Canada Spousal Sponsorship immigration will hit a record high in 2022
This year, more people are immigrating to Canada through spousal sponsorships, with a projected 8.2% increase. According to the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reports, in the first half of 2022, 34,870 new permanent residents arrived through spousal sponsorship programs. If this trend continues, it is possible that 69,740 new permanent residents may come to Canada by the end of 2022. This is 5,305 more new permanent residents than the number of immigrants who came to Canada under these programs in 2021.
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Toronto and Vancouver are among the top 10 tech markets in North America
The demand for technology workers in Toronto and Vancouver is outpacing the number of skilled workers in those cities, creating opportunities for foreign nationals who want to immigrate to Canada. According to the American commercial real estate firm CBRE Group’s latest North American market report, Evolving Workforces: Scoring Tech Talent 2022, both Toronto and Vancouver are in the top 10 tech talent markets. Toronto was ranked the third greatest tech market in North America, while Vancouver has been positioned eighth.
#Tech_sector, #Toronto, #GTA, #Vancouver, #tech_workers
The unemployment rate rose by 0.5 percentage points in August
Although unemployment in Canada increased to 5.4 percent in August, immigrants still had a lower unemployment rate than any other August over the last 16 years. According to the new Statistics Canada report, the groups most impacted by job losses in August were young women and teenage girls, as well as seniors aged 55 to 64 years old. Although we experienced job losses in fields such as education, construction, and public services, other sectors such as the professional, science, and tech sector gained employees.
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The University of Toronto evaluated the impact of the pandemic on the Canadian labour market
The University of Toronto published a new report which indicated the pandemic’s significant influence on a wide range of labour market outcomes for all workers in Canada. The adverse consequences have been particularly severe for recent immigrants compared to domestic-born individuals, who had a disproportionately lower probability of being employed and holding full-time jobs. Established immigrants also experienced similar problems. To sum up, the entire workforce felt pandemic-related consequences, but these effects were especially problematic for recent and established immigrants.
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