This was earlier an extract from another Forum update. I did see in December, after EE intro this site might not be now accessible.
see this link.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/manuals/bulletins/2014/ob572.asp
Effective May 1, 2014, a maximum of 25,500 new Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) applications without an offer of arranged employment (including 500 applications in the PhD student/graduate stream), 5,000 new Federal Skilled Trades (FST) applications, and 8,000 new Canadian Experience Class (CEC) applications will be considered for processing for the period of May 1, 2014, until April 30, 2015, unless otherwise indicated in a future Ministerial Instruction. Applications must be completeFootnote 1 and included within the caps set for each program to be considered for processing.
Kiran S