www.theasianstar.com VOL 23 - ISSUE 8
Pakistan International Airline Staff Continue to Disappear in Toronto PIA’s flight attendants like to go missing in Canada, but one had trouble returning home. A crew member on a Pakistan International Airlines flight from Islamabad to Toronto was fined for traveling without a passport. The incident occurred on March 15 and was reported on Sunday. The attendant was fined $200 for negligence and landing in Toronto without a passport, according to the outlet. A source who works at PIA denied that the steward was attempting to stay in Canada and claim political asylum.
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Secret RCMP report warns Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are A secret RCMP report is warning the federal government that Canada may descend into civil unrest once citizens realize the hopelessness of their economic situation. “The coming period of recession will … accelerate the decline in living standards that the younger generations have already witnessed compared to earlier generations,” reads the report, entitled Whole-ofGovernment Five-Year Trends for Canada. “For example, many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live,” it adds. The report, labelled secret, is intended as a piece of “special operational
India announces 6-week general elections starting April 19 with Modi’s BJP topping surveys
India on Saturday announced its 6-weeklong general elections will start on April 19, with most surveys predicting a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Voting in the world’s largest democracy will stretch over seven phases, with different states voting at different times and results will be announced on June 4. Over 970 million voters — more than 10% of the world’s population — will elect 543 members for the lower house of Parliament for a term of five years. Modi, who is seeking a third consecutive term, faces little challenge as the main opposition alliance of over two dozen regional parties led by the Indian National Congress party appears to be cracking, riven by rivalries, political defections and ideological clashes. Read more on Page 2...
information” to be distributed only within the RCMP and among “decision-makers” in the federal government. A heavily redacted version was made public as a result of an access to information request filed by Matt Malone, an assistant professor of law at British Columbia’s Thompson Rivers University, and an expert in government secrecy. Describing itself in an introduction as a “scanning exercise,” the report is intended to highlight trends in both Canada and abroad “that could have a significant effect on the Canadian government and the RCMP.”
Asylum claims by students at two Ontario colleges are ‘alarming’ Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller warned last month that the increases in the number of asylum claims from international students is “alarming” and “totally unacceptable.” Speaking ahead of cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill, Miller highlighted Toronto’s Seneca College, where asylum claims from international students increased from 300 in 2022 to almost 700 in 2023, and Kitchener’s Conestoga College, where claims jumped from 106 to 450 during that same period, reports The Canadian Press. “Those numbers have now been officially confirmed by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada,” notes Waterloo Region Record in its recently published report. A CBC investigation last month found that Conestoga led all Canadian colleges and universities with the most international student study permit applications approved in 2023, with 30,395 international students accepted. This was more than double the next institution on the list, University Canada West B.C., which saw 13,913 international students in 2023. Fanshawe College was third with 11,706 international students.
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