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34 Ghanaian-Canadians Honored in Toronto By: Jonathan Annobil and Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto

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The Banquet & Convention Centre at 65 Claireport Crescent, Etobicoke, TorontoOntario was the scene of excitement and celebration of excellence when 34 deserving members of the Ghanaian-Canadian community in Canada were honored at a glittering event. This was the 12th edition of the Ghanaian-Canadian Achievements Awards Night.

The night started with a sumptuous dinner after which the hosts of the event, Dr. Michael Baffoe and Yvonne Fosu Adomako Kuffuor were introduced by Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Assistant Editor of the Ghanaian News. Prayers were offered by Pastor Ebow Bonnie, a retired Minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Ghana. Renditions of the Ghanaian and Canadian national anthems were done by Ms. Lucy Crentsil, who was also herself a recipient an award in

the Gospel Music category.

Emmanuel Ayiku, the Publisher/ Editor of the Ghanaian News in his welcome address, stressed the fact that, “excellence comes in many forms and knows no boundaries, of race, age, belief or perception”. “Humanity”, he continued “is capable of great things and everyday we are all amazed to see the lengths to which people will go to achieve their dreams, to better themselves and others and to make positive impacts in their communities and the world around them.”.

He used the opportunity to thank the community and sponsors of the event for their continuous support since the inception of the Awards by the Ghanaian News Team twelve years ago. However, he regretted the apathy among some quarters of our community and implored all to put their efforts together to build a stronger community.

Ghana’s Consul General in Toronto, Kodjo Mawutor read greetings on behalf of the High Commissioner-Designate to Canada, H.E. Samuel ValisAkyianu. His Excellency ValisAkyianu used the occasion to remind Ghanaians in Diaspora of the upcoming general elections in Ghana. He asked all to pray for peaceful elections. He said, “Our country has earned an enviable reputation in Africa and indeed the world at large for her commitment to free, fair and orderly elections and we all have a duty in ensuring that this reputation is solidly protected.”

The guest speaker for the function was Dr. Martin La- Kumi, a Dental Surgeon in Toronto and Okuapemanhene of Toronto.

He proudly congratulated the Ghanaian News for instituting such a program to honor Ghanaian-Canadians, and community groups domiciled in Canada for their special contributions. cont'd on pg. 7

Identify and execute your natural gift to impact humanity Dr. Martin La Kumi charges Ghanaian-Canadians By: Dr. Michael Baffoe, Toronto

A leading member of the Ghanaian community in Toronto, Dr. Martin La-Kumi, a Dental

Surgeon who is also the Akuapemfohene of Toronto, has charged members of the community to identify the natural gifts they possess, roll up their sleeves and provide services to impact humanity.

Delivering the Keynote speech at the 12th Annual GhanaianCanadian Achievement Awards ceremony in Toronto on September 23rd, 2012, Dr. La Kumi proudly congratulated The Ghanaian News for instituting such a program to honor Ghanaiancont'd on pg. 7

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Invest More In Agriculture Dr Kofi Annan Urges African Governments The Chairman of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), Dr Kofi Annan, has called on African leaders not to be complacent despite the success chalked up in the area of agriculture in the recent past.

He said it was time African leaders upheld their part of the bargain by increasing investments and encouraging public private partnerships to ensure that all farmers, large and small, contributed to ensuring food security on the continent.

“We cannot afford to lose the momentum in ensuring food security now and action is required from all governments on the continent and every partner to achieve this,” he said.

Dr. Annan, a former United Nations Secretary General, was addressing the 2nd African Green Revolution Forum in Arusha Tanzania Thursday.

He said African governments must help farmers to expand their farms and to treat their farms as businesses.

He indicated that through the Alliance for a Green Revolution on Africa (AGRA) seven countries had been reached with 330 new varieties of crops while 380 hectares of land had been rejuvenated in the last three years.

Dr. Annan said Africa could transform its agricultural sector significantly, if their leaders collaborated with the right partners adding that strategic change would only occur with result oriented partnerships.

Tanzanian President, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete,

curity, enhance nutritional levels and create better living conditions for the people.

Dr. Kofi Annan blamed African leaders for not doing enough to ensure adequate investment in agriculture.

He noted that many African countries had failed to implement the 2003 Maputo Declaration which enjoined them to commit 10 per cent of their budgets to agriculture leaving the sector undeveloped.

Opening the ongoing AGRF, President Kikwete said though African leaders knew what they needed do to revolutionalise agriculture and help change the fortunes of millions of Africans whose lives depended on agriculture, they had not done that.

He said: “We know what needs to be done, we are doing something about it but we have not done enough to support the development of agriculture in Africa.”

President Kikwete said if African leaders did not invest in agriculture, the much taunted agricultural transformation would be like “a song without dancers.”

He said it was time for African leaders to adopt more effective ways of growing and developing agriculture on the continent to promote food se-

President Kikwete indicated that though most economies in Africa relied on agriculture, the sector remained backward characterised by traditional methods of farming, low use of improved seeds, fertilisers and lack of financial credits.

He said it was disturbing that despite the fact that about 70-80 per cent of Africa’s population were involved in agriculture, only five per cent of all arable land was irrigated in Africa.

Also he said Africa used only 10 per cent of the world’s fertiliser.The results, he said, had been small farm sizes, low yields, low income and poverty.

He said it was not surprising that about 239 million of the continent’s people were food insecure.

President Kikwete stressed the crucial need for African leaders to help scale up investments in agriculture by investing in irrigation, increase support for research and agricultural development and support mechanised agriculture.

He called on leaders to be responsive to the needs of all farmers, especially small holder farmers, to reduce poverty and hunger and enhance living standards.

The President of the AGRA, Ms Jane Karuku, noted that misguided policies and neglect had affected the development of agriculture in Africa and stated that the AGRA was committed to working to unlock the potentials in the

agricultural sector of Africa.

She said subsistence farming should not be seen as an acceptable way of farming and that the AGRA continued to provide improved seeds and technical support, particularly for small holder farmers to improve their productivity and profitability and integrate them into competitive markets.

Ms. Melinda Gates, Cofounder and Co-Chair of

the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said there was the need to improve agriculture in African countries if they wanted to see a change in the lives of its people.

Over 1,200 stakeholders in agriculture, including 14 heads of state, 23 ministers of agriculture, agribusiness entrepreneurs and farmers are attending the forum in Arusha Tanzania.

The AGRA is an initiative

of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help promote food security on the continent.

The three-day forum being held on the theme: “Scaling Investment and Innovation for Sustainable Agricultural Growth and Food Security would discuss effective ways to ensure food security on the African continent.”

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EDITORIAL Publisher / Editor Emmanuel Ayiku Contributing Editors Dr. Michael Baffoe Joe Kingsley Eyiah Director of Operations Comfort Ayiku Community Reporter Jonathan Annobil Winnipeg Bureau Dr. Michael Baffoe

The Ghanaian News Publishes news and comments from the Community, serves Ghanaians across Canada with good source of information is committed to give good community Journalism The Ghanaian News is published in Canada by The Ghanaian News Corporation

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Articles appearing in various columns of the Ghanaian News are intended to generate civil and informed public discussions. You do not have to agree with opinions expressed by the writers.

That should encourage you to write to express your own views. This is the way we generate lively and civil discussions in the community.

Rejoinders are not forums for personal insults and we want readers to adhere to these principles.

Getting Involved in Community Endeavours The Ghanaian News just hosted a glittering event that recognized and honoured about thirty-four people in our communities across Canada for their excellent achievements in various fields. These ranged from Academic achievements, successes in Business, national honours, professional excellence and sports.

Others were in music, young talents and community involvement. We wish to salute all our achievers of excellence this year and urge them not to rest on their oars but keep paddling on to even greater heights.

There are some important personalities and dignitaries from mainstream Canadian society: members of Parliament and Legislatures from the Federal and Provincial levels, Municipal officials, and senior police officers who patronise this event year after year. These people have to be commended for their unflinching support for our community initiatives.

While noting with gratitude and admiration the participation of some other members of our community in these events, we also wish to note with regret, the absence of a large number of our community members from these events year after year. By conservative estimates, our community boasts of over fifty thousand people. The attendance of our community members to these yearly events does not exceed three hundred! This ties in to the general perception and display of apathy towards community events and initiatives by segments of our community. As noted by our Publisher in his welcome address at the Achievements Awards, a number of reasons account for the lack of involvement of some of our community members to community events.

Whatever their reasons may be, we wish to strongly appeal to our community members across Canada to get actively involved in initiatives, projects and programs in the communities in which they live. And as the Keynote Speaker at the event also noted, we cannot always look up to governments to help us. We must first help ourselves before asking for outside support. There are so many initiatives going on in our communities and in the mainstream communities in which we live that need our involvements. There are so many areas that we can volunteer our services and we must. That shows our commitments to our communities and to our new home, Canada.

Volunteer opportunities are open in our community and school libraries, in our hospitals, on community events and projects. You can even help sponsor a child for some events or school programs. You can volunteer to teach children in after-school programs and you can also mentor the youth in our community. Our involvements show our roles and stature as responsible and good citizens. You get to build and develop networks and support systems through these community initiatives and involvements.

Let us seize this opportunity to recognize the individual talents that we have and give something back to our communities and to Canada.

It is fun and it is rewarding!

Opinion/ Commentary Political Convention: Forum for Discussing Party Platforms or Distorting Facts?

By: Kwabena Akuoko Political conventions are important facets of election campaigns, and among other things, they provide a medium for discussing important issues in a party’s policies. Accordingly, both the United States’ Republican Party also known as Grand Old Party (GOP) and the Democratic Party had their respective 2012 National Conventions in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina on August 27 - 30 and September 3 - 6 to supposedly discuss their competing platforms for the November 6 election.

While the Democratic National Convention (DNC) impressively defended the Obama administration’s economic record with statistical facts, the Republican National Convention (RNC) conveniently distorted the facts for political advantage. The RNC was also unsurprisingly the bastion of anti-Obama. Calculated misrepresentations of realities were not in short supply at GOP’s gathering. Such perversions of facts and antiObama pronouncements in my view reflect the deterioration of civic discourse in the United States lately. Instead of genuine discussion of issues in its platforms, the GOP resorted to barefaced distortions about the Obama administration at the Tampa Convention.

The Republicans’ negative attacks against President Obama was not surprising because since assuming office in January 2009, the president has mostly been at the receiving end of his political opponents’ constant demonization. Unconcealed fabrications of issues and name-calling have dominated America’s political discourse since President Obama took office and the president has for instance been consistently called socialist, a weak leader and even “unAmerican” by his political foes.

GOP’s ridiculous statements coming from its Tampa conference buttress the notion that many Americans are yet to accept the reality that a Blackman is now the president. That their White House or Oval Office is now occupied by none other than an African American is difficult

for many Americans to accept. This in my perspective partly explains the persistent personal attacks against Mr. Obama by his political opponents.

Republicans have expediently refused to acknowledge that there is a direct correlation between the lingering global recession and America’s severely weakened economy, which began under their watch several years ago. While the Obama administration has done everything possible since early 2009 to rescue the American economy from the brink of collapse, the president has not been credited for his efforts.

The GOP congressional leadership has unabatedly and calculatingly spread falsehoods about President Obama’s economic policies. Blaming Obama for United States’ economic woes, which were undoubtedly apparent under the previous Bush administration, certainly makes good politics for those playing the blame game.

Albeit GOP’s spins however, one important reality stands out. In 2000, the outgoing Democratic administration under President Bill Clinton left the economy in a better shape than he had inherited from President George H. Bush (Bush, Sr.) in 1992. The Clinton administration cleaned up Bush, Sr. economic mess, and left a record surplus for Bush, Jr. It is then interesting for the Republicans to keep mute about turning a record economic surplus into deficit under their watch. It is also deceptive and even hypocritical for the GOP presidential nominee, Mr. Mitt Romney and his running mate, Mr. Paul Ryan to blame President Obama for the United States’ current economic problems.

The truth is that failed Republicans’ economic policies in the past under Present George W. Bush are primarily responsible for America’s higher unemployment rates. Is it surprising that the GOP’s immediate past president was noticeably absent from the RNC in Tampa?

Similarly, it is ironic for Mr. Romney to continually attack President Obama for the United State’s abysmal employment record given Mr. Romney’s business past. As a businessman, Mr. Romney is said

to have engaged in the unpatriotic, but profitable practices of outsourcing or shipping American jobs overseas. Interestingly, Romney and Ryan in their respective RNC acceptance speeches in Tampa depicted President Obama as someone who does not have any viable plans to strengthen the economy.

Their claim that President Obama lacks the courage to make tough economic decisions is simply untrue.

The Republican vice presidential nominee’s acceptance speech was particularly deceptive and was thus promptly described by none other than a conservative analyst and Fox News’ contributor, Sally Kohn as “blatant lies and misleading assertions”.

Contrary to the RNC, which was full of misrepresentations and the obvious absence of President George W. Bush, President Clinton in his keynote address at DNC eloquently outlined President Obama’s economic accomplishments. And among other things, President Clinton accurately reminded Americans that President Obama inherited much weaker economy and deserves credit for slowly turning things around. The DNC does not dispute the fact that the unemployment situation could have been better. But apart from saving 1.1 million auto industry jobs through bailouts, which the Republicans have not stopped criticizing, 4.5 million private sector jobs have been created since 2010 as a result of President Obama’s sound economic policies.

Republicans intensified their unrelenting attacks against President Obama at their Tampa Convention. They charged that Obama has made things worse for Americans. But thanks to President Obama’s sound economic policies, the auto industry has been resurrected and for the first time in decades, the three auto manufacturers are collectively making profits. Without President Obama’s bold, but unpopular economic policies at the genesis of his administration, the unemployment situation would have been a lot worse. Instead of just merely criticising President Obama, the GOP needs to tell Americans what Romney presidency would do differently to strengthen the economy.

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34 Ghanaian-Canadians Honored in Toronto cont'd from pg. 1

He praised the award recipients for their exemplary contributions to the Ghanaian community (even as far back as to motherland, Ghana) and Canada as a whole and encouraged them to keep up with the good works as they continue to be high achievers.

Earlier, goodwill messages sent from the following dignitaries were acknowledged; Hon Stephen Harper, PM of Canada, Hon Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario, Hon. Jean Augustine, Fairness Commissioner, Hon Judy Sgro, MP, York West, Hon Jim Karygiannis, MP, Scarborough-Agincourt, Hon Mario Sergio, MPP, York West, Mayor Rob Ford, Mayor of Toronto, Mayor Maurizio Bevilaqua, Mayor of Vaughan, Chief William Blair, Toronto police Chief, Chief Eric Jolliffe, Police Chief of York Region and Councilor Vincent Crisanti, Ward 1, Etobicoke North.

The following dignitaries

were there to personally deliver their messages: Hon Jean Augustine, Fairness Commissioner; Hon. Judy Sgro, MPP York West; Hon Jim Karygiannis, MP Scarborough- Agincourt; Deputy Mayor of Vaughan Regional Councilor Gino Rosati.; Chief Eric Jolliffe, York Region Police Chief; Vincent Crisanti, Ward 1 Etobicoke North Councilor; and Roberto Hausman, President of Police Foundation. Mrs. Evelyn Quist recited a poem specially written and dedicated to “excellence”, the theme of the event.

The thirty-four recipients were honored in 14 categories, namely, Politics, Religion, National Honor, Technical Innovation Community Service, Business, Cultural Promotion, Gospel Music, Academic, Sports, Professional Excellence, Entertainment, Young Talent and Contribution to Music.

Superintendent Patience

Quaye of the Police Ghana Service, who is also the head of the AntiHuman Traffic Unit, was acknowledged as a special guest. Supt. Quaye was one of few hardworking dignitaries’ who were acknowledged

by President Obama when he visited Ghana in 2009.

There was intermittent cultural display by Agartha, a well-known traditional dancer based in Toronto during the program.

The major sponsors of the event were Ethiopian Airlines and Astra Qom. The other sponsors were Immunotec, Arrow Truck Sales, Bishop Bob Tackie (sponsor of the trophies), Danipa Shanga Law Office, Jason Schwartz and All Saints University, Royal Dental Care, Lakeside Estate, Volta Dental Clinics, All Nations University, Tree of Life Employment.

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Canadians for excellent achievements in their various fields of endeavour. He paid glowing tribute to the award recipients for their exemplary contributions to the Ghanaian community (and even as far back as to motherland, Ghana) and Canada as a whole. He encouraged them to keep up with their good works as they continue to be high achievers.

To the award recipients, Dr. La Kumi advised them to continue to strive for higher heights and give something back to the community that is honouring them. “We are honoring you today, but keep in mind that those to whom much is given, much is expected. Keep up the good works and continue to be high achievers so that you will continuously become role models whose action will impact and be emulated by others especially the younger generation.

Dr. La-Kumi then admonished Ghanaians everywhere to contribute their best to society. He said, “identify your gift, roll up your sleeves, execute that gift and you will impact humanity one soul at a time.” Turning his admonition to the larger Ghanaian community, Dr. La Kumi challenged all to get actively involved in the development of our community and the larger

Ghanaian society. “As we celebrate this success in excellence, I will admonish all of you to adopt a project or an idea that will enrich ourselves in our society. Let us all get involved in the enrichment of our lives in the huge Canadian mosaic. We do not have to look to the federal and provincial governments to help us all the time”.

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Ghana to hit half a million barrels - Mahama Ghana is poised to produce about 500,00 barrels of oil per day, as the nation makes more and more new discoveries in the oil sector, the President, John Mahama, has said.

He said the discoveries would, no doubt, make the country a major player in the hydrocarbon industry.

Speaking at a luncheon in New York organised by the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), an

organisation made up of the power production capacity from 3,000MW to 5,000MW if all the oil wells come on board and added that solar and renewable energy investment was also welcomed.

President Mahama urged the investor communities to take advantage of the numerous opportunities dotted across the country to do business. He said Ghana has solid investment credentials, pointing out that aside a peaceful

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He said the good news was that the services sector had overtaken the agricultural sector as the main drive of GDP. In order not to over-depend on oil revenues to the detriment of other sector of the economy, he said government was emphasizing investment in agriculture and agro-processing.

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Ghana COCOBOD Where is the Truth, the Money And the Farmers kids’ Scholarships?

By KwakuA. Danso Cocoa has been Ghana’s main economic backbone and Kwame Nkrumah in his love for Ghana devised this socialist method of buying all the cocoa from farmers, sell to overseas companies at a profit to the nation and use the money to develop Ghana for all. Scholarships, water and sewage systems, roads and highways, electricity and most of Ghana’s infrastructures have come out of cocoa.

Under Nkrumah’s CPP, let us remind those who were too young that corporations and government agencies used to have their annual and quarterly financial statements published in the Daily Graphic. Even as high school kids some of us used to read and started to appreciate what a Profit and Loss or Assets and Liabilities meant. After all these companies belonged to the public and the people had a right to know. Today, 47 years after the enemies of Nkrumah overthrew him and dissolved the CPP, and after decades of trying to erase whatever good Nkrumah did and teach the school kids to diminish Nkrumah achievements, Ghana is at a global disgrace. WE have been rated the 9th worst managed nations, even though reported to have some of the highest growth rate in 2011 and 2012. After 11 years of Jerry Rawlings military dictatorship and transformation to election in 1992, nobody had the decency of leadership to plan for a Parliament House and offices for the MPs. Ghana has become a nation where money is spent without disclosure and nobody accounts to the people. Planning is also out of the door. No matter we are rated poorly managed. Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC chants of probity and accountability were mere words blowing in the wind and some lost their lives at the firing squad for that. In the mean time, whiles the 275 MPs for the nation of 25 million have no offices in the last 30 years, there is a call or 45 more MPs. A report posted on the Ghana Leadership Forum on Sept.14 by George A. read: “The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has secured a US$1.5 billion pre-export finance facility from a conglomerate of international banks to purchase cocoa beans in the 2012/2013 cocoa season. The facility is currently the largest non-oil deal in sub-Saharan Africa and was made possible by 31 banks from 17 countries in Europe, American and Asia. Some of the banks, including Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Bank and SG-SSB Bank, have local presence in the country. The Ghana International Bank Plc acted as the initially mandated lead arranger (IMLA) with Standard Chartered Bank as the facility agent.”

