then the town council of Herouxville have posted some rules for new immigrants to help you with integration.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6316151.stm

I was shocked at first but soon changed my mind. I'm not all that shocked really.

"Info" like that is already in some government publication. Mr B was handed a bundle of leaflets by a newcomers services man behind a cart in the immigration hall at YYZ. I thumbed through some of it and it had helpful hints like "don't beat your women or kids in Canada, you'll get into trouble" etc etc.

Does anyone still have that booklet? I think it was a large A4 (or whatever that size is here) thing. Is it available online? I'd like to have another look now and our copy is long since gone.

I do hope that Mr B is obeying the local laws wrt beating women!

That's a bugger, there's nothing like a live "stone your woman to death" event to help pass the time on a weekend.

That's why I'd like to see another copy, to refresh him on a few points

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/pub/welcome.pdf


I dont see the fuss...OK, its stating the obvious and pandering to stereotypes, but I think they made the point that if you want to come live in a particular community then expect to conform to the community, not have the community conform to you.

On the other hand its will never hold water legally speaking as some of the stuff is already covered by supreme court rulings anyway (like the right of a Sikh to wear a kirpan)

Ah
Now then I've heard that CBC are actually in talks with Al Jazeera about buying the rights to televise the National Stoning League.

I've noticed (according to the BBC, at any rate...) that the "Muslims" are apparently the only group that are "outraged" by these "rules".... do they think they are the only people who this applies to? Just another crappy 'diversions and things' type article that the BBC seem to spew out on a regular basis.

That's got to be a winner surely.

They could schedule it to ride the ratings wave after "Little Mosque on the Prarie"

Are they actually going to bring that back then? I thought it was an unmitigated disaster???

Thats never stopped them before where canadian generated content is concerned.

I hadnt heard anything other than what I read here. Why, was it panned? did the ratings suck? I thought it was "alright", ubt theat they will have problems maintaining enough jokes without resorting to stereotypes.

well two weeks and it disappeared???????

Thats not unusual with canadian scheduling. Have you tried following Dr Who over here


"Little Mosque on the prarie returns Jan 31, after the all star break" CBC website

Hockey rules all in Canada...