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    Getting Canadian friends

    Hi Bubulici, Thank you for your answer. Yes that kind of friendship. :)
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    Getting Canadian friends

    Hi Scylla, Thank you for your answer. I appreciate it. What I mean with friendship is just normal friendship. Like talking about life and those kind of things and hopefully to see some day face to face. I know it sounds akward through internet but since I live in different country it is so hard...
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    Getting Canadian friends

    Hi everyone, I'm not looking in this site friendship because I know this site is not meant for that but there might come some exceptions. I'm sorry for my silly question. I would like to ask Canadian people here, why it is so difficult to friendship with Canadian person online? For example when...
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    Sponsoring more than one person

    Thank you for your answer. I would immigrate to Canada alone.
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    Sponsoring more than one person

    The people would be family members, like mother and brother for example.
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    Sponsoring more than one person

    Hi everyone, I would like to know that is it possible that PR holder can sponsor one or more persons to come and live in Canada? If not, is it the right of Canadian citizen only? I know that your income will effect on how long you can sponsor somebody, but for example: If person is a single...
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    Here in Finland we get 4 weeks of paid holiday/year and don't know how many sick leaves, but for example this year I have already got 17 paid sick leaves. Things that sucks in Finland thought in my opinion are few: 1. Very high taxation (up to 65%) 2. Almost anything you can imagine has tax 3...
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    Very nice feedback and answers from everyone. More answers and opinions are always welcome :) One thing I know regarding the jobs in Canada is that they pay more for IT employers than many Europe countries. In general do companies in Canada concentrate much on employees? For example are they...
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    I personally think this is not true, if there would be no jobs then why Canada doesn't have high unemployment rate? Bad thing in Canada is that they rely so much on oil. The wise man would look other options as well to rely on, for example services. What do you work as?
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    Do you mean that it is so difficult to get permanent job?
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    How much Canada offer paid vacation days a year? 10? I have seen that some companies in IT field pay sick leaves in Canada.
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    Is Canada still in recession?
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    Best and Worst things in Canada

    Hi everyone, I would like to open this thread to enlighten the prospect immigrants to Canada about living there. Even though the best way is simply to study this topic and if possible to visit Canada at least. I would like to ask any immigrant and Canadian born to list what is in your opinion...
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    Getting promotion at work

    They were not paid. But it is okay if they would be not calculated because it would have only helped me to apply earlier.
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    Getting promotion at work

    Thanks sms_1190 for clarification :). That does make sense, I have done web development under different titles and they are: job 1: 14 months - web developer (title: IT specialist) job 2: 10 months - web developer (title: junior web developer) job 3: 12 months - software engineer (title...
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    Getting promotion at work

    Awesome and that's what I have understood this far. Would also training periods calculated as well as long as they were not undertaken during study period in University?
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    Getting promotion at work

    Even if job 1 and 2 are not continues they still can be added together in order to get two years out of that work? For example there have been a gap of one year between them.
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    Getting promotion at work

    Oh okay now I understand it. Here's my scenario: job 1: 14 months (web developer) job 2: 10 months (web developer) job 3: 12 months (software engineer) Web developer and software engineer are in different NOC, does this mean that it would be counted as three years of work experience because 14...
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    Getting promotion at work

    Thanks istari, When you said "But if you spent 6 months in job 1, then 18 months in job 2, you would have 2 years of work experience.", do you mean as long as those jobs are in the same company? How about following situation, let's say web development experience in company A 14 months and web...
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    Getting promotion at work

    Hi everyone, Today I was thinking following case: If I have been working in company X let's say as web developer for 6 months, then I would be promoted as software engineer in the same company and I work as software engineer for one year, does this kind of promotion somehow effect on CRS when...