Now is the time at SDA when we get the rest of the story!
CBC, October 2012…
In November, The U of R maintains …
…both students are in good academic standing and are eligible to enrol for classes.
University spokeswoman Barb Pollock also told the Leader-Post last week the U of R has co-operated in giving immigration officials whatever information it can.
“We have been asking to discuss this issue with the government and we have not been successful,” she said at the time.
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The U of R rejected her appeal in a letter dated May 31st, 2011 and there’s no evidence a subsequent appeal was initiated or successful.
So he got bounced out of U of R in 2011, and is still here, working on a “student” visa? Wonder if he ever seriously intended to seek a degree, or was it a scam from the get-go? Somebody needs to get his picture, go find his classmates, and see if anybody recognizes him.
Question: why do we need foreign students coming here to take Arts Faculty courses, like languages, that are surely available in the students’ home countries, or at a multitude of preferred destinations? If I were a good, serious student, why would I seek a degree from a university in some podunk provincial capital, in say, Brazil, when I could do it in Rio or Sao Paulo? If the guy were seeking an Ag degree, U of R might be just fine.
Small Dead Animals, doing the job “the Legacy media” refuses/fails to do! Thanks so much.
She.
To be fair, She had to sit out two semesters according to the letter, which would be Fall 2011, Spring 2012, so she might have been eligible, and in “good academic standing” by fall 2012.
Not sure why she’d be allowed just to hang out, probably on the dole here in the mean time.
An arts degree? She might as well stay at Walmart.
I think the issue here is their degree is in Walmart studies. They are here on a student visa but actually (probably) working; likely why they failed out and are no longer students. But the CBC, of course, rely on their honesty because why would why would anyone ever try to scam the immigration system?
Ah yes, our tax dollars at work, it’s so warm an fuzzy eh?
Is this an SDA exclusive?
d_abes:
She may have been eligible in fall 2012, but certainly she would not have been in good academic standing until she had been re-admitted (not guaranteed) and after readmission she actually had successfully met academic standards, which will take at least one semester of course completions and grades that met the minimum standard.
So is Tom Lukiwski ignorant or lying? No you silly children, he is just helping potential constituents defend themselves against the rampant racism of his own government, the one I voted for. When is his nomination meeting coming up? I guess in a couple years.
Deport, Deport, Deport!!!!!!!!
Offer the Third World a chance to better their lives and the first thing they do is break our laws.
Whatever the facts may be, a good general principle is: never trust a senior university administrator, or spokesperson for same.
They are the lowest of the low (I say with 51 years experience of same). They make Women’s Studies faculty look good.
Yeah, those freeloaders, going out and getting jobs and all, look at them milk the system!!
Maybe if some of you had the life experiences these people did, you could better understand why they would come here. They came, they went to school, it was hard (probably due in part to poor education standards in Nigeria and language/cultural differences), so they sucked and got kicked out for two semesters and then went and got jobs to hold themselves over till they could reapply. Oh and a BA may be worth little here, but it probably puts you at the front of the labor market back in Africa.
Why is everyone out for blood? Show some humanity for Chr@#st’s sake.
Tim —
I do show some humanity, for Christ’s sake (in the best sense of the word).
Dunno about Canada, but here in the USA, people who are here “illegally” have fewer rights than slaves. They fall into an area of the law that is a horrible grey area, where whatever laws might cover them aren’t available ’cause of fear of deportation. The results are predictable.
Activists of any country that encourage people to stay illegally are doing them more harm than good, with the potential for some really awful things to happen.
Scar – I think you’ve misread the Lukowski link.
As if you believe in Christ?
Blah blah blah, write them a cheque Tim, you hypocrite POS.
Better yet get in your car and go bring them to your house and give them room and board. Are people that are forced to pay for these two dummies while trying to save for their own or their children’s college funds any less a part of humanity than you are?
Otherwise you’re just an intolerant ignorant self absorbed grand-standing marxist leftard lecturing the people that you’re not smart enough to tell what to do.
Tim “Why is everyone out for blood? Show some humanity for Chr@#st’s sake.”
Since they are such good immigrants, they could do well making Nigeria a better society. There are 35 million of us and 150 million Nigerians. Unless the rate of immigration is controlled, we will end up a crap-hole like Nigeria and nothing will be accomplished. Why can’t a student visa simply be a student visa? When you screw up you go home.
