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500,000 new residents came to Canada in 2009
May 17, 2010 – 10:48 pm | One Comment
500,000 new residents came to Canada in 2009

If you’re new to Canada or if you’re thinking of settling here, you’re not alone.

More than half a million newcomers — permanent residents, temporary workers, and foreign students — came to live in Canada

Best places to live: Canada’s Top 10 cities
May 6, 2010 – 9:01 am | 7 Comments
Best places to live: Canada’s Top 10 cities

Most newcomers to Canada settle in the country’s largest urban areas: Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal.

Yet according to the MoneySense 2010 Best Places to Live survey — which rated 179 Canadian cities and towns …

Business in Vancouver: Can the city attract top talent?
May 3, 2010 – 7:05 am | Comments Off on Business in Vancouver: Can the city attract top talent?
Business in Vancouver: Can the city attract top talent?

Vancouver-based social media exec Rochelle Grayson — an expat who’s lived in Germany and the U.S. as well as in Canada — recently blogged about what she called “Vancouver’s Challenging Business Environment.”

She …

Wanted to interview: American relocating to Canada for work
April 28, 2010 – 3:14 pm | 3 Comments
Wanted to interview: American relocating to Canada for work

Are you an American who just moved to Canada for a job?

Or an American looking for work in Canada?

Then perhaps you can help with the following inquiry that I received today from a …

More American expats give up their citizenship
April 28, 2010 – 7:15 am | 7 Comments
More American expats give up their citizenship

From the New York Times:

Amid mounting frustration over taxation and banking problems, small but growing numbers of overseas Americans are taking the weighty step of renouncing their citizenship.

Why? “…Frustrations over