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[migo]

[lagerlout2006]

Yaramaz!---That may be misleading as it's easier for for native speakers of French...Quebec actively seek them...

Also easier if you have a million or so to invest... $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Anyway capergirl is right the number is about 200 000 a year not 2000. I don't know if refugees are included in this number...I think relatives of new arrivals get preference...I also suspect teaching would not qualify as a special skill for work permit purposes...

Can't tell you anything about Calgary. For me Niagara Falls is "Western Canada."

[guty]

There are few places you arent better off than inner city Coventry.

[yaramaz]

Lagerlout, you are correct about Quebec actively seeking the French, but my French friend has yet to even see Quebec after spending over 3 years exclusively on the West Coast. The Quebec recruitment rules apply to immigrants entering Quebec only. The rest of Canada has different rules. My friend came in via Vancouver.

[zaneth]

Hiking, mountain biking and a neo hippy. More or less guilty on all three. i spent only a short time in Nelson but had probably the most pivotal experience of my life there (no, it was in no way dope related, quite the contrary). Immediately prior to the pivotal experience, I also had some really fun times, met some amazing people.

I knew a guy who tried to pass himself off as a refugee from the United States. They didn't buy it, unfortunately.

Whatever happened to the guys who went up there to escape the draft? Did they eventually get permission to stay? And American blacks and Indians? Do they get refugee status?

I'm headed to Seattle next week. Anybody in Ecotopia feel like getting together for coffee?

[thetraveller]

[Boy Wonder]

Coming over early September.......for a 'look-see' anyway!

[Jetgirly]

[Gordon]

Jetgirly, yes I was referring to teaching as an ESL teacher, not being a student.
What are some of the names of the colleges around Victoria?

Thanks

[Samantha]

I am reading this thread with great interest, as a Canadian. Well, a Canadian gone south. I moved to Mexico to teach English and enjoy a different lifestyle from my hectic corporate lifestyle in Vancouver, and I have never gone back. Not that I don't love Canada, but I married a Mexican and for now at least, (and maybe forever) my life is here in Mexico. I must say though, Canadian immigration is known to be very liberal. I have no doubt that if I moved back to Canada with mi esposo in tow, he would be granted legal status without much question. This is quite different from the USA or other countries. Canada especially needs medical personnel... Doctors, nurses, etc. and especially in the Province of BC.
For now and maybe forever, I am happy to live in Mexico and work for pesos, while being involved with teaching English programs and helping others. My husband laughed at me yesterday... We had a huge flood-like downpour and I said "Thank goodness for this rain"... He said "I thought you never wanted to see rain like this again after living in Vancouver"... How soon we forget! And I reminded him it was a lovely warm rain yesterday, one you could frolic about in! Vancouver's rains could be chilling and usually are!

If you have the chance to live in Canada - go for it! It is a wonderful country. If not, come to Mexico which is also most wonderful!

[Jetgirly]

University of Victoria
Camosun College
Royal Roads University

That's it for the immediate Victoria area.

In Nanaimo (two hours out of Victoria) there is Malaspina University College.

[yaramaz]

A friend of mine got a great job a few years ago at Glenlyon-Norfolk, a private k-12 school in Victoria. Six students, late teens, great kids, happy job.

The UVic ESL centre isnt as competitive as you might think-- a BA, TEFL, and 2 years experience is all they ask for. An MA would be a bonus. However, ESL work is hugely seasonal here on the island. Most work is in summer and only a few teachers are kept on over winter.

[migo]

[jeddahteacher]

Paul Fromm:
There is a Puritanical fixation on ideas in Canada. Their Customs people -- the censors, I would call them -- are supposed to be basically looking for two types of things: so-called pornography and "hate" -- hate in quotation marks. Every three months they publish a list of books, even booklists, tapes, CDs, et cetera, that they have seized in the past 90 days. And they also indicate the disposition: Whether they were seized and then deemed to be OK; or seized and then deemed to be either pornographic or "hate."

For one 90-day period a couple of years back, several of the books published by Dr. Roger Pearson in Washington -- really solid academic books like Shockley on Eugenics and Race and Fear and Loathing in Academe, which is about attempts by censors on campus to attack or shut down people who were doing research on race, people like Shockley, or Philippe Rushton in Canada -- were deemed, despite being purely academic and scholarly, to be "hate." At the same time, videotapes which had titles like 'Anal Sluts' or 'Oriental With an Anal Touch' were deemed not to be pornographic. Now, I am really not in favor of censorship regardless of content, but it struck me that unless the titles of those videotapes were utterly misleading, they probably were pornographic.

[migo]

Well, fortunately unless you have certain tattoos that shouldn't be a problem for people trying to get into the country.