I hereby elaborate on a note I posted and edit and add a few comments. You all note that anytime Ghana government secures external loans, they don’t give detail that are standard information in loan transactions in any open society such as most Western nation. These are: the loan amount, annual or periodic in-

terest rate, the term (no of months or years due), whether it is amortized or interest only, and payment amount, and any loan arrangement or origination fees. For those not familiar with financial calculations, a loan of $1.5 billion at 5% per annum payable monthly for ten years will have a payment of $15.91 million per month for the ten years. If the interest goes to 10%, the payment jumps to $19.82 million per month. If payments are deferred for a year, the amount due become an additional $190.1 million for the 5% or $237.9 million for the 10% loan. At the end of the 10 years the $1.5 billion borrowed at 5% would have become a total of $1.909 billion. The 10 years at 10% would have become a total of $2.379 billion.

Loan amortization is not a straight forward Arithmetic. It is for this lack of understanding and a combined criminal lack of care that Ghana keeps increasing in our accumulated debt burden whiles there is no appreciable increase in durable roads, asphalt concrete highways or Motorways, and water and electricity are still problems in the modern day even in the cities.

It is refreshing to note that 31 Banks in 17 countries in Europe, America and Asia would give Ghana loans on the strength of our cocoa product alone, with no government guarantee. The people of Ghana however deserve openness.

It can be easily surmised that due to corruption the government officials always fail to disclose. Past Presidents in the post Nkrumah era always seem to be in complicit to this culture called “nkatasoy3” (under-cover deals) in the Akan language. One can guess that for the $1.5 billion these financiers give us, Ghana will end up paying back an additional $100 million, depending on the interest. Within this range from say 2% to10% this will be $30 million to $150 million and plenty of room for moneys to exchange hands among officials. This is where the massive looting of government wealth takes place and millions of dollars go into the pockets of individuals in the government. These people are already on the payroll of Government as executives. For God’s sake, why can’t they be open!

On behalf of the Ghana Leadership Union, I hereby challenge the COCOBOD executives and Board Chairman Dr. Anthony Fofie, and the Minister of Finance Dr. Kwabena Dufuor, to start this culture of openness.

Please give the public full disclosure as normally done in the democratic nations, since the money belongs to the people of Ghana. The late President Mills (RIP) sat on the Right to Information Act and we call on President Mahama to sign it now. Please sign it within the next three months before the elections if he is to be distinguished as a man if integrity.

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Impact of refugee health cuts: Confusion, unnecessary costs and compromised care A man experienced chest pain and symptoms of tuberculosis but couldn’t get a chest x-ray for his diagnosis.

A woman with fibroids, tumors in the uterus, had her surgery cancelled and frequented a hospital emergency room when she suffered severe pain.

Three young children — two requiring immunizations to attend school and one in need of check-up after an aorta operation — were turned away from health clinics and unable to see a doctor.

These are among dozens of patient cases documented by the Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care across the country,

three months after the federal government slashed health-care coverage for refugees awaiting their chance to become landed immigrants.

In an update on the impact of the $100 million health cuts released, the group, made up of health professionals across Canada, said the new Interim Federal Health Program for refugees is “marred by confusion, unnecessary costs and compromised care.”

“We advised the government from the beginning that these program cuts would reduce care, increase costs to other areas of the health system and needlessly threaten

public safety,” said Dr. Philip Berger, chief of family and community medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital.

“Regrettably, this is exactly what our colleagues are seeing in clinics and hospitals across Canada.”

According to the group, which has collected cases through its network of physicians and nurses, the most-affected refugee population has been pregnant women and children, with at least six would-be mothers denied appropriate care.

Also affected are those who did not seek asylum at the port of entry and only filed their refugee claims later. Instead of

getting immediate coverage, the so-called “inland” claimants must now wait four to six weeks after their asylum claims are filed at a local immigration office.

The group said clinics and hospitals are refusing care because of confusion over what and who is covered, and the inability of the government’s private insurance company, Blue Cross, to provide definitive information.

Only five out of the 30 walk-in clinics surveyed in Greater Toronto said they understood the new rules and were accepting

the interim health coverage for refugees.

“The government is telling some of the most vulnerable members of society they are not eligible for important, possibly lifesaving health coverage,” said Dr. Meb Rashid, medical director of Women’s College Hospital’s Crossroads Clinic.

The federal government has said the cuts are aimed at discouraging “unfounded” refugees from coming and taking advantage of Canada’s health care system.

NDP immigration critic

Jinny Sims (NewtonNorth Delta) urged the parliamentary citizenship and immigration committee to study the impact of the cuts to the refugee health program. But that motion was defeated by the Conservative majority on the committee Wednesday.

“It’s unconscionable to think that the Conservatives would deny refugees the basic rights of health care,” said Sims. “It is deeply regrettable that they are playing politics with people’s lives.”

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Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama‘at Canada The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada expresses indignation at a series of events following the release of an anti-Islam propaganda film. As a result of a derogatory depiction of the character of Holy Prophet of Islam in the film, a violent reaction was seen in many parts of the world, leading to the killing of innocent people, including US diplomats, and destruction of property. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns such violence in any shape or form, as it is contrary

to the teachings of Islam. At the same time the Community also condemns the content of the film and the denigrating depiction of teachings of Islam and the character of the Holy Prophet.

“Time and again an anarchist element has stirred the emotions of Muslims around the world, by insulting their faith and revered religious figure heads; first it was the cartoons, burning of the Holy Quran and now this film. These people instigate Muslims into a violent reaction and then portray

that reaction to malign the pure and pristine teachings of Islam as an intolerant and militant religion,” said the President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada.

The leader of the Community Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (fifth successor of the Promised Messiah) also expressed his anguish and displeasure during his weekly Friday sermon from UK, which was broadcast live across the world. He said, “…anger of Muslims regarding the anti-Islam film is fully justified, but

violent reaction must be condemned”. He further opined on the reasons and said, “…it is their inability to defeat Islam that is causing them to resort to such vile acts which they try to justify on the basis of freedom of speech or expression.

“Let it not be that in the name of freedom of speech the peace of the entire world is destroyed.” He added.

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FOCUS DOES THE TEACHER NO LONGER MATTER? Asks Joe Kingsley Eyiah, OCT, Brookview Middle School, Toronto-Canada I think the sticker: If you can read this, thank a teacher is losing its relevance on some politicians. It is disturbing to trace the soar relationship that has developed between the government of the Ontario Province of Canada and teachers in the province. Such was the relationship which characterized the tension between teachers in Ghana and the NPP as well as the NDC governments some years back in that country too!

Education has been the major facilitator and catalyst in the astonishing changes and transformation sweeping through the world today. The role of formal (school) education in the liberation of the individual mind as well as economic dependence and in national development is therefore quite obvious. The major stake-

holders of formal education are the government, the teacher, the parent and the community. These major players in education ought to have mutual respect towards each other to promote the well being of students. Teachers are the pivot for ensuring successful learning process in the classroom. They are expected to bring equality learning experiences to the students they (teachers) teach.

Unfortunately, Premier Dalton McGuinity of Ontario who was ‘put in power ’ with votes of

teachers some years back has now turned his back to teachers by passing Bill 115 taking away teachers’ right to go on strike.

According to Teachers’ Unions in Ontario, Bill 115, “The Putting Students First Act,” is an unprecedented attack on the established collective bargaining process. Legislation is not negotiation!

Teachers unions have already withdrawn extracurricular activities for students after the Ontario government imposed a new contract that freezes teachers’ wages for two years and bans them from walking off the job.

Bill 115, known as the Putting Students First Act, passed third and final reading in the provincial legislature on September 11, 2012, with 82 MPPs voting in favour of it and 15 MPPs voting against it.

Teachers unions are urging their members to protest the legislation by withdrawing their support for extra-curricular activities.

Sam Hammond, president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, called the move an initial step in an “escalating” protest strategy.

The union has also introduced “McGuinty Mondays” - days on which teachers are urged not to participate in any schoolbased meetings.

Ghana under former Presidents J J Rawlings and J. A. Kufour experi-

enced similar tension between the governments and teachers in the country at the detriment of students and parents Teaching has been described as the “most relevant profession we have” by the former Ontario premier William Davis. We therefore have to respect the teacher as such.

Undoubtedly, education is the biggest enterprise in any civilized society.

Teachers play an important role in this enterprise.

They make the medical

doctors, the lawyers, the accountants, the engineers, the agriculturalists, the musicians, the pastors, the politicians, the nurses, the computer analysts and many other workers who contribute effectively to the building of a nation anywhere. This noble profession which propels education should not be seen at loggerheads with the main provider of education to the detriment of students and parents as being experienced in Premier McGuinty’s Ontario province in Canada and in NPP’s or NDC’s Ghana!

TTC names new subway station for Black Creek Pioneer Village What’s in a name? Well on the Spadina subway extension, it will be a museum.

The Toronto Transit Commission has added a little charm to its subway modernization project, voting on Thursday to name the station at Steeles Ave. W. and Jane St. after the Black Creek Pioneer Village.

TTC staff had recommended the station remain within its naming conventions that usually relate to the nearest major street or intersection and call the stop Steeles West.

But the city councillors on the transit board, moved by a request from the Toronto Region Conservation Authority and

councillor Anthony Perruzza (York West) dispensed with convention and decided to honour the tourist attraction instead, although some suggested that the TRCA’s estimated 800-metre distance between the station and village was too great.

Councillor Maria Augimeri (York Centre), a transit commissioner and vice-chair of the TRCA, called the pioneer village a jewel.

“It’s Toronto’s living museum,” she said of the assemblage of historic buildings near York University.

The naming isn’t unlike that of Museum station near the Royal Ontario Museum, or Osgoode sta-

tion near the Osgoode Hall courthouse, said Augimeri.

The TTC is also changing the name of the current Downsview Station to Sheppard West to avoid confusion with Downsview Park, the first new stop on the line. It will be followed by Finch West, York University, Highway 7 and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, as well as Black Creek Pioneer Village.

In an online public consultation on station names last year, 61 percent of 3,650 respondents favored the name Steeles West, but Black Creek Pioneer Village wasn’t among the options provided on the survey.

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Saudi Arabia expelling Nigerian women for not having male guardians Saudi Arabia has started expelling 1,100 Nigerian women pilgrims for violating the kingdom’s rule prohibiting Muslim women from entering the country without a male guardian.

The government-run elEqtisad website quotes an unnamed Saudi official Friday as saying the women were detained af-

ter landing at the international airport in Jiddah. On Thursday, 171 were sent back and the rest will be returned to Nigeria.

The report says some of the women have been detained since Monday.

In Saudi Arabia, women must be accompanied by or have permission from a “mahram” — a male

guardian — in order to travel. But in the past, authorities allowed women to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage in groups with male tour operators.

There was no explanation for why the authorities were now enforcing the rule. The Toronto Star

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Off the streets and returning to the light Hardness Oppong knew he was about to die. darkness, to bring you into the light,” he said. “I want to be that person.”

Youth don’t always know what they’re getting into when they start selling drugs, Oppong said.

“As you grow and mature, you start to see what you are doing is wrong.

But once you conform to that lifestyle, it’s hard to leave.”

He teaches at-risk youth to think critically about the decisions that led them to where they are.

His youth group, called Youth Mediation and Relationship Building, meets once a week at various community centres.

Many of the young men struggle with poverty, violence, drugs and broken homes — issues Oppong has experienced firsthand.

“You need people with passion to engage these youth, because it’s not entirely our fault that we’re going through what we’re going through.”

In each group session, youth first talk about what they are going through.

Maybe they’re fighting with a family member or struggling at school.

After listening carefully, the group works out a positive solution together.

“The key words are critical thinking,” Oppong said. “Everything you do in life, you have to commit 100 per cent.”

At the same time, he teaches them life is unpredictable.

For example, he tells young men facing unplanned pregnancies to embrace their new responsibilities as fathers.

“You can say that you should have planned it properly, but nobody can tell me life is planned.

Anything can happen.”

Oppong has built strong relationships with dozens of youth he has met since he started the group in 2009. He even asks many of them to help with his summer camp, which he offers in July and August to kids ages 4 to 13.

“Don’t let them go,” he said with a laugh. “Don’t give them the chance to breathe . . . you gotta keep them engaged.”

Oppong, a proud father of two, also runs a dads’ group on Saturday mornings. It’s a way of bringing fathers and kids together for a big familystyle breakfast, he said.

The group also gives single fathers a chance to talk about divorce, child custody and other parenting issues.

As a member of the resident task force, Oppong organizes various events in Jane-Finch like back-toschool barbecues and youth summits. He also sits on the planning committee for the Resident

Reflection conference, an annual meeting of community leaders from Toronto’s 13 priority neighbourhoods.

Last year, he was the conference’s MC. He has seen dramatic changes in many of the youth, but it hasn’t worked out for everyone. A few have gone back to their old ways and have wound up in jail.

“I don’t entirely blame them,” he said. “It’s not easy. Somebody trying to go through that change needs that commitment to say to himself, ‘No matter what I’m going through, I’m not going back.’”

Oppong found support in the Bible, which he credits with inspiring him to change his life, once and for all.

“In the Book of John, he says no one comes to the Father except through him. His way of living was to love your enemies, forgive, be humble, be gentle, persevere, endure, be joyful.”

He still thinks about that voice in his head that told him he was about to die.

Now he teaches youth that death is always near when you’re involved in selling drugs.

“Whether you’re holding a gun, whether you’re dealing drugs, you’re killing,” he said.

Hardness Oppong teaches life lessons to young men in the JaneFinch area. "Learn to embrace life, because it's more valuable than all the money in the world," "Life is more precious than gold."

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The young man had been involved with gangs since he was a teenager. Now, in 2007, violence in the J a n e - F i n c h neighbourhood was ramping up.

He knew it was coming.

It was just a matter of when.

“I heard a voice, clear as day. It said, ‘This is your end,’” he recalled.

“Knowing the kind of life I had been living, I thought, ‘OK, I’m going to die.’”

This epiphany made him realize he didn’t want to die this way. A week later, a savage beating sent him to hospital with a deep gash in his head.

When a friend offered to get even with the assailants, Oppong told him no.

“I said, ‘I had it coming.

It’s OK.’ I realized the kind of life I was living and I was forced to make a change.”

Since that day, Oppong has become a role model in Jane-Finch. He runs programs for youth and new fathers and volunteers on the local resident task force for United Way’s Action for Neighbourhood Change initiative.

He hopes to teach young men to live the life they want and not the life they feel stuck in.

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Jennifer Evans appointed Peel’s chief of police Ombudsman slams mayor’s office for interfering with board appointments The province’s second largest municipal police department has chosen a woman to lead its force following a string of controversies that preceded the surprise retirement of the last chief.

Former deputy chief Jennifer Evans was announced as Peel Region’s new chief of police Tuesday, replacing Mike Metcalf, who stepped down this summer.

“The community we serve expects the highest level of integrity and professionalism,” Evans said in the Region of Peel council chambers, where chair Emil Kolb introduced her to an overflow crowd.

Evans’ comments come in the wake of some recent events that have left the force scrambling to defend its integrity.

In February, Ontario Superior Court Justice Deena Baltman delivered a scathing decision in a drug case involving Peel drug and vice squad officers, who she said had told calculated lies under oath.

“The police showed contempt not just for the basic rights of every accused but for the sanctity of a courtroom,” Baltman said.

Metcalf ordered an internal investigation while the officers involved remained on the payroll.

New Peel Police Chief Jennifer Evans

Charges have not yet been laid.

Legal experts told the Star’s Betsy Powell at the time that, if officers were charged and found guilty of perjury and other offences, a number of police investigations could be considered tainted.

“I think the integrity of our officers on a daily basis is absolutely essential to community service and support,” Evans said in response to questions about the case. “We are looking into those investi-

gations, those allegations.

I take those very seriously.”

In her introductory speech, Evans addressed another thorny issue that has dogged the force for years: questions about racial profiling and a perception that the force poorly reflects the region’s diverse population within its ranks.

In 2007, after the Ontario Human Rights Commission found a Peel officer guilty of racial profiling in a shoplifting case, chief

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Metcalf said he was “disappointed” with the finding and challenged the Commission’s assertion that his department needed better training to avoid racial profiling.

Last year, a Peel officer publicly apologized to a resident after he alleged he had been subjected to racial profiling during an investigation.

As of December about 14 per cent of the force, including civilian staff, were members of visible minorities. Only three out of 59 senior uniformed staff were visible minorities, in a force with a total complement of 2,300.

About 60 per cent of Peel Region’s residents are visible minorities, according to Statistics Canada.

Evans said during her address that the region’s diversity is its strength, and is something the police service values.

“We, the police, are so proud of that diversity,” she said, vowing to usher in “enhanced, productive relationships” with community partners. “As your chief, I will make this happen.”

Evans’ elevation to the top job is seen by many insiders as a departure from established practice, some officers said privately. A group of senior staff close to Metcalf were passed over in the selection process.

However, Evans has an impressive list of accomplishments. After joining the force in 1983, she shot up the ranks; she served in an investigations unit, was seconded to assist in the Paul Bernardo case, became a homicide detective and recently assisted the British Columbia Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

Asked what she’ll bring to the position, Evans said: “Leaders have to take responsibility and accountability for all the actions of all the police members and they have to listen to the community.”

City staff routinely rush through the recruitment process in filling positions on boards, agencies and commissions making seemingly “arbitrary” decisions as a result, a new report from the city’s ombudsman alleges.

The report, titled “An Investigation into the Administration of the Public Appointments Policy”, is based off an examination of appointments made after Mayor Rob Ford assumed office in late 2010.

The report states that under pressure from the mayor’s office to speed up the recruitment and hiring process for a number of open positions, staff from the city clerk’s office failed to identify conflicts-of-interest among applicants and to ensure the city’s diversity policy was followed.

On one occasion in the summer of 2011 staff twice failed to note the conflict-of-interest held by one candidate for a particular board, the report says “Because of the accelerated schedule and the lack of resources, staff’s abilities to carry out their responsibilities under the policy were compromised,” the report states.

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on merit.”

Speaking with CP24 Thursday afternoon Coun.

Giorgio Mammoliti, who sits on the civic appointments committee, said the report reveals serious mistakes made by city staff but incorrectly puts the blame on the mayor’s office.

“The ombudsman is there to look at the process and the city officials and I think what has happened here is that she caught city staff making mistakes and not moving through the process and somehow is trying to put the onus onto the politicians,” he said.

“It is outside of her jurisdiction.”

Mayor’s office interfered with hiring The report, which was released Thursday morning, also accuses the mayor’s office of interfering with the recruitment and hiring process.

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The Most Educated Countries in the World

By Michael B. Sauter & Alexander E.M. Hess, 24/7 Wall St. College graduation rates continued to improve around the world during the recession, according to a recent international economic study. In more developed countries, the percentage of adults with the equivalent of a college degree rose to more than 30% in 2010.

In the United States, it was more than 40%, which is among the highest percentages in the world.

However, improvements in higher education are harder to achieve in these countries.

More developed economies have had the most educated populations for some time.

