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Canada invests in newcomer health workers to ease labour shortages

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:06:25 +0000

Canada is investing $14.3 million to help internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) enter the workforce faster. With ongoing healthcare shortages, this funding aims to improve credential recognition and boost the number of skilled doctors, nurses, and practitioners across the country.

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Canada’s cuts to newcomer English programs hurt community well-being

March 1, 2025 admin canadian immigration policy, cuts to immigrant programs, english-language programs for immigrants, Featured, immigration refugees and citizenship canada (ircc), language, language training for newcomers, linc program (language instruction for newcomers to canada), multiculturalism in canada immigrant integration, newcomer language education, news, settlement, settlement services, social stratification in canada

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:04:36 +0000

By Natalia Balyasnikova, Hilary McGregor and Mercedes Veselka The impact of of Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s 2024-25 department plan, released about a year ago, are only now starting to become clear in cities across Canada. Whether it’s colleges in Vancouver, Lethbridge or Toronto, many federally funded English-language training programs are experiencing crushing funding cuts resulting in closures, layoffs […]

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Tariff Troubles: How trade uncertainty is hitting immigrant businesses

March 1, 2025 admin business owners’ concerns, business resilience, canadian federation of independent business, canadian small businesses and tariffs, exporters and tariffs, Featured, financial assistance for smes, financial impact on smes, immigrant-owned businesses, impact on canadian smes, money & business, news, policy measures for smes, rising business costs, risk mitigation strategies, small business, small business challenges, small business support, sme strategies, supply chain disruption, surrey board of trade, tariff relief canada, tariff threat, trade uncertaintycanada, u.s.-canada tariffs

Credit to Author: Baisakhi Roy| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:32:43 +0000

The ongoing uncertainty around the U.S.-Canada tariff situation is creating significant challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Canada.

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Canada’s immigration cuts and hiring bias: why newcomers struggle to find work

March 1, 2025 admin canada immigration policy 2025, canadian labour market, canadian work experience barrier, careers, foreign credential recognition, immigrant employment challenges, Immigrate, international student work permits, International students, news, post-secondary education, underemployment canada

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:31:36 +0000

Canada’s recent immigration cuts and hiring biases are making it harder for skilled newcomers to find jobs that match their qualifications. Addressing barriers like Canadian experience requirements and improving credential recognition can help unlock the full potential of immigrant talent.

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Building Better Ways to Keep the Lights On

February 10, 2025 admin aspentech, blackouts, Business, deloitte, eaton, engineering, IBM, Instrumentation & Controls, itron, neara, news, O&M, operations and maintenance, power, power grid, power lines, power outage, Research and Development, T&D, Technology, torus, transmission and distribution

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:11:00 +0000

Utilities and power grid operators walk a fine line when it comes to providing reliable and resilient power while also protecting valuable assets in the electricity transmission and distribution system. Power

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Canada’s job market stays strong despite economic challenges: report

February 10, 2025 admin accommodation and food services, canada economy 2025, canada industries, canada jobs, careers, careers & education, donald trump tariffs, jobs in 2025, jobs outlook canada, moving to canada, news, service industry, transportation and warehousing

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:11:24 +0000

A new report from the Conference Board of Canada, an independent research organization that analyzes economic trends, highlights the strength of Canada’s job market.

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Rocky Mountain Power, Torus Will Deploy Grid-Scale Energy Storage Program

February 7, 2025 admin Business, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, electrification, Energy Storage, flywheel, hybrid power, news, nova pulse, nova spin, power, rocky mountain power, Technology, torus, Utah, virtual power plant, vpp

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:18:19 +0000

Torus and Rocky Mountain Power, following the recent signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU), on Feb. 7 released additional technical details about the integration of Torus’s commercial energy storage […]

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Canada’s best and brightest unite for cancer research awareness

February 7, 2025 admin cancer awareness canada, cancer fundraiser, carry the fire cancer initiative, chris hadfield, Community, darryl sittler, donovan bailey, health care, Living, news, preventing cancer, princess margaret cancer foundation, settlement, tessa virtue, wendel clark

Credit to Author: Gautam Viswanathan| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:11:46 +0000

A group of prominent Canadians at the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation (PMCF) recently, to launch Carry the Fire, an initiative aimed at raising awareness for cancer research and shifting public attitudes toward the disease.

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U.S. Coal Plants Get Reprieve as Market and Policies Change

February 6, 2025 admin Business, chris wright, climate change, Coal, Commentary, DOE, duke energy, EIA, energy secretary, Environmental, finance, Fuel, Gas, Georgia Power, global energy monitor, Legislative, Markets, natural gas, new york times, news, pacificorp, Power Demand, power plants, Renewables, Trump

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:39:42 +0000

Several U.S. utilities in recent months have said they plan to keep coal-fired units in their generation fleets operating past their scheduled retirement dates, in most cases citing increased demand […]

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A Renewed Vision for the Energy Grid: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

February 6, 2025 admin Business, Commentary, data, grid, International, Markets, news, power, power grid, siemens energy, Smart Grid, T&D, Technology

Credit to Author: Thomas Kiessling| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 14:29:42 +0000

As the world accelerates toward an electrified future driven by renewable energy, electric vehicles (EVs), and industrial electrification, energy distribution grids face unprecedented challenges. From grid overloads and delays in connecting distributed […]

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