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Work in Canada (61)

Over 300,000 Temporary Foreign Workers Currently in Canada

Category: Work in Canada
Posted On Wednesday, 17 April 2013
As of December 1st, 2013, there were 338,189 temporary foreign workers in Canada. This number has increased significantly from 2005, when foreign work...
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Canadian Economy Creates over 40,000 New Jobs in December

Category: Work in Canada
Posted On Monday, 07 January 2013
The Canadian economy generated over 40,000 jobs in December 2012, according to the latest Labour Survey published by Statistics Canada. While a majori...
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Canadian Employers Look to Hire in Portugal

Category: Work in Canada
Posted On Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Canadian employers are hoping to hire approximately 400 Portuguese construction workers, according to details divulged by Albano Ribeiro, spokesperson...
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Expansion of Canada-Alberta Pilot Project

Category: Work in Canada
Posted On Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Employers in Alberta will soon be able to more easily hire skilled foreign workers in targeted professions. This is thanks to the expansion of the Can...
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Trade Unions and Oil Sands Industries Announce Agreement to Develop Skilled Work Force

Category: Work in Canada
Posted On Friday, 08 June 2012
Canada’s Building Trade Unions and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) have announced an agreement to develop a stronger skilled wo...
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Study in Canada (12)

2012 Breaks Records for Student Visa Issuances

Category: Study in Canada
Posted On Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Canada welcomed over 100,000 international students in 2012, the highest amount in the country’s history. The number was a 60% jump from intake levels...
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CIC Proposes Changes to International Student Program

Category: Study in Canada
Posted On Wednesday, 02 January 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has proposed changes to the International Student Program. These changes are intended to benefit students whi...
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Canada to accept more foreign students as permanent residents

Category: Study in Canada
Posted On Friday, 04 November 2011
The Government of Canada will be accepting up to 1,000 international PhD students as permanent residents through the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) prog...
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McGill University ranked best in Canada

Category: Study in Canada
Posted On Tuesday, 06 September 2011
According to the new QS World University Rankings, Montreal’s McGill University is the top-ranked university in the country. McGill moved up from 19th...
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More Indian students heading to Canadian universities

Category: Study in Canada
Posted On Tuesday, 23 August 2011
The University of Alberta recently announced that they are welcoming more Indian students than ever. Indian students seeking high-quality education at...
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Canada Economy (16)

For the First Time, Canadians are Wealthier than Americans

Category: Canada Economy
Posted On Thursday, 19 July 2012
A new study has revealed that median household income in Canada is now higher than in the United States....
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Canadian Economy Creates High-Paying Jobs

Category: Canada Economy
Posted On Monday, 16 July 2012
Since the beginning of 2012, Canada’s job growth has expanded to include a record number of high-quality positions. This is according to a report by t...
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Consultations to Begin for New "Start Up" Entrepreneur Visa

Category: Canada Economy
Posted On Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Canadian Immigration and Culture Minister, Jason Kenney, announced today that consultations have begun regarding the possible creation of a new progra...
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Best places for Canadian newcomers to work

Category: Canada Economy
Posted On Thursday, 15 March 2012
A list of the top 100 employers for immigrants to Canada has been announced by Mediacorp and published in the Globe and Mail. These employers were ra...
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Calgary boomtown for immigration

Category: Canada Economy
Posted On Friday, 06 January 2012
With the fastest growing immigrant population in Canada, and the country’s first Muslim mayor, Calgary is poised to reap the rewards of Alberta’s ener...
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Provincial Nominee Programs (58)

Federal and Provincial Governments Meet to Discuss Immigration

Posted On Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Immigration ministers from both federal and provincial/territorial governments met in Ottawa to discuss immigration matters....
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Nova Scotia Increases its Provincial Nominee Quota

Posted On Thursday, 15 November 2012
The Federal government has increased the number of Permanent Residents to be issued visas through the Nova Scotia Provincial Nominee Program (PNP). A ...
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Ontario Extends Backlog Reduction Deadlines

Posted On Friday, 04 May 2012
The Ontario Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) has extended its deadline for selected applicants to apply through the Federal Skilled Worker Backlog Red...
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Saskatchewan Seeks to Raise Provincial Nominee Limit

Posted On Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Government of Saskatchewan has appealed to Federal authorities for the right to raise the amount of immigrants the province receives each year....
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Language Testing to be Required for Some Provincial Nominees

Posted On Thursday, 12 April 2012
Speaking in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Minister of Immigration and Cultural Communities, Jason Kenney, stated that some applicants to Provincial Nomin...
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Federal Immigration (52)

Entrepreneur Start-Up Visa Launched April 1st

Posted On Monday, 01 April 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has launched an exciting new pilot, the Entrepreneur Start-Up Visa program, on April 1st 2013. The program, w...
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Federal Skilled Worker Program Will Include Occupation List

Posted On Monday, 04 March 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has officially announced that the new Federal Skilled Worker program will include a list of designated occupa...
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Canadian Experience Class is Fastest-Growing Immigration Program

Posted On Friday, 01 March 2013
The Canadian Experience Class (CEC) is Canada’s fastest growing immigration program, with over 9,353 visas issued in 2012. This exceeded the program’s...
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Overseas Orientation Program Graduates 20,000 Permanent Residents

Posted On Wednesday, 13 February 2013
The Canadian Immigrant Integration Program (CIIP), founded in 2010, recently celebrated the graduation of its 20,000th participant....
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BREAKING NEWS: Federal Skilled Worker Program Will Reopen in May

Posted On Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced that the new points system for the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) will take effect on Ma...
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Quebec Immigration (8)

Quebec employers no longer must recruit locally to hire foreign workers for range of jobs

Posted On Monday, 27 February 2012
While the Quebec Facilitated IT program came to an end on February 24th, the 7 affected professions are now part of a newly announced facilitated labo...
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Montreal best city in Canada for university students

Posted On Thursday, 16 February 2012
Montreal was just ranked the best city for university students in Canada, and the 10th best in the world. The survey, conducted by the British firm ...
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Focus on Quebec’s female immigrants

Posted On Tuesday, 31 January 2012
More financial and other types of support are being pledged for Quebec’s female immigrants....
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Recognizing engineer’s foreign credentials will get easier in Quebec with new online tool

Posted On Thursday, 22 December 2011
A new online tool will be deployed by the Quebec government to help immigrant engineers as they seek to become members of the Order of Engineers of Qu...
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Montreal the only hip city in North America

Posted On Wednesday, 07 December 2011
Montreal recently made the New York Times list of globally hip cities — the only one in North America, alongside such luminaries as Shanghai, Berlin, ...
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Other topics (165)

Canada Courts Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs

Category: Other topics
Posted On Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Canadian Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is visiting Silicon Valley to push the government’s newest business immigration program, the Entrepreneur S...
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Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Program to Reopen in 2014

Category: Other topics
Posted On Friday, 10 May 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has announced that the Parent and Grandparent sponsorship stream will re-open on January 2nd, 2014. At that t...
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Family Class Immigration Increased in 2012

Category: Other topics
Posted On Thursday, 09 May 2013
2012 saw a 15 per cent increase in immigration through Family Class sponsorship, according to a recent announcement by Citizenship and Immigration Can...
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Foreign Born Canadians at Historical High

Category: Other topics
Posted On Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Over 6.8 million Canadians were born outside of Canada, according to new information from Statistics Canada. This staggering figure means that 20.6 pe...
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Ministerial Instructions Announced for Immigration Programs

Category: Other topics
Posted On Monday, 06 May 2013
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has issued a number of Ministerial Instructions pertaining to a range of Canadian immigration programs. The M...
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