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2020-03-08 – Claresholm, Alberta, with a population of 3,800, has been inundated with more than 5,000 applications from 70 different countries for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. The town, located 90 minutes south of Calgary, only launched applications in February, and officials are shocked by the level of interest shown. It plans to welcome
2020-02-13 – Claresholm in Alberta has launched the process for candidates to register profiles for the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. The town says it will recommend up to 20 candidates to become new Canadian permanent residents and settle in the community. Available jobs will be published on the website in the coming days. A
2020-02-10 – Canada admitted a new modern-era record of more than 341,000 new permanent residents in 2019, new government data shows. The 341,180 immigrants welcomed last year was the second consecutive year Canada has admitted more than 300,000 immigrants. Before 2018, the last time Canada welcomed more than 300,000 immigrants was 1912. The 2019 figure
Alberta, an oil- and gas-rich western province, has been was responsible for entire Canada’s net employment growth in the past 12 months, adding 81,800 jobs while the rest of Canada lost 9,500. The trade surplus in Alberta stood at C$7.4 billion ($6.9 billion) in May, and made up for the deficit rung up everywhere else.
New statistics show that Alberta has overtaken British Columbia in terms of welcoming new immigrants. For the first time, Alberta has welcomed more newcomers than B.C., according to the latest data from the Canada West Foundation. Statistics show that since approximately 2005, while growth in B.C. has stagnated, migration to Alberta as well as to
Alberta’s nominee program has been criticized for its lack of transparency while choosing temporary foreign workers who would be allowed to stay in Canada permanently. The province had used a confidential list of 34 occupations last year to determine which workers will stay on. According to Clarizze Truscott of the Temporary Foreign Workers Support Coalition,
Alberta had the highest rate of unfilled jobs in the country in the third quarter of this year, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. In a new report, the group said 66,700 positions in the private sector were unfilled in the quarter, for a job vacancy rate of 3.9 per cent. Saskatchewan’s vacancy
The December edition of the Conference Board of Canada’s Help-Wanted Index showed Alberta recording its fifth consecutive gain with an increase of 3.5 points. It also revealed the national index registering an increase of five points. The increases indicate better days ahead for those seeking employment in Alberta as well as across the country. The
Despite vast employment opportunities, workers are not relocating to Alberta on a permanent basis, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. The latest statistics show that workers are increasingly headed to Alberta where job vacancy rates are particularly high, but only one in every four of those workers seems intent on staying there. Three
Just in time for Alberta’s next overseas recruitment mission, the federal government has announced that it will increase the number of working holiday visas granted to Irish citizens in 2014. Alberta employers and governments have made several such trips out to Ireland and the United Kingdom in recent years specifically to recruit much needed labourers
