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Canadian federal and provincial governments need to adopt four principles to ensure the construction sector can have better access to foreign skilled workers, a BuildForce Canada report says. The report says that changes are required for the construction sector to deliver on key public-policy priorities such as building new housing and greening infrastructure. “Construction activity

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here.  Canada has conducted another targeted Express Entry draw, issuing 975 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) under the Transport occupations category. The March 13 draw saw a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System

The Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP) helped 11.6 per cent more foreign nationals become new permanent residents of Canada in January than during the previous month as last year was drawing to a close, the latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals. In January, 1,830 parents and grandparents of immigrants became new permanent residents through the PGP, up from

Canada considered letting in one million permanent residents in a year before settling on 400,000, according to government documents seen by the Toronto Star. This was proposed as one of three options for how many PRs should be let in, with the pros and cons of each option. The deputy minister was in charge of

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here. Canada has conducted another targeted Express Entry draw, issuing 2,850 Invitations to Apply (ITAs) under the all-program category. The March 12 draw saw a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS)

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here. Canada’s employment rate nudged down a tenth of a percentage point in February as population growth continued to outstrip the increase in the number of people finding

Immigration to Canada started off the year strong with the number of new permanent residents up 28 per cent in January compared to the previous month – but slightly softer than the number who arrived during the first month of last year. The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals there were 47,660 new

Immigration Canada has reduced Nova Scotia’s international student visa allowance by 35%, as announced during the Province House’s debate on the provincial budget. Nova Scotia’s advanced education minister Brian Wong told the sub-committee on supply that the province has received the total count on international student applications it can allow for the 2024-25 school year,

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here. The more than 450,000 nurses across Canada are getting help from Ottawa in the form of a new toolkit that addresses the challenges of on-the-job stress, anxiety,

Ontario has conducted a new draw through its Express Entry Human Capital Priorities stream, issuing 2,104 invitations targeting healthcare occupations for Canada immigration. The Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) draw took place on March 7 and invited candidates with Comprehensive Ranking System scores between 352 and 421. The draw targeted the following occupations: NOC 30010 – Managers in healthcare

Mona Shahwan El-Tahan first arrived in Newfoundland in 1975 as a young engineering graduate from Cairo University ready to study and get her master’s degree at Memorial University. Today, she is the president and founder of InCoreTec Inc., a St. John’s-based research and development and consulting firm whose engineers, scientists and software developers offer services to local,

Are you a candidate with skills and qualifications in one of Canada’s 82 jobs for occupation-specific Express Entry draws? We want to help you move to Canada. Please submit your CV here. Canada job vacancies held steady at 637,400 for December 2023, which marked the third consecutive month of little change. The number of vacancies was 209,200 (-24.7%) less

Quebec’s immigration critic is lambasting the ruling Coalition Avenir Québec’s (CAQ) lack of decisive action to reduce the long processing times for family sponsorships, a situation that has led to legal action against the francophone province’s immigration minister. “Imagine having to wait three years to be reunited with your spouse who is currently outside the

Swiss immigrants to Canada tend to come to the country primarily through the Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) and Canadian Experience Class (CEC) worker programs but are also a good fit for the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program (QIIP). Canada’s only passive investment immigration program, the QIIP allows foreign nationals to gain their permanent residence in the

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Wednesday Ottawa is making the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot  (RNIP) a permanent immigration program this autumn and he also launched two new pilots to expand the ability of rural communities to attract more immigrants, in particular francophones. “I am here to confirm that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)

Alberta has targeted healthcare workers in a new draw through the Express Entry-linked stream of the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program, issuing 33 invitations. The February 20 draw targeted medical workers with an Alberta job offer and had a minimum Comprehensive Ranking System score of 311. Alberta reached its allocation of 9,750 provincial nominations for 2023.