While these countries have steadily increased education rates, the increases have been modest compared to developing economies. At just above 1%, the U.S. has had one of the smallest annual growth rates for higher education since 1997. In Poland, an emerging market, the annualized rate was 7.2% from 1997 to 2010.

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The majority of countries that spend the most on education have the most educated populations. As in previous years, the best educated countries tend to spend the most on tertiary education as a percentage of gross domestic product.

The United States and Canada, among the most educated countries, spend the first and third most respectively.

In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., OECD’s Chief Media Officer Matthias Rumpf explained that educational funding appears to have a strong

relationship to how many residents pursue higher education.

Private spending on educational institutions relative to public expenditure is much larger in the countries with the highest rates of collegeequivalent education. Among the countries with the highest proportion of residents with a tertiary education, a disproportionate amount of spending comes from private sources, including tuition and donations.

The OECD average proportion of private spending is 16%.

In the U.S., 28% of funding comes from private sources.

In South Korea, another country in the top 10, it is more than 40%.

Having more education helped people all over the world stay employed during the recession, according to the OECD. Between 2008 and 2010, unemployment rates among developed nations jumped from 8.8% to 12.5% for people with less than a high school education, and from 4.9% to 7.6% for people with only a high school education. For those with the equivalent of a college degree or more, the jobless rate went from 3.3% to just 4.7%.

Among the 10 countries with the highest proportion of educated adults, unemployment rates for those with a college equivalent ranged from 2.8% in Australia to 5.4% in the Canada. In each country, the rate remained lower than that country’s national average.

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1. Canada Canada is the only nation where more than half of all adults had a tertiary education in 2010. This was up from 40% of the adult population in 2000, when the country also ranked as the world’s most educated.

Canada has managed to become a world leader in education without being a leader in education spending, which totaled just 6.1% of GDP in 2009, or less than the 6.3% average for the OECD. A large amount of its spending went towards tertiary education, on which the country spent 2.5% of GDP, trailing only the United States and South Korea. One of the few areas Canada did not perform well in was attracting international students, who made up just 6.6% of all tertiary students — lower than the OECD’s 8% average.

2. Israel Israel only joined the OECD in 2010. That year, its GDP per capita was more than $7,000 below the OECD’s average.

Despite this, the country’s high school graduation rate was 92% in 2010, well above the OECD’s 84% average. Some 46% of residents had a tertiary education, versus 31% for the OECD. Israel spent 7.2% of GDP on educational institutions in 2009, the sixth most among all nations. And for the first time, preschool education will become free in 2012 even for children as young as three years old, Haaretz newspaper reported. This should benefit Israel as, according to the OECD, “early childhood education is associated with better performance later on in school.”

3. Japan In 2009, Japan spent 1.6% of GDP on college or college equivalent education, on par with the OECD’s average, and just 5.2% of GDP on education overall, well below the OECD’s 6.3% average. Despite its relatively light spending, the country still had a high school graduation rate of 96%, the second best among all nations in 2010, while the percentage of its population with a tertiary education was 14 percentage points higher than the OECD’s average. However, according to The Wall Street Journal, recent university

graduates in Japan have struggled to find work, with 15% those graduating in the spring of 2012 neither employed nor enrolled in further education as of August.

4. United States Although the U.S. is one of just a few nations where more than 40% of people had a tertiary education in 2010, its education system is not without problems. Among the concerns, the graduation rate for upper secondary students in 2010 was 77%, well below the average rate of 84% for the OECD. Even though graduation rates were relatively low, the U.S. is one of the biggest spenders on education, with related expenditures equaling 7.3% of GDP in 2009. The U.S. was also the world’s largest spender on tertiary education in 2009, at 2.6% of GDP. The majority of funds for higher education, totaling 1.6% of GDP, came from private sources.

5. New Zealand The tiny country’s population has grown 13.2% between 2000 and 2010, as has the country’s education system.

The number of people with a college or college equivalent education rose from 29% to 41% over the period. The country also has become a destination of choice for international students, who made up 14.2% of tertiary students in 2010.

New Zealand is also a leader in educating scientists, with 16% of students choosing a science for their field of study at the tertiary level — the highest proportion of any country.

6. South Korea Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of South Koreans

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In addition to being well-educated, many residents also invested considerable amounts towards their schooling. In 2009, only Iceland spent more than South Korea’s 8% of GDP. That year, no country in the study contributed more private funds for education at all levels than South Korea, at 3.1% of GDP, or for tertiary education, at 1.9%. Despite the investment, education does not appear to have a measurable impact on job seekers. The unemployment rate in 2010 for those with a tertiary degree was 3.3% — low relative to the OECD average of 4.7%, but not much lower than the 3.7% rate for all workers in the country.

7. United Kingdom Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of U.K. residents with a tertiary education rose 12 percentage points. The country’s universities are also popular among students from other nations. International students make up 16% of enrollment. The country recently has had a shift in how education is financed. While in 2000 the percentage of funds from private sources was 14.8%, it rose to 31.1% by 2009. Students also must cover more of the cost of higher education than in the past, as the cap on tuition fees was raised from 3,290 pounds to 9,000 pounds for the 20122013 year.

8. Finland Finland spent 6.4% of its gross domestic product on education in 2009, with 97.6% of these funds coming from public sources, more than any coun-

try in the report. Between 2000 and 2010, high school graduation rates rose by just two percentage points, while the number of people with a college education or more rose by just six percentage points. As a result, Finland fell from fourth to eighth place among the world’s most educated countries. Finnish workers with a tertiary education were far more likely to be employed than those without such an education — the unemployment rate was 4.4% for residents with a degree and 8.4% for those without.

9. Australia Australia is a preferred destination for many international students, which is why it should come as no surprise that they accounted for 21.2% of the country’s tertiary students in 2010, higher than every country other than Luxembourg.

Finding a job in the country is not especially hard for those with a college degree. The country had an unemployment rate of just 2.8% in 2010 for workers with a tertiary degree, compared to a rate of just 5.2% for all workers.

10. Ireland From 2000 through 2010, the percentage of people with a college education or more in Ireland nearly doubled, rising at an annual average of 7.3% — faster than any country in the study. High school graduation rates also rose during that time, from 74% to 94%. Education has become especially critical for male job seekers in Ireland’s workforce, as 6.3% of men with a tertiary education were unemployed in 2010 versus 15.2% for all men nationwide.

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IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES By: James A. Kwaatemg, B.A. (Hons), LLB (Hons)

Success and Usefulness of the Canadian Experience Class Program On September 14, 2012, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister, Jason Kenney announced that, on that day, Canada had welcomed its 20,000th permanent resident through the Canadian Experience Class (CEC) immigration stream. The Minister rightly perceived this as a reflection of the government’s success in its efforts to attract as well as to maintain the world’s best and brightest skilled workers.

The Canadian Experience Class category was introduced in 2006 by the Government in a bid to build more responsive and attractive labour-oriented immigration system. Prior to the CEC program, a student graduating from a Canadian university who wanted to stay in Canada would, generally, have had to return to his or her home country to wait on the queue for several years for their applications to be processed.

tional Occupation Classifications (NOC). Lowerskilled occupations were left out the reason being their potential vulnerability in periods of economic downturn.

The CEC program facilitates and expedites the transition from temporary to permanent residence for certain temporary workers and foreign students. Even though it was introduced recently, it has seemingly earned for itself the enviable status as Canada’s fastest growing economic immigration program.

The 2006 announcement that introduced the CEC program limited the CEC applications to Skill Type “0” Management Occupations, Skill Level “A” (professional occupations) or Skill Level “B” (technical occupations and skilled trades) of the Na-

One cannot apply for permanent residence under the CEC category unless he meets certain specified requirements. These requirements include, but not limited to, the CEC applicant having firstly come to Canada to work or study, having been lawfully admitted to Canada, and having temporary resident status in Canada at the time the application for CEC is made.

Not all foreign students who meet the aforementioned requirements qualify for the CEC application. Foreign students who are in the process of receiving their permanent resident status through some other means do not qualify under the CEC class, so are international students who are recipi-

ents of select Government of Canada awards for foreign students. Foreign nationals who are undocumented workers in Canada, refugee claimants in Canada and foreigners who have been found inadmissible to Canada on such grounds as health or security are also not eligible to apply for CEC. The Regulations create two distinct streams under the CEC program with different thresholds for each criterion. One of the two streams comprises recent foreign graduates and the other comprises temporary foreign workers.

The foreign graduates will need to obtain 12 months of legal work experience within a 24-month period prior to making a CEC ap-

plication, obtain a Canadian credential by studying in Canada full-time for at least two academic years, and meet the language benchmark for their occupation skill level.

Temporary foreign workers will need to obtain 24 months of legal work experience in Canada within a 36-month period prior to making a CEC application and meet the language benchmark for their occupational skill level.

In order to make the CEC even more responsive to Canada’s labour market needs and economic goals, greater flexibility and changes that will expedite the processing of applications further for those already working in Canada have been proposed by the Immigration.

With the proposed change, all applicants will require 12 months of Ca-

nadian work experience gained in the 36 months preceding their application.

No doubt, the CEC program can be rightly described as a convenient and fast pathway to permanent residency for international student graduates as well as others with skilled work experience. Contact immigration law professionals for more information if you have any problems regarding the CEC application.

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Youth anti-gang program gets additional funding The federal government is extending a project that helps connect Toronto youth with community resources to keep them away from gangs.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced an additional $244,000 in funding for the Prevention and Intervention Toronto project, which will keep it going for another nine months.

The $4.2-million project pairs at-risk youth between the ages of 13 and 24 with trained profes-

sionals to guide them to housing, education and employment resources.

Toews says the project, which started in 2008 and is run by the city, has helped keep youths away from gang activity.

Kristofer Miller, a youth from northwest Toronto, says the project helped

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The funding boost follows several measures taken by the city and provincial governments in the wake of deadly gun violence this summer to expand programs aimed at keeping youth away from street crime.

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Minister Kenney announces new language rules for citizenship applicants Most citizenship applicants will soon be required to provide up-front objective evidence of their language ability at the time they apply, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today.

This change will be implemented as of November 1, 2012. Currently, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) assesses the language ability of applicants,

aged 18–54, solely through interactions with CIC staff and by using the results of the citizenship knowledge test.

“Extensive research has consistently shown that the ability to communicate effectively in either French or English is a key factor in the success of new citizens in Canada,” said Minister Kenney.

“We believe it is important that new citizens to be able to participate fully in our

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The Citizenship Act already requires that applicants be able to communicate in one of Canada’s official languages. This regulatory change will not increase the language level required but will change the way that citizenship applicants aged 18–54 demonstrate their language ability.

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Harper avoids backing Netanyahu’s call for ‘red line’ on Iran Defence Minister Peter MacKay says red lines have been placed already, ‘open for interpretation’ Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu praised Canada for suspending diplomatic ties with Iran, calling Prime Minister Stephen Harper “a real statesman” and “a great champion of freedom and a great friend of Israel” as the two leaders met in New York Friday.

Harper and Netanyahu shook hands and posed for photos Friday morning.

Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly this week.

Harper arrived in New York Thursday to meet with several world leaders but will not address the UN. “I think the work you did severing ties with Iran was not only an act of statesmanship but of moral clarity,” Netanyahu said, adding the Canadian decision had set an example for other nations, including countries who attended a summit of countries from the NonAligned Movement in Tehran last month “and said nothing.”

Netanyahu once again called on the international community to draw a “red line” on Iran.

The Israeli prime minister argues a military strike will be necessary and justified if the Iranian regime continues to move toward developing nuclear weapons, and wants the international community to “translate the agreement and principle of stopping Iran from

Earlier, Panetta said that the American position remains that it “will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.”

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York

developing nuclear weapons into practice.”

“In practice, that means setting red lines on their enrichment process. It’s their only discernible and vulnerable part of their nuclear program,” Netanyahu said. “I think that if such red lines are set, I believe that Iran will back off.”

Harper also spoke about Iran as he met with Netanyahu Friday morning.

“Our country has not been shy about warning the world of the danger the Iranian regime ultimately presents to all of us,” he said.

But Harper did not comment on Netanyahu’s call for a “red line.” Instead, he restated Canada’s position that it hopes the crisis in Iran can be brought to a peaceful conclusion.

“We want to see a peaceful resolution and we work closely with our allies to try to alert the world to the danger this presents and the necessity of dealing with it,” Harper said.

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MacKay faced more questions about Canada’s precise position on Israel’s “red line” during a Washington news conference Friday morning after his meeting with U.S. Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta.

“There have been a number of red lines placed already,” MacKay said. “Iran has edged closer and stepped over those red lines on a number of occasions now, particularly when it comes to cooperation around the subject of inspections.”

MacKay called the rhetoric coming from the Iranian regime “unnerving in the extreme.”

Canada walked out on Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the General Assembly this week.

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Achimota-Ofankor Road Complete The Ministry of Roads and Highways has taken over the AchimotaOfankor road in Accra following its substantial completion this month.

The 5.7-kilometre road which was expected to be completed in three years dragged into six years due to challenges largely related to financing and changes in the initial road designs.

The project started in November, 2006 and was to have been completed in November, 2009.

The usual gridlock, exhaust fumes and dust experienced by motorists on the stretch was absent during an inspection tour by the Minister of Roads and Highways, Mr Joe Gidisu, yesterday.

The inspection tour was to enable the minister to attest to the completion of the project prior to its take-over from Messrs China Railway Wuju (Group) Corporation, the Chinese company that executed the project.

The GH¢137,234,148.62 Achimota-Ofankor road is by far the biggest

project to have been undertaken solely by the government and forms part of the road sector development project.

According to Mr Gidisu, it was sheer determination that made the completion of the project possible, adding that at the time the present administration inherited it from the previous administration in 2009 it was only 25 per cent complete.

Even at that stage, payment for some works done was outstanding, he stated.

He expressed the government’s commitment to complete what he described as the ‘gang of six’, that is the TettehQuarshie-Madina road, Sofoline, Dansoman highway, Teshie-Nungua Beach road, the Spintex Road and the just completed Achimota-Ofankor road.

Five persons have already been killed in two months when the road was partially opened to traffic. The five were knocked down by speeding vehicles when they

attempted to scale the retaining walls to enable them to cross from one side of the road to the other. All five accidents occurred under the Dome footbridge.

The four footbridges on the corridor are located at an average of a distance of 1.2 kilometres apart but Mr Gidisu appealed to motorists and pedestrians to use the road as designed to maximise safety on it.

The Resident Engineer of the project, Mr Shelter Lotsu, described the road as user friendly with facilities also provided for physically challenged persons.

He said there were few outstanding works which would be carried out by the contractor during a one-year defect liability period. The immediate ones, however, include the provision of bridge parapets, a kind of guard rail made up of strong materials which would be installed at the Tantra Hill overpass and other critical sections of the road.

He advised motorists to

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as designed and cautioned motorists and pedestrians against its abuse.

The Achimota-Ofankor road forms part of the urban section of the dualisation of the AccraKumasi road. It has a three-lane dual carriageway and two-lane service roads with asphalt concrete surfacing, three interchanges and four footbridges, bicycle lanes, pedestrian walkways, and laybys along the service roads. Daily Graphic

President Mahama In A U-turn Over IEA Debate President Mahama will finally take part in this year’s presidential debates being organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs.

This is a sharp U-turn from the earlier position of the governing NDC after the party declined the invitation of the Institute of Economic Affairs for an encounter with their presidential candidate.

A statement signed by the Propaganda Secretary of

the NDC, Mr Richard Quashiga in August this year stated that the NDC “wishes to reaffirm its decision not to participate in this year’s presidential and vice presidential debate being sponsored by the IEA. “The NDC government has previously drawn the IEA’s attention to the fact that no sitting president or vice president in the 4th republic has participated in these debates. It is the

party’s position to uphold that convention”.

But the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia on Friday confirmed to the media that the party’s Presidential candidate will participate in the debate after a delegation from the IEA led by Professor Esi Sutherland managed to convince the NDC to retreat on their earlier position. radioxyzonline.com

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According to Mr Lotsu, motorists can now make the four-hour journey from the Neoplan intersection to Ofankor in just about 10 minutes as all forms of traffic have been eliminated.

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BUSINESS Exploring Your Investment Choices

By: Jayson Schwarz and Konstantine Chatzidimos

By Eddie Twumasi Smith Bsc(Hons) Chem Eng, MBA,CGA, CPA

Life basic necessitiesfood, clothing, shelter and taxes takes away the entirety of many people’s earning, especially for those of us who have 8 hours a day job.

Although some Canadians do struggle for basic necessities, the bigger problem is, most Canadians do consider just about everything-eating out, driving new cars, hopping on an airplane for vacation to be a necessity. On the contrary, many don’t think putting money aside to work for them as a necessity or an activity that requires the same measure of attention throughout their life time. We tend to spend most of our earnings on the so call basic necessities before we even think about spending on investment. The usual complaint is, there is not enough left after all those basic necessities are taken care of.

If we want to achieve important personal and financial goals, such as owing a home, starting a business, helping your kids through university, retiring with comfortable income and so on, we have to learn how to invest well.

In these contemporary times where income is dwindling due to inflation and cost of living and unemployment rate on the rise, the need for us to evaluate our choices and what is considered basic necessity has become more important now than before.

Many of us leave all investment choices to our bank/RRSP managers or personal financial planner to select investment options without asking the right questions or verifying for ourselves what or where our “hard” earned savings is being invested.

It is about time we start looking at what we spend on and how much we spend. It is about time we re-evaluate our values or what we spend on and why, which will affect our

habits and our habits impact our behavior and the sum total of behavior shapes our character and our character defines our personality or life style or patterns in life. Having sufficient financial resources or the lack of it can sometimes be traced to our choices and habits.

The “gospel” according Warren Buffett succinctly put it this way, save before you spend and not spend before you save.

According to Warren Buffet, changing our habits on savings and spending is the first basic necessity for wealth creation.

At different age or stage in our lives our tolerance or tendency to risk of loss of investment varies, hence it is vital for us to measure our affinity or aversion for risk before deciding on what type of investment vehicle we invest in to meet our financial and investment goals.

Personal Savings and Financial Goals The single most significant financial lever that individuals control directly is their management of personal expenditures. The second is their lifetime effort to obtain sufficient income. Most people simply do not save enough of their current income to fund adequately their future needs. Retirement might be (X) number of years away from now and the question is, can you live on your investment after retirement?.

To help you analyze your financial affairs in detail, some certified financial planners’ advice use of VeriPlan. VeriPlan is a very sophisticated and customizable computer planning model that enables you to view graphical projections of your family’s income, expenses, assets, and debts across your lifetime. Data inputs reflect your particular situation and include all your assets, including cash, bonds, equities, property, real estate, private equities, and business interests. There are many investment options available which are bonds, commodities (such as bullion/gold),forex, real estate, futures & options, stocks, exchange traded funds, mutual funds and segregate funds among many others. You can start with as little as $500.00 and with some research or assistance

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grow your portfolio with time.

Some Investment Options Government of Canada bonds ?Federal bonds are among the safest investments around. The biggest risk is that a country will default, but it’s highly unlikely that Canada, which is one of the fiscally strongest G7 countries, will go bankrupt.

Because it’s so safe, the yield or interest investors receive for holding a bond is lower than other bonds.

It’s especially small today because of our extremely low interest rates as of October 2011, a five-year Government of Canada bond pays about 1.61 per cent. Still, if you’re scared of stocks, it’s a great way to save your money.

2. Guaranteed Income Certificates (GICs) ?

GICs are just like bonds, but they’re issued by banks. You “lend” the bank money by buying a GIC and, when the investment matures, you get your money back, plus interest. Banks usually use your money to fund other investments. GICs are protected by the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, so in the unlikely event that a financial institution defaults, you’ll get your money back up to $100,000. The interest you earn depends on the length of the GIC. You can purchase bonds that mature in just 30 days or between one and five years.

