ThursdayFebruary212008

Mexicans, not content to steal jobs from and rape babies belonging to U.S. Americans, are starting to make their way into Canada: The U.K. remained by far Canada’s top overseas tourism market last year while the number of Mexicans...

FridayDecember282007

This month Reuters covers a special ceremony that took place in Ottawa honoring Argentineans who served, rather under wraps, for the Allied Forces during World War II: Many foreigners fought for the various Allied air forces, but until now...

WednesdayNovember142007

Many U.S. immigration laws are Band-Aid solutions to calming hysterical people, akin to giving a screaming child a toy rather than smack him in front of everyone at the Wal-Mart. Which is why New York firefighters in the small...

WednesdaySeptember262007

In stark contrast with their previous stance towards their other neighbors to the south, Canada’s tourism department in Toronto is launching a media campaign to attract more Mexicans to Toronto as a tourist destination. The media campaign promotes Toronto...

MondaySeptember242007

In an effort to counteract false information circulating on the internet about easy refugee status in Canada, Immigration officials there have begun to spread the message that “Canada does not give preferential treatment to illegal Mexican refugees.” (Um, that’s...

MondayAugust272007

A 22 year-old Nicaraguan man named Alvaro Orozco is hiding out in Toronto, claiming to be gay so that he can stay in Canada as a political refugee. (Man love is totally illegal in Nick-a-raggs.) However, the Canadian refugee...

TuesdayJuly242007

This week some of us have snuck over the border— to Canada, and more specifically Vancouver, for the first time ever. To our surprise we’ve observed quite a bit of Spanish being thrown around the place. In fact, our...

FridayJuly202007

The gloves are off across the world. • Chilean soccer players at the semifinal match of the FIFA Under-20 World Cup had a brawl with the Canadian cops cuz they lost to Argentina. Now that’s what we call international...

FridayJuly202007

We were pointed to an interesting article on the issue of border security between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt. The usual border town situation applies: sleepy communities, interdependent economies and social structures. (On one street, residents on one...

MondayJuly162007

Thanks to stricter border security after 9/11, the United States government is making it very hard for a group of foreign workers close to our hearts to enter this country: Canadian indie rockers. It doesn’t help that when it...

MondayJune252007

We couldn’t help noticing the mysterious and strapping young man glued to Cameron Diaz’s side in every paparazzi photo of her recent Peruvian Handbaggate. Originally reported as “unidentified man” by Reuters on June 19th, he has since been identified...

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