1(2) Alberta 5.0
2(1) Saskatchewan 5.1
3(3) Manitoba 5.5
4(4) British Columbia 7.0
Canada 7.4
5(6) Ontario 7.9
6(5) Quebec 8.0
7(7) Nova Scotia 8.6
8(8) New Brunswick 9.8
9(9) Prince Edward Island 11.1
10(10) Newfoundland and Labrador 13.2
Canada could soon stop accepting applications for immigration in an attempt to clear the backlog of more than a million people currently awaiting processing around the world, Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday.In Montreal to hold consultations on how many immigrants should be accepted into Canada per year - and just as importantly what kind of immigrants - Kenney told an audience at the Armenian Community Centre that clearing the huge backlog is one of the main challenges faced by his department as it plans for the years ahead."There's an unlimited number of people who want to come to Canada," Kenney said, adding that about 254,000 would be accepted this year, down from 281,000 in 2010."We used to have hundreds of thousands of applications more than we could process, and it's stupid and unfair to make people wait seven, eight, nine years for their application to be even looked at. That's the rationale for limiting the number of new applications."Two years ago, Parliament modified immigration laws to give the minister the authority to place a cap on applications, and this year Kenney has so far chosen to limit the number accepted in the Federal Skilled Worker program, for example, to 10,000. He emphasized, however, that Canada would still be accepting 65,000 skilled workers into the country, most of them chosen out of the backlog of applications.It remains to be seen which other categories may be capped, and at what level.Stakeholder consultations across the country on the right "mix" or "balance" of immigrants for Canada began two weeks ago, with employers' associations, immigration lawyers, refugee advocates and other interested parties. Friday's sessionin Montreal was postponed until October, however. Public consultations will be held online starting in August.Apart from dealing with the backlog, Kenney said he is looking for solutions on how to deal with an impending labour shortage as the population ages, without overburdening Canada's housing, health care and education systems with too many newcomers.
Canadians think size of population about right, poll finds, July 13.The Montreal-based Association for Canadian Studies poll found a slim majority of Canadians think that Canada's population (34 million) is just right.
Size does matter! Our population is comparable to California's, yet we have the world's second-largest land mass.
Immigration must be a priority - you can't run a country this size without it. The United States prospered because it opened its gates - now it's 10 times our size.
Canadians love Canada's space, but Canada needs at least 150 million more people - preferably more. Sixty per cent of our popu-lation live within a few hundred miles of the U.S. border. A large part of Canada remains unused.
Many think our north can't be populated. It can with investment and new technologies. Switzerland fits inside Algonquin Park! France and England take up Ontario (with room left over Liechtenstein). We're definitely under-populated.
People want Canada's postcard look, but don't want anyone else to live here. If Canada doesn't increase its population the quality of life for will fall exponentially. There's a definite and important correlation between a country's population size and the health of the economy.
Canada needs a 'Statue of Liberty" effect - more assertive and industrious attitudes to attract hard-work-ing immigrants. Canada has been called the largest hotel in the world - that should be changed to one of the largest houses in the world. People should be enticed, so they can work hard, build a good life and adopt enviable Canadian values of dignity, tolerance, and fairness.
Canada is not "just right" with only 34 million people. If this attitude persists, taxes will increase, and some otherwise needless social programs will prosper.
A land mass of almost 10 million square kilometres with only 34 million people will carry that burden.
Bring me your hardworking, your ambitious, your visionaries.
Let the immigration revolution begin.
REGINA — One week after Claude Gyug retired from his job as a conductor for the Canadian National Railway, his retirement fund grew by $20 million.
The colossal growth in Gyug's retirement fund wasn't due to shrewd market timing, but good timing when it came to buying a lottery ticket.
As the province's first Lotto Max winners, Claude and his wife Dianne are $20 million richer — their take of the Jan. 8 draw they share with a Quebec winner.
The Grayson couple received their cheque at the Hotel Saskatchewan Radisson Plaza in front of family members and shared their winning tale with reporters.
منبع : Regina Leader-Post
Federal Transport Minister John Baird said this week the government plans to purchase 44 of the imaging scanners, at a cost of about $250,000 each, and send them to international airports across the country. Twelve of the scanners are set to arrive at airports within the next week, with the remainder of the machines expected by spring.