The longer the term, the higher the rate, but in a time of low interest rates, you’re not looking at huge yields; Ally’s five-year GIC, for example, pays 2.75 per cent, the highest of the bunch. You can’t sell GICs, so most people use them to park some cash for a short period of time. If you know you’ll need to buy a new car next year, put your savings in a GIC. When it matures, you’ll make a little more cash than what you’d receive in a standard bank account. Check out ratesupermarket.ca to compare GICs and get the best deal for your needs.

3. High-yield savings accounts if you just want to park some cash in a bank account, consider a highcont'd on pg. 45

So you have decided to sell your home and have retained a real estate agent to help you in the process. This does not mean that you can allow your agent to make all decisions on your behalf. While good realtors can assist greatly in selling process, you must be aware of what they are doing and provide your input at every stage.

Selling a residential property is a complicated process. When such a large asset is conveyed from one person to another all details must be meticulously addressed and handled. If not, they will turn into headaches when it is time to close. This article focuses on three common errors we frequently notice in Agreements of Purchase and Sale.

Survey Clause Home buyers typically request the addition of a clause in the Agreement of Purchase and Sale (the “Offer”) requiring the seller to provide an ‘up-to-date survey’ to the property on or before closing. Be certain that, as the seller of the property, you actually have the survey in your possession before allowing this clause to creep its way into the Offer. Moreover, if the buyers require an ‘up-to-date’ survey, be sure that no modifications have been made to your property which would render your current survey out of date. If you had a swimming pool or deck built or added an addition to your home and your existing survey predates such construction, it will be out of date and you would be required to bear the cost of preparing a new survey which can range anywhere from $700-$1,000.

Today most buyers purchase title insurance in lieu of requiring a survey so suggest this to any potential buyers who are insistent on a survey which you cannot provide. We bring this matter to your attention because we have seen many cases where sellers’ realtors permit the survey clause to be added without consulting with their clients. Be diligent and aware of every clause drafted into the Offer.

Home Inspection Clause Many real estate deals fall through because of the wording of the home inspection clause.

These clauses typically state that buyers have the right to rescind their offer if they, in their sole discretion, are unhappy with the outcome of their home inspection. In many cases, this clause is used unfairly by sellers when the home inspection report yields the requirement for only a minor repair or two. When this happens, sell-

ers lose both time and money as they may have declined other offers in favour of the one which has fallen through. In addition, your home may be unfairly labelled a ‘problem house’ which could cost you in terms of the dollar amount of subsequent offers.

The inspection clause should read that the seller has the option to repair any items that the home inspection flags. This wording protects both the buyer and the seller. The buyer is assured that the home they are buying meets objective structural standards, and the seller is protected against the whim of a buyer who changes his mind.

Not all real estate agents word this clause this way, however, so it is important for you, as the seller, to be aware of this drafting option and convey this to your real estate professional.

Included/Excluded Chattels and Fixtures The key to retain from this final section is that you cannot assume ANYTHING! Your Offer must be crystal clear in respect of what items are remaining with the property and what items you are taking away with you when your house is sold. We have encountered dozens of instances where poorly worded agreements have resulted in disputes on this issue.

If, for example, the buyers are under the impression that ‘all electric light fixtures’ are to remain with the property but you wish to take the antique dining room chandelier with you make certain this is provided for in the agreement. Do not agree to any ‘standard’ all encompassing provisions like ‘all appliances’ and ‘all window coverings’ etc… without first doing a comprehensive inventory of what your home contains and ensuring that you do not require any exceptions. Do not ‘assume’ that the buyers will understand that you ‘meant to’ exclude that antique chandelier from the ‘all electric light fixtures’ clause.

Remember, in the context of an Offer for real estate, if it is not in writing it does not count. It is very important that you have an experienced lawyer review the offer to make sure you are protected.

Jayson Schwarz is a real estate lawyer and partner in the law firm Schwarz Law LLP. Konstantine Chatzidimos is the Senior Real Estate Associate at the firm. If you have a topic in mind, or a question, mail, deliver or fax letters to the newspaper or to the firm, call us (888-609-8888), use the web site (www.schwarzlaw.ca), email (info@schwarzlaw.ca) and give us your questions, concerns, critiques and quandaries.

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TALKING FINANCES How to Make Your First Million Dollars By: Gabriel Quayson, Toronto The article will discuss the path for the average Joe to take to reach their first million dollars.

If your goal is to make a million dollars, there are a couple of easy ways to reach your objective: 1-win the lottery, 2Inherit the money, 3-Marry wealth, 4-Get injured and Sue, 5-Start businesses.

If you are looking for the easiest path to wealth, inheriting the money would have to be at the top of the list. Of course you have little control over this.

Marrying the money would probably be the next easiest, assuming you can find an appropriate spouse. You can buy lottery tickets and hope for the best. There is the well-worn path to a lawsuit. The problem is, a lawsuit can take a long time and there is no guaranteed of successful outcome.

Starting a business is the easiest way available for your quest of your first million. Starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million. The decision to start a business gets us to a key part of our conversation. There are

two mentalities at work in our economy today. Either you can be someone else’s employee, or you can be the one who hires the employees. You can work for a business, or you can own a business of your own.

It is usually a good idea to be an employee when you first embark on the path for millions. There are lots of good reasons to be an employee, initially. For example, being an employee is a great way to learn how a business works so that you can open a business of your own. You simply need to become an employee with that approach in mind. Junior lawyers who work for seasoned lawyers before striking out on their own could leave their old firm with loyal clients, precedents, contact, learned solution to common problems that would have taken them decades to acquire if they started on their own.

In other words, you work so that you can learn the ropes.

Go into the job with the intention of learning everything you possibly can while someone else pays you to get your edu-

cation. Many large corporations even make a point of advertising this fact. For example, McDonald’s says on its Web site: “You’ll be encouraged to grow, learn and develop the broad-based skills you’ll need to move up fast — with McDonald’s Corporation, an independent McDonald’s franchisee, or almost any company in the world. Having such experience on your resume will open eyes, not to mention doors.” Compare this to a normal college education and you will realize how great a deal this is. When you are in college, you pay to get educated.

When you are an employee, someone else pays you to get educated — it is a much better deal.

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So let’s assume that you have made the decision to start a business, and you have worked to learn the ropes. People are not very kind to those who start unsuccessful businesses. The instant you are successful, however, you are a hero and they start calling you an entrepreneur, wonder boy, the gifted, etc. The whole point of creating a successful business, of course, is to have it generate money. There are two ways to extract the money from a business you create. You can either take the money out as you go along, in the form of a salary and dividends. Or you can sell the business and take your reward in a lump sum. Or, in the ideal case, you do both.

In the ideal case, the money that you pull out of the business is being generated as passive income. For example, let’s say you start a restaurant. You hire all of the staff, and then you hire someone to manage the staff so the restaurant “runs itself” without you ever having to actually be there.

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You haven’t practiced. Simply start practicing and it will become trivial and eventually it will be just like riding a bike, walking or playing your favourite video game.

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You will hear people say, “Nine out of every 10 businesses fail, so why bother?”

Here is another way to look at that — the chance of success is 10 percent. You start nine businesses that fail and then the tenth one succeeds and you make a million bucks — those are damn good odds. Compare that to a lottery, where, for example, 9,999,999 out of every 10,000,000 tickets fail. And tens of millions of people play the lottery even though the odds are that bad. Starting a business is not as easy as buying a lottery ticket.

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Ghana cedi to rebound …. As govt prepares to sell US$1.5 Billion ahead of Election The government, in the next couple of weeks, plans to sell US$1.5 billion in foreign currency to keep the cedi from resuming this year’s slide to record lows against the major trading currencies like the dollar as the country heads into elections in December.

“We don’t want the cedi to fall too low, and we don’t want it to rise too high,” Adams Nyinaku, head of treasury at the Bank of Ghana, said in an interview in Accra. “If the currency weakens too much it affects importers and if it becomes too strong it does not encourage exporters.”

The currency of West Africa’s second-biggest economy fell to a record of 1.9575 a dollar on Aug 7. as demand for foreign exchange to meet economic growth-driven import needs soared. The country’s economy, which grew 14.4 percent last year following the start of oil exports, is forecast to expand 9.4 percent this year, according to the Finance Ministry.

To stem the cedi’s drop, the central bank increased its key interest rate this year by 2.5 percentage points to 15 percent, offered new shorter-duration Treasury bills to mop up excess liquidity and asked banks to increase cedi reserves kept with it.

The cedi has gained 1.2 percent this month and weakened 0.2% to 1.9105 a dollar.

Ghana’s central bank sells dollars to the market on demand from companies that import goods including fuel. That contrasts with other African central banks such as Nigeria and Angola where regular auctions of dollars are held.

Oil Imports So far this year, the central bank has sold $3.4 billion, including $1.9 billion for oil imports, Nyinaku said. Of the $1.5 billion to be sold before the end of the year, $1 billion will be used for imports of fuel and $500 million for nonoil importers, he said.

Spending by political parties before the elections may see companies’s cedi coffers rise and increase the amount of local cur-

rency in circulation, according to Yaw AduKoranteng, a research analyst at Accra-based Gold Coast Securities Ltd. That could weaken the currency 1.5 percent from its Sept. 17 closing of 1.8955, he said in an interview.

President John Dramani Mahama will seek to win his first term in office and a second parliamentary majority for the ruling National Democratic Congress party in the December polls.

Mahama, who replaced President John Atta Mills following his death in July, faces Nana Akufo-Addo of the main opposition New Patriotic Party.

Reserves Decline The dollar auctions should be enough to ease pressure on the cedi from election spending, according to Nyinaku. “I believe some of the political parties may even contribute to dollar inflows through financial support from members abroad.”

The West African nation’s gross international reserves, from which it sells the U.S currency, declined to $4 billion in July from $4.1 billion in June, the central bank said in a report yesterday.

The reserves will rise when the bank exchanges the Ghana Cocoa Board’s US$1.5 billion trade-finance loan for cedis in the first week of October, Nyinaku said. The board that regulates the cocoa industry signed the loan with banks on Sept. 12 for the purchase of cocoa beans in the 2012-13 crop season. The board in turn lends the money to licensed buying companies that purchase the beans from farmers.

Business confidence declines The Business Confidence Index, computed from the latest Bank of Ghana surveys, show a decline from 96.4 in March 2012 to 95.1 in June 2012, driven by softened business sentiments on the exchange rate, sales prospects, profit levels, as well as higher inflation expectations.

Similarly, the Consumer Confidence Index declined from 99.5 in May

2012 to 98.4 in July 2012 driven by the lower macro confidence sub index; however the consumer welfare sub-index increased.

According to the Central Bank’s Composite Index of Economic Activity (CIEA) showed an annual growth of 7.7 per cent in June 2012, compared to 20.1 per cent in the same period of 2011. The components which contributed to the growth in the CIEA were industrial electricity consumption, credit to the private sector and imports.

Headline inflation remained unchanged at 9.5 per cent in August, as it was in July 2012. Food inflation fell from 5.5 per cent in July to 4.4 per cent in August 2012, while the non-food inflation component went up from 12.0 per cent in July to 12.5 per cent in August 2012.

Banks tighten credit stance for enterprises The Credit Conditions survey conducted by the Bank of Ghana in July 2012 revealed tightened credit stance for enterprises and households’ credit for mortgages. The tightening of credit stance was more pronounced for small and medium sized enterprises on account of inadequate cash flows to support repayment, weak financial performance and inadequate security, according to the survey.

However, the credit stance on households’ consumer credit continued to ease.

According to the Central Bank, the Private sector credit continued to show strong growth in the first half year. Nominal credit grew by 41.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis to GH¢10.4 billion in July 2012, compared to 25 per cent a year ago. In real terms, credit to the private sector recorded a 29 per cent annual growth in comparison to 15.4 per cent in July 2011.

The banking industry’s total assets was GH¢24.3 billion in July 2012 compared with GH¢19.5 billion in July 2011, and was largely funded by 5 bank deposits. Over the one year period to July 2012, total deposits increased to cont'd on pg. 45

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The Late Mrs. Patricia Zigah

Mrs. Patricia Zigah died on Friday, September 21st 2012 while visiting Toronto, Canada. She is survived by husband Rev. Stephen Zigah of Fountain Gate Church, Tema and four children.

CELEBRATION OF LIFE Funeral Rites: Sunday, September 30, 2012 Venue: The Apostles' Continuation Church Int'l 10 Belfield Road (Kipling/Belfield) Time: 3:00 p.m.

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Parental Stress Has Negative Effects on Children and Family Dynamics

Mayor Rob Ford’s Conflict of Interest Trail By: Vernon Ayiku

By Kwabena Akuoko, MSW, RSW, Toronto

Nervous tension, otherwise known as stress is either the body or mind’s way of responding to any kind of demand, and a prolonged high level of it could easily result in burnout. Elevated stress level is usually associated with tiredness, sickness and also the lack of ability to contemplate, or simply think clearly. This is a clear indication that if not handled appropriately, stress could have tremendous negative consequences on one’s physical health and emotional or mental well being.

Among some of the most telling negative physical and disturbing health consequences of stress are symptoms such as persistent headaches or fatigue, change in sleep patterns, irritability, and lack of motivation, anger and dread of going to work as well as the inability to pay attention to life’s important responsibilities such as parenting. Stress can even cause people to suffer severe mental breakdowns. Although it is an individual experience, nonetheless, stress affects family dynamics in a profound way. It is not uncommon for instance for a parent, especially a mother’s stressful experience to be inadvertently extended to her children of all ages. This does not however preclude the fact that children occasionally go through their own stressful experiences.

Above all, parental stress particularly creates a climate of tension, worry, disruption and even chaos in the family environment, which is supposed to be safe, secure and comfortable for children to grow up in. In this context, it does not take long for a parent’s stress to be observable in his or her children.

Many known causes of children’s stresses are thus unsurprisingly linked with their parents’. Parental stress thus has significant effects on children regardless of how parents try to hide it. So it is important for parents with young children to find positive coping mechanisms to deal with their stress instead of the usual attempts to hide it by pretending that nothing is out of the ordinary. Research simply suggests that stress is contagious between children and parents even if the affected parent is not aware of his or her own stressful condition because any changes in their behaviour as a result of pressure inhibit effective parenting.

While many parents try hard to hide their constant worries from closed family members, parental stress has consistently been linked with children’s anxieties. A serious stressful situation also inhibits parents’ ability to carry out many important tasks, including parenting appropriately. And hence stress is recognized as a legitimate reason for taking time off work. Unfortunately however, parents do not have the option of taking time off from parenting responsibilities due to elevated stress levels. A stressed out parent’s only viable option is to de-

vice his or her own positive coping mechanisms to live up to their parental responsibilities. Thus despite the fact that parental stress has serious effects on children as a result of weakening parents’ capability, they are forced to manage stressful situations and parental responsibilities at the same time. Consequently, a parent’s stress may quickly be observable in their children because ever-present parental stress leads to a climate of uneasiness and severely disruptive and chaotic family environment, which are contrary to safe, secure and comfortable setting to raise children.

Many of parents mistakenly assume that they can do a good job protecting their children from parental stress, but research indicates that children are more likely than not to pick up on their parents’ stress anyway. Thus no matter how parents or caregivers try to hide it from their children, parental stress affects children. Understanding and dealing with stress appropriately then can hugely prevent or reduce its negative effects on children of all ages. This is simply evidenced by the fact that children and adolescents who are highly exposed to their parents’ stressful experiences are more likely and vulnerable to worries than their counterparts with no or less exposure.

Contrary to the general, but often mistaken held belief that youngsters do not know much, they can actually sense that their parents are stressed out and hence tend to be unduly anxious, frightened and helpless. It is therefore always important for parents to explain any stressful situations to children at age appropriate level. Otherwise children may unnecessarily blame themselves and assume that they have done something wrong to cause their parents’ anxieties. Stress evidently takes a toll on parents thereby resulting in decreased use of effective parenting skills with negative effects on children.

Stress is a fact of life and is as a result of so many things around us in our daily lives. Extreme stress level has the potential of inhibiting us to do important things in life such as the ability to parent effectively. An adult family member, especially a parent’s stressful situation can escalate and result in negative effects on his or her children. Stress is real or imagined reaction to situations, events or people that allow individuals to experience symptoms of worry, anxiety and even withdrawal or engagement in isolation. Relationships, including parent-child, can thus be significantly and negatively altered by stress. It is thus extremely important for parents to recognize their stress triggers and deal effectively with them before they become observable in their children. Parents’ ability to take care of their own physical and emotional well being is a good starting point towards combating parental stress before it becomes noticeable their children.

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These are the facts: two years ago, when Mayor Rob Ford was only a city councilor, he used his city council letterhead to send letters asking for donations to buy sports equipment for underprivileged kids: for a Foundation that he set up in 2010. While doing this, Ford used the official city council signature to ask city lobbyists to support his personal fundraiser. By doing this, Ford violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, which states and prohibits use of City Council resources for personal use. Mayor Rob Ford admits to have never read the document. The question now is whether the Mayor made an honest mistake or knowingly committed a serious offense.

Some might argue that

Ford’s heart was in the right place; that he merely intended on raising money to keep at-risk-youth off the street. Here are more facts: City council had asked Ford repay the sum of roughly $3100 back to the donors. Rob Ford has refused.

The problem is Ford is now the Mayor and lobbyist groups and others who donated to his “cause” may now be at an advantage when it comes to getting favourable treatment from the City.

He voted no on the Council resolution officially designed to repay the donors money back. Is this not a conflict of interest? Why was the mayor allowed to vote in the first place on this issue?

Without reading the Provincial Conflict of Interest code one can assume this

is another violation. And yet, current Mayor Rob Ford did not opt to remove himself from the voting.

In fact, no member of council demanded he remove himself. It took a private Citizen named Paul Magder and a formal complaint to the city, to get the issue to trial.

Conclusion from his actions - Mayor Rob Ford broke the rules. The question now is this: Is the offense serious enough to have him removed from office? Of course the money did go towards football equipment and not his private funding. But the fact of the matter is, the Mayor was wrong in his actions and has no real defense, other then being oblivious to the rules. This is not Rob Ford’s first scandal and if he is allowed to stay in office, one can guess it won’t be his last.

The Premonitions of Hope: A Milestone Crafted through Faith Debut of Living Word Youth Choir’s album, “Hope” By: David Adade November 10th, 2012 will mark the debut of the youth choir album “Hope,” led by choir master Billy Deborah Grant, and will initiate the beginning of a recording series of spiritual devotion, fostering an evangelical prowess that will empower. The theme of the album, which is also its name stems from a biblical connotation, one that is reminiscent of mankind’s impending doom, and its apparent claims to “Hope”, quoting Ephesians 2:1-7.

Hope is a belief that is inherent to the ministry, constituting a moral perseverance in the face of overbearing obstacles; that it was mankind’s right to have faith when dealing with adversity, and to be patient. Billy saw this testimony as the shaping idea for the project, which will be to empower and enlighten the masses. The story begins with a skep-

tic, who was blessed with a gift to shape a united voice.

The launching of the album will be inducted as a milestone achievement for the youth choir, but of course the journey, or rather the trial towards completion wasn’t remotely close to anything easy. Billy described the journey involved “a lot of planning,” and a “vision of actualization” to create what the choir had intended, and “transition the dream” into a physical manifestation. It was around May or June of 2012 that Billy would come to the realization that there was potential for the choir, but he was not without his share of doubts.

