Month: June 2021

Last Updated on June 7, 2021 Hockey fans are cheering on a power play by Canadian immigration officials to allow National Hockey League playoff teams into Canada to duke it out for the Stanley Cup despite COVID-19 restrictions. Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino tweeted out over the weekend that Canada is making a special exemption for

Last Updated on June 7, 2021 Canada is doing a better job of attracting immigrant entrepreneurs through the Start-Up Visa program than the United States, according to leading American business magazine Forbes. “While America has tried and failed to pass a Start-Up Visa geared toward immigrant entrepreneurs for years, Canada is one of two dozen

Last Updated on June 6, 2021 Teen immigrants and international students enrolled at Quebec colleges and universities – and even those just visiting the Province of Quebec – are being urged by the province to come in for free COVID-19 vaccine shots provided they are 12 years of age or older. “As part of the

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Last Updated on June 4, 2021 Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is in talks with his American counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, to re-open the Canada-U.S. border as the COVID-19 pandemic gradually comes under control. “Today, I spoke with my U.S. counterpart (U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security) Alejandro Mayorkas,” tweeted Mendicino on

Last Updated on June 4, 2021 Canada’s Start-Up Visa Program has the potential to attract the type of new immigrants who can be at the forefront of the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis. It is a program designed to welcome ambitious entrepreneurs with business ideas that could grow into the next Amazon or Facebook,

Last Updated on June 3, 2021 Job seekers looking for the best place to land a job in the information technology sector in Canada will do best by checking out opportunities in Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, the Waterloo region and Montreal, reports the research division of the biggest commercial realtor in the world. “These locations possess

Last Updated on June 3, 2021 Even at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada continued to welcome new permanent residents to its provinces and territories under the spousal sponsorship immigration program. In 2020, an impressive 36,130 newcomers became new permanent residents in Canada under these programs – and another 11,675 more arrived in the

Last Updated on June 2, 2021 British Columbia immigration has issued 68 invitations to skilled workers and international graduates in a new BC PNP Tech Pilot draw. The June 1 draw featured invitations through four streams of the British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program.  Minimum scores were 80 for all four streams. The featured streams were:

Last Updated on June 2, 2021 The bottom line for any employer with a responsibility to his or her stockholders has to be the bottom line – and immigrants can boost that and make the company run more smoothly in a myriad of ways. Venture capitalist and Communitech CEO Chris Albinson knows this and has

Last Updated on June 2, 2021 Ontario immigration has issued 986 Notifications of Interest in its second draw of 2021 through the Express Entry Skilled Trades Stream. The June 1 draw targeted candidates with Comprehensive Ranking System scores in the range of 300 to 379, significantly lower than the previous draw. Candidates were required to

Last Updated on June 2, 2021 Manitoba immigration has issued 404 Letters of Advice to Apply to Express Entry skilled worker candidates in the latest draw through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program. The May 27 draw, posed on June 1, draw saw LAAs issued through a single MPNP streams. That stream was Manitoba Express Entry,

Last Updated on June 1, 2021 Immigrants to Canada are over-represented in nursing and healthcare support positions, a Statistics Canada report reveals. “In 2015/2016, they made up 22 per cent of the workforce in these occupations, compared with 16 per cent of the total employed population,” notes the report. Immigrants from countries with predominantly-Black populations