities Canada showed that many international students coming to Canada were studying at private colleges, technical schools and other postsecondary institutions with varying standards.
Tom Kmiec, Conservative immigration critic, said some smaller private colleges have “questionable standards and very loose attendance rules.”
An analysis by Statistics Canada in November found that around 19 per cent of international students with study permits did not have a record of studying at college or university here.
The Statscan report looked at international students who were not enrolled in publicly funded postsecondary education programs. It compared various data sources, including tax records, to determine if those students were studying elsewhere in Canada.
Each spring and fall, colleges and universities outside Quebec, in order to comply as Designated Learning Institutions, have to report to IRCC on the enrolment status of their international students.
The International Student Compliance Regime, implemented in 2014, is designed to help identify bogus students and help provinces identify questionable schools.
Most of the colleges on IRCC’s top 10 list of schools with the highest potential non-compliance rates are privately run and in Ontario, catering heavily to students from India.
The IRCC’s Student Integrity Analysis Report, dated November, 2021, found “no shows” make up as much as 90 per cent of students at some private colleges. “No shows” are students with letters of acceptance, who should be enrolled but either did not confirm the acceptance, never attended class or suddenly stopped attending. The report was obtained by immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through an access to information request.
Isabelle Dubois, a spokesperson for IRCC, said the department “is undertaking a review of the International Student Program to strengthen program integrity and enhance protections to address student vulnerability, unethical recruitment and non-genuine actors in the program.”
Number of international students now exceeds one million, official figures show
MARIE WOOLF
OTTAWA
PUBLISHED 5 HOURS AGO
Open this photo in gallery:
A first-year Northern College student, Harnek Brar, tends to a roti on the stove with his roommates, Jatin Arora and Amit Kumar, right, in the communal kitchen of their building, in Timmins, Ont. on Nov. 9, 2023.NASUNA STUART-ULIN/THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
The number of international students in Canada now exceeds one million, according to official figures that show an increase that has escalated far faster than the government’s own internal forecasts.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told The Globe and Mail that at the end of December, there were 1,028,850 study permit holders, with just over half of them in Ontario.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller is preparing to cap the number of international students, and has called on the provinces to stop licensing sub-standard private colleges that he says churn foreign graduates out like “puppy mills.”
International student numbers have increased rapidly from 637,855 in 2019 to 807,260 in 2022, and concerns have been expressed that many students, including from India, are being exploited by agents who recruit them to attend private colleges in Canada with poor standards, support and facilities.
The IRCC said that of the more than one million study permit holders – who include school, college and university students and those pursuing “other studies” – 526,015 were in Ontario, 202,565 were in British Columbia, and 117,925 were in Quebec. There were only 10 international students studying in Nunavut and 18,695 in Saskatchewan.
In October, the Immigration Department told Conservative MP Garnett Genuis in a written parliamentary answer that at the beginning of the academic year in September, 1,015,744 people held a valid study permit, allowing them to come to Canada.
Just over a third of them were studying at institutions accredited by Universities Canada, which represents nearly 100 universities, the department said in a written parliamentary answer.
An IRCC document from August, 2023 sent to universities last year, obtained by The Globe, forecast that applications from foreign students would reach 949,000 in 2023, and just over one million in 2024.
But the written reply to Mr. Genuis, by Paul Chiang, parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Marc Miller, in October showed that by Sept. 30, the numbers of study permit holders had already topped one million.
India is the top source country for international students in Canada, followed by China.
Bahoz Dara Aziz, spokesperson for Mr. Miller, said at the end of last year, the number of study permit applications processed for Indian students dropped sharply owing to a diplomatic dispute over the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.
In October, India stripped 41 Canadian diplomats of their diplomatic immunity, Canada said, adding that it moved the diplomats out of India before the measure took effect. The situation affected Canada’s ability to process study permit applications from India at the time, she said.
Mr. Genuis said the disclosure that only 343,470 of the 1,015,744 students were studying at institutions accredited by Universities Canada showed that many international students coming to Canada were studying at private colleges, technical schools and other postsecondary institutions with varying standards.
Tom Kmiec, Conservative immigration critic, said some smaller private colleges have “questionable standards and very loose attendance rules.”
An analysis by Statistics Canada in November found that around 19 per cent of international students with study permits did not have a record of studying at college or university here.
The Statscan report looked at international students who were not enrolled in publicly funded postsecondary education programs. It compared various data sources, including tax records, to determine if those students were studying elsewhere in Canada.
Each spring and fall, colleges and universities outside Quebec, in order to comply as Designated Learning Institutions, have to report to IRCC on the enrolment status of their international students.
The International Student Compliance Regime, implemented in 2014, is designed to help identify bogus students and help provinces identify questionable schools.
Most of the colleges on IRCC’s top 10 list of schools with the highest potential non-compliance rates are privately run and in Ontario, catering heavily to students from India.
The IRCC’s Student Integrity Analysis Report, dated November, 2021, found “no shows” make up as much as 90 per cent of students at some private colleges. “No shows” are students with letters of acceptance, who should be enrolled but either did not confirm the acceptance, never attended class or suddenly stopped attending. The report was obtained by immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through an access to information request.
Isabelle Dubois, a spokesperson for IRCC, said the department “is undertaking a review of the International Student Program to strengthen program integrity and enhance protections to address student vulnerability, unethical recruitment and non-genuine actors in the program.”
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