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“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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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“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 …
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Canada: “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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