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Canada targets skilled workers from the U.S.
November 13, 2009 – 7:25 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Canada targets skilled workers from the U.S.

Is Canada “stealing talent from Uncle Sam?”

According to a recent Maclean’s article:

Each year, a wave of foreign-born employees in the U.S. exhausts the sixth and final year of work visas known as H-1Bs—documents…

From London to Toronto: More expat tales
October 21, 2009 – 7:10 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
From London to Toronto: More expat tales

Last week, we shared an essay about relocating from Scotland to Canada.

Now, in “Being There: Toronto,” which appeared in The Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine, Tim Roston, who moved from London (England) to Toronto a…

From Scotland to Canada
October 14, 2009 – 7:20 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
From Scotland to Canada

It took me a while to feel Canadian,” writes Gael Melville in a recent Globe & Mail essay, describing her experience as an expat who relocated to Toronto from her native Scotland.

She bemoans the…

Why is Thanksgiving in October?
October 12, 2009 – 7:01 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Why is Thanksgiving in October?

Today — Monday, October 12, 2009 — is the Thanksgiving holiday in Canada.

Canadians celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday roughly six weeks earlier than Americans do. And U.S. expats always ask, “Why?”

Here’s an excerpt from my…

Buying a home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships
October 7, 2009 – 7:25 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Buying a home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships

The New York Times recently featured a house for sale near the village of Knowlton in the Quebec region known as the Eastern Townships.

According to the Times article, “The housing stock in the Eastern…