Canada police deploy facial recognition tech Canada is adopting some of its North American neighbor’s controversial police methods and dipping its toes into the pool of facial recognition technology, with Calgary police paving the way for a full-scale automated biometric identification system. Beginning this month, the Calgary Police Service will start taking advantage of…
Express Entry touted as ‘sea change’ Express Entry, announced in July, represents a “sea change” in Canadian immigration policy, said Alexander, who spent 18 years as a member of the Canadian Foreign Service, including a stint as Canada’s ambassador to Afghanistan, before being elected as Conservative MP for the Ontario riding of Ajax-Pickering in…
About 35% of survey respondents in 189 countries said they’d move to Canada The global workforce is increasingly mobile with more than 35 per cent of respondents to a Boston Consulting Group survey saying they’d be willing to work in Canada. That puts Canada behind only the U.S. and Britain as a preferred destination…
Expanding Police Powers Online Not Popular Among Canadians: Poll Fewer than one in four Canadians support expanding the ability of law enforcement to access information about individuals’ internet usage, according to a new poll from Ipsos Reid. The poll, carried out for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), found that individual rights outweigh the…
Temporary foreign worker applications drop 74% since new reforms Applications for temporary foreign workers have dropped by three-quarters following the new rules introduced by the federal government in June, says Employment Minister Jason Kenney. “We announced a fundamental sweep of reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program earlier this year to ensure that it is…
Canadians expose foreign worker ‘mess’ in oilsands Canadian tradesmen from a huge oilsands construction project are waving a red flag about safety hazards and near misses, which they blame on the use of foreign workers who aren’t qualified and can’t speak English. “When you bring in a bunch of workers who are unqualified to…
Actyl Group sues McDonald’s over halting of foreign worker program An international recruiting service has filed a lawsuit in Manitoba court against McDonald’s Canada. Actyl Group is suing McDonald’s for breach of contract. [Read more…] Immigration law needs overhaul to deal with minor violations: R. Reis Pagtakhan Last week, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris…
Foreign workers program challenged in court A husband and wife who own two chain restaurants in Labrador have launched a constitutional challenge against Ottawa’s move to keep them from hiring foreign workers and place their businesses on an online blacklist. This is the first legal action against the federal government’s revamped temporary foreign workers program…
If Canada wants to build roads and bridges, it needs infrastructure banks Mark Twain famously said, “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” The same could be said about infrastructure in Canada today: “Everyone – on all points on the political spectrum – talks about infrastructure but nobody suggests serious, coherent…
Decision time: Canada needs new fighter jets – now Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets are due to retire in 2020. They need to be replaced, but no fully operational F-35s will be available by that date. Stephen Harper has a decision to make: buy another model of fighter jet, or face a dangerous capability gap. He…
Bitcoin Enables Drug Dealing, Just as Major Banks Do Last week Charlie Shrem, the 24-year-old founder and chief executive of a leading Bitcoin payments company, was arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after getting off a plane from Amsterdam. Shrem, along with a Florida man named Robert Faiella, was charged with conspiracy to…
