Child of Immigrants may have unlocked key to cancer cure

Angela Zhang, is a seventeen year old girl with big ideas. Her ideas are so big that she might change the world of medicine if all goes well because Angela feels she has found a cure for cancer.
Child of Chinese immigrants to the USA Angela began researching a cure for cancer in her spare time. She started reading research by top scientists and faced the challenge of decoding their theories which she did then formulate her own.
Her research was considered to be top-notch by some of the biggest universities in the USA. She won $100,000 for her effort. Reports say that Angela promptly rushed out and bought herself several pairs of shoes like any typical teenager girl but that where it ends. She appears to be unto something huge. Imagine if her idea turns out to be the cure the impact she would have made on mankind's march to conquer the big C which so far no one has been able to do even though the millions collected for cancer research we are still far away from a cure.
Angela's idea was to mix cancer medicine in a polymer that would attach to nanoparticles -- nanoparticles that would then attach to cancer cells and show up on an MRI. so doctors could see exactly where the tumors are. Then she thought shat if you aimed an infrared light at the tumors to melt the polymer and release the medicine, thus killing the cancer cells while leaving healthy cells completely unharmed
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/angela-zhang-high-school-_n_1207177.html

Immigrant Women needs Gender Equality

Around the world, gender equality is the most prevalent issue women face, says Almas Jiwani, president of the National Committee of United Nations Women Canada. “Gender equality is not universal.”    UN statistics show women bear the burden of most of the world’s poverty, they are still underpaid compared to men, hold fewer leadership positions, and suffer more often as victims of violence and systemic discrimination.
And when women come to communities like Hamilton from places where equality is nonexistent — even as a concept — it is our job to educate them that equality is something we reach for here.
“They don’t know what gender equality means,” says Jiwani. “So it is crucial to help women navigate their new lives in Canada, even if they perceive gender equality on different terms than most Canadians.”
Jiwani, who lives in Mississauga, will be speaking in Hamilton, at 2011 event to mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day. She says she is aware of the recent bankruptcy of the Settlement and Integration Services Organization and she hopes other agencies step in quickly to fill the gaps.
“I think that raising awareness of the resources and services available is crucial for successful integration of newly arrived women in Canada,” she says. “Service providers have an important role to play in this. They all need to work together to support public education campaigns to increase awareness of the services available for new immigrants.”
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/496825--immigrant-women-need-to-learn-about-gender-equality

Websites of interest to immigrants

This website gives current information  on the latest breaking news on Canadian Immigration!  I encourage you to check it out every now and then. Let your voice be heard.
http://www.cicnews.com/

Canadian Immigration news - has information about visas, employment, business opportunities
http://www.migrationexpert.com/canada/visa/canadian_immigration_news.asp

Lobby Group pushes for immediate landed immigrant status for foreign workers

In 1986 120,074 temporary foreign workers were in the country, by the year 2000 this increased to 177,781 and by 2010 the number increased to 432,682. That is a 140 percent increase during the 2000s alone.

The proposal, in reaction to statistics like this, and the practical implications of having so many temporary foreign workers here that are not given the rights and responsibilities of permanent residents, is being made by the Fort St. John’s chamber of commerce in British Columbia.
As the CCPA indicates, temporary foreign workers are filling a wide spectrum of positions in Canada, ranging from university professors and similarly specialized professionals, to athletes and performing artists, to low-wage service workers.
According to ABN-CBCNews.com, a Filipino online news source, Mable Elmore, a member of the group making the proposal, said:
“Allowing temporary workers to come in and be granted landed status, that’s going to bring benefit to British Columbia, and also deal with the huge social cost that Filipino families suffer – long separation, difficulty to be brought back together.”
Elmore said the chamber of commerce hopes to propose legislation along the lines of accepting more people into Canada as permanent residents, not as temporary foreign workers, although there has been no indication that any such legislation is being officially considered currently.
Temporary workers are admitted on the condition that their employment does not impede that of Canadian citizens and permanent residents, or provides a significant benefit to Canada's economic or cultural wellbeing.