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Canada ranks No. 5 in the world's Top 10 happiest nations
Canada is the fifth-happiest country in the world, according to a global study on the social and economic well-being of nations, with Denmark, Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Australia all joining Canada in the Top 10.
Oil sands employers look abroad
Rapid job growth in Canada’s oil sands sector is creating opportunities for foreign workers, as hard to find skills and new technologies increasingly require employers to look abroad to plug the skill gaps.
Building boom dries up local labour pool
A nation-wide building boom and a wave of retiring workers are placing unprecedented demand on Canada’s construction sector, with forecasts that half of the workers required by 2019 will need to come from outside Canada.
Labour crisis for Canada's energy industry
The national Electricity Sector Council (ESC) says upwards of 45,000 skilled workers, supervisors and managers will be needed to replace a wave of new retirees and to work on a raft of "next generation" infrastructure projects over the next five years.
Canada’s top jobs
Petroleum engineers have bagged the top spot on a recent survey of Canada’s best-paying jobs, closely followed by other services feeding into the country's expanding oil & gas sector.
Alberta eyes international workers
Record levels of production and investment by Alberta’s oil industry have seen the province clock up its highest GDP since 2006, but skills shortages are already affecting businesses and bringing an urgent call for ‘aggressive international recruitment’.
Fast-track hiring benefits skilled workers
Skilled migrants and employers frustrated by the long delays in the hiring process for temporary foreign workers received welcome news this month – changes to the program that might eventually triple the number of foreign workers Canada hires.
New trades stream could benefit ‘tens of thousands’
Canada’s federal government is to create a separate stream for overseas tradespeople seeking to work in Canada, which could grow to benefit ‘tens of thousands’ of skilled migrants.
Ontario faces construction shortage
The Canadian province of Ontario is predicted to need an extra 120,000 workers over the next nine years as it prepares to meet the demands of its booming construction sector.
Oil & gas boom reshapes Canada’s migration
The latest census figures reveal that Canada’s West is reshaping the country’s demographic landscape as skilled workers migrate west to cash in on the oil & gas boom. Meanwhile, immigration is driving up the population, making Canada the fastest growing G8 nation.
Tradies fast-tracked as skill shortages bite
As labour shortages bite, Canada’s oil & gas sector has welcomed the news of a separate trades stream within the Federal Skilled Worker Program to fast-track migrants with trades that are urgently needed for the oilpatch and construction sector.
Canada to speed up approval of major pipelines
Canada's federal government has announced it will speed up environmental reviews for major energy and mining projects, in a bid to keep the country's growing pipeline of oil & gas investment flowing.
Canada's mining boom fires up job growth
With an investment pipeline of $140 billion, Canada’s mining sector is leading the way to economic recovery, supporting 300,000 jobs and with more yet to come, according to the Mining Association of Canada (MAC).
Major overhaul for Federal Skilled Worker Program
Canada's federal government will wipe out a waiting list of nearly 300,000 foreign workers and return $130 million in processing fees in a bid to eliminate the nation's massive skilled worker backlog.
Construction shortage hits home in Canada's west
Canada’s western provinces are facing a massive shortfall of skilled workers in the booming construction and trades sector as as billion-dollar infrastructure and oil & gas projects put the pinch on the labour supply.
Alberta calls for more immigration
Nearly 20 Alberta business groups have formed a coalition to call for more immigration from the federal government to avert the province’s labour crisis.
Alberta braces for chronic labour shortages
Alberta’s oil sands are booming once again, but the industry is bracing for chronic labour shortages amid forecasts of a shortfall of 114,000 workers by 2021, and a workforce that is expected to balloon by a staggering 73%.
BC looks to migrants in face of shortages
Billion-dollar construction and oil & gas projects are causing British Columbia to feel the labour crunch, with newcomers predicted to fill a third of the province’s job openings by 2020.
Immigration overhaul will fast-track priority candidates
Canada’s government is poised to give the nation’s immigration system a sweeping overhaul in 2012, with a new points-based selection process designed to send the best economic migrants and send them to the front of the visa queue.
Oil & gas drilling shortages
The Petroleum Human Resources Council has estimated that 39,000 oil & gas workers will be needed to replace workers in Canada who will retire before 2020 — and may need as many as 130,000 new hires by the end of the decade.