By: HILARY BEAUMONT
METRO HALIFAX
July 21, 2009 12:33 a.m.
About fifty people chatted cheerily in a sunlit room on the eighth floor of the World Trade and Convention Centre yesterday for the launch of the Halifax Connector Program, a social networking initiative to attract and retain immigrants in Nova Scotia.
“We need to come up with programs that [...]
By KEITH DOUCETTE The Canadian Press
Fri. Apr 24 – 5:51 PM
The Nova Scotia government has resolved its legal dispute with the company that operated a problem-plagued program aimed at attracting immigrants to the province.
Immigration Minister Len Goucher said the out-of-court settlement completed Friday would see Cornwallis Financial Corp. receive $1 million, as specified by [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Mr. Speaker, I’m pleased to rise here and speak on Bill No. 201, the Fair Registration Practices Act. It is an important piece of legislation. It’s important to ensure that we have fair, transparent and accountable practices and processes as they relate to all professionals, but especially to our foreign-trained professionals.
It’s important [...]
By KEITH DOUCETTE
The Canadian Press
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s immigration minister says more immigrants will be eligible for refunds under a failed work program that brought them to the province, describing his announcement Tuesday as “the right thing to do.”
The provincial nominee program is now in the hands of the RCMP on the advice [...]
Immigration minister says refunds ‘right thing to do’
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
October has once again been kind to immigrant Jose Duenas.
The Filipino is one of more than 100 people who may now qualify for a refund of up to $80,000 in fees they paid for a troubled provincial immigration program. Immigration Minister Len Goucher announced [...]
Flawed immigration plan started with Hamm plan to boost N.S. labour force
By DAVID JACKSON Provincial Reporter
Get more immigrants to Nova Scotia, but don’t spend taxpayers’ money doing it.
Those were the marching orders the previous Hamm government gave civil servants early this decade, resulting in the province’s flawed immigration program, which is now the subject [...]
OLIVER MOORE
October 2, 2008
HALIFAX — The investigation into a controversial provincial program that allowed immigrants to buy their way into the country has been handed over to the police.
Nova Scotia Auditor-General Jacques Lapointe issued his second report on the program yesterday, describing double-dipping by immigration agents and a lawyer who appeared to have been paid [...]