Publishing fears and lack of exposure were things that triggered his initial hesitation, but there were people close by to sway his mind. It was a procedure that would require a lot of moral sustenance,

whether it was from the members of the choir, or the church. Prince Donkor, Deacon of the church, as liaison and former choir leader, became an advisory aide for the young choir. As a mentor, he would guide them spiritually, and assist in the collaborative process that the choir had undergone.

Billy was reassured that when the album debut, it would be “well received” because of the choir’s reputational style that is beloved by the congregation of Living Word, and possibly, others.

The album titled, “Hope” is schedule to arrive early November and is sure to be a hit amongst admirers of the gospel genre. Billy strongly believes that the album will be a reflection of their determination as a growing choir, a group firmly engraved in spreading the message of Hope, and as adequate musicians with a wondrous sound that will rouse the doubtful.

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Keli Tamaklo (National Honor) with Chief Eric Jolliffe York Reg. Police

Rev. Joseph Osei-Amoah (Religion) with Dr. La-Kumi

Joseph Ashun (Professional Excellence) with Ivan Torino, Country Sales Manager, Astra Qom

Sam Kwaku Asare-Bediako (Contribution to Music) with Gino Rosati Deputy Mayor of Vaughan

John Alandi, Community Service recipient with Fasil Kasa, Ethiopian Airline

Patrick Benjamin Frans (Young Talent) with Kodjo Mawutor, Consul General Jonathan Nii Anang Sowah (Te Innovation) with Jean Pierre, Immunotec

Emmanuel Duodu (Professional Excellence) with Ivan Torino, Country George Akwasi Gyabaah Sales Manager, Astra Qom Anderson, Politics recipeint with Hon. Jean Augustine

Connecting Path Canada (Comm Service) with Fasil Kasa, Ethiopian

Richard Addai (Sports) with Manager of Arrow Truck Vincent Oppong Kyekyeku (Young Talent) with Mr. Kodjo Mawutor

Mary Sackeyfio (Community Service) with Fasil Kasa, Ethiopian Airline

Dr. Yosef Kwamie (Professional Excellence) with Ivan Torino, Country Sales Manager, Astra Qom

Abigail Amartey ( Academic) with Prof. Joseph Mensah

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Sammy Ansah (Gospel Music) with Gino Rosati, Deputy Mayor of Vaughan

Tiffany Emma Quaye (Sports) with Manager of Arrow Truck

David Asafua Inkumsah (Sports) with Manager of Arrow Truck

Charles Kingsley Marful (Professional Excellence) with Manager of Arrow Truck

Foster Owusu (Business) with Rameshwer Sangha

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Mr. & Mrs. Boahen (Business) with Rameshwer Sangha

Prof. Noble Donkor (Professional Excellence) with Chief Eric Jolliffe, York Reg. Police

Constable Charles Obeng (National Honor) with Chief Eric Jolliffe, York Reg. Police

Albert Mc Ansah Isaacs (Academic) with Prof. Joseph Mensah

Lucy Crentsil (Gospel Music) with Rosati, Deputy Mayor of Vaug

Joel Nti Amankwah (Young Talent) with Mr. Kodjo Mawutor, Consul General

Nana Kwadwo Effah and John Owusu Mensah (Community Service)

Emmanuel Arthur (Entertainment) with Emmanuel Ayiku

Yusuf Serbeh (Business) with Rameshwer Sangha

Douglas Boakye Acheampong (Entertainment) with Emmanuel Ayiku

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Presentation of Scholarship to Ghanaian News by Roberto Hausman, Police Foundation

Mr. Kodjo Mawutor, Consul General

Lucy Crentsil (L) singing of National Anthem with MCs

Hon. Judy Sgro (MP York West) with Emmanuel Ayiku

Emmanuel Ayiku, Publisher of Ghanaian News

Hon. Jim Karygiannis (MP ScarboroughAgincourt) with Mr. & Mrs. Ayiku

George Anderson, Abigail Annobil, Vernon Ayiku

Evelyn Quist (poet)

Ethiopian Airline (Sponsor)

Vincent Crisanti (Councilor Ward 1 tobicoke North) with Emmanuel Ayiku

Emmanuel Ayiku with York Regional Police Chief Eric Jolliffe, Deputy Mayor of Vaughan Gino Rosati, Roberto Hausman and other Police Officers

Ghanaian News team with Hon. Jean Augustine Supt. Patience Quaye

Pastor Ebow Bonnie Traditional Dancer, Agartha

DANIPA with Emmanuel Ayiku

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Cultural Org. of Ontario (Cultural otion) with Foster Owusu

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PEOPLE AND PLACES David Nii Larmie Tetteh weds Amanda Owusuah Osei at Fruitful House on Sunday September 9, 2012

2 Roman Catholic Fathers from Ghana visit Toronto

From left: Deacon Joseph Owusu Afriyie (St Andrews), Father John Owusu Frimpong (Koforidua Diocese-Suhum), Fr. Raphael Frimpong (Koforidua Diocese-Somanya), Fr. Alex Osei (St. Andrews), Fr. Joseph Gyim Austin ( Saskatoon Diocese)

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Ghanaian Police Officers attend conference in Canada

By Jonathan Annobil, Toronto

A delegation of 16 women police officers from Ghana attended the 6 days International Association of Women Police (IAWP) held in St. Johns, New Foundland, Canada.

It was led by Superitendent Patience Quaye, Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. The mission of the association is to raise the profile of women in criminal justice internationally. 750 delegates from 54 countries including Ghana attended the conference.

During the conference, Supt.

Patience Quaye was elected as the Coordinator for Region 18Africa, with Audrey Leah Mofomme as Co-ordinator to assist her, for 3 years.

Supt. Patience Quaye (2nd right sitting) and Mr. Kodjo Mawutor, Consul General for Ghana in Toronto and other officers

According to Supt. Patience Quaye, Ghana has gone a long way in women policing. Ghana celebrated 60 years of Women

in Police Service on 2nd September this year. At the moment there are 6308 Women in the Police Force with 138 of them as officers. The current ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Elizabeth Mills Robertson was the first woman Inspector General of Police in Ghana.

During President Obama’s visit to Ghana in 2009, he acknowledged the exceptional work of 2 Ghanaians. They were ace investigative reporter Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Supt. Patience Quaye, Director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit. She also said that the Police Ladies Association was formed 22 years ago and that efforts are being made to educate all women in the Police Force to join the association of Women Police in Ghana. The delegation has since returned home.

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2 Ghanaian-Canadians among Outstanding Citizens honored with Queen’s medals in York West From Joe Kingsley Eyiah, Toronto

Benjamin Osei, a Youth Activist and Chief Evans AmoahBoateng (Okyeame Dogo), a ‘Cultural Ambassador’, all based in Toronto were among the 43 recipients from the York West constituency in the Greater Toronto Area who were honored with Queen’s medals on September 14, 2012.

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal presentation which was

organized at the Jamaican Canadian Association Hall in Toronto was presented

by Hon. Judy Sgro, Member of Parliament (MP) for York West and Mario Sergio, Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for York West.

The Commemorative Medal for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Dia-

Hon. Judy Sgro and some of the recipients

mond Jubilee was created to mark the 60th anniversary of Her Majesty’s accession to the Throne on February 6th, 1952. It is awarded to those persons who have made a significant contribution to Canada, to their community or Chief Evans Amoah-Boateng (Okyeame Dogo) and Benjamin Osei receiving their awards

to their fellow Canadians.

A total of 60,000 outstanding Canadian citizens were selected throughout Canada for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal awards.

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19 year old first teenager federal law maker in Africa At just 19 years old, Proscovia Alengot Oromait was recently elected to Ugandan Parliament, making her the youngest (and first teenage) politician in all of Africa.

She had plans to go to college after graduating high school last year, but those plans were derailed when her father, also a politician, died in July. She decided to run for his spot as a Parliament member in their lo-

cal Usuk county, and ended up winning by a large margin, with almost twice as many votes as the race’s runner-up Some, naturally have questioned her age. But Oromait

Proscovia Alengot Oromait said in a local TV interview that age shouldn’t be a concern: “It does not matter. It’s not age that works, it’s the brain and the knowledge that one has.”

Oromait is not the world’s first teenage Parliament member.

Sweden elected an 18-yearold in 2010, while Canada

elected a 19-year-old in 2011.

Outside of working on her father’s campaigns, Oromait’s experience comes from school, where she headed the debate club, the school newsletter, and the patriotism club. In Parliament, she says she’ll focus on things like improving roads and education.

Nepal plane crash: Seven Britons killed A plane heading for the Everest region has crashed on the outskirts of Nepal’s capital, killing all 19 people on board including seven British tourists.

The plane, operated by Sita Air, came down minutes after take-off from Kathmandu. Officials said it crashed into a river bank and caught fire.

Sixteen passengers and three crew were on board the twin-propeller Dornier.

The UK Foreign Office has confirmed the British deaths and said relatives have been informed.

As well as the seven Britons, five Chinese nationals and seven Nepali nationals were on the plane, including the three Nepalese crew, police

and aviation officials said.

Friday’s plane crash has once again drawn international attention to Nepal’s poor air safety record.

The crash is the second this year.

Four months ago, 15 people died when an Agni Air plane carrying Indian pilgrims to a Hindu religious site in northern Nepal crashed at a highaltitude airport.

In September last year, another plane on a mountain sight-seeing flight crashed into a hillside near Kathmandu, killing all 19 people on board.

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Frankly Speaking The “Gospel” of peaceful Elections in Ghana

By Dr. Michael Baffoe, Winnipeg

From the beginning of this year when political campaigning for the December 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections started in Ghana, we have heard countless pleas and admonitions from various sectors of Ghanaian society imploring citizens to ensure that the coming elections are peaceful.

Who wants violence to engulf the country during or after the elections? We may all be tempted to say, “no-one”. But the answer is that there are certainly some people in Ghana who are gunning for violence around the elections in Ghana.

The call for peace has come from the highest levels of the political establishment. Before former President Mills died “ensuring peace in the December 2012 elections” was his favorite line in every speech he gave. I watched and listed to him deliver an address to Ghanaian workers at the May Day celebration rally at the Sunyani Coronation Park in the Brong Ahafo region. He vowed that he would spare no efforts to ensure peace in the coming elections and that “Ghana is our only home” and we need to protect it.

Well said, from the father of the nation. Since then and before he died ten weeks later, he always stressed the need and importance of peace during and after the elections.

Since President Mills died, the mantle for calling for peaceful elections has fallen to his successor, John Dramani Mahama.

He has been hammering the “peace” gospel every-

where he has had the opportunity to interact with people. His operatives in his NDC party and government have also taken up the clarion call to hammer home the peace gospel. This call for peace has been taken up by other community and opinion leaders in the country.

The religious leaders have also taken it up praying “ceaselessly” and preaching “peace” at every given church opportunity.

It is however disturbing to note that the “peace” that President Mills, Mahama and their party and government officials have called for is not the same concept that we all understand. Various actions and utterances by the NDC and its government officials do not show that we are all on the same page when it comes to interpreting and ensuring “peace” in Ghana during and after the elections.

The NDC government and its party machinery have engaged in certain acts as well as utterances that do not bode for “peace”. For starters, the government, using the Electoral Commission, as its ‘agent provocateur” has embarked on an action which to all intents and purposes will create chaos which will in turn

lead to violence.

The government decided to create new District Assemblies after the report of the last national Census was released in 2011. They argued that the census figures show that certain Districts in the country needed to be split up to ensure fair and equitable representation of the people. For all we know as public knowledge, the census figures were so flawed that Ghanaians do not have any confidence in the figures that the Ghana Statistical Service produced from the census. The idea of creating new Districts was just a ploy for something bigger to come. Few months after the new District Assemblies were announced, the Electoral Commission, a supposedly “independent” body, announced that it was going to create 45 new constituencies out of the existing 230. The argument of the Commission was that the new Districts that have been created need to be served by members of Parliament as well. It claimed its power to do so from the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

No-one has challenged the power of the Electoral Commission to exercise the power given to it under the Constitution.

However we need to look at this issue from three angles: Firstly, why do we need as many as close to three hundred (300) Members of Parliament for a country the size of Ghana and its population of 25 million people? What positive impact has the current 230 Members of

Parliament brought unto the lives of Ghanaian citizens to warrant the addition of another 45 who will all be found nice accommodations in Accra and given public “loans” to buy official cars for which they have no intention of paying back anyway?

A lot of people have raised issues with the actions of the Electoral Commission at this time. People have been arguing that the purported creation of the 45 new constituencies only two months to the elections will be recipe for chaos and disaster. The Electoral Commission has staunchly refused to listen to any complaints or reasoning from the general public. It must be noted that the ruling party and government is strongly backing this Electoral Commission’s action.

Some people have even argued that the idea and process for the creation of these new constituencies were mooted by the government itself. The Electoral Commission is merely carrying out the orders and wishes of its master and funder.

Recently, an audio tape emerged and was aired on the radio waves in Ghana in which the national organizer of the ruling NDC was heard discussing plans to cause chaos and violence in Ghana during the elections with a back-up plan to blame it on the opposition NPP if and when the plan backfires. The NDC national organizer was heard discussing how the party had recruited thugs who would be given identification tags of the Na-

tional Security Agency.

Their duty will be just to go out there during the elections and generate violence.

Since the tape aired, many opinion leaders in Ghana have called for the arrest of this man called Gyan Boateng. The President of the country, John Dramani Mahama, who has been leading the peace “gospel” choir has said nothing and done nothing about this explosive and sinister ploy to plunge the country into chaos and potential violence during the elections.

It should be recalled that when Assin North MP Kennedy Agyepong said something similar, but of less severity on radio last year, the government sent twelve armoured cars to arrest him. They charged him with all kinds of stupid charges, from treason to terrorism. President

Mahama’s own national party organizer is planning, with the approval of the party, to use state apparatus to cause violence and the President says and does nothing? Does he have any more moral authority to preach “peace”.

It seems to me that the “peace” that is wished for Ghana during the elections is on the terms and conditions of the ruling and current government.

“Peace”, to them is when the other parties and citizens shut up and do not complain when the government and its party engage in illegal acts during the elections. I submit that this peace gospel according to Mahama and others is a recipe for disaster in Ghana, come December 2012. They better stop preaching this peace gospel. It sounds so hollow and dishonest!!

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ing planes and helicopters, in which more than 650 people have been killed.While the latest crash appears in part due to exceptional circumstances, critics say that many passenger aircraft in Nepal are often poorly maintained, one of the main reasons for so many crashes.

But critics say that there is also another serious malaise in Nepali aviation - a regulatory body that has consistently failed to prevent airline operators from cutting corners on safety in what is a competitive market.

The British Embassy in Kathmandu said the UK ambassador had gone to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, where the bodies of those who died had been taken.

The cause of the crash is not yet known. However, the general manager of Tribhuvan International Airport, Ratish Chandra Lal Suman, said it ap-

peared that the plane had struck a bird.

He said air traffic control contacted the pilot after noticing an unusual manoeuvre minutes after take-off and the pilot said his plane had hit a vulture.

Mr. Suman said the plane had been attempting to get back to the airport when it crashed.

Nepalese officials later said that the flight recorders had been recovered from the wreckage.

They said initial reports suggested the crash happened as the pilots tried to change direction and land again after suffering “technical glitches”.

Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai promised to take action to prevent similar accidents, but did not give details.

“I am saddened by the death of the locals and foreign nationals in the plane crash. I pay condolences to the families of the dead,” he said. cont'd on pg. 60

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What Teachers expect Parents to Know during the School Year

By Golda Abena Quayson

A new school year is in session and there are a lot of expectations on both teachers and parents. Parents expect teachers to do much for their children and teachers also expect parents to play their part in their children’s education.

This school year journey for children can be successful if teachers and parents work together as a team.

The relationship between teachers and parents is an extremely powerful component in student success. Yet so many parents go through the school year without communicating with the teachers of their children or understanding what to do or not to do. Many African parents believe that they have no role to play in the school and that their authority ends at the school gates. Many avoid or and do not make time to see their children’s teachers throughout the school year. This is wrong!

One of the most important things teachers expect parents to do is to make time to participate in some activities inside the school or outside the school. Teachers expect parents to monitor and plan proper bed times for their children to enable them to function properly during school hours. We all know that if a child or even adult does not get proper rest or sleep, we cannot function properly during the day at school or work.

Teachers expect that parents do not do their children’s homework for them, but work with them. It is important to let your child teach you what she/he is learning in school for you to gain an understanding of his/her progress or difficulties. Check on homework regularly, but don’t do it for the child! It’s important to review your child’s homework, but if she gets an answer wrong, take the time to help him/her understand why.

“Please don’t just tell her the right answer,” Nelson says. “That defeats the purpose of homework!”Let your child understand that you would not be present during her/his test or examination time.

Check children’s agendas and take-home folders every night. According to the National PTA, talking with your children is one of the most critical steps of healthy parenting. Communication is the key to a successful parenting. Not only does this help you stay on top of updates and what’s going on in the classroom, but it also shows your child that you are checking in.

Teachers expect that parents should trust them when their child is misbehaving in school. In the same vein, parents should not always accept the reports and the complaints that come from school about their children, but rather make an appointment to see the teacher to discuss whatever the report is about. Trust in the teacher’s feedback. Just because a child doesn’t exhibit a particular behavior at home doesn’t mean he doesn’t exhibit that behavior in the classroom.

So if a teacher reports a particular behavior that you haven’t seen before, don’t rush to say, “Well, I’ve never seen him do that.” The classroom and home

environments are quite different, and oftentimes children behave differently when forced to follow rules and work with peers. Listen to what the teacher has to say and work with him/her to find a solution.

Remember that the teacher is on your side.

Teachers truly care about your children and want them to be successful.

“The child’s success is our success,” explains Nelson. If your child’s teacher contacts you about a problem or something that happened at school, understand that the teacher is trying to work with you to resolve any conflicts that may be getting in the way of your child’s success. Don’t show up for a meeting unannounced. It’s great if you want to meet with a teacher to discuss an issue or chat about your child, but don’t show up at school without any warning. Instead, schedule a time to meet, not only does this show that you respect the teacher’s time, but it also gives him/her time to prepare for the meeting and provide you with everything you want to know.

Don’t go over the teacher’s head. If you’re having an issue with the teacher, your child, the subject matter or the classroom in general, talk directly with the teacher before going to the principal or other administrators. Ninety-five percent of the time, a problem can be resolved between the teacher and parent with a simple phone call unless it is really necessary to show up. Address behavior issues at home. Children don’t enjoy getting in trouble, so when they come home and tell you about how mean the teacher is, keep in mind they may be telling the story in a way that they won’t get punished. If this happens, try to get to the heart of the issue and uncover the facts so you can address it.

Teachers expect parents to provide and teach their teens good nutrition habits and for the younger ones, pack proper healthy lunches. Studies show that most of the snacks that contain high salt and sugars cause and increase behavioural problems. Establish a regular routine each night. This includes having children pack their backpacks the night before; to make sure they have everything they need for school the next day. “The number one thing students tell teachers is, ‘My homework is done, but I left it at sitting on the table or I forgot my lunch in the fridge,’” A simple evening routine can prevent this and prevent children from feeling rushed or disorganized in the morning.

Make an effort and go to Open House Night. A good parent-teacher relationship leads to a good student-teacher relationship, so don’t skip the open house!

Most teachers honestly have stated that they have never met parents in an entire school year. This is a sad fact. Use the open house as a time to get to know the teacher, ask questions, uncover expectations, address problems and find out what’s going on in the classroom.

The parents-teacher interaction rests on three principles: respect the teacher, be involved and be organized” and that will help your child to succeed.

