“We are moving heaven and Earth to get them here as quickly as we can”.
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1st Week Bajirao Mastani Movie 7th Day Box Office Collection
According to industry buzz, the couple has flown off to Male, the Maldives capital, where they’ll spend Christmas and New Year. On its first Tuesday, Bajirao Mastani surpassed the collections of Dilwale at the domestic box office.
Mr. McCallum said that a total of 10,000 refugees will have been processed and awarded permanent-resident status by the end of the year, although he could not promise that all of them will have travelled to Canada by that point.
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Al Riyadh daily quoted a Civil Defence spokesman as saying that the agency was alerted of the fire at 2am (2300 GMT Wednesday). Jazan is near the border with Yemen, which has seen months of fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed forces.
The way the Syrian refugee crisis galvanized Canadians prompted news editors across the country to select it as Canada’s news story of the year for 2015.
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“We’ve asked DOT to close River Road and Needmore Road at the Macon County line where the river is flooding the road”. The NWS said the ground remains saturated from Wednesday’s widespread rain, leaving little room for additional water.
Together, Montreal and Toronto’s airports can support up to five 300-passenger flights a day, but McCallum says it’s impossible to predict what the day-to-day schedule will be over the next few days.
However, Mr. McCallum said there are no guarantees that the full capacity will be used.
Those factors include inclement flying weather, refugees wanting to say good by to friends and family before leaving and other circumstances.
However, McCallum said he is “confident” that Ottawa will meet its overall target to resettle refugees “well before” the end of February.
That deadline was pushed back to the end of February last month. McCallum held talks with both the Lebanese and Jordanian governments in which he reaffirmed Ottawa’s support for assisting and resettling refugees.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has used his Christmas address to urge fellow Canadians to warmly welcome Syrian refugees – even has his government admitted that it may not reach its own target of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year.
Instead, the government is planning a reduced number of flights between December 23 and December 31, and is refusing to provide a formal schedule.
As of December 17, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) had registered 633,466 Syrians in Jordan, another 1,070,189 in Lebanon, and 2,291,900 in Turkey.
Mr McCallum also toured development projects and refugee facilities during his two-day visit.
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McCallum said the girl and her brothers weren’t able to come to Canada at this time, but thousands more will.
