Northwest Territories

Dana Heide: Dana Heide, the Deputy Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, said the government has to consider the housing needs for many people, according to CBC. Heide was responding to a report released by the Northwest Territories Teachers' Association which says about 60 per cent of teachers feel their housing is not adequate and Finding housing for teachers isn't as simple as buying houses, said a Northwest Territories deputy minister. This is a broader issue than just teachers. We have to look to our partners and develop an ongoing sustainable plan with the department of health for nurses, social workers and doctors, with human resources for other positions in the communities, Heide said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Nominee Program Dept: The N.W.T. Nominee Program was launched in August 2009 to help address a shortage of workers in some industries, including the service and hospitality sector, by fast-tracking the permanent residency applications of eligible foreign workers, according to CBC. If that worker meets certain criteria, the department can recommend him or her to the federal Citizenship and Immigration Department and a Northwest Territories government program that helps some foreign workers stay in the territory is not getting many applicants to date. N.W.T. employers can apply to the territorial Department of Education, Culture and Employment to have a foreign worker nominated for permanent residency. As reported in the news.
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Yellowknife Tours: McLeod believes the N.W.T. has much to offer Chinese immigrants, and many of those immigrants are focused on investment. , according to CBC. Yellowknife business owner and Hong Kong native Angela Law says it about time the territory and Chinese recognize what the North has to offer. She runs Yellowknife Tours with her husband and daughter. Last year, they offered tours to more than 700 visitors, many of whom came from China. N.W.T. Premier Bob McLeod is heading to China in January. In the past, he used the visits to promote investment in the territory furs, diamonds and untapped gas reserves. This year, he also wants to promote the N.W.T. as a place to live. "We're interested in increasing the population of the Northwest Territories," McLeod says. "Just think: thousands of people coming to the Northwest Territories investing significant amounts of money. That would be quite an improvement to our economy." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Progressive Conservatives: Rheaume ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House in March 1962, but he was elected to represent the opposition Progressive Conservatives in the Northwest Territories one year later when Lester Pearson was the Liberal prime minister, according to CTV. He was defeated in the 1965 and 1974 federal elections, and according to the parliamentary website, worked as an administrator, insurance agent and social worker and PENTICTON, B.C. -- The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples says a high profile Metis leader who was elected to Parliament died Friday in the south Okanagan city of Penticton, B.C., Eugene Rheaume was 80. He served on nine Parliamentary committees, including fisheries, Indian affairs, human rights and citizenship, as well as mines, forests and waters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Mitigation Plan Dept: Meeting for the third day in the Northwest Territories, premiers from the seven western provinces and territories also pressured the federal government to immediately boost immigration to address the looming demand for more than a million new workers in the West, according to Calgary Herald. "Millions of acres of have been flooded or have gone unseeded and cattle producers may have to reduce their herds because of pasture damage and inadequate forage." Western premiers on Wednesday urged the federal government to devise a national disaster mitigation plan and to consider funding a special compensation program for farm families and communities devastated by ruinous floods and forest fires. "Severe natural disasters have significantly affected the lives and livelihoods of many families across Canada," the premiers said in a joint statement released after three days of meetings at the annual Western Premiers Conference in Yellowknife, N.W.T. As reported in the news.
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university of Toronto researcher: Lindsay Bell, a university of Toronto researcher, looked at mine training programs in the Northwest Territories. She says after being trained, few aboriginal people found jobs in the mines, according to CBC. The money will go to a group of stakeholders called the Ring of Fire Aboriginal Training Alliance, which includes Matawa First Nations, NorOnt Resources and Confederation College and The federal governments $6 million in funding to train people from Matawa First Nations in the mining sector is unlikely to improve employment prospects for aboriginal people, an Ontario researcher says. The federal government announced earlier this month that 260 people will be trained through the fund. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

