Canadian Immigration News

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) International Migration Outlook 2008 report recommends that OECD countries adapt their immigration and labour migration policies to be more in line with likely future demand for workers in all economic sectors; both high-skilled and lower-skilled.

Nova Scotia Immigration Minister Ramona Jannex said on Tuesday that the province aims to double the number of immigrants that settle in Nova Scotia. She said she hopes to have a new strategy ready by spring to achieve this goal.

Bill C-37, which will amend Canada’s Citizenship Act, was introduced to restore Canadian citizenship to the tens of thousands who lost, or who never had Canadian citizenship because of several little-known particularities in the Act. The Senate recently passed the bill after third reading. It will become law no later than a year following Royal Assent.

According to Statistics Canada, Canada produced 106,900 new jobs in the month of September. Though most of these were part-time positions, this figure is 10 times better than what economists had expected.

Mike Aves, 40, a financial planner in Palm Beach, Fla., where he has been active in the Young Democrats, said he was finding it almost impossible from that distance to land a job in Canada. "I've told my wife, I'd be willing to take a step down, socioeconomically, to move from white-collar work to a blue-collar job, if it would get us to Canada," he said.

By Rick Lyman
Feb. 4, 2005

Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver remain the destinations of choice for many newcomers; however, this trend is slowly changing. In 2007, cities outsidethe three above-mentioned received close to one third of Canada’s 236,000 new immigrants.

Traditionally, newcomers have overwhelmingly chosen to settle in one of Canada’s three largest metropolises, Montreal, Vancouver, or Toronto. New statistics from Citizenship and Immigration Canada suggest that this trend is changing. The stream of new arrivals to these three cities is dropping off as Canada’s small and mid-sized urban areas are enjoying an immigration boom.

Alberta's Immigrant Access Fund (IAF) was created in Calgary in 2005 to provide small loans to internationally-trained and educated newcomers to help them gainthe accreditation they need to work in their fields of expertise.

The Canadian Federal Government announced yesterday that there will be an election on October 14, 2009.