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OTTAWA — A Canadian criminologist who once worked on inland immigration enforcement for the Canada Border Services Agency said Canada needs to better track foreign nationals who arrive in the country on student visas. Kelly Sundberg, a professor at Mount Royal University, said he was not shocked to hear that Indian law enforcement agencies are investigating links between Canadian colleges and a scheme to ferry international students across the Canada-U. S. border. "I'm not surprised that our ridiculous honour-based immigration program is being gamed by transnational criminals. That doesn't surprise me at all," Sundberg said. India's Enforcement Directorate said on Tuesday it had uncovered evidence of human trafficking after launching an investigation on the Indian connections the deaths of Jagdish and Vaishali Patel and their two children in January 2022. The Indian family was found dead from the cold near the Manitoba-Minnesota border and last month an American and an Indian man were convicted of bringing unauthorized people into the U.S. and profiting from it. The Indian agency says it has evidence that an Indian national allegedly arranged for people to get admissions to Canadian colleges in order to get a student visa for Canada, intending to then cross into the U.S. with no plan to actually study in Canada. The RCMP said in a statement that it is aware of the Indian statement and have reached out through the country's international police liaison to get more information on the investigation. The RCMP said it would have no further comment. The federal government deferred comment to the RCMP. The allegations have not been proven in court and India has not identified the Canadian colleges allegedly involved. Colleges and Institutes Canada said they do not have information on the nature of colleges linked to these allegations, and are committed to helping ensure student safety and the integrity of the immigration system. Sundberg said having a means to track when and how temporary residents, including international students, leave the country would reduce vulnerabilities in the system. "When I was an immigration officer, I saw this playing out 17, 20 years ago. So it hasn't changed," Sundberg said. "What it takes is the government has to enforce the laws it has. It needs to start collecting the bio data, so the photos and the fingerprints of every non-citizen crossing our border and have a process to confirm their departure. We need to tie documents with the biometrics." Sundberg said he'd be "very surprised" if reputable post-secondary institutions were part of these allegations. Instead, he suspects colleges set up in strip malls. These types of schools have been a focus in Canada's student visa reforms, with Immigration Minister Marc Miller calling them the diploma equivalent of puppy mills. These latest allegations land as Canada is making major changes to its immigration system, including significant cutbacks on the number of student visas it issues. At an immigration committee meeting last month, the Conservatives asked how Canada tracks international students if they leave the country. At that committee hearing, Miller said the vast majority of people on temporary visas, including students, leave once their visa expires. He said there is work to do to curb asylum claims from international students. The problem of people crossing into the U.S. illegally has also become a thorn in the Canada-U.S. relationship ahead of the return of Donald Trump as president next month. Trump has threatened steep tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada doesn't do more to end illegal border crossings and the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 27, 2024. -With files from Dylan Robertson David Baxter, The Canadian Press
GUINNESS "panic-buying" has pubs fearing they may run out before Christmas as the drinks giant warned of a cap on the number of kegs available. Pubs may run out of the drink, one of Britain's most popular pints , following the unprecedented spike in demand for the black stuff. The number of kegs that pubs can receive have had “allocation limits” placed on them by its owner, drinks giant Diageo, as it aims to manage supplies across the UK. While it has been quick to reassure drinkers that taps will not run dry, one pub company warned its managers that "quantities may be limited through the festive season ". The spike in demand is understood to have come from a spell of colder weather and four weekends of rugby union internationals in November. This may have stretched supply of the Irish stout, which has become increasingly popular in recent years. Read More on Pubs The once unfashionable brand has even birthed its own fan base, with so-called "Guinnfluencers" now all over social media . Stars ranging from Hugh Jackman all the way to Kim Kardashian have shown their love for the drink . Earlier this year, Diageo’s chief executive Debra Crew said sales of the black stuff among UK women had increased 24 per cent. The drink also has a special place amongst rugby fans, having been affiliated with the sport for 60-years, and has been the official beer of the Six Nations since 2007. Most read in Money England , Scotland and Ireland played four home matches in the autumn internationals series, while Wales played three in November. Pubs were regularly packed out with fans both celebrating and drowning their sorrows. An email from one large pub company to publicans, seen by The Times , said it while it was managing the situation, "stock allocation" would be in place. It did however add that regular deliveries of Guinness would take place throughout December, although quantities available for order may be "limited" over the festive period. Other pub operators have confirmed they have been “restricted”. One publican said some of his competitors were “ panic buying ” to prepare for the festive period, further stretching supply. A spokesman for Diageo said: “Over the past month we have seen exceptional consumer demand for Guinness in Great Britain. "We have maximised supply and we are working proactively with our customers to manage the distribution to trade as efficiently as possible. This comes as boozers were outraged after it was announced a dozen popular beers are set to be axed from pubs over Christmas. Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company (CMBC) is ditching 11 classic British cask beers in a matter of weeks. The bizarre decision is said to have a "huge impact" on pubs and pub-goers. The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) were the first to spot the delisting, slamming the decision as "another example of a globally owned business wiping out UK brewing heritage". READ MORE SUN STORIES The organisation's Cider and Perry campaigns director and vice chair Gillian Hough fumed: "This loss of consumer choice is the inevitable outcome of a brewing conglomerate run by accountants and the bottom line. "This is a sad and disappointing decision that puts both the history and the future of British brewing in jeopardy."
