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August 06, 2010 National Post
On the agenda
The premiers want the provinces to have a greater role in federal
immigration policies, including immigrant settlement, and urged
Ottawa
to reconsider recent efforts to cap provincial nominee programs.
August 7, 2010 Edmonton
Journal
Freeze chills Edmonton
job numbers
Nearly 9,000 jobs gained in July
EDMONTON — A freeze on public-sector hiring may be a key
reason Edmonton's
unemployment rate is higher than the rest of the province, says Alberta
Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. "Many of
Edmonton's residents are either directly or
indirectly employed by government. All levels of government are still in
a position where we have, effectively, hiring freezes," Lukaszuk said
Friday.
August 11, 2010 Calgary
Herald
Alberta wins battle to bring
in more foreign workers
Province can hire 5,000 immigrants under new targets
The federal Conservative government has acquiesced to provincial
demands -- including from
Alberta
-- to ease its restrictions on the number of immigrants that can
permanently reside in the provinces each year.
Ottawa
controls the number of permanent immigrants that can annually settle
across Canada
through the provincial nominee program, with the current cap at 4,400 in
Alberta
-- well short of the 5,000
Alberta
had requested this year.
August 12, 2010
Vancouver
Sun
Tamil ship escorted into B.C. waters by Canadian Navy
Arrival expected late Thursday or early Friday
VANCOUVER - A suspected Tamil migrant boat
now believed to hold as many as 500 refugees has entered
Canada's 200-mile exclusive economic zone
and is heading for the B.C. coast.
August 21, 2010
Vancouver
Sun
Two million reasons for high prices
Vancouver's housing affordability problem boils
down to too many people on too little land
What drives
Vancouver's house prices so relentlessly to levels
four times higher than Winnipeg's,
and more than half again what Torontonians pay? It's simple, says Tsur
Somerville of UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate. "If you
want Winnipeg-level house prices here, all you have to do is tear down
the mountains and fill in the ocean." Well, that puts slow or stop to
the steady influx of people -- though the massive loss of amenities if
our landscape were to be suddenly leveled might do that automatically.
August 22, 2010 Toronto Sun
(Tamil) Refugees go home for holidays
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August 24, 2010 Edmonton
Journal
Alberta
immigration programs put on hold
Economic downturn reason for temporary suspensions, gov't says
EDMONTON - The government is
temporarily suspending two immigration programs, blaming current
economic woes for the changes. The family stream and
U.S.
visa holder stream are part of the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program,
which brings people to the province who are ready to work. Both
programs, which are two years old, are being dropped because of current
employment conditions.
August 24, 2010 Financial Post
The transnational entrepreneur
Canada
faces a serious challenge. It must improve technological innovation,
particularly commercialization performance. As a partial remedy,
Canada
has adopted an immigration policy designed to attract internationally
educated professionals (IEPs) to help build the country's technology
sectors. At present, it appears that this objective has not been
entirely successful despite the growing number of skilled immigrants who
arrive in Canada
with increased levels of education.
August 30, 2010 Calgary
Herald
Muslim network helps growing number of Calgarians in need
Originally from Ethiopia,
Samia came to Canada
last February from
Kenya
with her mother, who is now nine months pregnant. The pair were among
hundreds of other refugees, recent immigrants and less fortunate
Calgarians to benefit Sunday from a clothing and food drive organized by
the Muslim Families Network Society as part of Ramadan. The holy month
is a period of prayer, fasting, charity-giving and self-accountability.
"This is the month of generosity," said the society's Idrees Khan.
August 31, 2010 The Province
Live-in caregiver program is unfair to families
In April, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney implemented changes to the
live-in caregiver program (LCP), an immigration program through which
overseas caregivers come to
Canada
to fill the deficit in Canadian applicants.
The new rules have made it mandatory that the family who hires a
caregiver be fully responsible for all costs, including the caregiver's
airfare to Canada, but have also placed families in an extremely unfair
position by failing to provide any protection for their financial
investment in the placement. Families could be out thousands of dollars
should the caregiver simply choose not to honour their employment
contract upon their arrival in
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