Event’s around the city:

CBC Sounds of the Season (Dec. 2): The CBC building is offering coffee and snacks and allowing you to listen to your favorite radio shows recorded live! You can also meet a bunch of CBC’s personalities!

Holiday Fair (Dec 8-23): This is a massive European-style Christmas market where folks are invited to skate and shop!  There is lots of fun and food for the family to enjoy!

New Years Eve at Nathan Phillips Square (Dec 31-Jan 1): Toronto’s biggest skating and dance party! Ring in the new years with your friends and family with this fun and exciting party!

Let’s all enjoy the winter season with these fun and exciting events around Toronto! Happy Holidays!

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The event is nothing new to the country. Since 1949, the Canadian Movie Awards have been taking place in Ottawa. Years later, in 1986, the Geminis were established to acknowledge those who work on the small screen.  The two events operated separately for decades, until finally being combined under one name, along with the Genie Awards, in 2013.  At the Canadian Screen Awards, the Academy honours the most notable performances both behind the scenes and on screen in movies, digital media, and TV shows.

Much like the award shows that have been held in Hollywood, the CSA promises to be a celebrity-filled event. In the past, names like Martin Short and Eugene Levy were on the guest-list. This year is no different! Comedian Andrea Martin will be hosting the event, Kiefer Sutherland and Patrick J. Adams are set to be in attendance, and most recently, Julianne Moore was added as a presenter.

If you are curious to see who walks away a winner, and of course, the latest red carpet fashions, you can tune in to CBC this Sunday evening at 8 PM EST.   For more information about the Canadian Screen Awards, click here. (Source)

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Victoria Ordu and Ihouma Amadi were on student visas and, misunderstanding the particulars concerning their ability to work, took off-campus jobs for several weeks until they realized that off-campus work required a work permit.  Despite Ms. Ordu’s swift action to quit the job, she still received a call from CBSA two weeks later and found herself facing deportation.

Now, in order to avoid deportation, the women have had to forgo returning to school with their classmates and have been claiming sanctuary in a church.

Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism at the time, Jason Kenney, stated “one of the women in question is not a student and has not been attending classes or enrolled in an institution for several months, but was working illegally without a work permit.”

Ms. Amadi vehemently disagreed, stating that she was, in fact, a student at the time.

There is hope that new Minister, Chris Alexander, will have a different approach to a situation that is viewed by many as an honest mistake with unjust ramifications.  The government has proposed new regulations concerning the eligibility of international students to work part-time at off-campus jobs– regulations that could have prevented Ms. Ordu and Ms. Amadi’s current imbroglio.

In a CBC interview with Anna Maria Tremonti, Mario D. Bellissimo shared his insight stating, “It’s good to hear that the students are represented… Hopefully [they are] taking steps because there are steps and applications that they can make to try to mitigate the circumstances and hopefully resume their studies…Canada, the last time I checked, is no longer a top 10 destination country for foreign students in the world. So I think there is some work to be done there. I think we have a lot to offer.”

The women have the support of many, including their school, but for now, they must play the waiting game.

Click here to listen to Mario D. Bellissimo’s interview on  The Current (CBC)

Click here to learn more about study permits.

Click here to learn more about work permits.

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The report outlines that the annual value of mining activity within this region will continue to grow to nearly double by 2020, and calls for increased government investment through government-private partnerships that will help build the North that is estimated to produce up to $8.5 billion towards our GDP.

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