Tens and billions of dollars spent in major infrastructure and commercial development in the Western Canada are fuelling a continuous shortage of skilled people in construction, just as like the energy projects in the east rise up and compete for a dwindling pool of workers.

For Brian McAdam, Canadian diplomat, it wasn’t that he had uncovered the lucrative sale of Canadian visas when he was posted at the Honk Kong consulate of Canada.

He says that the Canadians as well as the Chinese consular staff were selling visas to members of the Chinese mafia and intelligence service of Communist China. He heard that he price somewhere in between $10,000 to $100,000 per visa.

Twenty-four year old Parminder Saini was working night shift at the Sunrise Propane on August 10. During the early morning hours on that day, an explosion tote through the site that sent fragments flying for blocks.

Dina Mohamed Hamad has been continuously crying while she is trying to untie the red tape that forced her and her husband to leave their two-year-old daughter in Egypt.

It has been four months since Hamad, 30 and her husband Mohamed El Sayed, 33, has not seen their daughter Miriam. But the saddest part is that they might have to wait for another year before Miriam’s file gets examined to determine if she will get visa to Canada or not, immigration officials say.

Rene Talbot and Aifeng Wang said ‘I do’ to each other almost a year ago after they got married. But now, the government is saying that ‘you won’t’.

The couple got married in Canada and till now they have been unsuccessful in acquiring a visa for Wang to come to Canada. It seems that they will have to spend their first year anniversary in a similar way they spent their year of marriage--- on the phone.

The small city in Brantford that was once home to the great Wayne Gretzky and inventor Alexander Graham has now become home to a terrorist. But, the saddest part is that the Canadian government might not do anything about it.

The Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day issued a statement on the deportation of Mr. Giuseppe Coluccio. Mr. Giuseppe is a person who is on the most wanted list of Italy. In the issued statement, the minister said that he would like to praise the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) for the way they speeded up the process of removal of Mr. Giuseppe Coluccio from Canada. He added that this showcases Canada’s ability to coordinate efforts to fight transnational organized crimes and speed up the immigration enforcement proceedings.

Federal Immigration Minister Diane Finley has high grade security equipment installed at her residence and riding office because of the fear over her personal safety. The cost of the whole security for Minister Finley has been estimated to be around $15,000.

Canada has a huge backlog of immigration applications that is more than 900,000 and in addition to this there are hundreds and thousands of deserving people who apply every year. There are many people who have been waiting for years in order to get their applications processed. The federal government complained that due to the first come- first served immigration process, individuals having skills and experience that are required by the employers are not been able to be admitted.

The immigration minister of Canada, Diane Finley is still consulting with the business groups regarding the job openings that are to be made available for the skilled immigrants based on the new legislation that could accelerate immigration applications.