Nobel Prize for Economics Awarded to Canadian Professor
David Card, a Canadian-born University of California at Berkeley professor, thought a call at 2 am from Sweden was a prank. Instead, it was news of him being awarded the Nobel Prize with his late research partner, Alan Krueger. The economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley is from Guelph, Ontario. His award stems […]
Canadian Youth: A Portrait in Infographics
Statistics Canada has published very interesting infographics about youth in Canada. This time the infographics focused on employment. From the stats, we can learn, for example, that the percentage of youth aged 15 to 30 with a job in 1981 was 83 for men and 66 for women. If you want to move to Canada […]
Forty-Five Thousand Refugees Will Immigrate to Canada in 2021
Canada’s light shines brightly, according to Immigration Minister Mendicino, and refugees help fuel that light through giving back to the country and their communities. Even during the pandemic, these newcomers didn’t stop. This year, Mendicino announced a plan to expedite applications and allow a larger number of refugees to relocate to Canada. The increase went […]
How many Canadians Work from Home?
Since April 2020, Canadians have worked from home in varying degrees. Between April 2020 and June 2021, 45 percent of dual-earner salaried couples in the top 10% of the earnings distribution worked from home both spouses. This was nine times higher than the 5% rate seen among their peers in the bottom 10% of the […]
