The New and Improved CICNewsletter!

We at Campbell Cohen wish to welcome you to the New CICNewsletter! We have been burning the midnight oil here at our offices in an effort to revamp CICNews.com. We’ll be overhauling the website over the course of the next few months in order to bring to our audience a fresh, more comprehensive view of […]

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Your Profession – In Canada

If you are a qualified professional or tradesperson, you may be wondering about how you will continue to work in your occupation after you arrive in Canada. Occupations in Canada can be divided into two general groups: regulated and un-regulated. Although approximately 80% of jobs in Canada are unregulated, there are many cases where restrictions […]

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The Future of Canadian immigration

Meyer Burnstein a 20 year veteran of Canadian immigration policies has drafted a high-level CIC document that Lexbase believes will be the “road map of operational changes to come”. The document introduces provincial opportunities for increased federal support regarding the entrance of “low-skilled” labour, and facilitates work permits to foreign workers who are destined to […]

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Food crisis in Nigeria

Nigeria currently faces a devastating food crisis. Drought and an invasion of desert locusts have caused substancial shortages in both crops and grazing land, causing a 225,000-tonne grain deficiency in the 2004–2005 harvest that threatens close to 3,000 villages, and affects some 3.5 million people in the region. Canada, through the Canadian International Development Agency […]

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Question & Answer

Question: The skilled worker application asks what city the applicant plans to settle in. If the applicant is subsequently selected, is he/she obliged to settle initially in that city? Answer: Once you enter Canada as a Permanent Resident, you will be able to live anywhere you wish inside of Canada’s borders regardless of the initial […]

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