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Canada welcomed 26,600 new permanent residents in January, the most since before the coronavirus crisis began, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said in an interview with Bloomberg. Mendicino added that the number of newcomers admitted up to the middle of February is 40 percent ahead of where Canada needs to be to hit its 2021 target
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced air travellers landing in Canada will be required to quarantine in a hotel at their expense from February 22. The strict measure, first announce in January, means those arriving on flights will be required to take a COVID-19 test on arrival, then stay in a government-approved hotel for three
Tough new restrictions on international travel during the second, harsher wave of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed immigration to Canada down to its lowest level since April last year in December. The 10,795 newcomers welcomed in the last month of 2020 brought the total for the year to 184,370, down 46 percent on the 341,175 new
Information technology and professional business know-how once again proved to be among the best ways for immigrants to take up permanent residence in Canada last year as jobs in the retail sector dried up due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada data reveals the top 10 jobs for new permanent residents
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended a ban on flights from the United Kingdom this week – only days before the traditionally-heavy holiday travel season – in a bid to stop a new variant of Covid-19 from making its way to Canada. “To prevent the new variant of Covid-19 from spreading in Canada, we’re extending the
Vaccines already being used in the fight to stop COVID-19 will give Canadian immigration a much-need shot in the arm in the coming year as governments lift travel restrictions imposed during the pandemic. “If all goes according to plan, we should be able to have the majority of Canadians vaccinated by next September,” Prime Minister
Industry watchers say technology firms in Canada are the likely beneficiaries of U.S. President Donald Trump’s clampdown on the H-1B visa widely used by Silicon Valley companies to bring in highly-skilled immigrants. The new limits published in the Federal Register, the daily journal of the American government, are intended to stop tech giants from using
A newly-released Gallup poll reveals Canada is the most welcoming country in the world – and far more tolerant than the United States – for immigrants. On Wednesday, the polling giant released the results of its latest Migrant Acceptance Index. It asked people living in 145 countries last year whether they thought immigrants living in
