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I haven't changed staff in almost eight months. That's incredible actually and I sit back in wonder of it. In this industry, that's just amazing.

The food industry is notorious for having constant turnover of people and the fact that we're sitting here saying we've got staff willing to stick around is a testament to how you're running your business. It's not an illustrious career and, to be honest, you can't pay everybody behind the bar a lifetime salary. They're there because they want to be there. They enjoy the environment and they enjoy the work and they're keen on coffee and what you're working on.

when we do a hire, you're café staff for three months—you don't get to touch, you don't even get to look at the espresso machine. It takes time to develop. There's skill involved to making a good cup of coffee, there's a lot of skill involved.

Q. What is the format of the exam? How long do I have to write it?  The exam is 100 multiple choice questions. Two hours are given to write the exam.  

For US Professional Engineers not registered with one of the Canadian engineering associations you will need to have your academic institution provide us with your transcripts and you will also need to provide us with the names and contact information of at least three references. Alternatively, you can submit your NCEES Record Book instead. Also note that if you are a US Professional Engineer but not registered elsewhere in Canada, you will need to pass the National Professional Practice Examination before you can become licensed as a Professional Engineer or Foreign Licensee with APEGGA.

If you are going to practice engineering in Alberta you must be licensed as a Professional Engineer or Foreign Licensee with APEGGA.

Like the Alberta-B.C. delegation, the Saskatchewan group, which includes 27 employers, has a big presence at the Working Abroad job fair in Dublin this weekend, giving Canadian exhibitors close to 40 per cent of the booths.

Saskatchewan government has set up a website that greets potential Irish emigrants with the message “Welcome to your future” and hundreds of job postings. The province is even sending immigration officials to help applicants speed the process of moving to Saskatchewan, while Mr. Wall will greet job seekers on Saturday.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada reports 3,729 temporary foreign workers entered the country from Ireland in 2010 – up 25.7 per cent from the year before

If its plans aren’t blocked by costs or labour problems, Horizon could reach 250,000 barrels of daily production capacity in the “2017 range,” Mr. Laut said. “But we have no problems pushing that back if we don’t get competitive bids from contractors to go forward.”

The new construction schedule has several tangible benefits. Instead of the 10,000 workers that built the first phase of Horizon - or the 7,500 that were initially expected for the expansion - CNRL now intends to keep its labour force under 5,500 workers. And it will limit annual spending to between $2-billion and $2.5-billion per year.

In 2008, just over 1.8 million self-employed people worked at home, or 60 per cent of the total, up from 50 per cent or 1.4 million eight years earlier.

Robyn Bews, program manager for WORKshift with Calgary Economic Development,

According to economic development, research consistently reveals that employees who telework two days per week are 15 to 40 per cent more productive than their office counterparts

notable increase in housing difficulties experienced by newcomers (nation-wide and locally) increasing reliance on immigration for Calgary’s economic growth intensifying disparities faced by immigrants in finding and maintaining appropriate employment impacts of income and employment disparities on housing outcomes

average percentage of immediate family after-tax income spent on housing was 50 per cent 23 percent of responders reported worrying about their housing situation all the time 30 per cent reported that their housing situation was worse in Canada than in their home country only 10 and 7 per cent reported that being close to their cultural/national community and faith community respectively was something they liked about where they live the most commonly reported resource for help with finding housing was friends (60 per cent), compared with 13.5 per cent for family and 12.8 per cent for immigrant services

increase the number of affordable housing options that are appropriate for newcomers in terms of size, location, and proximity to amenities ensure settlement funding recognizes housing as critical to settlement and provides adequate resources enhance collaboration and communication between the homeless and settlement sectors to increase joint program design, planning, and service delivery for newcomers