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are drifting around their records Thursday in the runup to a big jobs report due on Friday. The crypto market had much more action, and bitcoin briefly burst to a record above $103,000 before pulling back. The S&P 500 was edging down by 0.1% after setting an all-time high for the 56th time this year the day before to improve one of its best years of the millennium . The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 183 points, or 0.4%, with roughly an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was nearly unchanged from its own record set the day before. Bitcoin powered above $100,000 the night before, after President-elect Donald Trump chose a crypto advocate, Paul Atkins, as his nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. The cryptocurrency has climbed dramatically from less than $70,000 on Election Day, but it quickly fell back as Thursday progressed toward $99,000, according to CoinDesk. Sharps swings for bitcoin are nothing new, and they took stocks of companies enmeshed in the crypto world on a similar ride. After rising as much as 9% in early trading, MicroStrategy, a company that’s been raising cash just to buy bitcoin, swung to a loss of 5.9%. Crypto exchange Coinbase Global fell 3.2% after likewise erasing a big early gain. Elsewhere on Wall Street, stocks of airlines helped lead the way following the latest bumps up to financial forecasts from carriers. American Airlines Group soared 18.6% after saying it’s making more in revenue during the last three months of 2024 than it expected, and it will likely make a bigger profit than it had earlier forecast. The airline also chose Citi to be its exclusive partner for credit cards that give miles in its loyalty program. That should help its cash coming in from co-branded credit card and other partners grow by about 10% annually. Southwest Airlines climbed 3.4% after saying it’s seeing stronger demand from leisure travelers than it expected. It also raised its forecast for revenue for the holiday traveling season. On the losing end of Wall Street was Synposys, which tumbled 12.1%. The supplier for the semiconductor industry reported better profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected, but it also warned of “continued macro uncertainties” and gave a forecast for revenue in the current quarter that fell short of some analysts’ estimates. American Eagle Outfitters fell even more, 15.3%, after the retailer said it’s preparing for “potential choppiness” outside of peak selling periods. It was reminiscent of a warning from Foot Locker earlier in the week and raised more concerns about how resilient U.S. shoppers can remain. Solid spending by U.S. consumers has been one of the main reasons the U.S. economy has avoided a recession that earlier seemed inevitable after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates to crush inflation. But shoppers are now contending with still-high prices and a slowing job market . This week’s highlight for Wall Street will be Friday’s jobs report from the U.S. government, which will show how many people employers hired and fired last month. A report on Thursday said the number of U.S. workers applying for unemployment benefits rose last week but remains at historically healthy levels. Expectations are high that the Fed will cut its main interest rate again when it meets in two weeks. The Fed began easing its main interest rate from a two-decade high in September, hoping to offer more support for the job market. In the bond market, the yield on the 10-year Treasury held steady at 4.18%, where it was late Wednesday. In stock markets abroad, indexes were mostly calm in Europe after far-right and left-wing lawmakers in France joined together to vote on a no-confidence motion prompted by budget disputes that will force Prime Minister Michel Barnier and his Cabinet to resign. The CAC 40 index in Paris added 0.4%. In South Korea, the Kospi fell 0.9% to compound its 1.4% decline from the day before. President Yoon Suk Yeol was facing possible impeachment after he suddenly declared martial law on Tuesday night. He revoked the martial law declaration six hours later. Crude oil prices slipped after eight members of the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries decided to put off increasing oil production. AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contrributed.Trump’s DOJ obtained more private communications from third-parties including Apple
