Category: Canada

Remote: describes a geographical area where a community is located over 350 km from the nearest service centre having year-round road access. Isolated, by the Canadian government definition, means a geographical area that has scheduled flights and good telephone services, but is without year-round road access. What is a remote location in Canada? We usually […]

In our increasingly globalized and digitized world, perhaps the most important work permit exemption is for remote work. Canada’s immigration department allows visitors to Canada to perform long-distance (by telephone or internet) work if their employer is outside Canada and they are remunerated from outside Canada. Can a foreigner work remotely in Canada? To be […]

2008 Canadian Housing Market Recession Nationally, new housing starts dropped to 118,000 from an average of 175,000. Sales of existing homes fell by 40% from their peak. The national resale price for a house dropped by 9.5% and new home prices fell by 3.5%. How much did house prices drop in the recession 2008? Condos […]

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) allows employers to hire foreign workers to fill temporary labour and skill shortages. Before you can hire a temporary worker for a Canadian job, in most cases you must apply for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA). Can Canadian companies hire employees outside Canada? Canadian employers can hire foreign […]

Skilled workers. Immigration laws in Canada Skilled workers form by far the largest category of immigrants in Canada, accounting for over twice the number of permanent residents than people who immigrated for family reasons. What is the largest class of immigrants in Canada? Almost one in five recent immigrants (18.6%) were born in India, making […]

32,115. Number of refugees Number of Ukrainian refugees recorded in each country (only countries with more than 10,000 refugees) * Canada 32,115 Hungary 31,290 Norway 30,570 Georgia 26,379 How many Ukraine refugees have arrived in Canada? Yet the department says only around 420,000 applications have been approved so far, while statistics from the Canada Border […]

Refugees are resettled in Canada through different resettlement programs, including the Government-Assisted Refugees (GAR) Program and the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program. How do refugees get to Canada? To settle in Canada as a refugee from abroad, you must be referred by either the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a designated referral organisation, or […]

To a tremendous extent, the enslavement of Indigenous peoples defines slavery in Canada. Fully two-thirds of the slaves in the colony of New France were Indigenous. After 1750, the number of Indigenous slaves brought into French Canada began to decline. Enslavement of Indigenous People in Canada. Published Online November 22, 2016 Last Edited May 8, […]

For example, in India, Sikhs are 2% of the population, Christians are 2.2% of the population, Hindus are 80%, and Muslims are 14%. In Canada, Sikhs comprise 35% of the East Indian population, Hindus 28%, Muslims 17%, and Christians 16%. Toronto Abbotsford Ontario British Columbia 643,370 33,340 10.4% 18.9% Which part of Canada has most […]

The majority of Muslim jurists say a Muslim man is permitted to take up to four wives, but only if he can treat them all fairly and with justice. Can we do 2 marriages in Canada? It is illegal to have multiple spouses in Canada. It is a criminal offence in Canada to have more […]