Kate “Scar – I think you’ve misread the Lukowski link.”
On re-reading you are probably right. The wish and the wash confused me.
If they were European white foreign students they’d have been out on their ear and not a peep would be heard.
BTW Is there such a thing as “white foreign students” in Canada (honest question)?
Scar nailed it, if these people are so voluble to their dilapidated countries why are we falling over ourselves to take them away. How can any third world country thrive if we continually take their “best and brightest” away?
Expect more of this. The U of R has a legion of highly-paid administrators scouring the planet in search of those with the qualifications to enroll: money. Foreign students pay three times the tuition fees of residents. Many are functionally illiterate in English.
This is what is known as “fraud”.
She could not even maintain the standards set for a An Arts Degree?
Foreign students to canadian universities usually pay the full cost of their education, there’s the good reason that these canadian universities seek out these students. The U of R charges $3500. per semester for language training in its ESL section, a part of the Language Institute.
Gordinkneehill, the U of R doesn’t have an agriculture faculty, being from Regina originally, I always felt they were primarily a social sciences Uni, and social work. Lots and lots of social worker types.
Agri would at least be useful. PFRA had/has a field directly south east of the campus, it’s not like the U of R doesn’t know it.
Perhaps the student in question could request refugee status if she’s from the northern part of Nigeria, it’s full to the brim with islamists blowing up churches and the like. I know in other countries around the world, when someone doesn’t behave according to their visa requirements, they often take you to jail, and then the airport the next day.
The Ad-Hum building where this was videoed seems cleaned up, I’m surprised they didn’t have any “workers of the world unite” posters. They used to, really.
The CBC building, (which is really quite a nice looking building) is about a 1-2 minutes drive north of the U of R. And directly beside the old U of R campus. So they’re the U of R experts. Likely on a first name basis with many of the faculty.
poor Tim
didn’t realize the term “taking the Lord’s name in vain”
mayhap some education for him.
As for CBCpravda , I would expect an apology. Not
These two students aren’t even the tip of the tip of the iceberg in this situation. Just ask anyone at SGI’s Drivers Licence registry. These people come in to apply for a licence and when asked for proof of residence they automatically show a paystub from Walmart etc. even though they aren’t legally allowed to work. SGI staff are basically told to mind their own business and take the application.
These two students aren’t even the tip of the tip of the iceberg in this situation. Just ask anyone at SGI’s Drivers Licence registry. These people come in to apply for a licence and when asked for proof of residence they automatically show a paystub from Walmart etc. even though they aren’t legally allowed to work. SGI staff are basically told to mind their own business and take the application.
Thanks for the insight, marc in Calgary. Yeah, I knew vaguely that U of S is Saskatoon is the “good” university there.
My position is simple: Canadian Universities should not be taking in vast numbers of foreign students for “feel-good” programs, even if it is lucrative. But I have no problem with foreign students coming here to learn substantive subjects, like science and engineering, or agriculture and medicine, even if we pay some of the freight. Chalk it up to foreign aid. Foreign aid in which the bulk of the money is spent at home. But those students have to commit to take their newly-minted degree and go home with it, and put it to use in the betterment of their country.
Student visas should not be used as means of scamming the immigration system.
John Lewis wrote: “… a good general principle is: never trust a senior university administrator, or spokesperson for same. They are the lowest of the low. … They make Women’s Studies faculty look good.”
Actually, many of them came from the faculty in Women’s Studies (and worse).
Alan “She could not even maintain the standards set for a An Arts Degree?”
What? No pulse?
OMG! Break the law but argue the law was unjust. give me a frikkin break. He who pays the piper calls the tunes or more bluntly, it’s the law here so suck it up buttercup or find some other place that will take your sorry indifferent-to-the-law ass.
We are inundated with immigrants.
The last thing we need is one more immigrant.
We’re maxed out on you guys. No more please.
And to all you wannabe immigrants how about you stay home and fix your own damn country.
To the critics of our immigration policy that requires one to obey our immigration laws if they want to stay here I have to point out that there are foreigners that come here and obey these same laws.
Are you really suggesting that they lose out so that the ones that want to skirt the law can jump the cue and get a free pass to full citizenship?
If there are those that cannot obey our laws while here on a student visa, what makes you think they will respect and obey our laws after they are allowed to stay?
If we let these in then whats to stop another thousand from doing the same thing….the law is the law.