Canadian Immigration News

The Government of Canada views immigration as one of the most important factors in strengthening the economy following the recession and has noted that changes may come to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

A recent compilation of rankings by the U.S. website Newsweek found Canada to be the third-best country in the world to be a woman.

Canada has become the first country to sign the Ottawa Protocol on Combating Anti-Semitism. The Protocol, which developed during the Interparliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) in Ottawa last year, is aimed at stopping hatred and discrimination, including anti-Semitism.

According to Investissement Quebec, an economic development agency, 86 companies and more than 8,000 jobs have moved to Montreal as a result of a government program. The program allows 37.5 percent of a video-game company’s payroll to be subsidized by Montreal in the form of a refundable tax credit.

A recent study on Canadian immigration policies has found that immigrants who move to Canada as independent skilled immigrants had the highest earnings of four categories of immigrants studied: independent primary skilled immigrants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees.

Diane Ablonczy, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs (Americans and Consular Affairs), recently announced improvements to make Canada more easily accessible for Latin American travellers.

According to the new QS World University Rankings, Montreal’s McGill University is the top-ranked university in the country. McGill moved up from 19th place last year to 17th place worldwide this year.

Beginning next month, CICNews.com will be adding a new Q&A feature to its monthly newsletter. Readers will have the opportunity to send in their Canadian immigration questions to be answered by Attorney David Cohen.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) launched their online consultations regarding the appropriate level of immigration and mixes between economic, family class, and protected persons (refugees).

According to Statistics Canada, Alberta had the highest weekly earnings in Canada this sumemr. The agency also noted that Alberta has the highest annual growth rate in the country.