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		<title>Buying A New Printer &#8211; 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My quest for a new printer began a few months ago. I currently have a Brother HL1240 b/w laser printer, which I bought more than eight years ago. It cost me a fortune, but it has been a solid workhorse.
There was no particular reason to buy a new one; I was contemplating a colour printer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/03/09/buying-a-new-printer-1/</link>
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		<title>Three Weeks Before EI Exemption For Self-Employed Expires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a little over three more weeks to take advantage of an exemption to the newly introduced Special Employment Insurance (EI) Benefits programs for self-employed people in Canada.
The programme offers certain types of EI benefits – maternity, parental, sickness and compassionate care – to self employed people.
It does not include payments that regular employees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/03/07/three-weeks-before-ei-exemption-for-self-employed-expires/</link>
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		<title>Canada Introduces New Web Tool To Help Immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian federal government has launched a new website to help newcomers get all the information they need to successfully settle down in the country.
The new tool, at servicefornewcomers.cic.gc.ca, is a sort of a one-stop gateway for new immigrants and even new citizens in Canada.
It is divided into community and government services, and provides information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/03/01/canada-introduces-new-web-tool-to-help-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Canada Boosts Funding To Help Skilled Immigrants From India, China &amp; Philippines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada is pumping millions of more dollars to make it easier and faster for Indians immigrating to Canada to settle down professionally and personally in their new country.
Under a new plan unveiled, 15 million dollars will be spent to expand the current foreign credentials recognition and labour market programmes offered by the Canadian government in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/02/18/canada-boosts-funding-to-help-skilled-immigrants-from-india-china-philippines/</link>
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		<title>Basics of Housing Mortgages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian government has announced tightening of mortgage and financing rules beginning April 19th. The government has though declined to consider reducing the current maximum amortization period of 35 years and the minimum down payment of five percent of the value of the house.
Here are some basic pointers to the different types of mortgages available [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/02/17/basics-of-housing-mortgages/</link>
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		<title>Canada Opens Doors To Indian Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada welcomes India’s higher education students.
This is basically the message the Canadian federal government and the various provincial governments are trying to impart to Indians wanting to go abroad for higher studies.
And towards this end, Canada has implemented a number of strategies, including promoting community colleges, where the costs can be lower than universities but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/02/15/canada-opens-doors-to-indian-students/</link>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s French Province Wants More Indian Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canada’s key French province of Quebec is on an offensive to attract more students from India and other nations.
The Quebec Premier Jean Charest made the announcement recently in India that foreign students who complete higher studies in his province will be given a Certificate of Selection which in effect will put them on a fast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/02/10/canadas-french-province-wants-more-indian-students/</link>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s New Project to Help Would-Be Immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian government is funding a 1.7 million dollar project to help immigrants who want to migrate to Canada find the necessary information ranging from labour market training to getting their qualifications accredited to Canadian equivalent.
The fund was given to the Toronto based JVS to develop the Integrated Pre-Arrival Services Online project and will help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2010/01/14/canadas-new-project-to-help-would-be-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Group Sponsoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many Canadian citizens who want to know whether they could sponsor to Canada their siblings still remaining in their country of birth.
Under Canadian immigration law, only those within the ‘family class’ can be sponsored. And those falling in this category are: spouses, dependent children, adopted children, parents, grandparents, orphans and ‘other relatives’. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2009/11/28/group-sponsoring/</link>
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		<title>Analysing Canadian Gas Station Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The price of gas (petrol) has gone up over the years, but there is nothing we can do about it. If there is at least a small degree of comfort, it is that with strategic use, you could get something back from the gas stations or companies, and this is in the form of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartcanadian.ca/2009/09/27/analysing-canadian-gas-station-cards/</link>
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