Ontario news

2022 - 9 - 13

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Ontario immigration is preparing to switch to new NOC 2021 (Canada Immigration News)

This move will impact the OINP by altering what occupations are eligible for each stream. For example, Ontario's Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs) which ...

[Discover if You Are Eligible for Canadian Immigration](https://www.canadavisa.com/assess/canada-immigration-assessment-form.htm?utm_source=CICNews&utm_medium=Article&utm_campaign=CIC-20220913ontarionoc) [Employer Job Offer International Student](https://www.canadavisa.com/ontario-employer-job-offer-international-student-stream.html) stream, is also up for discussion. Ontario wants to require people who are applying with a certificate of at least one year to meet the criteria of the Ontario College Graduate Certificate as defined under the Ontario Qualifications Framework. IRCC is expected to implement NOC 2021 on November 16. The province says adding the new language criteria would align with “the program’s interest in promoting employees’ successful integration and is expected to better protect applicants and the OINP against misrepresentation and other program integrity concerns.” The OINP says it will also be posting updates on its website. “Under NOC 2021 some occupations will be changing NOC label and this will have an impact on which streams they are eligible for.” [Employer Job Offer Foreign Worker](https://www.canadavisa.com/ontario-employer-job-offer-foreign-worker-stream.html) stream applicants to have a Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 5 Level or above. [Statistics Canada website](https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/subjects/standard/noc/2021/introductionV1) and on [IRCC’s website](https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/find-national-occupation-code-2021.html). [Employer Job Offer In-Demand Skills](https://www.canadavisa.com/ontario-employer-job-offer-in-demand-skills-stream.html) stream which previously required a job offer in select NOC Skill Level C or D occupations, the stream will now require job offers in select TEER 4 or 5 occupations under NOC 2021,” the amendments say. [Employment Development Canada](https://www.canadavisa.com/esdc.html) (EDSC) and Statistics Canada (StatsCan), while [Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada](https://www.canadavisa.com/ircc.html) (IRCC) will be implementing the system in [November](https://www.cicnews.com/2022/08/how-noc-changes-affect-express-entry-candidates-0829658.html). [Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program](https://www.canadavisa.com/ontario-provincial-nominee-program.html) (OINP) with the new [National Occupation Classification](https://www.canadavisa.com/occupation-skill-level-classifier.html) (NOC) 2021 system, according to a September 6 [media release](https://www.ontario.ca/page/2022-ontario-immigrant-nominee-program-updates).

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The Move: Why this Ontario family left for Calgary - Macleans.ca (Macleans.ca)

The buyers. Louie Bantugan, a 37-year-old assistant manager at a fast-food chain, and Joy Hernaez, a 45-year-old business administrator at an insurance company.

Joy and Louie put in an on-budget offer of $500,000 after the viewing. Subscribe to the monthly print magazine [here](https://secure.macleans.ca/loc/MME/head_subscribe), or buy the issue online [here](https://canadianmags.ca/products/macleans-october-2022). Life in the Prairies is working out nicely: Louie’s working at a new franchise of his old restaurant. The owners accepted and agreed to an October 2021 move-out date. The 12th tour was the charm: they fell in love with a three-bedroom, four-bathroom detached model in the northwestern neighbourhood of Evanston. The family has welcomed a few visitors from Ontario, but no permanent stays—yet. “The market was crazy,” Joy says. In 2016, the couple pooled funds with Joy’s brother and sister-in-law to buy a four-bedroom, three-bathroom semi-detached house in Pickering, Ontario, in order to save money and build equity. They were aiming to spend $500,000 on a two- or three-bedroom home with a finished basement and a main-floor office for Joy. In addition to the two couples, Joy’s niece and nephew, her 71-year-old mother, Corazon, and the couple’s shih-tzu, Ding, would be living there, too. “All I knew about Calgary was from friends who posted on Facebook that they’d gone to the Stampede,” Louie says.

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Ontario parents, daycare operators confused by province's child ... (The Globe and Mail)

Parents and child-care operators in Ontario say there is a troubling lack of transparency in the rollout of the program.

Then those service providers, many of which have volunteer boards that typically don’t meet over the summer, have had to review the contracts to decide to opt in or not. Of the 560 operators that have opted in, 464 are not-for-profit and 96 operators are for-profit. “Daycare is a big chunk of our income.” Of the 31 operators that have opted out, 13 are not-for-profit and 18 are for-profit. “It just makes planning life incredibly hard, especially for the cohort of us who had little ones during the pandemic. “We have to opt into this program, but they’re saying we don’t know next year what’s going to happen or how much money there will be.” [the rollout of the program](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ontario-10-day-childcare-fees/). Of those, 560 have indicated their intent to opt in to the program, while 31 operators have indicated their intent to opt out. [All of Canada is signed on to $10-a-day child care. [an average of $10 a day](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ford-trudeau-ontario-child-care-deal/) by 2025. In March, Ontario announced it had signed the national Early Learning and Child Care Agreement. And there’s absolutely no guidance,” she said.

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Deborah Stein and Timothy Hodgson Appointed to Ontario Teachers ... (Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan)

Steve McGirr, the Chair of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah (Debbie) Stein and Timothy Hodgson to the ...

At Ontario Teachers’, we don’t just invest to make a return, we invest to shape a better future for the teachers we serve, the businesses we back, and the world we live in. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (FCA, FCPA) and holds the ESG Global Competent Boards Designation (GCB.D) and the Institute of Corporate Directors designation (ICD.D). Steve McGirr, the Chair of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is pleased to announce the appointment of Deborah (Debbie) Stein and Timothy Hodgson to the Board, effective January 1, 2023. We are a fully funded defined benefit pension plan and have earned an annual total-fund net return of 9.6% since the plan’s founding in 1990. We invest in more than 50 countries in a broad array of assets including public and private equities, fixed income, credit, commodities, natural resources, infrastructure, real estate and venture growth to deliver retirement income for 333,000 working members and pensioners. Mr.

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Canadian Immigration: Ontario prepares to switch to new NOC 2021 ... (Livemint)

Ontario province in east-central Canada is mulling to align the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) with the new National Occupation Classification ...

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Canada: pourquoi s'installer en Ontario? (Le Figaro)

La deuxième plus grande province du Canada après le Québec concentre près de 40 % de la population canadienne. Elle constitue le moteur économique et ...

Province majoritairement anglophone, l'Ontario accueille la plus grande communauté francophone du Canada en dehors du Québec, soit environ 600.000 personnes de langue française. Pas moyen de s'ennuyer dans cette ville à la fois culturelle et sportive. La province abrite deux villes principales : Toronto, sa capitale et Ottawa, la capitale fédérale.

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