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FIFA president Sepp Blatter hopes Nelson Mandela will be healthy enough to open the World Cup in South Africa.We cross fingers that Nelson Mandela ... can realize this dream. And his dream would be to be at the opening of the World Cup. For the time being, he is doing well and we hope that he can do it," Blatter said Friday at his last regular news conference before the tournament starts June 11 in Johannesburg. "It will be his World Cup."The former South African president, anti-Apartheid campaigner and Nobel Prize winner, now 91, made his last public appearance Feb.

Minorities to rise significantly by 2031: StatsCan

CBC News:  About one-third of Canada's population — up to 14.4 million people — will be a visible minority by 2031, Statistics Canada projects. The country's foreign-born population is also expected to rise to as much as 28 per cent, about four times faster than the rest of the population, the Statistics Canada study projects. The projections suggest that whites will become the minority in Toronto and Vancouver over the course of the next three decades. South Asians, including Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, are expected to make up the largest visible minority group, at 28 per cent, thanks in part to high fertility rates, the study projected.  The proportion of Chinese-Canadians, who have one of the lowest fertility rates in Canada, is expected to decrease from 24 to 21 per cent.  Visible minorities, as defined by the study, are "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour."

Link to the Statistics Canada report:

www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100309/dq100309a-eng.htm

Article from Maclean's accessed via EBSCOhost:

If you want to pass the test, study the textbook. Any teacher or student will tell you that. So it is with becoming a Canadian citizen.