Two-thirds of university-educated recent immigrants to Canada are underemployed in jobs requiring at most a college education or apprenticeship, according to a Statistics Canada report released Monday.
Looking at Canada's immigrant labour market in 2008, the report found that immigrant wages were lower while part-time work and temporary employment were more common than among Canadian-born workers. However, after 10 years in Canada, immigrant employment looks similar to that of their Canadian-born counterparts.
This report doesn't seem to distinguish immigrants from Western and/or English-speaking countries. If coming from anywhere outside the West - or if there's a need to learn a new language in which to communicate - I'm wonder if this is really a problem or simply a reflection of the time required to adapt to the new situation linguistically and or culturally. What do you think?
Two Waterside seniors say they were accused of attempted child abduction after they waved at a child while driving by. Patsy McCara and her husband Gerald say they were detained for nearly two hours and questioned by the RCMP about the incident, which occurred about two weeks ago by the Pictou Sobeys. ... They were headed to pick up some groceries when her husband saw a little boy on a bike beside the Sobey’s store. Gerald waved his hand at the child as they drove by.
“We parked and both got out of our truck, my husband went into the tobacco shop and I went into Sobeys and picked up several articles,” Patsy said. When she returned to their truck, Gerald was nowhere in sight, ... [and i]t wasn’t until a passerby asked why her husband was in the back of the RCMP car that Patsy realized something was wrong.
I've mentioned before the problems that people - particularly men - can encounter simply by being in the vicinity of small children (even their own). Yet another example.
I watched this movie Sunday evening (the trailer for it is embedded below). The basic idea of the movie is as followed: on contemporary university campuses it's not so much freedom-of-speech that exists, as it is freedom of politically correct speech (with "politically correct" more extremely defined on university campuses).
Some of it, I'd agree with, but I also wonder how far this goes. For instance, the school I went to as an undergrad had a student society passing anti-Israeli motions. (What the state of Israel has to do with student life on a North American campus I really don't know). In terms of addressing contemporary politics, I suspect that the arts and humanities are more culpable than the sciences, although the latter aren't exactly exempt. I remember one or two History instructors who tended to share a lot of their (left-wing) political views.
Or, to use another example the movie mentions, a typical university these days has a "woman's centre" but no "men's centre". Taking probably 65% science and 35% humanities as an undergrad, pretty much any science class I took devoted a few minutes into what amounted to a recruitment speech intended to get more women to enroll, whereas none of the humanities classed made any attempts to recruit men even though the gender ratio there was the reverse. (On the other hand, as a TIME article notes, some colleges and university are now beginning to apply "affirmative action" methods in favor of men).
It is, of course, interesting to see some of the same sort of stuff exhibited in the media and in organizations like Google. I've mentioned before that Google's employees are lean strongly to the left-wing, with 98% of employee political donations going to the U.S. Democratic Party. A similar story seems to be playing itself out over a recent photoshop job of Michelle Obama as a monkey. That quickly attracted a lot of negative bush, with Google apologizing for the incident and adding things like disclaimers to its website if searching for such a term. Yet numerous photos of the prior president as a monkey are available. I couldn't find any of Laura Bush, but I'd argue that Michelle Obama has been much more politically visible and active than her predecessor.
