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Becoming Canadian won’t be that big a change
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
July 14, 2010
… the Canada that welcomed me two decades ago is a much different nation than the Canada that surrounds me now. It was so refreshing to find myself in a country where looking after the well being of your fellow citizens — in your town, in your country, around the world — was intrinsic to the national culture… I had moved to a land of relative economic equality, from a country built on shocking extremes of wealth and poverty… but the fact is, aside from the socialized-medicine thing, y’all have become just like us.
Tags: ideology, immigration, standard of living
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Canada’s economy can teach the U.S. a thing or two
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
July 11, 2010
… Americans have almost never looked to Canada as a role model. Indeed, during the long, bitter push to revamp the U.S. healthcare system, opponents repeatedly warned that, if we weren’t careful, we could end up with a medical system like Canada’s. But on healthcare, as well as on such critical issues as the deficit, unemployment, immigration and prospering in the global economy, Canada seems to be outperforming the United States. And in doing so, it is offering examples of successful strategies that Americans might consider.
Tags: economy, immigration, standard of living
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Well-educated, older immigrants prefer Canada to U.S., poll finds
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Jun. 23, 2010
In the 148-country survey, Gallup found that 41 per cent of those aged 15-24 would choose to migrate to the U.S., compared with only 27 per cent who chose Canada. But the older cohort, those 25-44, chose Canada over the U.S. 48 per cent to 40 per cent. Among those who have completed only elementary education, the U.S. outstrips Canada by a considerable margin. But among those who have completed secondary education, Canada leads by 59 per cent to 51 per cent.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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8,100 Home Children stayed in Stratford
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
26 Jun 2010
Annie Macpherson moved to London, England from Glasgow, Scotland in the mid-1860s to further her training as an educator… her experiences with poor children in the city’s East End changed her plans… With her sisters Louisa Birt and Rachel Merry she operated a child emigration organization from 1870– 1925 with homes in Belleville, Galt and then Stratford and Knowlton, Que. Some of the very youngest were adopted and treated as family. More often these children were used as low-cost farm labourers or domestic servants. They were called Home Children.
Tags: immigration, poverty
Posted in Child & Family History | 15 Comments »
The world would love to be Canadian
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Jun. 22, 2010
Given the choice, 53 per cent of adults in the world’s 24 leading economies said they would immigrate to Canada, according to an international survey… It’s a startling finding, one that is reinforced by respondents’ overwhelmingly positive attitudes about Canada’s welcoming and tolerant treatment of newcomers. The results bode well for Canada’s efforts to attract highly educated immigrants as the global search for talent heats up in coming years.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Canada’s $200-million lure pulls in 19 big-name researchers
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
May. 18, 2010
The researchers – half recruited from the United States, with four from Britain and the rest from Germany, France and Brazil – will each receive $10-million over seven years as the first group of Canada Excellence Research Chairs. They represent Ottawa’s most forceful effort yet to signal its commitment to big science, something critics say has been badly lacking… In all, 13 universities will welcome these scientists to their campuses, most with colleagues and graduate students in tow.
Tags: globalization, immigration
Posted in Education Debates | 1 Comment »
Ottawa short-changing Ontario immigrant programs: province
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Apr 07 2010
The federal Conservative government has short-changed Ontario at least $193 million in promised money for immigrant settlement programs, the provincial government says. Ottawa agreed in 2005 to transfer $920 million over five years in new immigration funding to Ontario, ending March 31.
Tags: immigration
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Lower hurdles for foreign professions
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Apr 05 2010
Ontario, with a shortage of skilled workers and an aging population, needs skilled immigrants to find places in their professions. …skilled immigrants still face unnecessary barriers to get licensed, and they earn far less than their Canadian-educated counterparts do. Some are so disillusioned they say that, had they known how bad it would be, they never would never have come… Augustine rightly calls that an “alarming” message that Ontario cannot afford to ignore.
Tags: immigration
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Immigrant women hurt by barriers to health care: Study
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
March 30, 2010
According to the study, fifteen per cent of immigrants who had been here for less than five years said they don’t have a family doctor, more than double the rate for Canadian-born men and women… “Some of them would not need to go to the emergency if they could get to a doctor’s office,” said lead researcher Arlene Bierman. “The country’s visible minority population will double by 2031… We need to be able to better serve the growing health-care needs of this community and reduce barriers.”
Tags: Health, immigration
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Order out of chaos – why refugee reform makes sense
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Mar. 31, 2010
What’s needed is a streamlined system that treats likely false claimants differently from others, and cuts down decision times for all… starting with an initial interview that is supposed to help the applicant organize his or her claim. Public servants, rather than the IRB, will then hear the case within 60 days, instead of the current system under which the file goes to the IRB for a full hearing.
Tags: immigration
Posted in Equality Debates | No Comments »
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