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Connecting the right immigrants with the right locales…
VANCOUVER, Jan. 29 /CNW/ – A new Stats Canada study says opportunity
beckons for immigrants wanting to locate to Canada’s small and rural
communities. The findings indicate that newcomers moving to less urbanized
areas experience a smaller initial income gap. The medium income gap in small
towns is 32% and only 20% in rural areas as opposed to 67% in very large urban
centres.
According to Founder/Publisher of Canadian Immigrant, Naeem (Nick)
Noorani, small towns and rural communities need labour and it’s time they
moved forward on encouraging newcomers to settle in their areas. After all,
not only is it a benefit to the towns, but the stats prove it’s a good thing
for immigrants, too. Stats Can says that by their fourth year in Canada,
immigrants in small towns were earning 2% more than Canadians, while those in
large cities still earned 22% less.

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The nominee program was created in 2002 to attract skilled immigrants to the province by charging them $130,000 for a six-month work term with a Nova Scotia company. The companies received $100,000 and were required to pay the immigrant $20,000 in salary.
The contract for administering the program was awarded without tender to Halifax-based Cornwallis Financial Corp. through an alternative procurement process that allows the government to issue contracts without a competition.
But the program was soon mired in problems amid accusations of lack of oversight.
The government cancelled the program last year and offered to rebate $60 million to the 600 applicants who did not get a mentorship.
A consultant’s review found the fees to be the highest in Canada and some of the 200 participants who did get work terms have since complained the province didn’t live up to its obligations and are demanding their money back, as well.

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Ottawa – Canada faces a drastic labour shortage and governments and the private sector must take steps to train and employ people who have been left out of the workforce in the past, Human Resources and Development Minister Monte Solberg says.
“I think it’s inevitable there will be some difficult times ahead because there won’t be the enough workers to run our society the way we have always run it,” Solberg told CEP News on Monday following a speech to the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce, where he sketched out a dire picture for Canada’s labour force.
“Our demographics are working against us. Baby boomers are set to retire and our low birth rate means demand for workers will soon outstrip the supply,” Solberg said in a prepared speech to the Chamber.
Solberg said that in the last 50 years, the Canadian labour force had expanded nearly 200% and that expansion had helped drive the national economy, but he added that dizzying rise in workers is gone.
“Going forward, over the next 50 years, including immigration, the labour force is projected to increase by just 11%,” he said.

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Canada’s technology companies will soon face a shortage of workers that could cripple the sector and deal a harsh blow to the Canadian economy, according to a report published by a coalition of industry professionals.
More than 90,000 jobs in the information technology sector will need to be filled in the next three to five years and could potentially impact the Canadian economy to the tune of $10.6-billion, said Conference Board of Canada vice-president of organizational effectiveness, Dr. Michael Bloom.
“The problem is much bigger than any of us at the Conference Board has identified,” said Mr. Bloom.
A “perfect storm” of socio-demographic factors, negative perceptions of the tech sector following the bubble burst of 2002 and a significant drop in university enrolment in IT programs across Canada has all come together to create this dire scenario, said Mr. Bloom.

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Dear immigrants – thinking of migrating to Quebec? READ THIS!!
Quebec’s immigration policies may lean in favour of newcomers from North Africa and other French-speaking regions, but the Old World has a commanding head start on the wage front, says a study by researchers at Université du Montréal.
And industrial relations professor Brahim Boudarbat said even in Quebec, it pays off enormously when a newcomer already speaks both French and English. While knowing one of Canada’s official languages – in Quebec, it doesn’t appear to matter which – may boost earnings by seven percent, being able to get by in both can bolster income by 15 per cent.
Findings by Boudarbat and PhD student Maude Boulet show today’s immigrants not only earn less than the average Canadian-born worker, they’ve been steadily losing ground when compared with what previous waves of immigrants received when they landed in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. They are both better educated and poorer than the people who came before them.

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This editorial shows details that were not revealed in mainstream media. The question that needs to be answered is WHY?

Canada’s game of hide and Sikh
Piotr Mazur was partially paralyzed in a devastating car crash in August 2004 in Manitoba.
He and his family, newly arrived Polish immigrants to Chicago, were holidaying in Canada when the incident occurred.
For more than two years, Piotr and his wife Lucyna, along with their young daughters Agnieszka and Anna, lived in Canada with no legal status and no health insurance.

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