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How to keep your Permanent Residence Status in CanadaEdward C. Corrigan
February 21, 2019
If you are a Permanent Resident of Canada you keep your status as a Permanent Resident until it is taken away from you in a legal proceeding or you surrender it to Canadian authorities. You can lose your status as a Permanent Resident of Canada for convictions that are considered "Serious Criminality."
Brexit: A Divorce Like Few OthersAnna Kucirkova
February 10, 2019
Even if you're a casual follower of the news, no doubt over the past couple of years you've seen a story or two about Brexit.
Ambassadors Address Gender Reuel S. Amdur
November 26, 2018
Rima Alaadeen and Souriya Otmani, from Jordan and Morocco respectively, share on a couple fronts. They are the only Arab female ambassadors to Canada, and they both attribute much of their progress in the foreign services to the attitude and policies of their countries' progressive kings. Both governments have implemented more progressive family codes. In Jordan, according to Alaadeen, if your children don't go to school or marry under the age of 18, you go to jail.
Men and SuicideReuel S. Amdur
November 26, 2018
On November 22, the Royal Ottawa Hospital's psychiatrist-in-Chief Rajiv Bhatta gave a presentation on men and suicide. "Men have low rates of depression compared to women, yet they are four times more likely to die by suicide." Thus, of people with depression only a third are men, while some 75 to 80% of deaths by suicide are by men.
Parents and Grandparents Program in Canada will open to interested sponsors in early 2019. Edward C. Corrigan and Selvin Mejia
November 18, 2018
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has closed its Parents and Grandparents Sponsor Program for Canadian citizens and permanent residents for 2018. The Federal Government in December 2016 decided to change the process for acceptance of an Application to Sponsor a Parent or Grand Parent from a first come first serve basis to a lottery approach. This year the online submission form to show interest closed at noon EST on February 1, 2018.
The Challenge of Alzheimer's DiseaseReuel S. Amdur
October 27, 2018
Person A: "I've just learned that there is a new cure for Alzheimer's."
New NAFTA HurtsReuel S. Amdur
October 27, 2018
USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), son of NAFTA, means that Canada has been forced to make some important concessions. The notorious tariff on steel and aluminum, exempted from coverage as being necessary for defense, may be a prelude to other similar exceptions. The ongoing softwood lumber battle is not resolved, as the U.S. appeals and appeals, but objects when Canada does to the World Trade Organization.
Khashoggi's murder could be a game changerJaved Akbar
October 24, 2018
The murder of a dissident journalist has had more global impact than unchecked Saudi aggression in Yemen.
Behaviour Analysis for DementiaReuel S. Amdur
October 24, 2018
On October 18, the Royal Ottawa Hospital hosted a presentation by two staff from the Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) who spoke about behaviour analysis with dementia patients. Their presentation began with a film of a mute man suddenly activated when earphones were installed, playing music he liked. He started talking animatedly about the music and then began to sing. Mary Lesiuk, a registered nurse and the manager of geriatric outreach for the LHIN, said that to be effective the music should be to the person's taste. Lesiuk was accompanied by behaviour analyst Nick Feltz.
Why we are what we areReuel S. Amdur
October 20, 2018
It's not what's wrong with you: it's what happened to you. That is the message of the ACE findings. ACE: adverse childhood experiences. ACE findings are accredited to the research of Dr. Vincent Felitti, head of Kaiser Permanente's Department of Preventive Medicine, in San Diego, and Robert Anda, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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