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UAE to charge Canadians for visas

OTTAWA — Canadians will have to pay up to $1,000 for visas to enter the United Arab Emirates, according to the country’s Ottawa embassy website.

While citizens of other western countries don’t have to pay to enter the UAE, Canadians, will be charged $1,000 for a six month visa.

Three-month visas will be $500 and one-month stays will cost Canadians $250. The fees go into effect on Jan. 2.

While the embassy’s website describes the UAE’s 35-year relationship with Canada as “strong” and “flourishing,” ties between the countries recently have become strained.

In October, a plane carrying Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Walter Natynczyk who were visiting Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, was refused entry into the country’s airspace.

The UAE government also evicted Canada’s troops from Camp Mirage, the not-so-secret Canadian base near Dubai, a move that was seen as retaliatory for the Canadian government’s refusal to grant two UAE.’s carriers — Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways — more flights into Canada.

Emiratis have already had to get visas before travelling to Canada, including $75 for a single entry visa and $150 for multiple entries.

The Harper government said it objected to linking access to a base used in the war on terror with the dispute over landing rights in Canada.

Air Canada and Transport Canada opposed granting further landing rights to Emirates and Etihad, which now each fly three times a week to Toronto.


While many feel the loss of Camp Mirage won’t affect Canada’s military operations in Kandahar, it will cost the Defence Department tens of millions of dollars in additional fuel costs to transport soldiers and cargo through much less conveniently located airports in Cyprus and in Germany.
 

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Dear Saki,

My brother is applying for New Brunswick.
Can you please suggest us, what will be the best suitable businesses for that area, as he is going to have his own business their.

Thank you for your good participate.
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Hossein arefi said:
Dear Saki,

My brother is applying for New Brunswick.
Can you please suggest us, what will be the best suitable businesses for that area, as he is going to have his own business their.

Thank you for your good participate.
Best regards,
Hi

I am not much aware of the area and not in a position to guide you. It will be better if you ask seniors members who are already in Canada like Qorax, PMM, Leon, explorer101 etc they are in better position to guide you.

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Canada job market not strong enough-TD

Canada, 7th January: Canada’s job market is not as strong as it appears, states the latest report from Toronto-Dominion Bank economists.


Canadian economy has, no doubt, recovered majority of the jobs lost during recession, but the job growth in the nation is still a far cry considering the underlying employment market weaknesses.

According to Sonya Gulati and Derek Burleton, economists with TD Bank, the conditions of employment market in Canada are not robust enough even though Canada has been successful in creating around 440,000 jobs since July 2009, and it has created around 350,000 jobs through November last year exceeding even the expected forecasts.

The economists maintain that the past year had been a good year in terms of job growth in Canada, but, not the best year. And this is especially true for the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia where the employment growth is a still to reach the pre-recession levels.

Moreover, the employment participation rate for the workers has not reached the peak levels before the onset of recession.

The rate of unemployment in Canada is still staying around 7.6 percent, the figures revealed by the Statistics Canada for the month of December state.

Presently, Canada has created more part-time jobs as compared to the full-time jobs. So, the result is that Canada is having higher number of part-time workers and self-employed workers than in October 2008, the report maintains.

Another fact that points out towards the weaker job market in Canada is that Canadians have been looking to get employed at low-paying jobs resulting in keeping the wages down. Also, majority of new jobs created in Canada have been in public sector apart from self-employment and the private sector is still lagging behind around 106,000 jobs created before the recession.

Meanwhile, the best performance in terms of employment creation in Canada has been witnessed in the provinces of Prince Edward Island, Quebec, B.C.(British Columbia), Manitoba and Newfoundland in the year 2010.

The other Canadian provinces had not witnessed any significant changes in the Canada job market, the report reiterates.

TD economists maintain that the weakness in the employment market in Ontario can be attributed to problems in the manufacturing sector.