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She arrived in Nova Scotia legally in 2000 to work at the Pearson PeaceKeeping Centre in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.

They don't allow one Kosovo Serb woman, who arrived legally, and has genuine reason to fear returning to Kosovo, to stay while plenty of thuggish Muslim men get to stay. Surely some other country will take her in. Don't you think at least Russia would?

That's what happens when you and everyone you know have all been dispossessed by The Powers That Be. As a person from a colonial satrapy/protectorate, you lose your citizenship rights globally, as well as locally. There's no one to stand up for you -- not the imperial viceroy, nor anyone in the colonial administration.

But, just as was the case in 1998, the big picture tells you that the fundamental issues here are not about justice, but economics.

Nebojsa Malic on antiwar.com has a good post today... 550 million barrels of oil in Bosnia... mostly in teh Serb part.

and they've known about them for years.

They don't allow one Kosovo Serb woman, who arrived legally, and has genuine reason to fear returning to Kosovo, to stay while plenty of thuggish Muslim men get to stay.

I could be wrong here but I think the sacred cow of Canadian immigration policy is that you cannot change your status while in the country.

It happened to a friend of mine who had a teaching secondment up there and liked it so much that he decided to apply for permanent residency. He had to first leave the country and apply to an embassy abroad. They actually admitted him and once he had his papers he asked why this runaround and they told him that this prevents people from applying for a work visa and then trying to establish a fait d'accompli. He asked what if someone had a genuine reason and they said that it would take a hord of bureaucrats sorting through all the justified and unjustified cases and that you don't need to return to your home country to apply. That is in this case, the lady could have gone to Bulgaria or Greece and applied to the embassy there. Of course, I don't know if these countries allow you entry without a visa. I don't think she would have been allowed into the US to apply from here.