University Avenue: Porcelain Shop and Store

university avenue: She started wondering about the province's business immigration system -- and whether it really keeps immigrants or creates lasting jobs, according to CTV. How do we have a system that encourages this Where's the oversight to our provincial immigration nominee program she asks, standing at her second-floor window overlooking University Avenue, near the city's downtown. She was excited to have newcomers open up shop around her, but watched in disappointment as their companies -- including a Chinese children's book store, a porcelain shop, a store that sold reproductions of art, and a baked goods store -- closed over the last two-and-a-half years. From my window, I could see four storefronts which began to be these turnover businesses, which were legitimate businesses, but weren't conducting much business. It's a system the provincial Liberal government says is diversifying the Island's population and economy, but its critics say has evolved into a side-door route to larger Canadian cities, while filling the province's coffers with forfeited deposits from failed or abandoned ventures. Locally, such businesses set up under the 100 per cent ownership stream in the provincial nominee program are known simply as PNP companies. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.