British Columbia Becomes One Step Easier to Immigrate to Canada
Recently Dr. Alice Wong, Parliamentary Secretary to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, and Moira Stilwell, B.C. Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, signed the new Canada-British Columbia Immigration Agreement. Immigation Minister Kenney had the following to say: “The signing of today’s agreement with British Columbia will support the integration of newcomers, helping to ensure […]
Nepal adoption suspension riles Canadians
A group of Canadian couples hopes to convince the federal government to overturn a recommendation last month to suspend all adoptions from Nepal. Ottawa resident Adrian Gollner and his wife are among 11 couples who had started the process of adopting children in Nepal in the hopes of bringing them to Canada in 2009. But […]
Canadian ePassports to launch in 2012
Passport Canada plans to launch an ePassport in 2012, and in the meantime it wants to hear Canadians’ thoughts on the issue including revised fees. The new passport will be little changed in appearance but will contain an electronic chip encoded with the bearer’s name, gender, and date and place of birth, as well as […]
March with no snow first on record
There has never been a March in history when there haven’t been any flakes of snow. Until now. “There no snow in downtown this March – not even a trace amount recorded,” said David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada, since record keeping began in 1845. “It’s really astounding!” This lack of snow beats the […]
Small army to protect Toronto during G20 summit
G20 Police forces have entered into an alliance to deal with the threat of violent protest at Toronto’s G20 summit with as many as 10,000 uniformed officers and 1,000 private security guards teaming up to protect world leaders. Federal contract tenders obtained by The Globe indicate a small army will descend on Canada’s largest city […]
Canada Targets Asylum Laws
Canada’s immigration minister proposed sweeping changes to the country’s asylum legislation on Tuesday, aiming to help clear a multiyear backlog in processing refugee applications and stem a recent inrush of claimants. The overhaul would address an asylum system considered one of the fairest and most generous in the world—but that is now clogged by cases […]