“Successful B.C. immigrant-entrepreneur program in limbo”
“A program that helps Asian immigrants start small and medium-sized businesses in British Columbia, creating hundreds of jobs and injecting tens of millions of dollars into the local economy, has wound to a close. The “Business Immigrant Integration Support” program was started in 2012 by one of B.C.’s largest immigrant settlement agencies, known as Success, which has more than 400 …
Read More“Food Industry Wants Foreign Workers Who Can Become Citizens”
“Backlash against the temporary foreign worker program has made Ottawa leery of finding a new way for the food-processing sector to get the people it needs to fill vacant jobs, officials say. Mark Chambers is with an industry group that has presented a plan to the federal government on how it should deal with a labour shortage that he says …
Read More“Tories Quietly Give Alberta A Foreign Worker Crackdown Exemption”
“OTTAWA – Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says Ottawa is willing to extend to other provinces the measures it has given Alberta for some of its temporary foreign workers. In a letter to Conservative MPs last week, Kenney says the federal government is giving a one-time exemption to temporary foreign workers in Alberta from being counted under the cap on …
Read More“Canada seeks 50 millionaire immigrant investors under pilot program”
“The Canadian government will give permanent residency to approximately 50 millionaire immigrant investors and their families under a pilot program set to begin in the new year. Under the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital pilot program announced Tuesday, each investor will be required to make a non-guaranteed investment of $2 million over 15 years and have a net worth of $10 …
Read More“Toronto is world’s best city to live in, Economist study says”
“Toronto is the world’s best city to live in, according to a study of major metropolises by The Economist Intelligence Unit. And Montreal is the second-best, with Stockholm, Amsterdam and San Francisco rounding out the top five. The two Canadian cities topped the overall scoring in the 2015 Safe Cities Index published this week by the EIU, a unit of The Economist magazine. It …
Read MoreCanada: “Permanent resident visas for foreign investors should cost more…”
“The Canadian government is poised to relaunch a program that grants permanent residency to foreign millionaires but a veteran immigration lawyer says he fears Ottawa is still underpricing what amounts to a path to citizenship.” http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/permanent-resident-visas-for-foreign-investors-should-cost-more-lawyer/article21837100
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