Pete Hegseth ’s quest to take over the Pentagon has been fraught — to say the least. The former Fox News host has been struggling to weather a firestorm of scrutiny stemming from a series of damning revelations about his past since Donald Trump tapped him as his Secretary of Defense nominee last month. Many of these revelations revolve around Hegseth’s drinking. There’s the disturbing 2017 sexual assault allegation, the police report for which included a hotel worker at the scene of the alleged incident saying Hegseth seemed very drunk . Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing, and told police at the time that he was only “buzzed.” There’s also The New Yorker ’s recent report about Hegseth’s time leading two veterans groups , during which he allegedly drank to the point that staffers at one of the groups found it embarrassing. He even once chanted “Kill All Muslims!” in a bar in a “drunk and violent manner,” according to an internal complaint. A few days after that bombshell dropped, NBC News reported that Hegseth’s colleagues at Fox News, where he worked for over 10 years, harbored concerns about his drinking. On Wednesday, NPR reported that one of Hegseth’s former Fox colleagues said he was repeatedly “handsy” when intoxicated, and she alleged he groped her at a bar. Hegseth has been on Capitol Hill this week trying to convince Republican senators that he’s still fit to lead the nation’s largest bureaucracy. It hasn’t been going great, with several senators expressing concern to reporters. Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), who on Monday defended Hegseth as a victim of the media throwing “disparaging remarks at someone who has earned a great deal of credibility,” changed her tune about the allegations a day later, saying they are something Hegseth “needs to address.” He’s apparently been addressing them by promising senators he’ll stop drinking if they confirm him. He reportedly made the vow to Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). “I think that’s probably a good idea,” Wicker told reporters, per The Hill . Editor’s picks The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time It’s unclear if promising to go cold turkey while taking on one of the most pressure-packed jobs in the nation will convince Republicans to confirm him, but it does seem to be something they want from him. “I would love that. That would help. It would help me a lot,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) told reporters on Wednesday. Hegseth acknowledged his drinking earlier in the day in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal . “Like veterans returning from any war, we drank beers to manage the reality of what we had faced. But we never did anything improper, and we treated everyone with respect,” he wrote of his time leading the group Vets for Freedom. In an interview with Megyn Kelly later in the day, he claimed: “I never had a drinking problem.” Hegseth has maintained that he has the full support of Trump and his team — despite the transition team being furious with him for not telling them about the 2017 sexual assault allegation, as Rolling Stone reported last month. He told reporters on Wednesday that he spoke in the morning with the president-elect, who told him to “keep fighting.” Hegseth was scheduled to continue meeting with senators on Thursday, but reports emerged that he would instead be flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump, who is said to be considering withdrawing the nomination. When Hegseth was asked Wednesday afternoon whether he’d be flying to south Florida the next day, however, he replied, simply, “No.” If it sounds like Hegseth’s nomination is in trouble, he reportedly told Republican lawmakers that his mother has been calling senators on his behalf — which will surely fix matters.
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On Saturday morning, in West Bengal, the counting of votes for six assembly constituencies commenced under stringent security measures, according to officials. The by-elections, held last week, are taking place in Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, Taldangra, Sitai (SC), and Madarihat (ST). The voter turnout for these pivotal elections was recorded at 69.29%. However, the electoral process was marred by isolated incidents of violence, including a tragic crude bomb incident in Bhatpara near Naihati, resulting in the death of a local TMC worker. In effort to secure a peaceful counting process, the Election Commission has deployed rigorous security measures. Five of these seats had been won by the TMC, while Madarihat had been secured by the BJP in 2021, underscoring the strategic importance of these elections. The by-elections follow the resignation of MLAs who vacated assembly seats for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. (With inputs from agencies.)
