Archive for April 2022

With over a million job vacancies needing to be filled immediately, Canada is offering international students with expiring temporary status an opportunity to gain work experience and have a better chance at qualifying for permanent residency in the country. Starting this summer, former international students currently in the country with a post-graduation work permit expiring…

To deal with an aging and dwindling population, New Brunswick is working with some NGOs to help attract and retain refugees in a bid to save the future of the province’s smaller towns. Working with the Montreal-based Refugee Centre and the Toronto-based Northpine Foundation, the Refugee Relocation Program is piloting an initiative to relocate refugees…

CALGARY – Some engineering students have figured out how to convert all-terrain vehicles to solar power and hope it will benefit Indigenous and remote communities in Canada’s North. Henry Penn from the Arctic Institute of North America’s Kluane Lake Research Station, 220 kilometres northwest of Whitehorse, wanted to find a way to convert a gas-powered…

Dr. Ratna Ghosh often hears the expression from her Indian international students that they had “passed out in college in this year” when they are referring to their graduation dates. Other Indian-origin English contortions in Ghosh’s collection include “too much good” for very good; “a lot many” for plentiful, and “I am a topper” for…

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is conducting a study to explore potential cultural bias shown by its employees when it comes to processing visa applications at the country’s points of entry, according to a department spokesperson.  The study comes in response to a survey examining workplace racism at IRCC released last year that revealed…