SASKATOON ASIAN NEWSWEEK
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FEATURES S AINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA, IMMIGRATION
a "Pencil that Wrote Wanting to Immigrate to
Extraordinary Poems" Saskatchewan – Part 2
S hadows of Marcos over the Country, the Find out about government programs Church is watching To become a permanent resident
G20 Hangzhou Summit September 4 – 5, 2016
Saskatoon Asian Newsweek Contents 110 Armistice Way, Saskatoon SK S7J 5L8 4. Rio 2016 Olympic Games Medal Standings www.sask-asiannews.com 5. Two Companies Fined for Occupational Health and Safety Violations [email protected] 5. Parents Encouraged to Keep Children's Vaccinations Up-To-Date 5. Seniors Ride with STC for $15 One-Way This September [email protected] 6. Saint Teresa of Calcutta, a"Pencil that Wrote Extraordinary Poems" Tel. 306-241-8262 7. Waiting to Immigrate to Saskatchewan – Part 2 8. 2016 G20 Hangzhou Summit Jon Park: Publisher / Editor 9. Disasters in Canada [email protected] 10. St. Joseph’s Colony Edward Park: Editor-in-Chief 11. Answering the Cry of the Poor [email protected] 12. Photo News from Folkfest 2016 16. Shadows of Marcos over the Country, the Church is watching16. Mary Joyce Malayba: Editor 17. UN Condemns Spate of Extrajudicial Killings [email protected] 17. UN Useless and Stupid, We are ready to Leave. Isagani Fabi: Editor 18. S. Korea Gov't Expands Task Force to Handle Hanjin Shipping Crisis
[email protected] 18. Oil Prices Drop Again Kevin M. Jung: Editor 19. Emperor Ready to Abdicate:Increasingly Difficult to Perform my … [email protected] 20. Tehran and Seoul launch Trade in Euro 20. Taipei in favour of talks between China and the Vatican Mihwa Jang: Editor 20. Election of "Parliament": Great gains by Democrats [email protected] 22. Asian Community Info.
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Rio 2016 Olympic Games August 5th – 21, 2016
Medal Standings
Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States 46 37 38 121
2 Great Britain 27 23 17 67
3 China 26 18 26 70
4 Russia 19 18 19 56
5 Germany 17 10 15 42
6 Japan 12 8 21 41
7 France 10 18 14 42
8 South Korea 9 3 9 21
Italy 8 12 8 28 9 10 Australia 8 11 10 29
11 네덜랜드 8 3 3 14
12 Hungary 8 3 4 15
Brazil 7 6 6 19 13 14 Spain 7 4 6 17
15 Kenya 6 6 1 13
20 Canada 2 2 9 13
Monday, September 5, 2016 Saskatoon Asian Newsweek 4 SK News Released Two Companies Fined for Occupational Health and Safety Violations A Birch Hills company has been fined a crane came in contact with an overhead worker became trapped under a trencher $23,800 for violating one count under high-voltage line, killing a worker while installing irrigation pipes. Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) walking beside the tractor. While everyone in the workplace is legislation. The failure to comply In an unrelated case, C. & F. Installations responsible to create and maintain a safe resulted in the death of a worker. Company (1984) Ltd. from Saskatoon and healthy workplace, employers Darcy Rask Construction Inc. pleaded pleaded guilty on August 29, 2016, to generally carry the greatest guilty on August 30, 2016, to contravening subsection 164(3) of the responsibility because they have the contravening subsection 465(2) of the regulations (being an operator of a unit greatest degree of control. regulations (failure to ensure that no of powered mobile equipment, failed to The Ministry of Labour Relations and worker works and no equipment or ensure that a unit of powered mobile Workplace Safety works with employers powered mobile equipment is used or equipment shall not move or cause to be to eliminate workplace injuries and operated with the minimum distance moved any load or part of the equipment illnesses by ensuring compliance with from any exposed energized electrical when a worker may be endangered by OHS legislation through education, conductor set out in column 1 of Table 22 that movement). It was fined $32,200. inspections, and where appropriate, of the Appendix, and did thereby cause The company had an additional charge enforcement. the death of a worker). that was stayed. . The incident occurred on September 15, Charges stem from an incident on July 2014, near Coleville, when a tractor with 15, 2014 near Swift Current when a ______Parents Encouraged to Keep Children's Vaccinations Up-To-Date As children head back to school, health pertussis (whooping cough) cases in •Meningococcal disease officials are encouraging parents to Saskatchewan. Publicly-funded routine •Pneumococcal disease ensure their children’s vaccinations are vaccinations are easily available in •Rotavirus up-to-date. Free childhood Saskatchewan at public health clinics (for immunizations are available for all pre-school children) and through school- School-age children may receive the infants and school-age children in based programs (for school age students). following free routine vaccinations: •Grade 6 students - hepatitis B, bacterial Saskatchewan. Infants and preschool-age children may meningitis, varicella (chicken pox) “Immunization is the most effective way receive the following free routine to protect your children