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There are times when a postseason bowl seems like the first game of next year for the participating teams. That cliche means something a little different for NC State and East Carolina. The Wolfpack and Pirates face each other in the Military Bowl on Saturday in Annapolis, Maryland. Then they'll see each other again in about eight months. NC State opens the 2025 season at home against ECU on Aug. 30. There is certainly plenty of familiarity between these two programs, even though NC State (6-6) is in the ACC and East Carolina (7-5) is in the AAC. The teams — located about 80 miles apart — have met 32 times, most recently in 2022 when the Wolfpack won 21-20. From 1970-87, these teams played each other every year. Since 2004, they haven't gone more than two consecutive seasons without meeting. “Hour and a half down the road and you're playing — whether you play every year or don't play every year — I think it's still a rivalry," East Carolina coach Blake Harrell said. "Our fans still get excited. They still think that's a rivalry. Our players still think that's a rivalry.” NC State leads the series 19-13 and has won three straight — but East Carolina won three in a row before that. “It's weird playing a team that we open with next year,” Wolfpack coach Dave Doeren said. “We don't play them that much. We play them every three years, so it's really a roster turnover. Every time we see them, it's a different ballclub for the most part. But yeah, finishing with who you open with is unique.” NC State and East Carolina met in the Peach Bowl in 1992 — during an eight-year hiatus in their regular-season series. ECU scored three touchdowns in the final 7:26 to win 37-34. “We had that time during COVID, we obviously all had some down time. I remember searching through YouTube, just past games to check out. That game did pop up," Harrell said. "That was a special moment for that team and that program at the time, and this could be a special moment for this team and this program.” NC State is playing in the Military Bowl for the first time. East Carolina was supposed to participate in 2021, but the game was canceled. The Pirates lost to Maryland in the 2010 edition. Harrell took over on an interim basis in the middle of the season when Mike Houston was fired. After leading the Pirates to four straight wins, Harrell had the interim tag removed . Freshman CJ Bailey took over at quarterback for NC State this season after concussion problems ended Grayson McCall's career. Bailey has completed 64.1% of his passes. Only Philip Rivers and Russell Wilson threw for more touchdowns as a freshman for the Wolfpack than Bailey, who has 14 TD tosses. “He's a really good player. Doesn't play like a freshman to me,” Harrell said. "Makes really good throws down the field, has a really good arm, and then if he takes off scrambling or if the quarterback-designed run game, he's a long strider. He can eat up some ground. Nobody ever catches him." Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
From wealth and success to murder suspect, the life of Luigi Mangione took a hard turnWASHINGTON (AP) — The House shut down Democrats' efforts Thursday to release the long-awaited ethics report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz , pushing the fate of any resolution to the yearslong investigation of sexual misconduct allegations into further uncertainty. The nearly party-line votes came after Democrats had been pressing for the findings to be published even though the Florida Republican left Congress and withdrew as President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., was the sole Republican to support the effort. Most Republicans have argued that any congressional probe into Gaetz ended when he resigned from the House. Speaker Mike Johnson also requested that the committee not publish its report, saying it would be a terrible precedent to set. While ethics reports have previously been released after a member’s resignation, it is extremely rare. Shortly before the votes took place, Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., who introduced one of the bills to force the release, said that if Republicans reject the release, they will have “succeeded in sweeping credible allegations of sexual misconduct under the rug.” Gaetz has repeatedly denied the claims. Earlier Thursday, the Ethics panel met to discuss the Gaetz report but made no decision, saying in a short statement that the matter is still being discussed. It's unclear now whether the document will ever see the light of day as lawmakers only have a few weeks left before a new session of Congress begins. It's the culmination of weeks of pressure on the Ethics committee's five Republicans and five Democrats who mostly work in secret as they investigate allegations of misconduct against lawmakers. The status of the Gaetz investigation became an open question last month when he abruptly resigned from Congress after Trump's announcement that he wanted his ally in the Cabinet. It is standard practice for the committee to end investigations when members of Congress depart, but the circumstances surrounding Gaetz were unusual, given his potential role in the new administration. Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., the committee chairman, said Wednesday that there is no longer the same urgency to release the report given that Gaetz has left Congress and stepped aside as Trump's choice to head the Justice Department. “I’ve been steadfast about that. He’s no longer a member. He is no longer going to be confirmed by the Senate because he withdrew his nomination to be the attorney general,” Guest said. The Gaetz report has also caused tensions between lawmakers on the bipartisan committee. Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the panel, publicly admonished Guest last month for mischaracterizing a previous meeting to the press. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and said last year that the Justice Department’s separate investigation against him into sex trafficking allegations involving underage girls ended without federal charges. His onetime political ally Joel Greenberg , a fellow Republican who served as the tax collector in Florida’s Seminole County, admitted as part of a plea deal with prosecutors in 2021 that he paid women and an underage girl to have sex with him and other men. The men were not identified in court documents when he pleaded guilty. Greenberg was sentenced in late 2022 to 11 years in prison. ___ Farnoush Amiri, The Associated Press
