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BREAKING: IRCC announces new selection categories for Express Entry candidates

May 31, 2023 admin Canada, canada immigration, cec, CRS, Express Entry, express entry draw, fstp, fswp, immigration, ita, labour shortage, sean fraser, selection categories

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 14:35:28 +0000

Canada’s Immigration Minister, Sean Fraser, has announced the launch of category-based selection draws for Express Entry candidates. Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will be focusing on Express Entry candidates who have a strong French language proficiency or work experience in the following fields: healthcare science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions trades, such as […]

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Canadian work experience requirement removed for engineers in Ontario

May 28, 2023 admin Canada, canadian work experience, engineers in canada, immigrate to canada, immigration, jobs, labour shortage, ontario immigration, work in Canada

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 12:00:02 +0000

On May 23 in Toronto, Monte McNaughton, the Ontario Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development announced that Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is the first professional association in the province to remove the Canadian work experience requirement from their application criteria. The minister says removing the Canadian work experience requirement will help qualified professionals […]

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International Nurses Day: Canada’s provinces offering more incentives to immigrant nurses

May 12, 2023 admin assessing credentials, British Columbia, Canada, Express Entry, foreign credential recognition, healthcare workers, immigration, international accreditation, job vacancies, labour shortage, nurses, Ontario, PNP, project proposals

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 12:00:50 +0000

Each year on May 12, Canada celebrates International Nurses Day, which commemorates the work that nurses do to ensure Canadians receive the best quality healthcare possible. As Canada continues to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the population continues to age, the country is still dealing with a demand for more nurses. The […]

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Poll shows more people than ever want to immigrate to Canada

January 27, 2023 admin Canada, canada immigration, Gallup, immigration, immigration levels plan, IRCC, labour shortage, settle

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:00:31 +0000

For the first time, Canada has polled as the second most popular destination for potential newcomers after the United States in the most recent poll by Gallup, a global analytics and advice firm. This is the first time Gallup has released data on this topic since 2018. The poll says that in 2021, 900 million […]

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Provinces working to make it easier for internationally educated nurses to work in Canada

January 12, 2023 admin assessing credentials, British Columbia, foreign credential recognition, healthcare workers, immigration, international accreditation, job vacancies, jobs, labour shortage, nurses, Ontario, project proposals, settle

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:19:35 +0000

British Columbia has recently announced that it is removing some of the barriers for internationally educated nurses (IENs) to register with the province. It will do so by removing application fees and providing new financial support to nurses returning to practice after a period of absence. The province says it will now cover application and […]

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Canada breaks record by welcoming over 437,000 new immigrants in 2022

January 4, 2023 admin Canada, immigrate to canada, immigration, immigration levels plan 2022, immigration levels plan 2023-2025, IRCC, job vacancies, labour shortage, PR, sean fraser

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:29:32 +0000

Today, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced that Canada exceeded a record-breaking target for admissions of permanent residents in 2022. In a Tweet, IRCC stated that Canada welcomed over 437,000 new immigrants last year. This is higher than the target they had set at 431,645 new immigrants and marks an all-time record for Canadian […]

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Canada reached highest-ever target for admissions of permanent residents in 2022

January 3, 2023 admin Canada, immigrate to canada, immigration, immigration levels plan 2022, immigration levels plan 2023-2025, IRCC, job vacancies, labour shortage, PR, sean fraser

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 18:29:32 +0000

Today, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) announced that Canada reached a record-breaking target for admissions of permanent residents in 2022. The target, set to 431,645 new permanent residents in one year, surpasses the 2021 record of 401,000 and is the highest number of new permanent residents to arrive in one year recorded in Canadian […]

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Toronto to hold election for mayor and city council

October 21, 2022 admin Canada, citizenship, election, housing market, labour shortage, Ontario, settle, Toronto, vote

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 12:00:50 +0000

Toronto will hold a municipal election on October 24 this year. Municipal (city) government oversees things such as property taxes, public transit, public spaces such as parks, and garbage collection. It is the level of government closest to day-to-day life. This election will decide who becomes mayor, and who will represent each ward (neighbourhood) at […]

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International students in Canada to be allowed more off-campus work hours

October 11, 2022 admin International students, labour shortage, news, off campus, post-secondary education, sean fraser, study in Canada, working

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:47:38 +0000

From November 15, 2022, until December 31, 2023, international students who are in Canada and who have off-campus work authorization on their study permit will be allowed to work over 20 hours per week.

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Canadian job vacancies have reached another all-time high

September 21, 2022 admin canada employment, Economy, immigration, job vacancies, jobs, labour force, labour market, labour shortage, settlement, statistics canada

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 17:00:11 +0000

Statistics Canada has released results of the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey report for the second quarter of 2022. Overall, vacancies were up 4.7% from the first quarter of 2022 and 42.3% higher than the second quarter of 2021. There are nearly one million job vacancies in Canada across all sectors, or an overall rate […]

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