Being A Smart Canadian
Canada does not need that many immigrants, and the notion that immigration keeps Canada going is anything but a myth. This is, in short, the message of a newly-formed immigration think-tank, The Centre for Immigration Policy Reform. The Centre was formally launched on Sep. 28 in the Canadian capital Ottawa, and has notable diplomats, security [...]
The Canadian government is taking another step in its campaign against the so-called ‘marriage fraud’ or ‘marriages of convenience’ by immigrants. This step takes the form of an online consultation process to gather views on “impact of marriage fraud”, Canada’s Ministry of Citizenship & Immigration said. The online consultation to gather views on the impact [...]
One of the largest regions of Ontario province, in Canada, has started a new initiative to attract immigrants. The 32 cities, townships and villages that make up north-western Ontario have come together and set up a new portal, immigrationnorthwesternontario.ca, to send out invitations. With an area of more than half a million square kilometres, north-western [...]
Starting late 2012, immigrant doctors in Canada will be able to start their licencing process through a one-stop, and not thirteen separate, shopping websites. This is possible through a joint initiative launched by the Medical Council of Canada and the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada, and through a 2.8 million dollar grant from [...]
Canada is rolling out a new program designed to help foreign-trained architects get necessary local accreditation and eventually jobs in their field. The 1.6 million dollar foreign credentials program, titled Integration of Broadly Experienced Foreign Architects in Canada project, has two key components: the creation of a “fair, efficient and timely” national system to evaluate [...]
The Ontario provincial government and the province’s medical profession’s regulatory body are being taken to task to resolve the long-simmering issue of insufficient residency spots for foreign-trained doctors. Mitra Arjang and Parampal Ghoshal, who are Iran- and India-trained doctors, respectively, are using the Internet for their campaign. They have started an online petition, asking the [...]
There are conflicting reports about the scale of the problem of so-called fraudulent immigration consultants in the Indian state of Punjab, and what officials there are doing to tackle it. As we have reported in a previous article, Canada’s immigration minister Jason Kenney went to Punjab as part of his recent Indian tour to talk [...]
Canada has decided to allow most long-term visitors (those planning to stay for more than six-months) from 45 countries around the world enter the country without a medical exam. Citizenship & Immigration Canada says that while agricultural workers from these countries and territories can also enter Canada without a medical exam, there will be exemptions [...]
The Canadian government wants its citizens and permanent residents to group sponsor refugees from abroad. Federal Citizenship & Immigration minister Jason Kenney has been touring some of the most populous cities, including Toronto and Vancouver, to meet various community groups to promote this concept. Under Canadian law, non-governmental groups and citizens can sponsor refugees to [...]
Canada is pushing India, particularly the state of Punjab, to do more to crackdown on what it calls the proliferation of fraudulent immigration consultants & travel agents. During his three-day visit to India, Canada’s immigration minister Jason Kenney held a number of meetings with federal (central) and state officials, including the federal home minister P [...]
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