the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
Continually striving to be a more attractive destination for Canadian immigrants, Canadian provinces are investing heavily in immigrant services. Ontario just opened the first of a set of five new Welcome Centres and Manitoba recently announced a new immigrant settlement strategy.
the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
The RBC Royal Bank Scholarship for New Canadians was created for students who have been through the Canadian immigration process. Recognizing how immigration has shaped Canada’s cultural, social, and economic development, the scholarship rewards the efforts of students who have succeeded academically while simultaneously adjusting to life in a new country.
the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
A recent Citizenship and Immigration Canada report recommends that the federal government retroactively restore Canadian citizenship to thousands of 'Lost Canadians'. These people have had their citizenship denied or unknowingly allowed to expire because of several obscure clauses in the 1947 Citizenship Act.
the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
The Library Settlement Partnerships program, a three-way partnership between Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), settlement services providers and public libraries, has been introduced to 11 communities in Ontario.
the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
Last week, the Liberal shadow Cabinet held a quasi-emergency meeting in which the need to go to the polls as soon as possible was debated and recognized. According to Liberal sources, the general consensus was that the Conservative immigration reform plan would be the trigger for an election and that Canadians should go to the polls as early as June.
the CanadaVisa Team 23 July 2015
In their second week of campaigning for next month’s federal election, the party leaders have been sharing their platforms for Canadian immigration. Stephane Dion, leader of the Liberal party, recently announced that, if elected, the Liberal party would allocate $800 million to modernize and streamline the Canadian immigration system.
the CanadaVisa Team 22 July 2015
the CanadaVisa Team 22 July 2015
On March 14, 2008 Canada’s Conservative government proposed amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). If passed, these changes would give the Minster of Immigration (the Minister) more power to control the number and type of people allowed into the country and the speed with which they may enter Canada.
the CanadaVisa Team 22 July 2015
Canadians speak over 200 languages according to the latest language reports from Statistics Canada's 2006 census. For the first time in Canadian history, allophones (people whose first language is neither French nor English) represented 20 per cent of Canada's population.
the CanadaVisa Team 22 July 2015
Statistics Canada recently released the latest age and gender statistics based on the 2006 census. The results show an aging population in which the fastest growing portion of the population (aged 55 to 64) will soon be exiting the work force.