A Canada Immigrant's Blog

Toronto Plans to Gamble with Immigrants

2013-05-30T10:21:51Z

Why Toronto’s anti-immigrant mayor, the OLG and their Las Vegas friends are hell-bent on building a gigantic Casino, knowing full well who stands to get exploited the most by the dirty business? Before my tirade begins, let’s get some facts straight: Toronto is an immigrant city, whether the Mayor likes it or not. More than 50% [...]

How to Go to Canada

2013-05-20T11:17:28Z

Our immigration expert & consultant extraordinaire, Dr Grey V Trayn, explains how going to Canada is actually a lot easier than most potential immigrants realize. In our continuing series of interviews with Dr Grey V Trayn, we sat down one beautifully cold day to talk about how potential immigrants deal with the basic logistics of settling [...]

Newcomers: Cheap Rightwing Fodder

2013-05-08T10:40:53Z

How planeloads of gullible immigrants with bizarre “conservative values” are ending up in a constituency that despises them the most. Now a book addresses that too. As I’ve been saying since forever, imagine hordes and hordes of my fellow wide-eyed, gawky newbies from poorer countries with so-called conservative values arriving on the Canadian soil… They look [...]

First Nations: Canada’s Own Third World

2013-05-08T10:40:53Z

For newcomers from the Third World, there are sobering lessons to learn from the plight of the old, real Original Canadians. Our original fellow Canadians – the First Nations of Canada – are Idle No More: Finding new confident voices and a new self-belief to tackle a rightwing federal government that is mandated to be [...]

Plumbers of the World: Canada Wants You!

2013-05-08T10:40:54Z

Forget technology, science and medicine. CIC wants the best steam-fitters, pipe-fitters and gas-fitters on the planet to lead Canada into the 21st century. The new occupation list for the much anticipated Federal Skilled Trades Program reads like a – ahem – pipe dream of epic proportions. May be the conservatives were missing Richard Nixon’s plumbers [...]

The Nonstop Multiculture Show – Loving It!

2013-05-31T19:58:21Z

Little things that bring big satisfaction in Canada – IV This post is part of the Loving It series. Lost and Found The cute Chinese girl turns around and looks worried about her lost one in the crowd of hundreds thronging the Harbourfront public concert. People jostle around her, but then she spots him and [...]

Time to Decentralize Immigration?

2013-05-08T10:40:54Z

In a fast changing industrial climate, provinces and cities should have more say in determining the right skilled workforce for their economies. Although yours truly was invited to but missed attending, the recent unveiling of Ontario’s new Immigration Strategy has had me revisit what I’ve always wondered: Why most of the, if not all, Federal Skilled Workers Program framework [...]

The ‘Racist’ Immigrant?

2013-05-08T10:40:54Z

It’s the rightwing loonies’ favourite accusation. And their hatred for immigrants is not going to stop Canada from changing. But a loony’s denial of change is strong and hellbent, if nothing else. I get my fair share of ‘feedback’ from self-appointed custodians and national representatives of the Canadian lunatic fringe here on Canada Immigrant Blog. [...]

Canada’s War on Immigrants

2013-05-08T10:40:54Z

With virtually no opposition or objections, how a rightwing administration is successfully ‘purifying’ Canada into an unwelcoming nation of the few and selected. A nation of the few, for the few, by the few. I imagine that’s how the banner must read at the monthly Conservative Cabinet meetings somewhere over the sprawling tar-sands mansions in Alberta. [...]

Newcomer’s Guide to Insurance

2013-05-08T10:40:54Z

The ultimate guide to understanding Canadian Insurance and why every self-respecting immigrant must earn more and more money to pay more and more premiums to feel more and more secure in their bankers’ hands. In this third part of our series with the Immigration consultant extraordinaire, Dr Grey V. Trayn, we discuss the great Insurance [...]