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April 1, 2008 ─The Ottawa Citizen
Quebec: Millions earmarked for immigrants
The provincial government has earmarked $68 million in
the next three years so immigrants to Quebec will be able to land their
first jobs in their area of specialty more quickly, it said yesterday.
Yolande James, minister of immigration and cultural communities, said
$22 million would be spent within the next year. Of the total $68
million, Ms. James said $6 million was to be spent on a special program
for the Montreal region, destination for more than three-quarters of
Quebec's immigrants.
April 2, 2008 ─The Edmonton Journal
Foreign workers exploited by temporary job plan:
critics
National program used for 'end-run around mainline immigration system'
Edmonton -- Gil McGowan would say Puneet Puneet is an
example of what's wrong with Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program,
which he says is not only exploitive but a clear indication of the
country's dysfunctional immigration system.
April 4, 2008 ─The Montreal Gazette
Labour shortage hits suburbs hard: experts
Employers are running shuttle buses to bring in immigrants from Montreal
Accelerating economic growth in the suburbs north of
Montreal has produced a labour shortage so severe, local employers are
increasingly running private shuttle buses to bring in immigrants from
Montreal, job experts say.
April 5, 2008 ─Saskatoon StarPhoenix
More immigrants choose suburbs over downtown
Immigrants arriving in Canada are more likely to move
to the suburbs than to the downtown areas of large cities that previous
generations historically preferred, according to a University of Toronto
study released Monday.
April 5, 2008 ─Regina LeaderPost
'Saskatchewan is on a roll'
Employment in Saskatchewan jumped by 5,400 jobs last
month and hurdled over the half-million mark in the process, according
to Statistics Canada data released Friday.
April 5, 2008 ─Ottawa Citizen
Many faces, one country
With each year, visible minorities in Canada become a
little less visible. Diversity is no longer unusual. The news from the
2006 census only confirms what Canadians see in their children's class
photos or at their own workplaces. That census shows that more than 16
per cent of Canadians have darker skin than the Europeans who colonized
this country. Today's Canadians come from more than 200 ethnic origins.
April 9, 2008 ─The Canwest News Service
Tories deny immigration bill will shut doors
New law aimed at visa backlog, officials say
Ottawa -- The Harper government went on a charm
offensive Tuesday to demystify its controversial immigration bill,
insisting the proposed changes are designed to reduce a massive backlog
of visa applications, and not to close the door to immigrants.
April 10, 2008 ─The Vancouver Sun
Immigrants taking longer to earn steady pay cheque
It's taking longer for recent immigrants to earn a
steady paycheque, according to a study spanning two decades released by
Statistics Canada on Wednesday. People who have recently arrived in
Canada typically go through an adjustment period, including times of
unemployment and working at part-time or temporary jobs before finding a
permanent job. This can translate into dramatic fluctuations in pay,
referred to as earnings instability
April 11, 2008 ─The Gazette
Critics denounce citizenship bill
Would deny status to children born outside country whose parents' births
were abroad
It's hard to
overestimate the effect of adding almost 300 nurses to the health system
in a matter of months. In one stroke, the provincial government and the
health regions have made it more than one-third of the way to the goal
of hiring 800 nurses over four years. One recruiting trip to the
Philippines has netted the province 297 nurses, who will begin moving to
Canada over the next six months.
March 13, 2008
─Montreal Gazette
Make babies, limit immigrants, ADQ says; Party
suggests $5,000 bonus for third baby and perks for families to boost
population
The Conservative government came under fire yesterday
for new measures that would deny citizenship to children born outside
the country whose Canadian parents were also born abroad. Limiting
citizenship to only the first generation born abroad will do serious
harm to Canadian families, and render countless numbers of young
children stateless - especially in an age of increasing global mobility,
said Donald Galloway, a law professor at the University of Victoria.
April 13, 2008 ─The Calgary Herald
Alberta pursues 41,000 foreign workers
'We are being swamped with requests from employers'
The federal government has given the green light in the past year
for more than 40,000 temporary foreign workers to come to Alberta --
setting the stage for a staggering 300 per cent jump from just three
years ago.
