When my first husband and I, both teachers in England without any children, learnt that our counterparts in B.C. were earning 21/2 times our salary, we decided to migrate to Canada.

After satisfying the Canadian immigration requirements, both of us applied for jobs, and got them with the Sechelt School district because they were the only school board who would deploy us without any interview.

Canada should revamp its immigration selection system to do what it was actually designed to do in 1967- select immigrants who will make great contributions to Canada.

Canada was the first country in the world to introduce a selection system that was based on points. The original points system which was introduced in the year 1967 was closely linked to the demand of the labour market and an immigrant’s potential to meet that demand.

According to researchers who reviewed the latest Canadian cancer statistics, doctors should consider the possibility of cancer in young people and be particularly vigilant about thyroid and liver cancers.

Do you want to move to Canada and start a new life here? But hold on a minute, don’t you think you are hurrying into the decision.

You don’t just need to load up a U-Haul and roll over the border waving at the smiling customs agents present there. They are a little fussier than what exactly you think.

Whenever a new immigration minister is appointed in Canada, pundits pull out the tea leaves in order to search a glimpse into the Canadian immigration policy’s future.

At the same time, I am not bothered much. The fact is that Canadian immigration ministers rarely exercise any significant personal influence on the existing immigration policy. Most of the ministers hardly have any immigration experience or any public known positions on immigration policy prior to assuming responsibility to this portfolio.

Zeituni Onyango came to the United States to seek asylum from her native Kenya but her request was turned down and she was ordered to leave the country in 2004.

Four years later, she is still at the same place and her nephew is about to become the president of the United States.

The economic arguments by the government for its open door policy were torn apart in the Lords, as they concluded record levels of immigration have left almost no benefits.

Members of an influential committee of peers, which included two former Chancellors and several former Cabinet ministers, said that ministers must set an ‘explicit target range’ for immigration and make rules in order to keep within the limit.

A Canadian man Hassan Diab has been arrested because of his alleged involvement in the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in Paris. He could face extraction to France in connection to the bombing.

Justice Department spokesman Christian Girouard said that Hassan Diab was taken into custody today on a provisional extradition warrant issued at the request of French authorities. Girouard said that under the Canadian law, French authorities will have a period of 45 days to provide further legal details to back up their extradition request. Last year, Diab, a part-time sociology instructor at the University of Ottawa, was named in French new reports for the first time.

Baljit Ram, a failed refugee, said that he lied about him being a member of the Babbar Khalsa group in order to persuade Canadian authorities to let him stay in the country.

Ram told The Vancouver Sun Monday that he wasn’t even a Sikh, but claimed to be one in order to have a compelling tale for the Immigration and Refugee Board after he arrived illegally in Canada in the year 1998.

During a series of workshops being held during the Atlantic Dialogue in Moncton for two days, the challenges faced by immigrants to Canada will be on the table for discussion.

The Atlantic Dialogue is a two-day conference aimed at establishing partnerships between employers and organizations in order to help immigrants find work in jobs and professions that match their educational qualifications, skills and experience.