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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday that his government will invest $9 billion in General Motors of Canada Ltd. to keep it alive amid harsh criticism that the unpopular bailout will end up costing Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars for each assembly-line job saved...
Greenfeld is the author of Boy Alone: A Brother's Memoir (Harper), from which this article is adapted...
...refugees have signed up for the UNHCR's own programs offering financial assistance and subsidized transportation for those wanting to return. Many of those who do go back don't inform the U.N. unit, for fear of being taken off its refugee register. "They want to keep options open," Harper says. (See pictures of the Iraqi man whose job is to bury Baghdad's unclaimed dead...
...UNHCR also warned that the provinces of Baghdad, Diyala, Kirkuk, Nineveh and Salahuddin are still very dangerous. Those provinces account for the vast majority of the refugees. Indeed, three-fourths of all refugees are from the capital alone. "It's is the epicenter of the whole displacement," says Harper. As a result, bombings in Baghdad resonate across the refugee community. (See pictures of the renewal of the southern city of Basra...
...like the southern provinces, the UNHCR says some people remain vulnerable for reasons of religious, ethnic or professional affiliation, or sexual orientation. These include government officials and aid workers, journalists, those who have worked with multinational forces and foreign companies, and homosexuals. "It is a very fragile situation," says Harper...