Doris Osei Bonsu, Crisis Counselor, Toronto

PARENTING AN OUT OF CONTROL YOUTH

An out of control youth is a teenage boy or girl who has no respect for the authority of parents and/or the conventions of society. Many parents know that only too well.

What they usually do not know, is how to deal with the problem. It is not only the being of the youth that is threatened; it is wellbeing of the entire family that is at risk with the presence of an “out-ofcontrol” youth . Parents lose heart and become stressed, anxious, depressed, and often ill in the process. An out-ofcontrol-youth can even affect the health and wellbeing of other members of the family.

Lets’ be clear exactly what we mean when we speak of an out of control youth. Many teenagers today go through periods of rebellion or unhappiness. This is often described as teenage angst. They may grow out of it in due course, with no lasting harmful effects. But when a youth or teen is described as out of control, it means that nothing the parents do has an effect on their

behavior. These teens are effectively a law unto themselves, until the police or law enforcement agents step in.

same family turned out well, what went wrong with Daniel or Bernice is often the question they ask themselves.

Usually other authority figures like teachers, ministers of faith and even bus drivers are treated with the same contempt by an out of control youth. At the same time, we should not be too hard on our young people. If a youth has gone out of control, you can be rest assured that the loving, caring child you once knew is still in there somewhere, but that his or her life has been overcome by a number of factors that may include, but not limited to: * Bitterness * Anger * Inferiority feelings * Low-self-esteem * A sense of injustice * A feeling of confusion.

Often, an out of control youth does not even know what is driving this behavior.

What we forget is that, each child is an individual.

Most parents just do not know what is causing their out of control youth to behave as they do.

This can be very depressing to parents. That is why expert help is required. Doing it alone is the rock many parents flounder on. They try to deal with it as much as they can until they lose control of the situation.

Often they are ashamed to admit the problem, as they feel they will be judged as ineffective parents.

This emotional web can cause parents to despair.

After all, as far as they are concerned they did their best. Other kids in the

There are programs you and your child can participate. You can also attend forums and workshops to learn more about how to deal with out of control youth.

Seek psychological counseling for your child as well as enrolling him in rehabilitative programs.

An old adage admonishes us that ‘the sooner the intervention, the sooner the cure”.

How to Make Your First Million Dollars cont'd from pg. 29

playing video games and get rid of your television. Take the music off your iPod. Instead go get some books-on-CD that talk about starting businesses.

Put those on your iPod and listen to them over and over again. The first time you listen, they might not make much sense. That’s because all of the material is new. The second time through the book will make a lot more sense. And then the third time you will understand what is going on.

Practice makes perfect.

Here is how America works.

What we’ve got is a $10 trillion economy. That means that, all over this nation, there are people handing each other $10

trillion in return for goods and services each year. You call up Domino’s and pay $10 for a pizza — that is 0.0000000001% of the American economy. You actually play a role in that $10 trillion figure every time you buy something.

Your job is to look at the American economy and all the people in it. Now think to yourself, “What can I do that some of these people need? What can I do that would make their lives better in some way, and they would be willing to pay money for?” All you need to do is figure out a way to snag 0.00001% of the money flowing around in the American economy in one year and you

have made a million dollars.

The business you establish/ start does not have to be a complicated idea, and it does not even have to be original. For example, let’s take the idea of selling pizza. People like pizza — you know that. If you can start a pizza restaurant, and if you make $1 profit off of each pizza you sell, and if you sell a million pizzas, you have made a million dollars. It has happened before. Ever heard of Domino’s? Papa John’s?

Pizza Hut? Little Caesars?

Chuck E Cheese’s? Pizza Nova? Pizza Pizza? Lots of people have made a lot of money selling pizza. And it will happen again.

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Lifestyle Ask The Doctor By: David Yaw Twum-Barima, MD, MSc, FRCPC

This column is devoted to answering your questions on health and discusions of diseases which are common among the African Canadians.

Children’s snacks: 10 tips for healthier snacking When your child gets the munchies, be prepared to offer a quick-and-healthy fix. Start with these 10 tips for healthier children’s snacks.

Snacking is a major pastime for many kids — and that’s not necessarily bad. Snacking can help your child curb hunger throughout the day, as well as provide energy and important nutrients.

But the quality of the snacks is key. Consider these 10 tips for healthier children’s snacks.

1. Keep junk food out of the house.

Your child won’t clamor for cookies or candy bars if you don’t keep them on hand. Instead, set a good example by snacking on healthy foods yourself.

2. Go for the grain.

Whole-grain snacks — such as whole-grain pretzels or tortillas and highfiber, whole-grain cereals

— can give your child energy with some staying power.

3. Mix and match.

Serve baby carrots or other raw veggies with fat-free ranch dressing.

Dip graham cracker sticks or fresh fruit in fatfree yogurt. Top celery, apples or bananas with peanut butter.

4. Broaden the menu.

Offer out-of-the-usual fare, such as pineapple, cranberries, red or yellow peppers, mangoes, tangelos or roasted soy nuts.

5. Revisit breakfast.

Many breakfast foods — such as low-sugar,

whole-grain cereals and whole-grain toast — make great afternoon snacks. Likewise, a small serving of last night’s casserole could double as an after-school snack. continued: Children’s snacks: 10 tips for healthier snacking 6. Sweeten it up.

Healthy children’s snacks don’t need to be bland.

To satisfy your child’s sweet tooth, offer fat-free pudding, frozen yogurt or frozen fruit bars. Or use skim milk, fat-free yogurt and fresh fruit to make your own smoothies.

7. Have fun.

Use a cookie cutter to make shapes out of lowfat cheese slices, wholegrain bread or wholegrain tortillas. Eat diced fruit with chopsticks or make fruit kebabs. Make a tower out of wholegrain crackers, spell words with pretzel sticks, or make funny faces on a plate using different types

Ghana cedi to rebound cont'd from pg. 30

GH¢17.6 billion from GH¢13.8 billion.

The quality of the banking industry’s loan portfolio improved in the period under review. Non-performing loans ratio declined to 13.4 per cent in July 2012 from 16.4 per cent in July 2011. The DMB’s solvency as measured by the Capital Adequacy Ratio continued to be strong and was above the statutory minimum of 10 per cent, although it declined to 15.5 per cent in July 2012 from 17 per cent in July 2011.

Growth in broad money supply slowed down significantly from 42.6 per cent in July 2011 to 27.7 per cent in July 2012. The main source of change was from Net Domestic Assets (NDA) of the banking system.

Investors shift to long dated instruments

Investors in the country have shifted their investment portfolio to long dated instruments as interest rates continued to trend upwards in the money market.Between December 2011 and August 2012, the rates on 91day treasury bills rose to 22.7 per cent from 10.7 per cent, while 182-day bills rates moved to 22.9 per cent from 11.3 per cent.

1-year fixed notes reached 22.5 per cent from 11.3 per cent. Similarly, 2-year fixed notes increased to 23 per cent from 12.4 per cent. 3-year fixed notes increased to 24 per cent from 14 per cent, while 5-year bonds went up to 23 per cent from 14.3 per cent.

The interbank weighted average rate increased to 16.8 per cent in August

2012 from 6.6 per cent in December 2011.

The average 3-month deposit rate increased to 10 per cent in July 2012, from 7.8 per cent in December 2011, while average lending rates declined to 24.7 per cent from 25.9 per cent in the same period.

On a year to date basis, therefore, the lending deposit spread narrowed to 14.7 per cent in July 2012, compared to 18.2 per cent in December 2011.

Base rate quotations for banks ranged between 12.7 per cent and 26 per cent in July 2012. On the average, bank’s base rates fell to 20.5 per cent in July from 25.9 per cent in May 2012, despite the monetary policy rate hikes and increasing trend of rates on money market instruments.

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of fruit.

8. Promote independence.

Keep a selection of ready-to-eat veggies in the refrigerator. Leave fresh fruit in a bowl on the counter. Store low-sugar, whole-grain cereal and fruit canned or packaged in its own juice in an easily accessible cabinet.

9. Don’t be fooled by labeling gimmicks.

Foods marketed as lowfat or fat-free can still be high in calories. Likewise, foods touted as cholesterol-free can still be high in fat, saturated fat and sugar. Check nutrition labels to find out the whole story.

10. Designate a snacking zone.

Restrict snacking to the kitchen. You’ll save your child countless calories

from mindless munching in front of the TV. If your child needs to snack on the go, offer string cheese, yogurt sticks, cereal bars or other dripfree items.

Teaching your child to make healthy snack choices now will set the stage for a lifetime of healthy snacking. Start today!

Modified from Mayo Clinic Housecall.

Exploring Your Investment Choices cont'd from pg. 28

yield savings account.

These accounts have higher interest rates than regular savings accounts, though some of them require a minimum balance often $5,000 to get that high yield. If you fall below the minimum you could get dinged with a not-so-insignificant fee.

Be careful to avoid accounts with transaction fees if you think you’ll be making frequent withdrawals. Online banks, such as Ally and ING, often have better interest rates (lately between one and two per cent) and no minimum balances or fees.

4. Corporate bonds? corporate bonds can be risky, but they can also give your portfolio a much-needed income infusion. Essentially, you’re lending business money and in return they’re paying you interest. A company is more likely to go bankrupt than a country, so investors get a higher yield on corporate debt than on federal bonds often at least two per cent higher, with some corporate bonds offering even more income. Corporates are still considered safer than stocks, but make sure to stick to highly rated bonds (all bonds are rated by rating agencies such as Standard & Poor’s) BBB and above. Be careful with lower-rated bonds (ratings go from AAA, which is the best, to D, the worst) as there’s more of a chance the company will default on its loans and you’ll lose your investment.

5. Mutual Funds A mutual fund is a type of professionallymanaged collective investment vehicle that pools money from many investors to purchase securities. While there is no legal definition of mutual fund, the term is most commonly applied only to those collective investment vehicles that are regulated, available to the general public and open-ended in nature. Hedge funds are not considered a type of mutual fund.

Mutual funds are packaged in many different “flavors” or industries.

Depending on your industry preference or risk tolerance you can make your selection accordingly.

6. Segregated Funds?

“Seg” funds are a lot like mutual funds they’re funds that hold a basket of stocks but they’re issued by insurance companies. Yes, you’re playing the market, but there’s one big difference between” seg” and mutual funds: Your principal is guaranteed. That means the market can fall to nothing and you’ll still get back what you put in; and if it rises, you get your money plus the higher returns.

Sounds great, right? There is a caveat. You have to hold the fund for between 10 and 15 years before getting that principal guarantee. Fees are also higher. Only consider this option if you really think the market won’t improve much over the next decade.

7. Exchange Traded Funds (EFTs) An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is an investment fund traded on stock exchanges, much like stocks. An ETF holds assets such as stocks, commodities, or bonds, and trades close to its net asset value over the course of the trading day.

Most ETFs track an index, such as a stock index or bond index. ETFs may be attractive as investments because of their low costs, tax efficiency, and stock-like features. ETF combines the valuation feature of a mutual fund or unit investment trust, which can be bought or sold at the end of each trading day for its net asset value, with the tradability feature of a closed-end fund, which trades throughout the trading day at prices that may be more or less than its net asset value.

8. Stocks Investment in dividend paying stocks with potential for capital appreciation. Some people are of the view that stock trading is a risky investment and not a place for the faint hearted. I have a different view from this perception. Stocks selected based on strong fundamentals and leading factors can outperform other investment vehicles mentioned beforehand.

In my next article I will present some of the indicators to watch out for when selecting stocks for investment. Stay tuned!

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2012 Homowo Festival celebrated by Ga-Adangbe Association of Toronto

By Jonathan Annobil, Toronto

Ga-Adangbe’s in Toronto packed the Luna Ballroom to celebrate in grand style the 2012 Homowo Festival. After the playing of the national anthems, Mr. Eugene Kotey did the opening prayer immediately followed by Mr. Emmanuel Quaye, President of the association’s welcome address. He gave brief activities of the association in the past year.

Pouring of libation and sprinkling of Kpoikpoi was performed by Mr. Isaac Akrong. As Homowo depicts plenty of harvest, dinner was served for everybody at the event with lots of leftovers. Mr. Kodjo Mawutor, Consul General in Toronto was the keynote speaker who brought greetings from the Government of Ghana. He told the audi-

ence to be law abiding and be good ambassadors of Ghana over here in Canada.

There were a series of cultural displays as well as azonto dance competition by kids who thrilled the audience with their azonto moves, with the winners taking home gift certificates. Some members of the association were also presented awards. Nii Okine from Montreal, Freeman and Slimflex from Toronto also entertained the audience. The segment which drew more than half of the audience to participate was the Kpaashimo (Wogbedjeke) which was led by Nii Kwei Aku V Ga Mantse of Toronto doing the famous dance.

After that the floor was opened for free for all dance till the wee hours of the morning.

The chiefs and queens

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Rev. McKeown Quainoo and Pastor Joseph Fynn Sackey

Rev. McKeown Quainoo and family

welcome service at The Church of Pentecost on Sunday September 9, 2012

Rev. Fynn Sackey and family

Apos. Emmanuel Owusu Bediako and Elders Rev. Joseph Fynn Sackey and family being prayed over

PIWC Choir

Rev. Ransford Obeng and some Elders Rev. Quainoo and family being prayed over

Response by Pastor Fynn Sackey Congregation

Response by Rev. Quainoo

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HFC organizes housing fair in Toronto

By Jonathan Annobil, Toronto

HFC Bank Ghana Ltd. Organized a housing and mortgage fair in Toronto. It was a 2 day event held at 2 venues. It was from Saturday September 8 to Sunday September 9th 2012.

The first venue on Saturday was at the Grandravine Community Centre and the second on Sunday was at Northwood Community Centre all in North York.

HFC was in town to sell NonResident Ghanaian (NRG) Products – Foreign Savings Account, Home Purchase Mortgage, Equity Mortgage and Home Improvement Mortgage.

According to the Manager, the idea of coming to Toronto was to offer Ghanaians in Toronto and Canada as a whole to own

homes in Ghana and open USD account also. Also help is available to those who have started building already and have reached lintel level to be given mortgages to complete the building. He added that HFC is the only bank that provides Ghanaians in the Diaspora the opportunity to create wealth through home ownership.

The manager also added that the bank has been in existence over 22years and that the bank in 2004 received a universal banking license from Bank of Ghana and that majority of its shareholders are institutions. He said that he was impressed with the attendance and hoped that it will bring good results. Mr. Charles Bonsu continued that deposits in the accounts opened could be used to secure mortgages to build houses.

Group of delegation from Ghana

Participants with officers from HFC

Participants with officers from HFC

Trinity Baptist Church Acts Conference 2012 August 31st to Sept 9th 2012 Main speakers were Rev. Eastwood Anaba, Rev. Alfred Nyamekye and Rev. Herbert Addo with host Pastor Rev. Nana Amoakohene

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Celebration of Life for Mrs. Osei Afriyie At All Nations Full Gospel Church on Sunday Sept. 15, 2012

Chief mourners

Rev. Samuel Kyereme Mr. Osei Afriyie and children

Kweku Ackah Boafo, MC

Family Members

Family members

Rev. Dr. Samuel Donkor with some Pastor and Elders

Kwaku Gyasi with choir

Traditional display of gifts Ghanaian Choir of All Nations Full Gospel Church, Toronto

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Final funeral rites of Opanin Kwadwo Antwi father of Bismarck Antwi Agyei held at Amansie Multicultural Centre on Saturday, 15th Sept. 2012

Bismarck Antwi Agyei (2nd from left) with chief mourners

Saturday, October 20th 2012

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Canada cheese-smuggling ring busted policeman charged A Canadian border crossing sign Only C$20 in dairy is allowed across the border duty-free A Canadian police officer was among three people charged as the country’s authorities announced they had busted a major cheese-smuggling ring.

A joint US-Canadian investigation found C$200,000 (£125,600) of cheese and other products were illicitly brought over the border into southern Ontario.

The smugglers sold large quantities of cheese, which is cheaper in the US, to restaurants, it is alleged.

The other two men charged were civilians, one a former police officer.

The Niagara Regional Police (NRP) announced the charges in a news release on Thursday.

Constable Scott Heron, 39, a member of the NRP, faces counts of conspiracy, smuggling and other violations of customs law.

Casey Langelaan, 48, a former member of the police force, and Bernie Pollino, 44, a resident of Fort Erie, face the same charges.

In their statement, Niagara police said an investigation had been ongoing since January 2012.

Mr Heron was suspended from the police force in June.

“The network involved the purchasing of cases of

cheese and other food items and transporting these cases into Canada, without declaring the items or paying duty,” police said.

Once the cases arrived the country, they were distributed to restaurants in southern Ontario.

The accused allegedly made a profit of over C$165,000.

The charges come three days after CBC News first reported the force was conducting an internal investigation into cheese smuggling.

A pizzeria owner west of Niagara Falls told CBC that he had been questioned by police over the issue, but assured them he had not bought any contraband dairy.

“We get all our stuff legit,” said the restaurateur.

“We thought it was a joke at first. Who is going to go around trying to sell smuggled cheese?”

Only C$20 or 20kg (44lb) of dairy products can be brought into Canada duty free, according to Canadian Border Services Agency spokeswoman Jean D’Amelio Swyer.

Civil penalties for smuggling can amount to 245.5% the value of the product.

Canadian cheese prices are higher because of restrictions by the country’s dairy board, as well as tight controls on US imports of cheaper cheese.

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Ombudsman slams mayor’s office for interfering cont'd from pg. 14 with board appointments ership, the largest circulation in Toronto and the ‘best demographics.’ The CMO informed my investigator that when they raised this with the Mayor’s staff, they were told that ‘we do not like the Star.’”

The report also cites concerns regarding the “level of direction from the mayor’s office” throughout the hiring process, at one point referencing a July, 2011 meeting to short-list candidates that was attended by staff from the mayor’s office.

“The city clerk’s office observed that political staff attendance during committee in-camera sessions was ‘unusual’ and that it had never happened before in their experience,” the report says. “Accounts of the Mayor’s staff activities during the meeting varied. One attendee said that the mayor’s staff had several files with lists of names marked confidential. The attendee said that the lists were on some of the members’ desks. Another attendee saw a list of names for each committee on a few of the members’ desks. A third attendee saw the mayor’s staff handing a member sheets of paper with names on them.”

Speaking with reporters after attending a groundbreaking ceremony

for the Pan Am Games Aquatic Centre Thursday afternoon, Mayor Rob Ford said his city staff did not act inappropriately.

“I have actually cleaned up the process that we had before,” he said. “It is a very clean, above board and transparent process.”

Councillor accused of threatening staff The report, which was prepared by ombudsman Fiona Crean, also describes a contentious meeting of the civic action committee in which the committee chair threatened a member of the city’s staff.

According to the report, the councillor grew “outraged” after a staff member brought up an apparent conflict-of-interest held by a candidate before the committee and then took to their feet, pointed and screamed ‘I’m going to get you,” adding that the staff member had “fooled” other members of council but not him.

Responding to the allegation Thursday afternoon, Mammoliti said he wasn’t the one described in the report but defended the person who is without mentioning them by name.

The civic appointments committee is chaired by Coun. Frances Nunziata.

“That certainly wasn’t me, however I am cer-

recommendations, all of which were accepted by the city: Review the Public Appointments Policy to correct any omissions or short-comings. Consolidate responsibility for administering the Public Appointments Policy into a single unit and ensure it has adequate resources.

Require that staff report in writing to the Civic Appointments Committee any known information about potential conflicts of interest.

Develop sustained community engagement strategies to attract and recruit applicants from diverse communities.

City boards, agencies and commissions are responsible for about $15 billion in city assets.

