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Internet Scams to Look Out For
No Matter how good your spam filters are, a great deal of junk probably still makes it to your “In Basket”. Most e-mail spam falls into the category of “The Usual Nonsense”: someone trying to sell watches, sexual supplements or other…
Life: Harnessing the Collective Power of New Canadians
In 1992 German Castaño founded Unibase Government Solutions (UGS), a software provider of tax solutions in Colombia. The company won awards for their taxation software, but when narcotics cartels started pressuring UGS to change the…
Government of Canada will welcome more economic immigrants in 2010
Canada is adjusting its 2010 immigration plan to put even greater emphasis on economic recovery and further reduce the federal skilled worker backlog, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney told a news…
Newcomers: Interesting Journey for Tour Operator
Isn’t it great to come to Canada and go on a sightseeing tour with the guide speaking your language? You can have exciting time visiting Sky Dome and CN Tower, Niagara Falls, Museum of Civilization and other places. It is exactly what Irina…
Immigrants and Small Business
By Gilda Spitz You may think that your best chance to find a job is to target a large company. After all, the big companies are the ones with all the jobs, right? Not necessarily.
Internet: Small World, Big World
The internet has made the world an extremely big and a very small place at the same time. A big place, because there is now an incredible amount of information from anywhere on the planet available to us. We all can access it at any time,…
Birth of a Nation
On July 1st, Canadians will be celebrating a date in history, which was as important to Canada’s development as the discovery of America so long ago. As we admire the fireworks, go out with friends, or watch the special Canada Day…
Are You Ready For Bollywood?
Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based film industry in India. Bollywood is also commonly referred to as "Hindi cinema". Songs often use Urdu vocabulary and English is heard more and more often in dialogues and…
Travel: Reducing Travel Stress
By Allison Eaton Allison is the Vancouver based Communications Manger for Flight Centre North America. Most travellers aim to get everything sorted well before they take off, but even the best-laid plans are subject to common…
Living in Toronto is a bit scary for an island-girl like me.
It is a huge challenge for anyone who comes from an island where one road leads to everywhere and our directions are usually up or down, left or right. I am challenged when it comes to getting from one place to another, even when I'm…