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Employment rose and unemployment dropped in December, in another solid month for Canada jobs, according to the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey. The report, released Friday, showed Canada added 55,000 jobs during the month, while unemployment fell from 6.0 to 5.9 percent. While employment has recovered to pre-pandemic levels, unemployment remains slightly about the 5.7
Economic immigration programs are the way most immigrants to New Brunswick get their permanent residency – so knowing which jobs are in high demand in the province is an important step in immigrating to it. In 2019, the last full year before the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, economic immigration programs accounted for
Immigrants looking for a safe place to live during the COVID-19 pandemic need to know about Prince Edward Island, the only Canadian province that has so far not had a single death due to that illness. The island province in Atlantic Canada had seen only 380 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic
Canada had more than 1 million job vacancies at the start of September, an important indicator that the economy is picking up as it battles back from COVID-19. Businesses in Canada have entered hiring mode – to the advantage of potential immigrations who are considering making their dream move here. The payroll and vacancies report
The lifting of many of the COVID-19 public health restrictions due to the arrival of vaccine passports pushed up the number of people working full-time in retail jobs in British Columbia in September, reveals Statistics Canada data. The West Coast province now has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Canada, behind only Manitoba, even
Digital media streaming service Spotify is planning to hire hundreds more employees in Canada, Europe and Australia in its bid to beef up its advertising revenues, following in the footsteps of Amazon. That giant online retailer announced in September it would expand its workforce in Canada by 15,000 this autumn. Now, Spotify is following suit
Ottawa needs to bolster the image of Canadian trades workers and try harder to recruit immigrants to resolve the severe labour shortage as tradespeople retire, concludes an RBC Economics and Thought Leadership report. “The federal government and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) should close the gap between the target and actual intake of immigrants
Fully-vaccinated foreign nationals who want to come to Canada for working holidays do not need to have job offers before coming here, says Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Under the International Experience Canada (IEC) program, the fully-vaccinated need only have their port of entry letter – and their negative pre-entry COVID-19 test result –
The COVID-19 pandemic’s travel restrictions are preventing many of the foreign nationals who worked on the ski hills in western Canada from working there this year and so driving up the number of job vacancies. That’s an opportunity for young people looking for a working holiday through International Experience Canada (IEC) and economic migrants. “It’s
Giant online retailer Amazon Canada is making a big move this week, launching its first job fair in Canada as it gears up to expand its workforce in the country by 15,000 employees this autumn. That’s an increase of about 60 per cent to Amazon Canada’s existing workforce of 25,000 and comes as the company
