Become a Canadian: Vietnamese Immigrants Honored with Calgary Park Monument

Vietnamese Immigrants Honored with Calgary Park Monument

On Friday, July 1, 2022, hundreds of people gathered together for the Journey to Freedom Park grand opening in southeast Calgary. The long-awaited park, which had been in construction since April last year, was built in honor of the Vietnamese refugees who fled to Canada at the fall of Saigon in 1975. One of the … Read more

Ottawa among World’s Top Cities for Work

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Some Canadian cities made it to the 2022 Work-Life Balance list by Kisi, a mobile access technology company. Out of Canadian cities on the list, Ottawa ranked highest and placed seventh in the list. According to the report, Ottawa has a score of 95.51 out of 100. With a score of 92.23 and 16th on … Read more

Become A Canadian: Retiring Baby Boomers Are Fueling Immigration to Canada

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Currently, the retiring rate of the Baby Boomers, that is, people born from 1946 to 1964, is on the rise in Canada. This trend is the primary factor causing the inadequacies in the labour force in Canada in recent years. According to Become A Canadian, one crucial way to reduce the negative effects of this … Read more

What are the Most Common Natural Resources in Canada?

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Canada’s natural resource wealth was $550 billion in 2020, down 32.7 percent from $818 billion the previous year. The natural wealth estimates reported in this publication by Statistics Canada reflect the value of known and probable reserves for chosen minerals, established active accounts for energy, and physically accessible and harvestable timber stocks.

Canadian Professor Proves Immigrants Don’t Take Away Jobs

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A University of California economics professor, originally from Guelph, Ontario, recently was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for research about minimum wage and how immigration affects the labor force. His research found that the increasing of minimum wage doesn’t impact employment numbers. In another study he found that immigration doesn’t impact the employment for … Read more

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