Canada plans to restore voting rights for long-term expats

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November 22nd, 2016

Canada plans to restore voting rights for long-term expats

BBC
Ottawa is introducing legislation to allow expats who have been living outside Canada for more than five years to vote in federal elections,

Two Canadians living in the US have been fighting for the right to vote after learning they were ineligible to cast ballots in the 2011 general election.
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How Canadian and US expats celebrate Thanksgiving in Japan

Boing Boing
My wife Carla is executive editor of Tofugu, a very cool website about Japan. She just wrote an article about how USans and Canadians living in Japan celebrate Thanksgiving. She interviewed five people (a few are Boing Boing readers who responded to a request to be interviewed) and they told her how they managed to have a nice dinner in a country where turkeys are relatively rare.
Read more here

An Expatriate’s Nostalgia

Macau Daily Times
It was November 1995. We were relaxing after dinner, probably watching television, when the door-bell rang. In waltzed a close friend, beaming. He’d just left his wife safely tucked up in bed in the maternity wing of a private hospital, a fifteen-minute drive down the road. Their first child, a sweet cherub of a baby girl, had been born.

Parliament of Canada Petition to Reinstate Citizenship for Children Born Abroad

The Canadian Expat
James Emery, working with The Canadian Expat has created a Parliament of Canada petition that has been sponsored by Jenny Kwan MP for Vancouver East. The petition essentially requests that the Government of Canada works to restore citizenship to children of Canadians born abroad.
Read and Sign the Petition here

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Expats in Barcelona Are the Happiest

Huffington Post
Madrid is the third-best city to live abroad according to previously unreleased data from the third annual InterNations Expat Insider 2016 survey. With more than 14,000 respondents, it is one of the most extensive studies ever conducted to explore the general living situation of expatriates.

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Canadian Chamber in Korea to Hold Business Session

The Korea Times

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Korea (CanCham Korea) will host a breakfast session titled "Business without Borders" at the Grand Hyatt Seoul, Dec. 9.
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