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SEE - Edmonton News & Views - News & Views - Planning School Possible For U of A - 0 views

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edmonton education

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  • The biggest impact a planning school would have is bringing a good brain trust of urban designers to Edmonton, and getting people to talk about planning in a more serious manner,
  • Currently, budding urban planners must leave Edmonton in order to continue their education. That’s what happened to urban planner and transit advocate Brian Gould. He left over two years ago to get his masters in urban planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and now lives in Vancouver. The 24-year-old helped establish the Transit Riders Union of Edmonton (TRUE), and wrote on transit issues for a local daily.
  • “Edmontonians being trained in the city, that’s a benefit right there,” he says, “but there’s also a steady stream of free work coming out of studio projects.”
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  • Edmonton may not fare well against other major cities, however, Kaba says: “A planning school would be a really good first step.”
Omar Yaqub

U of A signs postsecondary mutual-aid agreement | The Gateway - 0 views

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education

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    The idea for a mutual-aid agreement was initially brought up at a province-wide symposium on enterprise risk in June 2010 with strong support from the U of A, and was signed in early February of this year. Stack said that reaction to the partnership has been highly positive. The agreement wouldn't have any financial implications on the institutions providing resources, as the requesting institution would recover any direct costs that the assisting institution might encounter. The partnership was modelled after a similar contingency plan that the City of Edmonton has in place with surrounding municipalities.
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- Cities - GOOD - 0 views

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  • mid-sized cities in developed countries with relatively low population densities tend to score well by having all the cultural and infrastructural benefits on offer with fewer problems related to crime or congestion
  • oderately sized and populated, can more thoroughly address urban infrastructural and governmental needs like public education, healthcare, and safety than their larger, denser global counterparts.
Omar Yaqub

New trends signal shift in Edmonton's identity - 0 views

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edmonton trends

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  • The reaction was that Edmonton's southern "partner" in the oil industry -Calgary -began to attract the head offices of various oil companies, and consequently outside business interests, including American ones.
  • In the new global economy, however, Edmonton is developing a reputation as the centre of other industries -industries that cannot necessarily be physically located within the downtown core.
  • David Whitson, a political science professor at the University of Alberta, notes that Edmonton has started to become a high-tech hub, including the pharmaceuticals industry.
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  • The city also has a sterling reputation as a centre for higher education and the sciences, including an excellent, internationally recognized university, which includes a worldrenowned nanotechnology institute, and a smaller, newly named university -MacEwan -whose reputation is growing.
  • The result will be more people outside of the city centre during working hours, people who return to suburbia afterwards.
Omar Yaqub

Institute releases Report on Canada 2011, Canada's innovation imperative - Institute fo... - 0 views

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competitiveness productivity

shared by Omar Yaqub on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Productivity in Canada’s cities lags city regions globally
  • The Institute reports that Canada’s GDP per capita – a measure of the value created by workers and firms in Canada from the human, physical, and natural resources in the country – trailed the US by $9,500 or 17 percent in 2010
  • Canada’s lower productivity as the key challenge in closing this prosperity gap. “Canadians are among the leaders in developed economies in work effort, hours worked per person, but we are laggards in creating economic value per hour worked
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  • recommends that governments improve their innovation policies by shifting their efforts from new-to-the-world inventions to relevant-to-the-market innovations
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Is Canada's brand strong enough to attract the immigrants it wants? - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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  • The personal touch This summer, Edmonton's economic development agency will conduct a marketing campaign in the U.S. to attract unemployed, skilled workers, taking along a contingent of oil sands employers looking for thousands of engineers, mechanics and welders. To sell the idea of moving to Canada, the recruiters will rely on a combination of the familiar “quality of life” pitch and a solid message about just how big Alberta natural-resource projects are. “No one really understands the order of magnitude in the oil sands,” says Mike Wo, executive director of the Edmonton Economic Development Corp. “We want them to understand it's a massive undertaking and there are literally, dozens and dozens of employers who would be thrilled to have them.” The agency is going so far as to fly in potential hires to show them what Edmonton is like. Pooling their resources, employers will cover the cost of group flights so that candidates can check out the city, from its housing and university to the quality of its golf courses.
Omar Yaqub

Australia prepares to fine tune immigration policy. - Live in Australia Blog - 0 views

