Canada's May job gains exceed forecasts; wage growth acceleratesThe unemployment rate ticked up to a 28-month high of 6.2% from 6.1% in April, matching forecasts. The jobless rate, on an uptrend over the...
07 Jun, 2024, 07.03 PM IST
Canada clocks fastest population growth in 66 years, driven by immigrationCanada's population surged to 40.77 million in 2023 due to temporary immigration, impacting housing and economy. Trudeau's government took ...
28 Mar, 2024, 08.49 AM IST
Why is Canada capping foreign students and who will be impacted?The proposals will also set limits on work permits handed out after graduation to foreign students who attended some institutions. The perm...
25 Jan, 2024, 11.07 AM IST
Immigrants and students fuel Canada's population growth to 70-year highCanada's population has reached a nearly 70-year high, driven by a surge in immigrants and students, according to Statistics Canada. The co...
28 Sep, 2023, 08.44 AM IST
Canada to change how it counts foreign students, workers amid housing crunchCanada's main statistics agency, Statistics Canada, has announced that it will change the way it counts non-permanent residents in response...
01 Sep, 2023, 12.21 PM IST
Record international migration spurs historic rise in Canadian populationTotal population grew by a record 1.05 million people to 39.57 million in the twelve months to Jan. 1, 2023, and about 96% of the rise was ...
22 Mar, 2023, 10.37 PM IST
Canada's real problem is not job losses, it's the rush to retireCanada's labor force grew in August, but it fell the previous two months and remains smaller than before the summer as tens of thousands of...
12 Sep, 2022, 08.24 PM IST
Universities in Canada hit a surplus of $7.3bn from international student tuitionsOver the past decade, tuition revenues have become more important to universities, increasing the total revenues from 21.5% to 28.8%. In th...
15 Aug, 2022, 01.45 PM IST
Canada's population surges from 2016-2021, thanks to record immigrationCanada added 1.8 million people between 2016 and 2021, with nearly 80% of those new residents arriving from elsewhere in the world, retaini...
11 Feb, 2022, 12.09 PM IST
Your chances of landing a job in Canada just got betterMost of this year’s gains are expected to be driven by newcomers to the country, rather than the pandemic unemployed returning to the workf...
10 Jan, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
Rats, drought and labour shortages eat into global edible oil recoveryThe FAO's global edible oils index is up 91 per cent since last June, and is expected to climb further as economies reopen following COVID-...
05 Sep, 2021, 10.29 AM IST
Canada loses more jobs than expected in May as lockdowns weigh on the economySome 68,000 jobs were lost in May, more than the average analyst prediction for a loss of 20,000. The unemployment rate climbed to 8.2%, in...
04 Jun, 2021, 07.12 PM IST
Canada's March GDP shrinks a record 9% from February: Statscan flash estimateThe monthly decline in gross domestic product (GDP) was the most since the series started in 1961, Statscan said in its first-ever release ...
15 Apr, 2020, 06.52 PM IST