against vaccine- vaccinations: •Diphtheria •Grade 6 female students – human papillomavirus vaccine preventable diseases,” Chief Medical •Tetanus Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab said. “It’s •Grade 8 students – tetanus, diphtheria, •Pertussis (whooping cough) important to have your children pertussis (whooping cough) booster •Polio vaccinated on time and on schedule. It All residents over six months of age provides them with the best protection •Haemophilus influenza type b may also receive a free influenza against highly contagious and potentially •Measles immunization to protect them during flu serious diseases, such as measles or •Mumps season. Public health flu clinics begin in whooping cough.” late October. •Rubella There has been a recent increase in •Varicella (chicken pox) ______Seniors Ride with STC for $15 One-Way This September The Saskatchewan Transportation “We want seniors to have access to The standard senior fare for a one-way Company (STC) has announced the convenient and affordable trip between Regina and Saskatoon is return of their popular Senior Seat Sale. transportation,” Minister responsible for $38.40 (plus tax). If a senior purchases From September 1 to 30, 2016, seniors STC Jennifer Campeau said. “Visiting the same one-way ticket in September, aged 60 and over can ride anywhere STC family and friends or attending he or she can save more than $23. goes for just $15 one-way. appointments across Saskatchewan is < Continued page 9… > even easier with STC’s Senior Seat Sale.”
Monday, September 5, 2016 Saskatoon Asian Newsweek 5 Saint Teresa of Calcutta, a "Pencil that Wrote Extraordinary Poems"
Vatican City - Mother Teresa of Calcutta belonging to categories that have the fashions or the idols of the moment, but "liked to call herself 'a pencil in the hands means and ability, but who experience are reflected in the conscience of the Lord'. But what poems of love, of the inner emptiness of having lost the enlightened by the sun of the Gospel ". compassion, comfort and joy that little meaning and direction of life or are Remembering the words spoken after the pencil has been able to write! Poems of violently struck by the desolation of receiving the Nobel - "I do not want you love and tenderness for the poorest of broken ties, the hardness of loneliness, to give me your not superfluous, but to the poor, to whom she dedicated her life", the feeling of being forgotten by all, or give until it hurts" – the Secretary of said the Vatican secretary of state, not being of need to anyone. State described this "as a threshold, Cardinal. Pietro Parolin, during beyond which we enter the the Thanksgiving Mass this abyss that enveloped the life of morning for the canonization of the saint, in the heights and in the founder of the Missionaries those depths that are difficult of Charity. to explore because they closely In front of a large crowd, on the trace the suffering of Christ, anniversary of Mother's death, her unconditional gift of love the prelate stressed that the new and the deepest wounds that saint "has opened our eyes to the she had to suffer. suffering. It is the unfathomable density She embraced with a look of of the Cross, this 'hurt' the compassion, her whole being good done for love of God, was touched and shaken by this because of the friction it causes encounter, that has - in a sense - to all those who resist, because pierced her heart, following the of the limitations of creatures, example of Jesus, who was their sin and of death which is moved by the suffering human, the cost". alone unable to help themselves". When Mother Teresa passed She, icon of this special Jubilee of from this earth to Heaven, Mercy, had a secret: "She had a September 5, 1997, "for a few secret which we have just long minutes Calcutta proclaimed loudly in the Gospel: 'Truly I This has led her to identify with the remained completely without light. On tell you, whatever you did to the least of unborn child, threatened in their this earth, she was a clear sign that these my brethren, you did it to me. existence as 'the poorest of the poor'. indicated the sky. Mother Teresa discovered in the poor the Each of them in fact depends, more than On the day of her death Heaven wanted face of Christ 'who became poor for us to any other human being, on the love and to offer a seal on her life and tell us that a enrich us with his poverty' and the care of the mother and the protection new light had turned on us. Now, after responded to his love without measure of society". the "official" recognition of her holiness, with an infinite love for the poor ". Consequently "she courageously this light shines even more vividly. Card. Parolin wanted to be remembered defended the unborn, with the frankness That this light, which is the everlasting that Mother had understood that "one of of speech and linearity of action which is light of the Gospel, continue to enlighten the most excruciating forms of poverty is the bright sign of the presence of the our earthly pilgrimage and the paths of to know we are unloved, unwanted, Prophets and the Saints, who do not our difficult world! Saint Teresa of despised. A kind of poverty is also kneel to anyone except the Almighty, Calcutta, pray for us! ". (AsiaNews) present in countries and in the families who are inwardly free because inwardly that are not poor, even in persons strong and do not bow before the
