Record Numbers: Canada and Report

record numbers: Record numbers of immigrants are changing the way we look and paving the way for a rosier future in Atlantic Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. However, as an Atlantic Provinces Economic Council Report report recently showed, we need to find better ways of keeping those new faces here. They arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in January of last year, among the first wave of the now 40,000 Syrian refugees living in Canada. The report, which is based on information from Statistics Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, says 8,300 immigrants arrived two years ago. This represented a tripling of numbers since 2002, according to APEC, which attributes the increase to expanded use of provincial nominee programs. More arrived the following year, 11,600 came during the first nine months of 2016, largely due to the wave of Syrian refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.