reporter: Mark Blinch / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO By Jennifer Yang Identity and Inequality Reporter Wed., Feb. 1, 2017 Who is a true Canadian For the majority of respondents in a new survey, it's somebody who not only speaks English or French but also shares Canadian customs and traditions a marker that Canadians prioritized more than even the Australians, French or Americans, according to Toronto Star. With an eye on nationalist movements and rising anti-immigrant sentiment, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of more than 14,500 people in 14 countries to investigate global perspectives on a thorny idea What does it take to be one of us In a report released Wednesday, Pew researchers found language was the most critical factor for how people defined a true member of their nation, with the Netherlands, Hungary and United Kingdom placing the highest premium on speaking the native tongue. Canadians polled for a survey on what makes a true Canadian said being able to speak French or English and sharing Canadian customs and traditions were of high importance. Canadians and Italians were the least likely to link language with national identity, though nearly nine-in-10 Canadians both Anglophone and Francophone still felt speaking French or English was very or somewhat important despite the fact 20.6 per cent of Canadians did not consider either to be their mother tongue, according to the 2011 census. Article Continued Below For whatever it means, Canadians seem to value customs and traditions more so than even people in the U.S. or in many of the European countries, said Stokes, director of Global Economic Attitudes with the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C. And while the majority say the ability to speak French or English is important, relatively speaking, it's not that important to Canadians compared to even Australians or people in the U.S. Like all polls, this one has important limitations, including the fact the nebulous phrase of national customs and traditions was not defined and left for individual respondents to interpret. react-empty 161 Canadians in the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories were also excluded from the Canadian survey, which was conducted in April and May 2016 and had a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points at a 95 per cent confidence level. In Canada, 54 per cent of 1,020 respondents also placed a high premium on shared customs and traditions when defining the Canadian identity, with only Hungary, Greece and Poland showing larger proportions of people who prioritized shared culture something that jumped out for Bruce Stokes, the author of the report. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Canadian Museum of Civilization: Those may well be among the questions Tuesday when Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, Historica Canada, high school students and community members take part in The Amazing Citizenship Race Game Show at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, according to CTV. The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies will be urging Ottawa to hurry up with its new Building Canada Plan at a news conference to highlight the importance of federal spending on infrastructure and OTTAWA -- Quick: who was Canada's first prime minister? What's the capital of the Northwest Territories? Don't expect similar questions later in the day, though, during question period in the House of Commons, where the Senate spending scandal remains all the rage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

Rita Mueller: It's play-based, very hands on, says Rita Mueller, assistant deputy minister with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. , according to CBC. The taxpayers have said we need to have more options for parents for high quality early childhood programs, and we believe this is the responsible financially prudent way to go about that, Mueller says. Starting this fall, schools in the Northwest Territories will begin offering full-day junior kindergarten to four-year-olds . She says new junior kindergarten programming will roll out over the next three years, starting with the territorys smallest communities, followed by regional centres and finally, Yellowknife. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.

iranian father: We have an affinity and understanding of the Canadian Indigenous people, their history, their culture, said Sharifi, who was born to an Arab mother and an Iranian father and spent the first part of her life in southwestern Iran, according to National Observer. Some of my feelings and closeness and understanding comes from my own personal experience as someone who grew up in a minority ethnic group in a developing country. Seven years after founding the Arctic Inspiration Prize, Arnold Witzig and Simi Sharifi are handing over what they say is their entire fortune to a trust fund that distributes millions of dollars every year to northern groups whose work improves the quality of life for their community members. ; As immigrants to Canada going back more than 30 years, Sharifi said, the couple wanted to focus their philanthropic efforts on their adopted homeland and its northern Indigenous people, whose resilience and culture they deeply respect. The Arctic Inspiration Prize was established in 2012 and offers financial support to groups working to benefit the Canadian Arctic, its people and Canada as a whole. The recipients were announced Wednesday night in Ottawa at the Northern Lights Business and Cultural Showcase.A youth category was included this year for the first time, awarding up to 100,000 each to as many as seven applicants. Eight teams shared more than 2.4 million this year, including a 1-million top prize for a land-based healing program to help at-risk Inuit, First Nation and Metis peoples in Yellowknife and surrounding communities in the Northwest Territories. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.