Tutor-Nurses-French, Immigration-Unemployment, Cornwall-Pot, RCMP-Funeral Costs

Tutor to help Montreal nurses who flunked French test and lost hospital jobs

Tutor to help Montreal nurses who flunked French test and lost hospital jobs Cheryl Cornacchia, CanWest, Jan. 12, 05

Alliance Quebec has arranged for tutoring for two nurses who lost their jobs at a Montreal hospital after failing a French-language test, and it says other health professionals face the same predicament. [. . . . ]

Language before health services, of course. Have the language police no sense of perspective on what is really important?




US: Immigrant Population at Record High in 2004 -- Total Up Four Million Since 2000 -- Half of Growth from Illegal Aliens -- "being unemployed in America is still sometimes better than staying in one’s home country"

CIS -- Immigrant Population at Record High in 2004

WASHINGTON (November 23, 2004) — An analysis of data not yet published by the Census Bureau shows that the nation’s immigrant population (legal and illegal) reached a new record of more than 34 million in March of 2004, an increase of over 4 million just since 2000. The fact that immigration has remained so high indicates that immigration does not rise and fall in close step with the economy, as some have imagined. . . .

The 34.24 million immigrants (legal and illegal) now living in the country is the highest number ever recorded in American history and a 4.3-million increase since 2000.

* Of the 4.3 million growth, almost half, or 2 million, is estimated to be from illegal immigration.[. . . .]

The pace of immigration is so surprising because unemployment among immigrants increased from 4.4 to 6.1 percent, and the number of unemployed immigrants grew by 43 percent.

* States with the largest increase in their immigrant population were Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.

“The idea that immigration is a self regulating process that rises and falls in close step with the economy is simply wrong,” said Steven Camarota, the report’s author and the Center’s Director of Research. “Today, the primary sending countries are so much poorer than the United States, even being unemployed in America is still sometimes better than staying in one’s home country.” [. . . . ]

Think what the benefit is for a woman, in addition to this.




Cops harvest $2.6M in pot from ditched van -- Just $17 billion to go

Cops harvest $2.6M in pot from ditched van
Laura Czekaj, Ottawa Sun, Jan. 12, 05

Duffle and hockey bags full of marijuana with an estimated street value of $2.6 million were seized by police from an abandoned van found in a parking lot near Cornwall a week ago. The seizure is one of the largest in that area in the past year and netted police 290 lbs. of marijuana. [. . . . ]

Later that day, people associated with the truck and boat were stopped and questioned, but were released, said Henry.

[. . . . ] Police can't confirm if the drugs were going to be smuggled into the U.S., but the incident was close to a border crossing.

Is that the border crossing through the Akwasasne Reserve near Cornwall?




RCMP Reimburses Widows for Funeral Costs -- finally did the right thing

RCMP Reimburses Widows for Funeral Costs Josh Pringle, Jan. 11, 05

[. . . . ] The Mounties were criticized last year after the widows were all left with bills of up to 21-thousand dollars after their husbands were killed in the line of duty.[. . . . ]