Families behind space crunch at shelters
Lack of suitable housing clogging system
By Claire Brownell, Ottawa Citizen August 5, 2011

For two months, Marie Guerrier woke up every morning in a filthy motel room to a wailing four-year-old and a closet full of clothes wet from a leaky pipe.

“It was so hard for me,” Guerrier said. “I could not sleep in the motel. I could cry, I was so miserable in the motel with my son.”

After fleeing violence in Haiti, Guerrier and her son became one of a growing number of families with children making use of homeless shelters in Ottawa when they arrived in the city in 2009. Over a one-year period from 2008 to 2009, 2,000 children had to stay in hotels or the YMCA, sometimes for months, because the city’s 64 rooms at its two family shelters were full.

Authorities bust 3-4 human smuggling ops bound for Canada
A Canada Border Services Agency officer stands behind Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney on Wednesday, July 27, 2011. (CP)
The Canadian Press
Date: Friday Aug. 5, 2011 12:24 PM ET

BANGKOK, Thailand — Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says authorities have headed off as many as four human-smuggling operations bound for Canada in the last year.

Kenney says the “three or four” operations were in various stages of planning and execution, including one in which fishing boats were ferrying people out to a ship intending to smuggle them into Canada.

The operations preceded the seizure of a ship, the Alicia, by the Indonesian navy last month.

Multi-Faith Coalition against Islamic Prayer in Toronto Schools

Rally Monday, August 8th at 6.30pm at the Toronto District School Board at 5050 Yonge Street, Toronto

The CHRISTIAN HERITAGE PARTY OF CANADA, part of the Multi-Faith Coalition against Islamic Prayers in Toronto Schools will protest against Islamic Prayers in TDSB Schools on Monday, August 8th at 6.30 pm. We will be joining Coalition partners: JEWISH DEFENCE LEAGUE of CANADA, HINDU ADVOCACY GROUP, SENTINENTAL POST CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, and COSTA CHRISTIAN MISSION at 5050 Yonge Street Toronto for this Protest.

The bodies of Gray Nay Htoo, his wife Maw Maw and their son, Seven June, were found in this townhouse at 323 Oakview Drive on Aug. 6, 2010. CBC

Regina police appeal for help in year-old slayings
CBC News Posted: Aug 5, 2011 2:20 PM CST Last Updated: Aug 5, 2011 2:20 PM CST

The bodies of Gray Nay Htoo, his wife Maw Maw and their son, Seven June, were found in this townhouse at 323 Oakview Drive on Aug. 6, 2010. CBC

Regina police are turning to social media for help in their investigation into the year-old slaying of three Burmese refugees, including a three-year-old boy.

Saturday will mark one year since the bodies of Gray Nay Htoo, his wife Maw Maw and their son, Seven June, were found in a townhouse at 323 Oakview Drive.