Sunday, January 3, 2021
Another new year, but nothing new for international travel to Canada...
Canada continues to import covid 19
https://www.insauga.com/thirteen-flights-with-covid-19-reported-at-mississaugas-pearson-airport-over-past-week
Canada's Population Growth
https://www.cicnews.com/2021/01/canadas-population-growth-slows-to-a-standstill-following-reduced-immigration-in-2020-0116684.html#gs.p23c21
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Pandemic Times: 47,000 Provincial Nominees "Invited" to Canada
By the numbers (47,000). And nothing stopping someone who arrives in NL and all of a sudden wants to head to Toronto.
https://www.cicnews.com/2020/12/2020-was-a-big-year-for-canadas-pnps-1216644.html#gs.ozcru3
"...The PNP is an immigration program jointly administered by the federal, provincial and territorial governments. It offers Canadian provinces and territories the opportunity to create their own immigration streams to better meet their labour market needs and economic development objectives. The PNP also aims to spread the benefits of economic immigration more equitably across Canada.
The disproportionate number of immigrants going to Canada’s largest provinces, such as British Columbia, Ontario or Alberta, explains why the country introduced the PNP. One of the main objectives of the PNP is to encourage immigrants to settle in smaller provinces and move to less populated regions of the country..."
Year In Review: Canada's TSX
http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/we-re-33-tsx-ekes-out-gain-in-pandemic-ravaged-2020-1.1542686
"...Toronto’s benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index plunged 37 per cent from peak to trough, then clawed its way back to post a 2.17 per cent gain in 2020. That’s good for 33rd out of 92 major global indices, with the TSX sandwiched between Malaysia and Norway in terms of total 2020 returns, but badly lagging the 16 per cent return on the S&P 500 as surging tech stocks turbocharged the bounceback south of the border.
Here’s a look at how things played out on the TSX in the most tumultuous year in recent memory. Returns are as Dec. 30 closing levels.
Top Sectors:
Information Technology: +80.3 per cent
Materials: +19.5 per cent
Industrials: +15.3 per cent
Consumer Discretionary: +14.4 per cent
Utilities: +10.6 per cent
Happy New Year to the Airline Travel Industry: Why Did This Easy and Obvious Solution Take So Long To Be Decided?
"...The National Airlines Council of Canada, which represents the country’s largest airlines, said Wednesday it had asked the government for months to introduce a co-ordinated testing regime in consultation with the industry.
The new testing requirement will only apply for air travellers, but Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet argued on Thursday that it should apply at all ports of entry...."
Sir John A. MacDonald: His "Complicated" Indigenous Relationship
"...By 1885 Macdonald had accepted the reality of even his closest First Nations allies wishing to retain their Indian status. As he explained in the House of Commons on May 4, 1885, “They prefer to stick to the clan system, just as, until lately, in my own country, the Highlanders stuck to their clan system in the highland of Scotland. They desired not to be severed from their brethren.”
Macdonald’s outlook toward the First Nations was complex, and cannot be easily summarized. The contradictions of his policy included his ferocious repression of the Indigenous Peoples of the North West immediately after the unrest of 1885, while at the same time extending the federal franchise in central and eastern Canada to adult male status Indians who met the property requirement, without the loss of their Indian status..."
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