The report makes four Cp24.com tainly a councillor whose tail will not be wagged by the bureaucracy and I can tell you that when mistakes are made to the degree that they were some politicians like myself will challenge staff on a regular basis and if they are trying to fight back lets drop our gloves and we will decide who the winner will be,” Mammoliti said. “The staff of the city better role up their sleeves and be ready for a fight because I will be the watchdog and the ombudsman myself. Staff will not influence the actions and decisions of committees and when they do I have something to say about it.”

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Nepal plane crash: Seven Britons killed cont'd from pg. 43

The Dornier 228 aircraft had been heading for Lukla, the hub for trekking in the Everest region.

The trekking season has just begun in Nepal and thousands of climbers, including many Westerners, head to the country’s famous Himalayan peaks.

A spokeswoman for local travel firm Sherpa Adventures said the British group had arrived in Nepal on Wednesday and was due to start trekking on Friday until 16 October.

Police spokesman Binod Singh told the AFP news

agency that “the pilots seem to have tried to land it safely on the banks of the river but unfortunately the plane caught fire”.

One of the first rescuers to reach the crash site, police officer Bhagwan Bhandari, described the scene as “terrifying”.

“There was fire coming from the aircraft. Red flames were reaching up to 20m (65ft) above the ground,” he said.

Climber Alan Hinkes says the landing strip at Lukla is where most crashes happen “It wasn’t possible to get inside to conduct rescue operations.

We could hear blasts from the parts and engines of the aircraft.”

Images showed burning wreckage at the crash site and dozens of rescue and security personnel.

British mountaineer Alan Hinkes told the BBC he had taken the flight from Kathmandu to Lukla many times and that problems usually occurred at the Lukla end.

“The landing strip in Lukla is a bit like an aircraft carrier with a mountain at the end of it, with a 1,000ft drop at the end of the runway. Normally crashes happen at that end,” he said.

He added: “It is not the safest place to fly, I must admit, but it is what you have to do to get into the mountains.”

Aviation accidents involving small aircraft are not uncommon in mountainous Nepal.

In May, 15 people were killed when a plane crashed trying to land at an airport in the north of the country.

And in September 2011, 19 people were killed when a Buddha Air plane crashed during a flight to view Mount Everest.

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Let's Think Family - By Rev. Dr. Samuel Kisseadoo Love is possessive, and must be carefully guarded Every form of love has an element of possessiveness. But true love also allows freedom.

Love should not therefore be allowed to possess to the point of putting shackles on the one you love, or putting a cage around the money or property etc., whereby people even “get electrocuted” or “chased away by lions” when they try to touch it.

It could be your special food at home, cell phone, sound system, ministry, business, program, girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, fiancée, computer, special friend, family member, child, sports, your precious body, clothing, jewelry etc.

You can be deceived to believe you are carefully protecting the thing or person, when you are actually possessing with crazy immature passion that is rooted in intense selfishness, and rather engaging in indirect slavery. Undue possessiveness can unconsciously imprison you as well with selfish love that will restrict and squeeze you in return, and keep people or even future blessings away from you, as you try to love the other person or thing with overzealous infatuation.

If love is not properly guarded and strictly supervised, it can get out of control, run wild, and create untold chaos plus severe damages all over the place.

You hear all the stories in the news and witness all the violence due to competitive jeal-

ousy and rivalry over love, betrayals, suspicions, and accusations in relationships and marriages, and among family members and friends, right?

When you love something or someone, you literally possess the thing or the person in your heart to some extent, depending on the level and intensity of your love. That is why you must carefully watch your mind (thoughts) and heart (emotions) to find out where and how you allow them to go day by day.

If you are a true Christian, the peace of God in your heart is always a sure indicator when your thoughts and heart are going astray out of step with the directions and will of God’s Spirit, and being deceived to operate in the flesh. We can be so jealous (negative feeling that someone is also getting what you have) or envious (desiring to possess what someone has) regarding things or people we love.

Honestly, when you have strong love for someone or for

something, the “natural selfish man” in you (which we are born with as sinners) will begin to feel selfish and yell within you: “Hei! That is only for me! Don’t touch my thing!”

It is your duty to see the danger, admit it, and quickly kick that negative thought out of your mind, and quench those selfish feelings in your heart before they sink deeper into your spirit and stay there stubbornly to torment you and deceive you to take unwarranted and sometimes even stupid steps to “protect your thing.”

Suspicion and mistrust suddenly spring up like mushroom in the dark, when you feel and begin to panic, that your love is being shared or stolen by someone. No matter whom you are dealing with, the person suddenly becomes a feared or threatening competitor (even your pastor, fellow minister, church elder, or deacon, brother, sister, parent, child, boss, in-law, trusted counselor, friend, ministry partner, business partner, political comrade etc.). Some bosses quickly fire people meaninglessly, people move away to live somewhere else, others immediately cease all communication, and people resign positions with no given reason (which they alone know).

Some married men can go to the extent of taking the wife hostage and making her a slave at home with no interactions with anyone.

Some spouses or fiancées (ladies and gentlemen alike) will behave like spying agents screening everything and spying every move, reading behind everything of yours including your phone calls, time out of the home, e-mails, internet searches, colors and stains in your garments especially under wears, and even you coughing and sneezing. Love is such a strong emotional and spiritual force and a fire to the extent that when it becomes SELFISH LOVE that is misdirected and mishandled, it can burn us and burn anyone else that comes within the range of the destructive emission coming out of us.

Most of it is normally the results of vengeance and the burning passions of envy and jealousy that seeks to possess the thing or person all alone without sharing the sweetness, passion, benefits, or glory with anyone. These negative applications of the passion of selfish love are can result in things like violence; hard words; abuses; setting of traps to frame the person; crafting lies; defamation of character; secret slander; spreading of false rumors; publications to destroy reputation; obstruction of the person’s benefits or favors; hindering his or her opportunities; robbing the person of important things; stopping him or her from having friends or even contacting family members and people who can help him

or her; painful break of sweet relationship and marriage plans, or flourishing marriage or business; using every spiritual and physical means to stop one from sharing property or money; pronouncing curses; convincing or paying people to do harm to the person; and other wicked schemes etc. We must see the thoughts and feelings plus the entire idea of love as an important gift from God that we are privileged to inherit and exercise.

We must learn how to exercise and apply love with the required wisdom, carefulness, godliness, and fear of God attached to our thoughts and feelings of love and affection towards people. Application of scriptures like 1 Corinthians 13: 1-8; 1 Peter 4:8, plus sincere prayers from our hearts, will always enable us to allow the possessive nature of love to operate correctly in our hearts and minds, for us to have people and things on our hearts for real love, concerns, care, compassion, sympathy, kindness, and mercy without possessing to the extent of making things and people our own in selfish ways that will rather destroy the essence and true meaning of love, and do more harm than good. Yes, learn to carefully, wisely, sensibly, spiritually, and maturely guard any love you have at anytime, for it to receive God’s approval, favor, and blessings.

Tune in to JOY 99.7 FM in

Accra, Ghana on Saturdays at 5:30 am – 6:00 am (Ghana Time) or US Eastern ST 1:30am – 2:00am March to October, and listen to Dr. Kisseadoo’s broadcast “Hope For Your Family”. Access anywhere in the world on the Internet using MYJOYONLINE.COM, and click on “Live Radio”. Obtain 9 of Dr. Kisseadoo’s books online from: RedLeadBooks.com or Amazon.com using his name.

Contact him in the USA (1-7577289330) for copies of his 14 books, free counseling and prayer. Visit his website: www.fruitfulministriesint.com for essentials that will enrich your relationships and ministry. Get copies of his books from Challenge Bookstore & other bookstores in Ghana, or call 233-20-8209567 or 233276-322982 in Accra or 233275-353802 in Kumasi for message CD’s, books, free counseling, prayer, and seminars.

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Saturday(Alt.) Women's, Men's,Youth Movement Meetings) 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

1st Saturday of every month Prayer for breakthrough) (Montreal)

9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

TORONTO CENTRAL ASSEMBLY Pastor: 905-791-8190 Cell: 647-218-1052 Church: 416-740-1979 94 Kenhar Drive, Unit 39 & 40, North York, Ont. BRAMPTON ASSEMBLY 270 Rutherford Road, Unit 10 Brampton, Ontario, L6W 3K7 HAMILTON ASSEMBLY 801 King Street East Hamilton, Ontario, L8M 1A8 MONTREAL ASSEMBLY Elder Eric Frimpong - 514-748-1545 Church 514-279-6565

845 Jean Talon West, Montreal, Quebec, H3N 1S5

HOLY ALPHA & OMEGA CHURCH We invite you to worship with us Church Service: Sunday Worship: 10.00a.m. - 12.30 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Studies: 6.00p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meeting: 7.00p.m. - 9.00 p.m.

JESUS Loves You

The Superintendent Minister-In-Charge

Prophet John Mensah

869 Wilson Avenue, North York, Ont.

Tel: 416-638-5990 / 416-419-6671

EVANGEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH 1245 Martin Grove Road, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 1L4

Toronto Society

Place of Worship: 19 Penn Drive, North York, Ont. (off Finch Av./Milvan)

Day and Time of Worship: Sunday: Bible Class Meeting: 9:00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.

Church Service: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Jericho Hour Prayer Meeting - 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Friday: Bible Teaching/Prayer Meeting 8:00 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.

Saturday Organizational Meeting: 6.30p.m. - 9.30 p.m.

Contact: Tel: (416) 743-4555 (Church) In Montreal at: Place of Worship: 6870 Rue de Terreborne, Montreal, Que, H4B 1C5

Day and Time of Worship Sunday Divine Service: 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meetings: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Contact: Rev. Emmanuel Ohene Gyimah - 514-542-0871 Anna Phillips (Church Secretary) 514-421-4152 SERVICES ARE CONDUCTED FOLLOWING THE TRADITIONAL GHANA METHODIST LITURGY. PLEASE COME AND JOIN US. WE HAVE A PLACE FOR YOU. GOD RICHLY BLESS YOU

CHRIST REDEEMER CHURCH Pastor-in-charge: Pastor Eric Amoah Tel: (416) 748-1242 Cell: (416) 300-9970 Church Services Sunday Service: Bible Study: 10 a.m.-11a.m.

Worship Service: 11a.m. - 1p.m.

Wednesday: Bible Study 6:30p.m.-7:30p.m.

Friday Night Prayer: 8p.m.-10p.m. Pastor Eric Amoah Location: 4 Racine, Unit 9

Pastor in Charge Rev. Milton Offei

10a.m. -11:00a.m.

11a.m. - 1:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 8:30p.m.

7p.m. - 9:00p.m.

(Kipling/Rexdale)

Redemption Faith Church Invites you to worship with us at 1485 ALBION ROAD (Albion/Kipling) Tel: 905-495-1936 Fax: 905-495-1937

Tel: 416-242-7950 Fax: 416-242-8573 Church Activities Sunday School: Church Service: Sunday Evening: Wednesday Bible Studies: Friday Prayer Meeting:

Very Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Asare-Kusi

This is a loving and caring Church that preaches and teaches the whole counsel of God. A place where the word of God is backed by strong anointing to bring Salvation, Healing and Deliverance to all people who believe on the LORD JESUS CHRIST Rev. Dr. Stephen Ofori-Darko

CHURCH ACTIVITIES: Sunday Search the Scriptures - 12 noon - 12-45 p.m.

Church Service - 12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Fridays - 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Bible Studies, Intercession & Deliverance

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FOOD FOR LIFE Bringing the Gospel to our Community By: Rev. Joseph Osei-Amoah THE COMING DAY OF RECOGNITION FOR THE BELIEVER Sunday, September 23, 2012, the 12th Anniversary of the Ghanaian Canadian Achievement Cerebration will forever be etched on my mind as the day twenty nine other Ghanaian-Canadians and I previously approved by the Selection Committee of the Ghanaian News were recognized for our contribution to the various fields of endeavor in the Canadian Society. I was included for serving as the columnist for “FOOD FOR LIFE, -Bringing the Gospel to our Community” for over twelve years. I was excited because two of the recipients, Albert Mc-Ansah Isaacs, a third-year medical student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and Vincent Oppong Kyekyeku, an outstanding young musician, were from my pastorate.

I became Vincent’s Pastor, in 1996 when he was only two years old. I take his opportunity to thank Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Ayiku, Publishers of the Ghanaian News, for offering me the opportunity to share the word of God from this column at the inception of this great community New Paper. I also thank the Selecting Committee for recognizing my work.

I still remember Dr. Michael Baffoe’s word of encouragement to me for writing a good piece.

Messages of congratulation from the Prime Ministers of Canada, the Premier of Ontario, the Ghana High Commissioner to Canada, some leading Federal and Ontario Political leaders,

Mayors of our various Municipalities, some Ghanaian community traditional rulers and heads of various businesses were heart-warming. I would like to thank my dear wife Mary, my son Kofi, leaders and some members of Living Word Assembly of God Church, Toronto, who were present to rejoice with us. Readers of my column who have had the opportunity tell me that you do so have encouraged me to continue. Finally I am grateful to the Living God and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, who accepted me as one of His servants and offered me this medium to share His life-giving word with others.

“But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner. 10, For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” (Heb 6:9-10 NKJV) The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews assured the Hebrew followers of the Lord Jesus Christ who were serving God under difficult circumstances that the Lord would never forget their labor of love as they serve one another and by sharing the good news of the risen Savior with whoever would trust in Him. We are living in a time when it is becoming more and more unpopular and even dangerous in some places to be identified with the Lord Jesus

Christ. Under such circumstance, it is easy to give up one’s faith in order to feel safe or acceptable to everyone. No doubt such action would displease the Lord: “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. 39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.” (Matt 10:38-39 NKJV) The Lord Jesus does not want us to do the work of love with the “victim mentality”. The gospel of Christ is so powerful that, it thrives better in places where Christians suffer most. The Apostle Paul, a persecutor of the followers of Jesus, who was miraculously transformed, preached Christ so powerfully that he ended up a prisoner of Rome. At the end of his letter to the Philippian Christians, he wrote, “All the saints greet you, but especially those who are of Caesar’s household.” (Philippians 4: 22) Right under the nose of the Emperor of Rome, members of his own household were converted to Christianity by his prisoner-the Apostle Paul. The gospel we preach is not human philosophy, nor some outmoded ideas of the past, but as the Lord Jesus de-

Peace Light Ministries Senior Pastor & Founder: Rev. Augustine Adu-Anane BRE, M.Th. CPC

Senior Associate Pastor: Rev. Eleanor Adu-Anane BRE, ECE

TIME OF WORSHIP

Rev. Augustine Adu-Anane

Wednesday: Bible Study 7:00 - 9:00 pm Friday: Group Prayer Meeting 8:00 - 11:00 pm Sunday: Christian Education 9:30 am - 10:30 am Sunday Service: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tel: 416-839-1662 / 647-892-9412 LOCATION: 100 Penn Drive, Unit #3, North York, Ont. M9L 2A9 Happy are those who work for PEACE, for God will call them His children Mtt: 5:9

clared, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.”

(John 6:63) The gospel is very effective in dealing with the problems of the total man: spirit, soul and body and answers questions of humanity’s past, present and the future when it is presented and accepted by faith.

During the ministry of the Lord Jesus, the word of God was so satisfying that a woman listening to Him “… raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!” 28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (“Luke 11:27-28) Another time, some Temple guards who were sent to arrest Jesus as he was teaching the crowd returned to those who sent them without Jesus, “Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you

not brought Him?” 46 The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” 47 Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived?”

(John 7:45-47) The word must be received and applied to the everyday life to make it beneficial to the individual. As our world is progressively being plunged into spiritual darkness, it is the word of God that can provide the spiritual light needed to see our way around. The Psalmist writes, “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”

(Psalm 119:105) In difficult times the Psalmist again writes, “Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.”

(Psalm 119:165) Christianity is not religion by which a man tries to do something to please his God. It is a way of life by which a caring God extends His love to humanity through the death and resurrection of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, making it possible for whoever believes in

Jesus to be reconciled to God. The Lord immediately adopts the individual as His child (John 1:12) and sends His Spirit to live in the new believer who gradually transforms the believer’s life to conform to the image of His Son. This is a life time process as the individual also interacts with people around him and by telling others about his new experience in Christ. Finally, at the coming of Christ, we shall be honored according to our faithfulness as Christ’s representative on earth at the gathering of people of all generations who have trusted in God. “For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.” (2 Tim 4:6-8).

Living Word Assembly of God Church (Affiliated with P.A.O.C.)

139 Millwick Drive Toronto, Ont. (Steeles/Islington) Tel: 416- 741-6285 Fax: 416- 741-0133 Email: livingwordag@bellnet.ca Church Activities

Senior Pastor: Rev. Joseph Osei-Amoah

Sunday Early Morning Prayer: 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Service: 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday Prayer: 10:00 a.m-12 noon Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

(Last Friday of the month “All Night Prayer”): 7:30 p.m.-12 mid-night Youth Service (Fridays): 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.

Departmental Meeting (Every other Sunday): 7:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

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Ghana Calvary Methodist United Church, Toronto 65 Mayall Avenue, Toronto Ontario, M3L 1E7

Tel: 416-614-6110 647-341-7305 Email: gcmethodist@hotmail.com

Invites all Christians to join us to worship and glorify the Living God

Worship Schedule: Sunday Church Service/Class Meetings: 10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Friday Prayer Meeting: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Bethel Prayer Ministry Int'l Do you desire to experience the power and the presence of God demonstrated in your life? Do you want to experience the marvelous work of God's grace in your life?

Then, Bethel Prayer Ministry International would like to invite you to visit their church where the word of God is preached powerfully to release the power of God in your life.

Pastor Dennis Awuku COME AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED Senior Pastor

Contact:

Res. 416-740-6963 Church 416-642-0390 Worship Hours: Sunday Service: 9am - 1pm Tuesday 9am - 2 pm Consultation Wednesday: 7pm - 9p.m.

Friday: 9pm - 12 pm Saturday (Prayer Warriors) 6pm - 8pm Location: 52 Carrier Drive, Unit 12, (Albion/Hwy 27)

Etobicoke, Ont., M9w 5S5

End-Time Harvest Ministry Very Rev. De-Graft Semie Obiri (Calvary Methodist)

Saturday Auxilliary Minister Youth Musical & Computer Rev. Samuel Victor Mpereh Lessons Fellowship Meetings Choir Practice, Singing Band Practice 647-770-8440

Venue of Worship 65 Mayall Avenue, Toronto (Route: Through Jethro Road or Haymarket Road, off Wilson Ave. between Weston Rd. and Jane St., or walk across bridge from Chalkfarm North)

Invites you for a wonderful time with the Lord

Worship Hours Sundays (Mornings) 10 - 12:45pm Wednesday (Bible Study) 7 -8:30 pm Friday (All Night Prayer) 8-10:30pm Rev Moses Sarpong

COME AND EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF THE WORD Join us at 196 Toryork Drive(Corner of Weston/Finch)

Tel: 416-743-2507 Tel: 416-614-6110

Email: gcmethodist@hotmail.com

IT’S HARVEST TIME SO REACH OUT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE

It’s A Great Commission!

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Biggest cannabis haul from Ghana seized at Heathrow Airport Border officers at Heathrow Airport have made their biggest cannabis seizure in three years after containers arriving on a plane from Ghana were found with drugs worth £4.3million.

The drugs, which weighed around 1.5 tonnes and had a street value of £4.3 million, were found in three separate freight containers filled with fresh fruit and vegetables.

Border Force officials found the cannabis in

tape-wrapped compressed packages within boxes on the flight from Accra on Monday.

After being seized the drug was taken under armed escort to a secure location, where it will be stored until it is incinerated.

Marc Owen, Heathrow Director for Border Force, said: “This was smuggling on an industrial scale. It is a significant quantity of cannabis, our biggest seizure of this kind

in several years at Heathrow.

