Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
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Jason Kenney’s immigrant song sounds strangely off-key
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Mar 08 2012
This is the Harper version of multiculturalism. They couldn’t have copied the outright anti-immigrant, anti-multiculti stances of admired figures like Germany’s Merkel or France’s Sarkozy…. Jason Kenney appears at (almost) every ethnic gathering yet sounds negative and hostile in most of his policies: denouncing levels of fraud in getting citizenship, changing the test, banning veils at the ceremony and this week attacking “birth tourism.”
Tags: economy, immigration, rights
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Ontario goes it alone on immigration, says Ottawa’s policy hurts province
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Mar. 02, 2012
… although Ontario remains by far the largest recipient of new immigrants in Canada, it has suffered as a result of changes to immigration policy. The rapid growth of provincial nominee programs has drawn immigrants away from Ontario to the West and Atlantic Canada… In 2009, Ontario’s share of immigrant landings sank to its lowest level in nearly 30 years. Part of that may be related to its economic decline. But the province is laying part of the blame at the feet of the federal bureaucracy, which the Ontario government claims has tens of thousands of Ontario-bound applicants in its backlogs.
Tags: economy, immigration
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The poor in Toronto: They’re working but not getting any richer
Sunday, February 12th, 2012
Feb. 12, 2012
Even during times of economic prosperity, from 2000 to 2005, the number of working people unable to make ends meet grew by 42 per cent in the Toronto area. The exacerbation was especially pronounced in the city’s transit-starved east end. But rates grew fastest in the suburbs… A deep recession and sluggish recovery haven’t helped… Immigrants make up a little more than half of all the working-age population in the Toronto area – but almost three-quarters of the region’s working poor.
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Where are Canada’s new immigrants settling?
Saturday, February 11th, 2012
Feb 10, 2012
According to the 2011 census, two-thirds of the people added to the Canadian population since 2006 were immigrants. The breakdown of where they came from will come in later releases, but the 2006 census offers a strong indication of the trends. The National Post’s graphics team takes a look:
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism
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Census Canada 2011 infographic: How the new population stats break down by province and city
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Feb 9, 2012
There are now 33.5 million people living in Canada, and our population is growing faster than that of any other G8 nation, results of the 2011 census released on Wednesday show. Click through the tabs to see figures for the population overall and breakdowns for the provinces, territories and urban centres.
Tags: economy, immigration
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Stephen Harper’s census and his vision for Canada
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
Feb. 05, 2012
Harper said Canada’s aging population threatens our cherished social programs. He thrust obscure stats such as the old-age-dependency ratio to centre stage, promised to overhaul our immigration system and strongly hinted at raising the age of eligibility for old-age security. These are transformative changes… Atlantic Canada is aging and Ontario’s share of immigration is tumbling. A failure to deal with either of those could have major economic consequences… his vision demanded that every province be treated the same. The danger of that philosophy is it could make them more different than ever.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Harper’s pension reform moves breed needless resentment
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Feb 02 2012
Harper doesn’t want ideas. He wants a quick, made-in-Ottawa solution… He has a parliamentary majority. What he can’t do is stop Canadians from questioning his rationale (numerous actuarial reports show Old Age Security is affordable); questioning his motives (streamlined environmental rules would help oil producers); and questioning his trustworthiness (despite his claims to the contrary, immigrants fear he will restrict the intake of “non-productive’ newcomers such as grandparents, siblings and refugees.)…
Tags: immigration, participation, pensions
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Canadian bilingualism a blessing not a curse
Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Jan. 23, 2012
Canada, an officially bilingual country, is a leader in the promotion of second-language knowledge. Ottawa and the provinces together spend more than $2-billion a year offering government services in both French and English… learning a second language should be viewed as a gift society which confers significant global advantages, and bridges cultural divides… The ability to speak French, English – as well as Spanish or Mandarin – should be seen as a source of pride and as an investment in the future that will yield dividends over a person’s lifetime.
Tags: economy, immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living, youth
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A Scarborough clinic for those with no health insurance
Monday, December 12th, 2011
Dec 12 2011
Care for the uninsured in the GTA occurs largely under the radar — administered through an uncoordinated mix of community health centres, emergency rooms and free clinics. But an increasing number of front-line health-care workers and advocates are pushing for better access to care for the uninsured, amid concerns the patchwork system in place is not only unethical and costly to the system but is putting the lives of the most marginalized and vulnerable at risk.
Tags: Health, immigration, poverty, standard of living
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Modest country, ambitious leader [John A. Macdonald]
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Oct 22 2011
Macdonald didn’t believe in progress — in this sense he wasn’t a Victorian… Whether Conservative or Liberal, no government enacted any social legislation in Ottawa until a half-century later, in 1927. Macdonald believed that human nature did not change; by logical extension, there was therefore no point in trying to make the world a better place.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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