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A  Canadian man  was arrested after he tied more than 100 helium balloons to a lawn chair and used it to fly over Calgary. Daniel Boria, 26, told police that he was planning on parachuting into the Calgary Stampede, a rodeo event, to promote his cleaning-products company. Boria jumped from the chair and opened a parachute attached to his back. …

Leading United Arab Emirates businessman Abdullah Ahmed al-Ghurair has donated a third of his assets to an educational foundation as part of a charity drive, he said on Tuesday. Ghurair is the father of billionaire Abdulaziz al-Ghurair, chief executive of Dubai-based Mashreq bank , one of the emirate’s biggest lenders. Ghurair said in a  news conference that  The foundation will …

The 10 and 3  produced an interactive map that shows which languages are spoken most often at home besides the country’s official languages English and French . The  map is  separating the country into “census divisions.” They then discerned a language’s popularity by looking at the number of people who speak it at home within those regions. For much of the …

According to the report of “Engineering Labour Market in Canada: Projections to 2025”, there will be a huge gap in demand and supply of the qualified experienced and skilled engineers across Canada.  Because of  the growing economy and the retirement of engineers. It is expected that nearly 100 thousand  engineering opportunities will be generated in the next 5 years. The …

Amnesty International  The full extent of the horror that has unfolded across Iraq over the past year is revealed in an interactive story map published by Amnesty International today, detailing the plight of Iraqi civilians caught in a deadly spiral of horrific crimes by the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) and brutal revenge attacks by the now …

By: Jonathan Cook  Two recent reports suggest that Israel could face catastrophic consequences if it fails to end the mistreatment of Palestinians under its rule, whether in the occupied territories or in Israel itself. The Rand Corporation’s research shows that Israel could lose $250 billion (Dh919bn) over the next decade if it fails to make peace with the Palestinians and …

Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain Human Rights Watch Kuwaiti legislators’ adoption on June 24, 2015, of a new law giving domestic workers enforceable labor rights is a major breakthrough that should lead other Gulf states to take similar action. Kuwaiti authorities should rigorously carry out the new law and address remaining legal and policy gaps that discriminate against domestic …

Liberal support for bill moves some votes to NDP In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1268 Canadian voters, almost equal proportions support (39%) and oppose (41%) Bill C-51, the new anti-terrorism legislation. It must be noted that fully one fifth of voters have no opinion on this hotly contested issue (20%). Support for …

A mosque in Mississauga, Canada, donated thousands of dollars to help a  Catholic church in the area needed a clean up after an acts of vandalism. imam of the Sayeda Khadija Centre in Mississauga  Hamid Slimi  visited St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church after the incident. The church’s Father Camillo Lando showed him the acts of  vandalism that had …

the Kuwaiti Ambassador  to Canada Hussein Al-Sammak announced that Kuwaiti Government   has donated  a one million Canadian dollars (807000 $) to constructs a new Islamic centre in Toronto, Canada.   the ambassador  said that the Kuwaiti diplomatic mission handed over the donation to “Alfajr Institute of Islamic Sciences in Toronto” to build a new  centre will be named “the State …