News for October 9yh, 2015

A butterfly house that will be added to the $23 million Insectarium makeover.  It is set to close in 2018, shortly after the Montreal's 375th anniversary.

 

National
by Pauline Nesbitt

The Canadian government had suspended the processing of Syrian refugee applications with no links to Canadian communities or organizations, earlier this year.

According to CTV News, insiders in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration claim that the government had used this move to garner votes from church groups and communities that had applied for Syrian refugees.  In particular, applications from Shia and Sunni Muslims were being discouraged.  However, the government denied this claim and stated that the processing of all applications was suspended while an audit to protect public security was performed.

Conservative Candidate and Transport Minister, Lisa Raitt, stated that the purpose of the audit was to identify the most vulnerable refugee applicants and to ensure that the appropriate security considerations were applied.

Following this revelation, the Conservatives have pledged to speed up the processing of Syrian refugee applications and have set a resettlement target of 10,000 by September 2016.

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported their first week with no new cases of Ebola since 2014.
 

International
by Patricia Petit-Liang

Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have reported their first week with no new cases of Ebola since 2014

According to CBC News, 11 000 people have lost their lives to the disease in what was the worst outbreak of Ebola in all of human history.

Despite this hopeful news, the World Health Organization claims that there is still a possibility of the disease breaking out again.