Tag: immigration

  • Quality Over Quantity: How Canada’s Immigration System Can Catch Up

    Quality Over Quantity: How Canada’s Immigration System Can Catch Up

    Canada’s immigration point system is designed to select skilled immigrants who have the potential to contribute to the country’s economic growth and meet its evolving skills needs. However, Canada faces challenges in fully leveraging increased immigration levels to enhance the well-being of Canadians due to weaknesses in capital investment and a quantity/quality trade-off in selecting…

  • Canada’s Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population Crisis

    Canada’s Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population Crisis

    Mahboubi, Skuterud – A Multi-Pronged Strategy for Managing Canada’s Surging Non-Permanent Resident Population January, 2024 – Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in Canada’s non-permanent resident population, far surpassing increases in annual admissions of new permanent residents. This unbalanced growth in the two migration streams will inevitably result in a growing undocumented population and…

  • Agree? Aussie Study Reveals Canada Most Desired Country To Relocate To Worldwide

    Agree? Aussie Study Reveals Canada Most Desired Country To Relocate To Worldwide

    A study by Compare the Market Australia has analyzed each country around the world on their annual search volume for terms such as ‘relocating to [country]’ and ‘moving to [country]’ to reveal the world’s most desirable countries to relocate to.  The most desired countries to relocate to? Here comes a boring chart! Rank Top destination…

  • Being In Canada 54 Years And Involved In Social Change

    Being In Canada 54 Years And Involved In Social Change

    This year, I have been in Canada 54 years. It is difficult to define what I need to do but I have to be more active, more involved in positive social change…….The state of Trumpism gnaws at me.   A few years ago, during March 2017, about 40 of my photographs (1967 – 1974) of…

  • Premium Passports Lose Their Shine In Post Pandemic World

    Premium Passports Lose Their Shine In Post Pandemic World

    As parts of the globe cautiously begin to open up, the focus is on what travel freedom and global mobility will look like in a post–Covid-19 world. Last week the EU released a list of countries whose residents would be allowed entry into the bloc from 1 July based on coronavirus-related health and safety criteria. Included…