Canada employment

Labour Force Survey: Employment in Canada held steady in February 2023

According to Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey, employment in Canada stayed relatively the same (+22,000; +0.1%), following two monthly increases in December 2022 and January 2023. Discover if You Are Eligible for Canadian Immigration The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.0%, which is just shy of the record-low 4.9% that was seen in the […]

By Julia Hornstein

IRCC extends policy that allows visitors to obtain work permits if they have valid job offers

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced that any foreign national who receives a job offer while in Canada will be able to apply for, and receive, a work permit.

By Edana Robitaille

Canadian immigrants’ efforts to find employment complicated by perceived skills mismatch

Skilled Canadian immigrants are being confronted by a perception that they may not possess the skills/aptitudes required to perform many of the same jobs in Canada that they might have performed in their country of origin.

By Vimal Sivakumar

Work and Study Permit holders see huge gains in employment, as strong hiring continues in Canada

January saw a considerable increase in overall employment, as 150,000 jobs (+5% of total employment) across Canada were filled in the first month of 2023.

By Asheesh Moosapeta

December 2022 Labour Force Survey: Employment across Canada rises by over 100,000 to wrap up the year

According to the latest Labour Force Survey (December 2022) released by Statistics Canada, employment in Canada rose 0.5 percentage points over the month (+104,000 jobs), as the national unemployment rate dropped to 5.0% (-0.1% month-over-month).

By Vimal Sivakumar

Recent Canadian immigrants endured disproportionate economic strain due to COVID-19: Statistics Canada

The economic contributions of Canadian immigrants cannot be understated.

By Vimal Sivakumar

Canadian employment up by 10,000 jobs in November 2022: Labour Force Survey

According to the latest Labour Force Survey (November 2022) released by Statistics Canada, women between 25 and 54 years of age (considered to be of core working age) experienced a rise in employment of 0.4%.

By Vimal Sivakumar

Canadian job vacancies have reached another all-time high

Statistics Canada has released results of the Job Vacancy and Wage Survey report for the second quarter of 2022. Overall, vacancies were up 4.7% from the first quarter of 2022 and 42.3% higher than the second quarter of 2021.

By Edana Robitaille

IRCC’s #ImmigrationMatters campaign highlights the benefits of immigration

Since 2018 Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has been running its immigration matters campaign as part of IRCC’s efforts to raise awareness of the benefits of immigration about all the ways immigration enriches Canada.

By Edana Robitaille