April 15, 2008 ─The Montreal Gazette
Help immigrants find jobs, MNA urges; Province must do more to aid
allophone newcomers integrate, Quebec minister says
Quebec -- Christine St-Pierre, the Quebec
minister responsible for language, said yesterday the province has to do
more to integrate immigrants into the job market. 'I know that in my
riding of L'Acadie, people who are French from north Africa have
difficulties finding jobs,' the minister said when asked about a study
showing that unemployment among allophone newcomers who speak French is
23 per cent.
April 15, 2008 ─The Montreal Gazette
No funds for terror, Tamils say
Money raised locally is spent on aid projects: centre's landlord
Humanitarian aid, not weapons - that's where
money raised by Tamil immigrants in Quebec goes, the Sri Lankan-born
owner of the community's Montreal cultural centre said yesterday.
April 19, 2008 Calgary Herald
Feds defend actions on worker shortage
WHISTLER, B.C. - It's no big shock to anyone
that there is a shortage of skilled labour in the housebuilding industry
-- it's been that way for some time. As has been reported countless
times, builders, developers, trades and suppliers are partnering up with
school boards and post-secondary institutions to ensure a well- trained
future workforce. In this effort, the different levels of government
have also been involved.
April 21, 2008 ─The Ottawa Citizen
Government ads aim to prop up immigration bill
Ethnic-media outlets recipients of $60,000 advertising campaign
When Diane Finley took over as federal
immigration minister in January 2007, she and her aides quickly
identified the massive backlog of permanent-residence applications
clogging up Canada's immigration system as the "elephant in the room."
April 21, 2008 ─The Gazette
Is immigration helping us?
A stunning british study suggests that maybe it isn't
Globalization has increased acceptance of a multi-racial
world and provided endless supplies of skilled and other labour, so
what's not to love about mass immigration? While Canada's opposition
parties quibbled over modest measures expediting the arrival of skilled
immigrant workers, one answer to that question appeared in a report from
the British House of Lords. Stunningly, it concludes that record levels
of immigration bring no economic benefits.
March 22, 2008
─Montreal Gazette
City's catholic flock is thriving; Churchgoing
immigrants swell
attendance while urban sprawl gives suburbs a boost
Compared with the rest of Quebec,
Montreal's churches are faring quite well - particularly Roman Catholic
ones. There's a good reason for that.
Immigration. Because of
increasing ethnic diversity, Montreal has become a dramatically more
Catholic city than it was as recently as the 1980s.
March 21, 2008
─Calgary Herald
Temporary workers keep business rolling; Nation
watching city's foreign recruiting plan
The City of Calgary's plan to hire
temporary foreign workers to ease staffing woes will be monitored by
cities across the country, immigration
lawyers say. "In the rest of Canada, the municipalities will watch
this closer than the carbon tax," Vancouver
immigration lawyer
Richard Kurland said Thursday.
April 21, 2008 ─National Post
Wanted: Hard workers
Our immigration system is broken. Fixing it should be a bipartisan
affair
As Stephane Dion weighs the pros and cons of
triggering a federal election over the Conservatives' proposed changes
to the powers of the Immigration Minister, he would do well to reflect
on one simple fact: 40% of skilled and professional male immigrants
leave Canada permanently within 10 years.
April 22, 2008 ─The Province
B.C. top target for ID fraudsters
incoming mail: China, U.S. main remitters of fake immigration documents
B.C. is being flooded by fake IDs -- many
from China -- and other fraudulent documents, according to the Canada
Border Services Agency.
April 23, 2008 ─The Windsor Star
New rules let foreign students work here
WINDSOR -- Shortly after University of Windsor
graduate Darius Aga received word that Ottawa was easing restrictions on
work permits for international students seeking employment in Canada, he
dashed off to the Canadian consulate in Detroit.
April 23, 2008 ─Leader-Post
Promoting Sask. while the 'iron is hot'
With Saskatchewan poised to become a world leader in
oil, uranium and potash exports -- Premier Brad Wall thinks it's time
for a few imports, namely corporate office towers.
April 24, 2008 ─Ottawa Citizen
Ontario: Stripper bill prompts threats - reports
Reports that Federal Immigration Minister Diane
Finley may have been threatened over her efforts to keep foreign
strippers out of Canada drew quick condemnation yesterday from the adult
entertainment industry.
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