Search
Join N4 and take advantage of all the free member benefits Join now!
CTV News: Many immigrants leaving Canada within years of arriving: StatCan
Posted on Monday, February 05, 2024 11:36 AM
More than 15 per cent of immigrants decide to leave Canada either to return to their homeland or immigrate to another country within 20 years after admission as permanent residents, according to a new study.
Statistics Canada examined the emigration of immigrants from 1982 to 2017 in the study released Friday.
The study also found that 5.1 per cent of immigrants admitted between 1982 and 2017 emigrated within five years of their admission.
"While some immigrants may have planned to leave Canada at...
CBC: Linking immigration to the housing shortage may be missing the problem, experts say
Posted on Monday, January 29, 2024 10:19 AM
With rising rents and house prices making it increasingly hard to find an affordable place to live, some are pointing the finger at Canada's record-level immigration rates.
Immigration is not the only thing putting a strain on the housing market. High interest rates, increasing building costs and red tape at the municipal level that can slow down or halt home construction are all part of the picture.
But to tackle the pressure being created by immigration, some are now openly discussing forging a...
Government of Canada: Capping International Students in Canada by 35%
Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:59 AM
International students enrich our communities and are a critical part of Canada’s social, cultural and economic fabric. In recent years, the integrity of the international student system has been threatened. Some institutions have significantly increased their intakes to drive revenues, and more students have been arriving in Canada without the proper supports they need to succeed. Rapid increases in the number of international students arriving in Canada also puts pressure on housing, health...
Statistics Canada: Study Shows Immigrants from Africa and Asia See Highest Employment
Posted on Monday, January 22, 2024 10:44 AM
“Landed immigrants” (or simply “immigrants”) are technical terms used by Statistics Canada to denote a permanent resident of Canada. Individuals with a temporary status (i.e.: workers on work permit and/or international students) and natural-born or naturalised citizens of Canada do not fit into this category.
The study looked at the employment rate of immigrants from various regions of the world in Canada, who were over 15 years of age. Overall, these newcomer groups had the following employment...
CTV News: How Reducing Immigration Could Affect Canada's Economy: Desjardins Report
Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:34 AM
Canada's population has surged over the last year, with growth driven in large part by foreign workers and international students. But as the federal government weighs limiting non-permanent residents (NPR), a new report from Desjardins says such a move would "deepen the recession expected in 2024."
The report, written by Desjardins' senior director of Canadian economics Randall Bartlett, says the number of NPRs is expected to fall naturally as the economy slows. Under the current baseline...
Government of Canada: Foreign Credentials Recognition Program
Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2024 11:11 AM
As Canada’s health care sector continues to face labour shortages, the demand for qualified workers to fill vacancies continues to grow. The Government of Canada recognizes these challenges and continues to take steps to address them by investing in projects that will help provide internationally educated professionals with the support and experience they need to pursue opportunities in Canada’s health care sector.
To help with this, a call for proposals was announced in December 2022 resulting...
CTV News: Immigration minister to consider cap on international students in Canada
Posted on Monday, January 15, 2024 10:25 AM
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says in the next few months he’ll be looking at the possibility of putting a cap on the number of international students living in Canada, but he wouldn’t say how great a reduction the government is planning on making.
In an interview airing Sunday, the minister told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos this is a conversation the federal government will need to have with provincial governments “to make sure that the provinces that have not been doing their...
Global News: Canada’s population booms by 430K over 3 months. What’s behind the spike?
Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2024 08:33 AM
Canada came close to breaking the highest population growth rate in any quarter this July to September when it reported 430,635 new residents in the country.
Statistics Canada reported Tuesday the population increase, which reflected a 1.1 per cent growth rate in the third quarter of 2023. That was the highest population growth rate since the second quarter of 1957, when Canada’s population grew by 198,000 people, or 1.2 per cent.
Back then, the rapid growth in population was tied to the post-war...
CTV News: Migration to Canada reaching 50-year highs, especially among non-permanent residents
Posted on Monday, January 08, 2024 10:20 AM
In 2023, Canada’s population of non-permanent residents (NPRs) grew by more than half a million people, part of the steepest single-year rise in at least five decades of available data.
In a report last week, Statistics Canada (StatCan) counted a total of 2.5 million NPRs as of this October, up from 1.7 million the same time last year. The 2023 growth shatters previous year-to-year records in the available data, tripling the increase of nearly 170,000 between the summers of 2018 and 2019.
NPR...
Introduction to Generative AI
Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2024 04:19 PM
Generative AI, or GenAI, is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new content, whether it's writing, images, or music, based on the vast amounts of data it's trained on. Think of it like a highly advanced computer program that's absorbed a huge library of human creativity and can now produce its own original content. It works by recognizing patterns and structures in the data it's seen, and then it uses that knowledge to generate new, similar pieces.
Examples (and cost) of GenAI...
Join N4 and take advantage of all the free member benefits Join now!