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Category Archives: BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP)
BCPNP Introduces a New skilled Worker Sub Category ahead of January 2016 re-launch
While the skilled worker program under British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BCPNP) is closed until early January 2016, a new sub category stream has been introduced to qualified applicants. On September 1st, 2015, the Skilled Immigration stream stopped accepting applications. … Continue reading
Top 6 questions asked about Express Entry
We frequently receive emails, comments to our web site and phone calls about the Express Entry system. Of course, we don’t have time to answer every question, so we have put together the top 6 questions asked about Express … Continue reading
Posted in BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), Canadian Experience Class (CEC), Express Entry, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Federal Skilled Trades Worker, federal skilled worker, Federal Skilled Worker Program, IELTS, Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), language skills, provincial nominee program
Tagged BCPNP, cec, CLB to IELTS, express entry, fswp, IELTS, pnp
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Manitoba Premier: Western Provinces Ask for Increase in Immigration Limit
Canada’s western provinces called on the federal government to remove the caps on their provincial immigration programs on Monday, according to a recent Bloomberg News interview with Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger. Selinger said the limits the federal government places on … Continue reading
Vancouver City Gov Introduces Universal Access Card for Recreational Facilities
The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation announced last week that it will introduce a new universal access card for pools, rinks, fitness centres and community centres in the city. The OneCard will replace over twenty separate cards used to … Continue reading
48% of Canadian Millionaires From Immigrant Families
A new survey by BMO Harris Private Banking finds that nearly half of Canadian millionaires are either immigrants or have at least one parents born outside of the country. The findings suggest a high degree of entrepreneurialism among the Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), Canadian economy, canadian immigration, Canadian investor program, entrepreneur program, Federal Investor Program, PNP business, PNP investor program, Quebec Immigration Investor Program
Tagged BC investor program, BMO Harris Private Banking, Canadian millionaires, immigrant millionaires
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B.C. Spends Less On Health, Has Healthiest Population in Canada
British Columbia has the healthiest residents among the Canadian provinces according to a new Conference Board of Canada (CBoC) study. The B.C. provincial government spends less than almost all other Canadian provinces on health care, but still comes out on … Continue reading
Posted in BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), best city to live in Canada for immigrants, best province in Canada, Canada News, PNP business, PNP investor program, provincial nominee program
Tagged Conference Board of Canada, health care in Canada, healthiest province Canada, Paving the Road to Higher Performance: Benchmarking Provincial Health Systems, provincial health care system
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More New Immigrants Moving to Smaller Cities- Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg Among Most Popular
A Vancouver Sun report published Wednesday, titled Canada’s ‘Big Three’ metro areas lose lustre as newcomers opt for smaller cities, examines the phenomenon of immigrants choosing the Big Three Canadian cities less in favour of Canada’s smaller cities: Released Wednesday … Continue reading
Posted in BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), best city to live in Canada for immigrants, best province in Canada, Canadian economy, canadian immigration, Canadian job market, Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP), provincial nominee program
Tagged best place to live in canada for immigrants, best province to live in Canada for immigrants, Statistics Canada
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CanadianBusiness: Vancouver Could Be The Next Calgary
An article appearing in the online edition of last Tuesday’s Canadian Business magazine suggests that Vancouver stands to follow in Calgary’s footsteps and become an energy company magnet: The management of Canada’s oil and gas industry has become, over the … Continue reading
Immigrant Income Levels Depend on Canadian Immigration Program
In the second part of our series on the recently released Statistics Canada report on the income of immigrants, we delve deeper into the data and look at how various economic class immigration programs compare for immigrants who arrived between … Continue reading
Posted in BC Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), Canada News, Canadian economy, canadian immigration, Canadian investor program, Canadian job market, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, entrepreneur program, family class, Federal Investor Program, Federal Skilled Trades Program, Federal Skilled Trades Worker, Federal Skilled Worker Program, provincial nominee program
Tagged average income for immigrants in Canada, business class, Federal Skilled Worker Class, provincial nominee class, Statistics Canada
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Vancouver 5th Place in Global Quality of Life Ranking
The Mercer 2012 Quality of Life Ranking has again placed Vancouver as the top spot to live in Canada and the Americas. Beating out the West Coast city globally were Vienna, Austria (1st), Zurich, Switzerland (2nd), Auckland, New Zealand (3rd), … Continue reading