The machines use electromagnetic waves to scan through clothing and produce images of hidden objects.
منبع : Saskatoon Star Phoenix
The Conservative federal government plans to introduce new legislation Tuesday forcing Internet providers to alert police if they encounter any host sites linked to child pornography, Canwest News Service has learned.
The Internet companies would also be forced to safeguard evidence if they believe a child-pornography offence has been committed using a server they provide, a senior government official confirmed Sunday.
منبع : Canwest News
Bethany Smith, an American service woman who deserted to Canada because of anti-homosexual persecution in the military listens to her lawyer Jamie Liew discuss her extradition case following a hearing at the Federal Court in Ottawa
Pte. Bethany Smith, 21, will have another chance to argue her case for staying in Canada, rather than face deportation and a possible court martial in the U.S. for fleeing the military base at Fort Campbell, Ky., two years ago.
منبع : Canwest News
A few teachers recently refused to work in British Columbia public schools because they said the prevalence of H1N1 illness among students had created an unsafe workplace.
The first reports were filed late last month by pregnant teachers in Victoria who walked away from their classrooms. Another report was filed this month by a Prince George teacher.
By law, employees have a right to refuse work if there is a reasonable cause to believe it poses a health or safety hazard
منبع : Vancouver Sun
Canada is viewed as the least corrupt country in the Americas and is an "inspiration" for the U.S. and other neighbours in the hemisphere, Transparency International said in its annual report published Tuesday.
The Berlin-based watchdog ranked Canada eighth globally, in a tie with Australia and the Netherlands, in its index that assesses internal perceptions of corruption in 180 countries.
In first place was New Zealand while in second last place, just ahead of the failed state of Somalia, was Afghanistan, the largest recipient of Canadian development aid.
منبع : Canwest News
A quick thinking nine-year-old girl saved her entire family from a fire that destroyed their home in Mission, B.C. early Monday morning.
Mission Fire and Rescue Chief Capt. Ian Fitzpatrick called her actions “heroic” and said her calm, common-sense approach enabled the entire family of six to get out alive.
“She was sleeping on the main floor and she woke up to the smell of smoke,” he said.
“She woke her two-year-old brother, grabbed him and went outside, went back in and upstairs to wake up mom and dad, who in turn alerted the two other siblings upstairs.”
منبع : Canwest News
Canada's police will soon need to double or triple officer hiring or make consequential changes in the way they fight crime, including abandoning some classic duties, according to the head of the federal policing council.
Geoff Gruson, executive director of the Police Sector Council says the stark and urgent message results from a "perfect storm" of converging demographic, cultural, economic and political forces. Chief among them is a shrinking labour pool.
منبع : Ottawa Citizen
منبع : Regina Leader PostSaskTel’s director of corporate communications Darcee MacFarlane shows off a hands-free device (right) that can be used with most cell phones. Saskatchewan motorists will be out buying gadgets that'll allow them to continue communicating behind the wheel if a proposed law banning cellphone use while driving is passed
A Sudanese refugee who raped an Edmonton woman walking home from work in 2005 has been deported from Canada.
The Canada Border Services Agency confirmed the deportation of Samuel Martin Luin on Friday.
He was deported under escort by CBSA officers on Nov. 9.
Luin was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to 40 months for the rape and assault of a woman walking home in her Collingwood neighbourhood. It was one of several attacks in the area that year.
منبع : Edmonton Journal
Decreases in downtown parking rates will be announced today, with expectations that short-term street parking will be cut the most in hopes of getting more Calgarians to come into the core to shop or do business.
منبع : Calgary Herald
A new citizenship guide for potential immigrants to Canada flatly declares that new Canadians cannot engage in "barbaric" cultural practices such as genital mutilation and "honour killings."
The new guide, released Thursday by Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, says in a section called "Equality of Women and Men" that such practices are illegal and severely punishable under Canada's criminal laws.
منبع : Canwest News
A bloodied protester clashes with police outside the Black Watch armory prior to the arrival of Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, in Montreal Tuesday. The British royal couple are in Montreal as part of their Canadian tour
The original $1.2-billion price tag from consortium Bombardier/Alstom to renew Montreal’s métro-car fleet has soared, perhaps to $2 billion, and the original 342 cars required has at least more than doubled to 765 and perhaps tripled to 1,000.
