• Immigration

    Expression Of Interest Numbers Reveal Quebec’s Immigration Appeal Despite Controversies

    More than 91,000 profiles have been submitted through Quebec Skilled Worker Program’s new Arrima online portal since September. More than 91,000 immigration candidates have submitted expressions of interest through Quebec’s online Arrima portal since it opened last September — a six-month period dominated by the rise of the province’s new Coalition Avenir Québec government.   The Arrima portal was introduced September 18, 2018, to manage profiles submitted to the Quebec Skilled Worker Program after it was switched to an Expression Of Interest (EOI) system by the previous Liberal government, which then lost Quebec’s general election on October 1, 2018, to the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ). An EOI system requires interested candidates to create a profile that…

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    Year By Year Increase In Job Vacancies In Canada

    Job vacancies rose in every Canadian province in 3rd quarter of 2018. Ontario , Quebec and British Columbia reported the largest year-over-year increases. Job vacancies increased in every Canadian province in the third quarter of 2018, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.  Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia reported the largest year-over-year increases during the three-month period spanning July 1 to September 30, 2018. Statistics Canada said there were 550,000 job vacancies in Canada during the quarter, which was an increase of 83,000 over the same period in 2017. “This was the eighth consecutive quarter with a year-over-year increase in both the number of job vacancies and the job vacancy…