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australia immigration

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  • Decisions about who came to Australia would be increasingly left to employers although, conversely, Australia would also be competing for the most highly skilled migrants. Senator Evans said ”In Australia we’ve got this sense of, ‘Well, we’re the lucky country’ and … people will naturally come here, and that’s still true to an extent. But other countries … are increasingly marketing themselves too.”
  • Permanent migration is now dominated by the skill stream, 70 per cent, compared to the family-reunion stream.
  • ”We haven’t planned out our cities very well because we have underestimated growth,”
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  • Australia has failed to do the sophisticated modelling that looks at the long-term impacts and interaction of high migration and environment. ”In the absence of that you get interest groups that dominate the debate, but average Australians have to have a say as well in what they want for the future of Australia.”
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Application Processing Times: Applications Processed Outside of Canada - 0 views

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  • Processing Times IN DAYS
  • Beijing - China 7
  • Chandigarh - India 35
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  • London - United Kingdom 7
  • eattle – United States 30 Washington – United States 30
  • Mexico City - Mexico 14
  • The tables below indicate application processing times at Canadian visa offices outside Canada
  • Processing times for temporary resident visa applications processed by visa offices outside Canada
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    Processing times for temporary resident visa applications processed by visa offices outside Canada
Omar Yaqub

City joins regional marketing effort | Local News | St. Albert Gazette - 0 views

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  • four sectors on which to focus its growth efforts: agri-food, medical devices, clean technology and information technology
Omar Yaqub

This Just In: Job Recovery Rx: Worker Skill Training February 7, 2011 - 0 views

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  • Job Recovery Rx: Worker Skill Training
  • Neal Peirce’s latest Citistates column suggests that the solution to the U.S.’s impending talent shortage lies in targeted training programs in the country’s metro regions.
  • Cities are beginning to experiment with innovative pilot programs, including those like “Chicago Career Tech,” an intensive six-month, six-day-a-week course that retrains middle-class workers for technology careers.
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  • targeted efforts inside our metro regions.
  • Colleges and community colleges, for example, presumably produce graduates who can think, analyze, read manuals. “But they’re turning out people who can’t do anything” — as simple, Walshok suggests, as working with spreadsheets, building a website or describing a complex piece of technology like an iPad application. So targeted post-graduate job training becomes critical.
  • demand for science and engineering jobs has been growing by about 5 percent a year, and the country has an estimated 2 million jobs unfilled because of lack of job skills
  • “Chicago Career Tech,” for example, is a new program launched by Mayor Richard M. Daley to take in middle-class workers adrift in the current recession and retrain them for technology careers
  • welders. Close to 100 percent of welding school graduates get snapped up by industries spread from aircraft manufacturing and ship building to erecting and repairing bridges — not to mention mass transit and railways along with green industrioes such as building wind energy turbines.
  • twice as many welders are retiring as being trained — the U.S. shortage may be as high as 200,000, in a field that pays solid wages.
Omar Yaqub

http://premier.alberta.ca/PlansInitiatives/economic/RPCES_ShapingABFuture_Report_web2.pdf - 0 views

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alberta trends work immigrants government

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      work with the federal government to change the immigration system - to help address critical shortages of workers at all skill levelsIt is in the interests of all Canadians that the Alberta economy remains strong. To realize the full potential of the oil sands and broaden the economic base, the province will need people from outside the country as well as migrants from other parts of Canada. The provincial government and industry must collaborate in demonstrating to the federal government the critical need to at least double the caps on the provincial immigrant nominee program. Advocate for immediate changes that allow temporary foreign workers with solid records to apply for permanent resident status while they are still in the country. Continue to work with the federal government to institute longer-term changes to better align the national immigration program with strategies for economic growth, making it more responsive to changing economic conditions and industry's workforce needs.Determine what is getting in the way of swift assessment of foreign trades and professional credentials related to these scarce skills, and remove barriers to full recognition of qualifications that meet Alberta standards. Pre-certify credentials from selected offshore institutions, and create a mechanism that allows all immigrants to determine their credential status before moving here. Expand initiatives such as the Immigrant Access Fund to help immigrants achieve credential recognition.
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    Give a new alberta water authority the mandate to innovate in water stewardship, and realize the full benefit of our precious water assets Alberta needs all its citizens to develop the mindset and skills to thrive in today's world and drive economic growth - to be resilient, lifelong learners, healthy and productive, eager to achieve and perform, globally connected and informed seeking talent around the globe Like other countries with aging populations, Alberta in 2040 will be competing to attract the brightest and the best talent to the province's workforce to fill critical gaps. As early as 2030, demographers predict that domestic workforce growth in Alberta and Canada will have stalled, although higher birth rates in our Aboriginal population could indicate potential for some domestic population growth. Encouraging seniors who wish to stay in the workforce longer to do so could mitigate (but not solve) the problem. Employers could abolish their mandatory retirement age and other policies that discriminate on the basis of age.Employers in this province are already concerned about shortages of people to fill jobs at all skill levels, well aware that energy booms create huge demands for workers in service sectors as well as in construction and labour-intensive oil sands production. The very specialized skills and knowledge essential to success in broadening the economic base are in short supply in the province now because there have not historically been good opportunities in these areas. One key requirement is more people experienced in founding and growing technologybased businesses. While productivity improvements and the application of innovative business models may slow growth in the labour supply gap or change the mix of skills required over the  next three decades, we still expect to see an increasing  need to attract immigrants to the province to fill key gaps  at all skill levels.The number of immigrants to Alberta fr
Omar Yaqub

