Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced today that it is providing funding for the Home Instruction for Parents of Pre–School Youngsters program (HIPPY), a program that helps parents prepare their children for school and connect with services in their communities. The program helps immigrant families become accustomed to Canadian language, life and culture from within their [...] [...more]
A detailed report on Canada’s immigration policies, and their impact on the Canadian economic and social landscape, was released on Wednesday by the Maytree Foundation, a Canadian policy research organization. The report, authored by Naomi Alboim of the Maytree Foundation, details the findings of a year-long study by academics, governments and immigrant settlement workers, and presents [...] [...more]
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada Minister Jason Kenney announced on Friday that nine organizations that provide language training to newcomers in Calgary, Alberta are receiving almost $9.5-million in federal funding. “Access to language training services is, for many newcomers, a first step in establishing networks and contacts so they are engaged and feel welcomed in their [...] [...more]
As part of its ongoing effort to improve the integration of new Canadians, federal and provincial governments have been funding programs which provide settlement services. Some recent programs which have received funding include the Library Settlement Partnerships Program (LSP) in Brampton, Ontario and the Abbotsford Community Services (ACS) project in British Columbia. The LSP is a [...] [...more]
The number of Filipino caregivers being allowed to enter Canada to work has been slashed almost in half, a report said on Tuesday. The Toronto Sun report cited data from Immigration Canada showing that the rejection rate at the Canadian visa office in Manila for Filipino caregivers rose from 35 percent in 2006 to 66 percent [...] [...more]
The Government of Canada is working to help new Canadian immigrants integrate into the work force more quickly. Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Minister Diane Finley and Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism (CIMC) Minister Jason Kenney recently announced an investment of $50 million over the next two years to help newcomers have their internationally-obtained [...] [...more]
For years, a common complaint of new immigrants to Canada was that it was difficult to get a solid financial foothold in the first years after arriving. The lack of a Canadian credit history, for example, would prove to be a bar to obtaining credit, which – of course – prevents establishing a credit history. [...] [...more]
Most newcomers and immigrants to Canada tend to settle in the three biggest cities which are Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Many newcomers have also choosen to live in the medium-sized cities, which they feel have as much to offer as the larger cities with a better quality of life. Of the 1.1 million immigrants who landed [...] [...more]
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration announced $1.4 million in funding for mentorship programs to help immigrants in Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge. The funding will expand the Host program, which matches newcomers with Canadian volunteers as mentors to practise language skills, get contacts in their field of work and adjust culturally to life in Canada. Host programs at [...] [...more]
A “certified copy” is a copy of a document or record signed and certified as a true copy by the officer who has custody of the original. Typically the officer in this case would be a licensed attorney or government official clerk. The “notary public” who would notarize a document is defined as: “A public officer whose [...] [...more]
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