“The fact we have stopped it reaching the streets of the UK will make a substantial dent in the profits of the criminals responsible.

“The international drug trade is a vile business that Border Force officers play a key part in disrupting.”

Officers are trying to discover the intended destination of the drugs. standard.co.uk

Lighthouse Assembly of God Church Senior Pastor: Isaac Takyi De-Graft Exclusive English Service: 8:00am - 10:00am School of the Light: 10:00am - 10:45am Exclusive Ghanaian Service : 10:45am - 1:00am Tuesday(Time with the Holy Spirit) 10:00 am-12:30 pm Wednesday(School of Ministry) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm -Torontonians Thursday(School of Ministry) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm - Bramptonians Friday(Time in His Presence) 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Every First Friday is Special Youth Service 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm Every Fouth Friday is Half Night Service: 9:00 pm - 12:30 am

THE APOSTLES' CONTINUATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (CANADA) North American Headquarters: 10 Belfield Road Toronto, Ont., M9W 1G1 Tel: 416-247-6629 Fax: 416-247-5308

NEW LOCATION: 42 Steinway Blvd. Unit 1&2 (Hwy 27/Steeles) Toronto, Ontario, M9W 6Y6

Tel: 416-740-1200 Fax: 416-740-6435 Email:

lighthouse@lighthouseag.caWebsite: http:/www/lighthouseag.ca

Power of Grace Chapel Int'l Invites all Christians, Non-Christians and members of the Resurrection Power Tradition to join us worship the Great Jehovah

Place of Worship:

350 Deerhide Cres, North York, ON

Apostle Charles Anokye-Manu

Website: www.apostlescontinuation.org

SERVICE TIMES: Worship Service - Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Bible Studies - Wednesday 7:00 p.m.

All Night Service - Friday 9:30 p.m.

Deliverance - Saturday 4:00 p.m.

Worship With Us At These Branches In Canada

Toronto Sunday Wednesday Friday

Rev. Joe Bonnah Days And Time of Worship - Divine Worship - 10a.m. - 1p.m. Pastor-in-charge - Bible Studies - 7p.m. - 9p.m.

- Prayer / Deliverance - 7p.m. - 10p.m.

Contact Lines: Tel: 416-321-2796 (Pastor's Res) 289-981-1547 (Church)

Cell: 647-921-2414

10 Belfield Road Tel: 416-247-6629 Scarborough Assembly 1632 Midland Ave., M1P 1C2 Tel: 416-288-1333 Pastor In-Charge: Pastor Patrick Antwi Contact: 647-402-4708

Montreal Assembly 378 Cremazie East Montreal, Quebec, H2P 1E5 Tel: 514-271-9083 Pastor-In-Charge: John Arhin Contact: 514-274-2978

Immanuel Assembly of God

Praise Temple of Christ International

Church, Scarborough

Snr. Pastor: Apostle Osei-Bonsu

Sunday School: Church Service:

9:30am -10:30am 10:30am - 12 noon

There will be devotion each morning or evening from Monday to Friday on line 6:00 am to 7:00 am or 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Rev. Douglas O. Ansah Pastor-in-charge

Online telephone # 647-722-5570.

Access code: 226688# or 124488#

LOCATION Don Montgomery Community Centre 2467 Eglinton Ave. E. Scarborough, Ont., (Kennedy/Eglinton Subway Station) For more info contact:

647-880-4216

336 Gary Ray Drive @ Signet Worship Schedule Sunday Worship - 10 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday - Bible Study - 7 pm - 9 pm Friday - Prayer Meeting - 8 pm - 10 pm Second and last Friday of each month All Night Prayer Meeting 8 pm - 12 midnight

For information call: Apostle - 647-330-3346 (cell) or 905-216-5733 (Res) Emmanuel - 647-701-1912 (cell)

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45 seats drama... Britain sets mark for EC At a time the political map of Ghana is being re-draw in an exercise that many have criticized as a clear case of gerrymandering with the inclusion of 45 additional seats in Parliament barely two months to elections, Her majesty’s Great Britain has served notice that it intends to reduce the number of Parliamentary seats in the nation. The people would vote on it in two years time, before becoming operational.

Unlike the obvious abuse of the Parliamentary process currently taking place in Ghana, where Members of Parliament have been called from their constituency duties just to while away in the house, and ensure that there is a semblance of Parliament duties for 21 days in order for the Constitutional instrument to mature, in Britain, the Boundary Commission, the independent body in charge of drawing the political map of Britain, has given a two-year noEugene Kotey, Clerk of Session - 905-502-7875, Jennifer Agbanti, Treasurer - 905-908-2152 tice before the vote on reducing the number of seats takes place.

Britain has a population of 62, 641, 000 and a total of

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N ew Co venant Bap tis Cov Baptis tistt Chur c h of T or ont o Tor oront onto Churc P.O. Box 12514, Etobicoke, ON. M9R 4C7

Minister -in-charge: Rev. John Adedapo Have you missed the Sunday morning Service?

You have not missed it all - your blessing has not eluded you.

Join us for spirit-filled and powerful ministration on: 1.

Sunday Evening Sunday School Worship Service

4 pm - 7 pm 4 pm - 5 pm 5 pm - 7 pm

2. Friday All Night Prayer Vigil (12 midnight - 3:00 am) Venue: Kipling Avenue Baptist Church (lower auditorium) 2240 Kipling Avenue, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9W 4L4

and Ian Duncan Smith, Work and Pension Secretary, who would be forced to oust MPs from their parties to save their careers. Judging by the proposal, their constituencies would split up.

“The exercise is being carried out by the Boundary Commission, and aims to equalize the size of constituencies. It will also reduce the number of MPs across Britain by 50”.

Every constituency, apart from two specified exception, will have an electorate that is no smaller than 72,810, and no larger than 80, 473.

These landmark proposals were published on Monday September 12, 2011, and are scheduled to be voted upon in two years time.

In Ghana, where there is no quota for the electorate of constituencies, some members Parliament represent less than 20,000 electorates, while others have huge numbers to cater for.

In Britain, the Boundary Commission’s blue-print, according to the Times’ newspaper, has generated a number of complaints from MPs, including Cabinet Ministers such as George Osborne, the Chancellor of Exchequer (Finance Minister), Ken Clarke, Justice Secretary,

This is a far cry from the Ghanaian experience, which is to add 45 seats, to bring the total representation in Parliament to 275, for a population of 24 million. The rush, with which the exercise is being undertaken in Ghana, political analysts have warned, could be a recipe for disaster.

It is almost certain that the maturity of the CI.78, in whatever version, would be too late for the Electoral Commission to capture all candidates accurately for the 2012 vote on December 7. The District Assembly elections of 2010 had many problems, because the Legislative Instrument was late to Parliament and was passes late.

The Chronicle

New Light Chapel International 190 BOVAIRD DRIVE, UNIT 12 @ HWY 10, BRAMPTON You have been to Calvary for pardon, but you have not been to Pentecost for power.

We invite you to worship with us and experience the Pentecostal power in your life.

WORSHIP SCHEDULE. Sunday - Divine Worship 10am- 12pm Wednesday - Bible Study 7pm - 10pm (Call ahead) Rev. Kwaku Asare Friday Prayer Meeting 7pm - 10pm (Call ahead) For information call: Rev. Kwaku Asare

905-654-7364, 905-840-2012, 416-270-6822

Transformation Centre Assembly of God Church, Missisauga Join us on Sundays for worship at: Venue: Meadowvale Community Centre, Mississauga

Address: 6655 Glen Erin Drive Main Intersection: Glen Erin Drive and Aquitaine Avenue Room: Youth and Seniors

Contact Us:

Tel: 416-900-3945 -

650 seats in Parliament, popularly referred to as the House of Commons.

The Times of London published a report on Tuesday, September 13, about a new political map of Great Britain.

Church office

Time: 3.00PM-6.00PM

416-312-1218, 416-262-4570 Email: ncbcoftoronto@gmail.com Website: www.newcovenantbaptistchurch.ca JESUS says, "Come and see" John 1:39 Your miracle is awaiting your presence at the service.

Contact: Pastor Isaac K. Bonful Tel: 289-997-7186 Email: transformcentreag@yahoo.ca "...Be transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2a

Priest-in-charge:

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Christian Hope Ministry Int'l

1716 Lawrence Avenue West (Jane & Lawrence)

Apostle-in-charge: Apostle Twumasi Ankrah

Sunday: Bible Study Sunday Worship Wednesday: Teaching/Prayer Thursday: Prayer Meeting Friday: Prayer Meeting Saturday: Group Meetings

Tel: 647-344-6726 Cell: 416-200-2453 TIME OF WORSHIP: Sunday 10:30 am - 1:30 pm Tuesday 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Apostle Twumasi Ankrah

1177 Finch Dr. #20, North York

"And these signs will follow those who believe, in My Name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents, and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them, they will lay hands on the sick , and they will recover. Amen (Mark 16:17)

"COME AND EXPERIENCE THE POWER OF GOD"

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GHANAIAN ANGLICAN CHURCH OF TORONTO

Invites You All To Come Worship With Us

VENUE:

September 2012

Rev. Fr. Gabriel Opoku Ware Priest-in-charge

416-901-3932 Cell: 647-624-4044

- 2pm-3:00pm - 3pm-5:00pm - 7pm-9:00pm -10am-12noon - 7pm-9:00pm - 3pm-7:30pm

Bro. S.H. Morris(People's Warden) -905-792-9761 Sis. Monica Akrofi(Priest's Warden)-416-748-8246 Sis. Beatrice Asare(Secretary) -416-745-8148

Welcome Home

Gospel Action Ministry

Evangelistic Ministries

Location: 135 Oakdale Rd. (Back door)

Affiliated with the Evangelical Church In Canada

Snr. Pastor & Founder: Evang. & Prophetess Winnie Manu BRE, M. Div.

Senior Pastor: Rev. Peter Awuah

Worship Celebration Services

Tel: 416-836-9235, 416-667-8637

Sunday Worship Celebration: 10 a.m.

Friday Prayer Meeting / Discipleship Group: 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Last Sunday of Every Month: Healing Service

Rev. Peter Awuah

Service Schedule Sunday: Church Service 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm Tuesday: Prayer Meeting 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Friday: Bible/Prayer Meeting 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Last Friday of the month: All Night Prayer Meeting 11:00 pm

Living Praise Ministries Int'l Church We are a diverse group of individuals who come together to build a church based upon a common foundation in Christ Jesus Pastor Sam & Helena Addai Pastor Elvis & Sonia Henry Our Services Friday: 7:30 p.m. Healing and Deliverance Service Sunday: 10:30 a.m. - Intercessory Prayer 10:00 a.m. - Worship Team 12:00 noon - Sunday Sch., children 3-13 yrs.

Weekly Spiritual Growth Tuesday: Bible Study, 7:00 p.m. at the church Friday: Youth Ministry, 7:30 p.m. at the church Pastor Sam Addai Friday: Prayer and Revival Service, 7:30 p.m. at the church Tuesday: Anointing Today, 7:30 a.m. on Vision TV (61) First Friday of each month: Midnight Prayer Meetings 11p.m.to1 a.m.

Tel: 613-228-2189,

1-800-973-2189

1877 Merivale Road, Ottawa, Ontario, K2O 1Y8

Ghanaian Congregation

St. John's Anglican Church VENUE: 2125 WESTON RD., WESTON ONT.

Place of Worship 236 Queen Mary Drive Brampton, ON L7A 3L3

Contact Info: Tel: 647 210 7057

Glory Pentecostal Ministry of Toronto Pastor-in-charge: Rev. Rockson Owusu Atwima Elder Moses Frimpong

WORSHIP SCHEDULE Sunday Regular Service 11:00 am to 1:30 pm Tuesday Prayer and Healing Service 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Friday Prayer Night 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm

PLACE OF WORSHIP 230 Eddystone Ave., #207, North York, Ont. M3N 1H7 We are more tan our conquerors Romans 8:37 "Come and see the manifestation and the power of the Holy Spirit at work"

DIVINE DESTINY CHAPEL INTERNA TIONAL INTERNATIONAL Come And Be Empowered To Take Hold Of Your Destiny Invites You To Come And Worship With Us As We Exalt The Name Of Our Lord

Rev. Fr. Jojo Eduam Entsiwah, Associate Priest 647-400-7055

Place of Worship:

Sunday: Bible Study - 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Regular Service: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm -

647-859-9922 647-891-4211 647-403-6385 647-774-0747

416-708-7742 905-673-7237

Invites all Christians and Non-Christians to join us to worship the Almighty God

Priest-in-charge: Rev. Michelle Childs-Ward , Incumbent 647-234-8229

Isaac Aborah-Sei Daniel Oteng Evans Ackah Dwomoh Abebrese

Fax: 905 495 4789

Website: www.whemtoday .org Email: info@whemtoday.org Healing Service: Last Sunday of every month at Cheyne Middle School. 236 Queen Mary Dr. Brampton.

Pastor Koff Otten Duncan

Tel:

807 Arrow Rd. Sunday Service: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Wednesday Service: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

For more info. contact: 416-717-2291 Email:divinedestinychapel@gmail.com

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Around the Ghana Sports Scene

with Jonathan Annobil

Statue of Zidane Headbutting unveiled in Paris

Albert Adomah praises his devastating form

Six years after French football legend Zinedine Zidane was ejected from the 2006 World Cup championships for headbutting another player, the infamous moment has been immortalised in the form of a bronze statue in the heart of the French capital.

It was a moment that France will never forget.

In the 110th minute of the 2006 World Cup final between France and Italy, Les Bleus captain Zinedine Zidane headbutted Italian defender Marco Materazzi.

Zidane was ejected from

the game, France lost and a nation was left heartbroken.

Now the infamous move has been immortalised in the form of a massive bronze statue on exhibit outside of Paris’ world famous Pompidou centre.

Five star Ghana keep hopes alive Ghana’s dream of reaching the quarter-finals of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup for the first time were kept alive as they cruised to a 5-0 win over Uruguay at Baku’s Bavil Stadium.

Having never made it past the group stage in two attempts, the Africans were eager to assert their dominance over Uruguay, which they did from the very first minute. After a succession of chances in the opening stages, they broke the deadlock as early as the eight minute when Jane Ayieyam headed home Sherifatu Sumaila’s corner.

Although the pace slack-

ened after the deadlock was broken, Ghana never lost control and doubled their advantage in the 24th minute when Priscilla Okyere headed home from the edge of the box.

Ghana made it three on the stroke of half-time when Regina Antwi’s ball found Alberta Aialey on the edge of the box. Anabel Ubal rushed off her line to claim the ball from Aialey’s feet, but the ball slipped from her grasp and the forward was handed a simple opportunity to score.

Two goals in as many minutes completed the rout in the second half against a tiring Uruguay. Fatima

AlHassan made it four in the 78th minute and 60 seconds later Okyere scored her second of the game.

Ghana will now be hoping for a positive result from their final game against China in Baku on Sunday to ensure their progression to the last eight.

The quote “This match was very important for us. The win has put us in a good position to qualify for the next round - we needed to win at all costs. I am happy that my girls won, but I think there are still some things that need to be done.” Ma-Ud Dramani, Ghana coach

Ghana U-20 coach Konadu warns against complacency Coach Maxwell Konadu insists the Ghana U-20 team can still get eliminated by Morocco despite holding a healthy first leg advantage.

The Black Satellites were 4 1 winners over Morocco in the first leg match of the African Youth Championship qualifier played last weekend in Tamale.

The resounding win has seen many already talking of Algeria 2013 even before the return leg match is played in Rabat.

But Konadu who was brought in as interim coach of the side says it is too early to get corky despite holding a good cushion going into the away encounter.

“Everything is possible in football and therefore it is important to remain focusbecause the work is not yet done,” he told GHANAsoccernet.com.

“They (Morocco) played the game here and we did the scoring so if the same should happen in their

home and the start scoring what will then happen.

“We therefore don’t have to be complacent and we must go there and fight and show that we want to qualify and not them.”

The Black Satellites have been struggling to regain its spark that made them World Champions in 2009.

The team is currently camping at the Ghanaman Soccer School of Excellence ahead of their trip to Rabat for the second leg.

Ghana winger Albert Adomah believes he has returned to his best form for Bristol City in the English Npower Championship.

The 24-year-old Londonborn has been impressive for the Robins in an early season scoring twice and providing three assists in six league starts.

Adomah is in confident mood and is hoping to continue help City’s good form against Leeds United on Saturday.

“I’m playing with confidence and I think I’m back to my best,” He told Bristol City Player.

“It doesn’t matter how the team are doing, but when I get the ball it’s up to me how I perform.

“I know we have only played seven games, but at the moment the table is pleasant to look at.”

Leeds United travel to the Ashton Gate Stadium on Saturday on the back of their impressive backto-back wins against

Nottingham Forest in the League and Everton in the Capital One Cup on Tuesday but Adomah who has two Ghanacaps believes City can stop them in their tracks.

“They’re going to be high in confidence after beating Everton in the Capital One Cup.” “However, we have been good at home this season.

We will be looking to show them what we are all about on Saturday.”

Delta Airlines embarass Azuma Nelson Ghana boxing legend Azumah Nelson suffered an embarrassing humiliation at the Kotoko International Airport on Thursday night when he was reprehensibly refused entry to board a Delta Airline flight to the United States.

The iconic Ghanaian figure was travelling to the States to attend an important gathering of exWBC Super featherweight greats for a big charity event scheduled for Saturday September 29 in Las Vegas.

Azumah is reported to have been involved in a minor accident enroute to the airport due to the heavy downpour but managed to arrive at the airport for check-in at 8:20pm.

But the duty manager at the airlines, Vicky Von Williams who insisted the legend and his spokesperson were ten minutes late, prevented them from boarding the flight claiming their time for checkin had passed.

Eyewitnesses say Azumah and his spokesperson were shabbily treated by madam Williams but she shockingly allowed some expatriates who had arrived much later to check-in and boarded the same flight which was due for fly at

10:10pm.

The discriminating posture from the duty manager is reported to have angered some personnel at the airport who were obviously surprised at the way the Ghanaian legend was being treated.

Questions are being asked if airlines do not have graced periods for checkin and whether there are no provisions for emergency cases.

The latest incident has reignited talks of the poor business-customer relation that has rocked some of the airline companies operating in the country.

Many of such companies that operate in the Aviation industry have been accused for taking passengers for a ‘ride ‘and making the business environment hostile and the ‘undignified’ manner in which one of the country’s finest was treated is just one of such episodes that occur on daily basis.

The three-time world champion is expected to join other boxing greats including Mike Tyson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Lennox Lewis, Jeff Fenech, Larry Holmes, Ken Norton, Tommy Hearns, Roberto Duran, Julio Cesar Chavez, Oscar De La Hoya and

George Foreman for the ground-breaking fundraising event in Las Vegas on Saturday.

WBC and world renowned Swiss luxury watchmaker Hublot are organizing this legendary night at the prestigious opulent Bellagio Hotel.

This spectacular, starstudded event is aimed to celebrate and support the inauguration of the WBC Pension Fund.

This one-time event will unite 12 of the greatest boxing legends, not to fight in the ring, but to battle for the needs of their constituents.

Twelve elegant and highly coveted unique watches, each of which commemorates the world’s 12 greatest boxers to grace the ring will be auctioned

by Bonhams for WBC Pension Fund that evening.

The 12 winning bidders will receive their watch from the fighter himself on a staged ring set surrounded by more than 300 guests.

All proceeds from the sale of each watch will support WBC’s charitable initiative, which includes a retired boxer’s pension and emergency fund in more than 40 countries around the world.

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