Labour already tight early in recovery: panel - 0 views

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work alberta edmonton trends

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  • return of scarce labour and rising construction costs will be the downside of renewed economic growth in Alberta
  • Alberta's 5.7-per-cent unemployment rate in February was tied with Saskatchewan for second-lowest in the country behind Manitoba. Private-sector job growth in the province leads the nation at five per cent year-over-year.
  • But 62 per cent of business leaders also reported that finding workers was a problem, he said.
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  • In a January survey of city businesses by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce, 65 per cent said economic conditions were better than a year ago, said Rick Hersack, the chamber's chief economist.
  • "Businesses are telling us that we're back up into a growth mode and we're concerned it might be going into another boom -the concern mainly being the strain on labour availability," Hersack said
  • In the goods-producing sector, a higher proportion -80 per cent -called labour supply a problem, while 56 per cent expected a shortage in one to three years.
  • In the service sector, 54 per cent said labour availability was a problem and 44 per cent anticipated a shortage
  • "With the ramp-up in the energy sector, that affects essentially all of Alberta," Hersack said. "We also asked our members about their hiring intentions and they'll well exceed the availability of labour force.
  • Kavcic said labour shortages will push wages up.
  • as wages rose, migration of labour from East to West would also rise.
  • "Three areas that clients and business owners remain cautious on are labour force, what's going to happen with commodity prices and the weather," Hogg said.
  • "Businesses all remember what happened in Alberta in 2005 with the difficulty and expense of hiring employees."
  • A report released by the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada Tuesday also warned a labour force of about 130,000 workers will be needed to fill new jobs in the oilpatch and keep pace with retirements.
Omar Yaqub

ENTERPRISE TORONTO - 7 Reasons Why Employees Leave - a program operated by the City of ... - 0 views

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work hr

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  • The job or workplace was not what the employee expected
  • The mismatch between job and person
  • Too little coaching or feedback
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  • Too few advancement and growth opportunities
  • Feeling devalued and unrecognized
  • Stress from overwork and work-life imbalance
  • Loss of trust and confidence in senior leaders
Omar Yaqub

Calgary Economic Development campaign aims to attract people and business - 0 views

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  • the purpose is to attract people and prospective employees “and to address our longer-term workforce needs.”
  • The second reason is to further develop and diversify our business base in a more sustainable way to complement our strength in areas like energy,
  • third reason, particularly coming back from our research, is to highlight how this city has evolved from an arts, a culture and a cosmopolitan global business centre perspective
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  • campaign will focus on recruiting qualified workers and targeting sectors key to Calgary’s sustainable growth, such as finance, technology, and logistics. Outreach to these sectors and people will occur in four Canadian markets: Toronto, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal
  • campaign was created by Calgary Economic Development with support from Mayor Naheed Nenshi and more than 30 investors from the private sector
  • outreach to those markets will be through the use of various tactics such as advertising and social media to create awareness about Calgary as a centre of business and career destination. There will also be a “heavy focus” on media relations and public relations
  • total budget for the 10-month national campaign is $1.2 million.
  • More than 50 per cent of the funding has been raised through partnerships with the private sector
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