Nature has always some lesson for us. It’s just a matter of looking around and pay some attention. For instance, this past March marked the beginning of one of those great lessons from Mother Nature. My cube at the office is beside a great window that gives me not only great light during the day, but a [...]
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Citizenship and Immigration Canada is becoming more and more relevant as the day for the budget is approaching. Although Immigration is always a big deal for the Government of Canada, this particular year seems to mark an after and before on the subject. You know we always follow the news very close in this matter [...]
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politics
This can be a tough subject. I know I have a bunch of readers from middle East and I’m not sure how they could take this “resurrection” thing as it’s very related to Catholicism. Let’s try for a minute to forget our cultural and religious differences and let’s talk about immigration a little bit.
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It looks like Immigration Canada decided to get rid of the backlog the easy way: just throw them away! According to the news: “… the Canadian government made a decision shocking for those who applied for the Federal Skilled Worker process before February 2008″ This will affect 280 thousand applicants around the world. Their money [...]
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Last week MoneySense published a new version of their list of the best places to live in Canada. They took 190 cities, selected some criteria, qualified the cities base in that criteria and then produced a database. As easy as that. Is it a good list? It’s just a list. Criteria can be discussed, the [...]
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The Minister of Immigration talked and the papers are already echoing all the buzz around what seems to be news but is no news: the coming changes to the Federal Skilled Worker program. In a News Release by Immigration Canada dated yesterday, we learned that Jason Kenney talked in Toronto about Changes to the Federal Skilled [...]
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Today I want to share with you a conversation with Sorcha Thomas, Spokeswoman for Alberta’s Human Services. I asked her what is behind Alberta’s success, what makes the Province so successful and how immigrants can settle there.
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