Year: 2017

With Canada needing to fill a reported 216,000 highly skilled IT positions by 2021, governments and organizations across the country are looking for ways to lure talent. Mitacs, a national not-for-profit research and training group, has been doing just that with its unique internship program, Globalink, which is meant to foster international research links while boosting the national economy. The 12-week research internship has allowed 500 international students, from countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, India, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, to conduct research at 45 Canadian universities this…

Belgian Marine Frigate Louise-Marie’s mission to the Mediterranean should be cancelled, or it could be lead to an increase in the flow of “illegal immigrants”, the State Secretary for Asylum and Immigration Theo Francken (New Flemish Alliance) said on Sunday. “It would be better if we did nothing. It is causing an increase in the flow of illegal immigrants”, Mr Francken said when appearing on VTM Nieuws. The Louise-Marie has been involved in the European operation Sophia, which combats human and weapons trafficking in the Mediterranean Sea, since the 18th…

The head of Libya’s UN-backed government has called for parliamentary and presidential elections in March next year, although his proposals will likely have to compete with other Libyan and international efforts to bring an end to the country’s conflict. Fayez Al Serraj, prime minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA), also called for a national ceasefire and the gradual merging of rival parliamentary bodies based in Tripoli and eastern Libya in a speech broadcast on television late on Saturday. He said the polls aimed to elect a new president…

Just over a week has passed since President Trump offered, in Warsaw, a very particular defense of Western civilization. He praised Poland for its fight against Nazism and Soviet communism long ago, though he said little about the country’s success since 1989. He spoke of the things that hold the West together, including classical music and God, but made only glancing references to democracy. He also spoke of the threats to the West, alluding to dangers from the “South or the East” as well as from an “oppressive ideology,” radical Islam, that “seeks…