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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...
CBC: P.E.I urged to press pause on immigration, while health care and housing feeling the pinch
Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2024 09:40 AM
As population growth continues to place a strain on health care and housing on Prince Edward Island, there are renewed calls for the provincial government to ease back on immigration programs to give services a chance to catch up.
For years, Canada's smallest province has had one of the fastest-growing populations in the country. The latest estimate from Statistics Canada showed P.E.I. growing at an annual rate of four per cent, with 175,853 residents as of Oct. 1, 2023.
In the past month, both...
IRCC: Immigration measures to help people affected by the Israel–Hamas conflict
Posted on Tuesday, December 26, 2023 02:10 PM
Canada remains deeply concerned about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, and the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Since Hamas’s terrorist attack in early October, Canada has been actively working to support the assisted departure of Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their eligible family members from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.
As part of these continuing efforts, the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced temporary...
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