Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 20:07:54 +0000
Each sticky note on the wall of SFC Pizzeria in Winnipeg, Manitoba, symbolizes a meal for someone in need. Vikas Sanger and Shivani Sanger are immigrants from New Delhi, India. Shivani works as a dental hygienist and Vikas owns the restaurant where he got the idea for the “Pay It Forward Pizza Program.” Vikas came […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Tracey Lilly| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:14 +0000
As of August 2019, 29 U.S. states and the District of Columbia had renewable portfolio standards (RPSs), and eight others had non-binding renewable portfolio goals. Three states also had clean energy standards, which set targets for low-carbon non-renewables, like nuclear, and two had clean energy goals. Shown in the bars are the shares of generation by source for […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:00:00 +0000
Kenya Launches Africa’s Largest Wind Farm. Kenya in July began operating the 310-MW Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) facility, which the government said is Africa’s largest wind power farm. The LTWP project
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Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:00:43 +0000
Le gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick prévoit accroître considérablement le nombre d’immigrants dans la province au cours des cinq prochaines années afin de relever les défis économiques et sociaux posés par le vieillissement de sa population. La nouvelle stratégie de croissance démographique du gouvernement prévoit que le nombre d’immigrants économiques qui s’établiront chaque année au Nouveau-Brunswick atteindra […]
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Credit to Author: Stephen Smith| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:03:00 +0000
Ontario must identify new ways of ensuring more immigrants settle outside the Greater Toronto Area in order to guarantee more balanced population growth across the province and maintain a “high quality of life” for all its residents in the coming years, a new Conference Board of Canada study shows. The Greater Toronto Area, or GTA, […]
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Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:38:59 +0000
Immigration candidates with a profile in Canada’s Express Entry system were the focus of new invitations to apply for a provincial nomination for Canadian permanent residence from the province of Alberta. Alberta issued 121 Notifications of Interest (NOIs) to Express Entry stream candidates with Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) scores as low as 400 in its […]
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Credit to Author: Shelby Thevenot| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 19:24:56 +0000
The Government of New Brunswick is calling for a significant increase in immigration to the province over the next five years to address the economic and social challenges posed by its ageing population. The government’s new population growth strategy would see the number of economic immigrants settling in New Brunswick each year reach 7,500 by […]
Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:30:30 +0000
Yang’s Freedom Dividend is an implementation of the universal basic income tailored for the US in 2020, and tailored to win over Democratic and Independent voters
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 16:52:16 +0000
The names of bulk power system entities that violate federal critical infrastructure cybersecurity reliability standards—along with identification of standards violated and penalties assessed—may soon be routinely disclosed under changes proposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Reliability Corp. (NERC). The proposed changes, which FERC and NERC outlined in an Aug. […]
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Credit to Author: CIC News| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:00:23 +0000
Le gouvernement du Québec a annoncé un financement de près de 55 millions de dollars pour aider au recrutement et à l’intégration des travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Le ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, Jean Boulet, a déclaré que 20,9 M$ de ce total seront consacrés à quatre nouvelles initiatives visant à […]
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