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Monday, September 5, 2016 Saskatoon Asian Newsweek 6 WANTING TO IMMIGRATE TO SASKATCHEWAN – PART 2
· have completed post-secondary · Aircraft instrument, electrical and education, training or apprenticeship avionics mechanics, technicians and that’s comparable to the Canadian inspectors education system of at least one year in · Drafting technologists and technicians length; · Technical occupations in geomantic and · have certain year(s) of experience in meteorology his/her field of education or training · Gas fitters occupation as follows: · Heavy-duty equipment mechanics · One year work experience in the past 10 · Automotive service technicians, truck years in a skilled profession (non-trades); and bus mechanics and mechanical · Two years of work experience in a repairers skilled trade in the past five years; or · Appliance servicers and repairers · Twelve months work experience in Sharon Sejung An The points on the SINP assessment grids Canada in the past three years (trades are based on the following five factors: There are several programs available and non-trades). under the Saskatchewan Immigrant · Education and training; · have work experience in a high skilled Nominee Program (SINP) that allows a · Skilled work experience; occupation that is a level “A”, “B”, or “O” foreign national to become a permanent in the National Occupational · Language ability; resident of Canada. The four general Classification (NOC) Matrix that’s in- categories are: · Age; and, demand in Saskatchewan*; · Connection(s) and adaptability to the 1. International Skilled Workers; · show proof of licensing eligibility, if the Saskatchewan labour market. 2. Applicants with Saskatchewan intended occupation is in a regulated Unfortunately, as of July 1, 2016, the Experience; professional or compulsory application quota (1,700) has been met 3. Farm Owners and Operators; and apprenticeship trade; and and SINP is no longer accepting 4. Entrepreneurs. · have proof of settlement funds and a applicants under this sub-category. settlement plan. Therefore, applicants will likely need to Applicants with Saskatchewan wait until January 1, 2017 to apply under Experience and International Skilled The current In-Demand Occupations the Saskatchewan Express Entry sub- Workers categories are employer-driven are: category. in general, meaning that the foreign · Computer and information systems As of July 1, 2016, the only sub-category national requires a Saskatchewan managers employer who is willing to offer a that remains open is the Employer Offer · Managers in social, community and permanent, full-time job position in sub-category under the International correctional services Saskatchewan. Skilled Workers. Foreign nationals who · Recreation, sports and fitness program have an offer of permanent, full-time In addition to Occupation-In-Demand and service directors employment in Saskatchewan in an and Employer Offer sub-categories, occupation that is a level “A”, “B”, or “O” Saskatchewan Express Entry is a faster · Facility operation and maintenance in the National Occupational means to obtaining permanent residency. managers Classification (NOC) Matrix or in a Saskatchewan Express Entry sub- · Managers in agriculture designated trade in Saskatchewan may category is designated for foreign · Property administrators consider applying under the Employer nationals who want to live and work in · Purchasing agents and officers Offer sub-category. Saskatchewan and are in the Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship · Health information management The program criteria may change at any Canada (IRCC) Express Entry Pool. In occupations time, therefore it is imperative to check order to be eligible for the Saskatchewan · Mathematicians, statisticians and the current eligibility criteria before Express Entry sub-category, the foreign actuaries applying to SINP. national must: · Information systems analysts and Every situation is different, and laws and · be accepted into IRCC’s Express Entry consultants policies on immigration change all the Pool, have an Express Entry profile · Biological technologists and technicians time. You are encouraged to seek Number and Job Seeker Validation Code; · Landscape and horticulture technicians professional advisor regarding your · score a minimum of 60 points out of and specialists individual situation. This article has been prepared by Sharon Se Jung An of Miller 100 on the SINP point assessment grid; · Civil engineering technologists and Thomson. For any questions: technicians · provide a valid language test result [email protected]. from a designated testing agency (e.g. · Mechanical engineering technologists IELTS); and technicians
Monday, September 5, 2016 Saskatoon Asian Newsweek 7 2016 G20 Hangzhou Summit The main themes final communiqué of the summit are: