Immigration Services
The Afghan-Canadian Community Centre is the only school in the Kandahar area offering vocational training to women. Six online courses are offered through the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT),…
As of today, the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP) has removed certain occupations from its list of qualifying occupations for the popular U.S. Visa Holder category. Eight Information Technology (IT)…
The Canadian province of Alberta has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Philippines’ Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) regarding human resource development to promote the many employment opportunities…
As Alberta's service and retail sectors are heating to a boil; the province is left scrambling to find unskilled labour. More and more foreign worker recruitment agencies are taking on…
A Foreign Qualifications Recognition Plan for Alberta, recently released by the provincial government, will improve the process of recognizing internationally-obtained qualifications, training, and experience so that newcomers to Alberta can…
Last month, a team of Alberta government and industry leaders went to India on a trade mission. Though the focus of the GO-India mission was meant to be trade and…
All individuals born in Canada are granted citizenship, as are people born abroad who undertake the Canadian citizenship process and are approved. The Canadian Citizenship Act, which governs the issuance…
PM apologizes for the Chinese head tax of the 19th and early 20th centuries, offering compensation packages of $20,000 to surviving payers of the tax and commits $35 million to…
Atlantic Canada’s (Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland and Labrador) share of immigration in 2007 was 2.4 per cent, the highest it has been since 1980. Although…
Through their joint investments, $4.4 million over three years will be allocated to attracting and retaining newcomers and helping them with workforce integration. Specific projects include the creation of an…