منبع : Montreal Gazette
Benjamin Brian Hughes was found guilty on four counts of criminal negligence causing death and sentenced to six years in jail.
He simply disregards his responsibilities as a driver and as a citizen,” said the judge.“In the result, he conducts himself in a manner that is dangerous to the public.”
The judge had found Hughes guilty of four counts of criminal negligence causing death as well as hit and run.
منبع : The Province
Sanjeev Kuhendrarajah, centre, initially told reporters he was a businessman with an MBA degree, was recognized by Canadian police as a notorious Toronto gang member who was deported from Canada in 2003.
When a migrant smuggling ship bound for Australia was seized in Indonesian waters last month, a 27-year-old with a thick beard stepped forward to speak for the boat people.
He said he was Alex and that the more than 200 asylum seekers aboard the wooden cargo ship were ethnic Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka, but it was the way he said it that stood out: He spoke in a distinctly Canadian accent.
Motorists killed more than 5,500 wild animals on provincial highways last year, the B.C. transportation ministry reports.
Highways maintenance contractors across the province had the thankless job of removing 5,663 carcasses, including 4,454 deer — almost 80 per cent of the total — 350 moose, 223 elk, 157 bears, 126 coyotes, and a variety of smaller animals.
The annual roadkill deer carnage compares with about 30,000 deer legally hunted in B.C.
منبع : Vancouver Sun
A lottery ticket purchased somewhere in Manitoba is worth $50 million, following Friday night's Lotto Max jackpot draw.
The prize is not quite a record in Canada, but it is close to the $54.3 million awarded in 2005 on a Lotto 6/49 draw. In that jackpot, 17 Alberta oil and gas workers split the money.
Whoever has the ticket for Friday's Lotto Max game will have one year to claim the prize.
منبع : CBC News
Prince Charles chats with Wade Baker, a member of the Salish First Nation Band, while visiting the Athlete's Village
منبع : Reuter
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As the world struggles its way out of a recession, more than 65 per cent of people rate the Saskatchewan economy positively, according to a Sigma Analytics poll conducted for the Regina Leader-Post.
Only 7.3 per cent rate the provincial economy negatively, while 27 per cent of respondents were neutral.
منبع : Regina Leader Post
Alberta lost 15,000 jobs in October pushing the unemployment rate up 0.4 percentage points to 7.5 per cent compared to September, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
“Since October 2008, Alberta’s employment has fallen by 3.3 per cent, (or 68,000 jobs), the steepest rate of decline among all provinces,” the federal government agency said.
The province shed 9,900 full-time jobs and 5,100 part-time positions while the labour force decreased by 6,400 people.
منبع : Edmonton Journal
Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrive in Victoria on Friday as part of their Royal Tour 2009 in Canada. Victoria, B.C. November 6, 2009.
Taking shelter under umbrellas from a light Vancouver Island drizzle, Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall, made a fashionably late arrival in Victoria Friday to begin a four-day visit to British Columbia.
منبع : Canwest News
Saskatoon lost its dubious claim to the title of murder capital of Canada last year.
According to an annual report released this week by Statistics Canada, the city recorded four homicides in 2008, resulting in a per-capita rate of 1.55 for every 100,000 residents -- lower than the overall national rate of 1.83, and less than half the 2007 rate of 3.6.
The highest homicide rates in the country in 2008 were recorded in western metropolitan areas: Abbotsford-Mission, B.C. (4.71), Winnipeg (4.07), Regina (3.82), Edmonton (3.44), Kelowna, B.C. (3.43), Calgary (2.87) and Vancouver (2.37).
On a provincial level, the West remains the wildest part of the country. Manitoba's overall rate was the highest, followed by Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C.
منبع : Saskatoon Star Phoenix
Calgary had the nation's highest metro rate for gang-related slayings last year--a contributing factor to the rise in the national homicide rate for 2008 -- a report from Statistics Canada has revealed.
But police and experts say 2008 was an anomaly that will not be repeated in 2009.
منبع : Calgary Herald
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