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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by oluayebenz: 2:12pm On Jul 14 |
lawani: Yes by number of citizens living abroad |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lawani: 2:27pm On Jul 14 |
oluayebenz:OK but it should be in the first 15. China, India and most countries with higher population will be higher and Nigeria is seventh by population. I think it should be in the first ten unless it is only immigrant workers' favorite destinations that you used. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 4:05pm On Jul 14 |
🚴♂️🚴♂️🚴♂️ 1.Amazon fufilfment center Bolton Ontario. Only legends know this place 😆 2. Most maligned city in Canada. 6 Likes
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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Lao4389: 5:39pm On Jul 14 |
Hi, if they wanna do accounting and get the CPA designation, there are two options, starting the CPA prep directly with the CPA and graduating to the CPA PEP afterwards. Alternatively, they could do so via schools with affiliations with the CPA, the CPA Prep is covered by postgraduate certificate in accounting by some colleges and the PEP by Masters in accounting by some universities. The second options allow you to apply for OSAP, which would cover your fees and you get some allowances afterwards. However note that OSAP is a combination of loan and grant. I am on the second option. Completed my CPA PREP at Cambrian college (program was fully online and you can do it part time or full time) and I’m about to start the Masters at one of the CPA accredited universities. It will take you 1 year of full time study to complete the CPA PREP at a college and 2 years part time. Same with the masters. Doing it directly with the CPA maybe longer, it depends on if they give you waiver for some of their course based on your Accounting first degree. Check the CPA’s website. I must say, it takes grit and determination. For jobs, keep applying for entry level role, book keeper, graduate roles in accounting, customer services in banks, entry level roles with the CRA, entry level tax roles etc Haircomb: 3 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ferfer(m): 8:26pm On Jul 14 |
If anyone is looking for accommodation in Saskatoon next month (Starting August 1st), I have a 2 bedroom 1 bath with a lease that runs till February 2025. - $1,360 / month with 810sqft. - Apartment permits 2 students if they are willing to share. - In-suite laundry, stove, micro wave, refrigerator etc - Bus stop/route in front of the building. - It is a walking distance from Sask-Poly, Midtown mall, FreshCo, pharmacy and 9-minute driving distance from Costco. Please let me know/send a DM if you are interested |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by leksite120(m): 2:09am On Jul 15 |
ferfer:Omo, we don too suffer for GTA, how can a 2bedroom apartment be $1350 a month 4 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NuCypher: 2:41am On Jul 15 |
Immortalregis:The idea that works is to not just do Ubereats in isolation, but to combine it with skip, doordash, instacart and all other varieties. Sitting on just one is the greatest waste of time and resources. Of course, no one should dwell too long on these kinds of job trying to get ahead. It's why they are called survival jobs to start with. One should just survive on them long enough to shoot out enough resumes and land a more preferred role. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NuCypher: 2:43am On Jul 15 |
leksite120:That's like for shared apartment in downtown Toronto |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by njambert: 7:24am On Jul 15 |
Thank you for the insightful recommendations always. NuCypher: 2 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Theflint1(m): 4:56pm On Jul 15 |
njambert:Good afternoon, please how can I reach you? |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Theflint1(m): 5:01pm On Jul 15 |
AirBay:How long did it take you to start ubereats, and other than the car, what else was required to begin work with ubereats |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Haircomb: 3:36am On Jul 16 |
Lao4389: Thank you so much. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by njambert: 5:53am On Jul 16 |
I have sent you an email. You can reply and we pickup from there Theflint1: |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by UnconventionalT: 11:02am On Jul 16 |
Hello everyone. I am a Canadian PR currently living in Nigeria. I did my soft landing last year( I stayed for 8 weeks) and used the opportunity to have my baby. I have been out of Canada for 6 months now and I still have a lot of things to do before I can get ready to move back to Canada permanently. I want to ask how long it's safe for a PR to stay outside Canada after soft landing and getting the PR card? |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 11:08am On Jul 16 |
UnconventionalT: Time lived in Canada To keep your PR status, you must have been in Canada for at least 730 days during the last five years. These 730 days don’t need to be continuous. Some of your time outside Canada may count towards the 730 days you need. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/new-immigrants/pr-card/understand-pr-status.html# To become a Canadian citizen, most applicants must be a permanent resident have lived in Canada for at least 3 out of the last 5 years (1,095 days) https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen.html 9 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by UnconventionalT: 11:26am On Jul 16 |
ednut1:Thank you so much. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 2:40pm On Jul 16 |
aestake:I cringe at people making these things a "generational" problem. which one be Gen Z again? Is it because it sounds like music every content creator and journalist is tagging "Gen Z" to their headlines? |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 2:42pm On Jul 16 |
u3fine:omo, if you want to know how bad things are, look at the reactions of an average old man or woman at market prices. Majek Fashek would have a stroke if someone told him they bought garri for cheap at N170 a cup 5 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 2:49pm On Jul 16 |
Kenn55:if the banks did not mess with our interest rates the first time, what would the economy look like? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kenn55: 3:06pm On Jul 16 |
legionISproteus: It is not the problem of the bank, if the bank didn't hike interest rates, inflation would have been worse. The bank had to do it's job to bring inflation under control. |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 3:12pm On Jul 16 |
Kenn55:but the cost of many things are tied directly to high interest rates. people are paying more for their houses today because interest rates went up. how did it bring inflation under control? I don't understand |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by lanresz(m): 3:22pm On Jul 16 |
To explain it in a lay man's term. Higher rates make it more expensive for people to maintain their existing debt, reducing the amount of money that they have to spend and, over time, that reduces demand throughout the economy. This decrease in demand will end up reducing inflation rate. legionISproteus: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by u3fine(m): 3:32pm On Jul 16 |
legionISproteus: Majek Fashek needs to remix that song to the current rrality |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kenn55: 3:54pm On Jul 16 |
legionISproteus: You are correct but you are viewing it wrongly. Inflation is normal in an economy. It is better than deflation. However, year on year inflation is not expected to be above 2% to maintain a healthy economy. After the pandemic, we had what economists call a Demand-pull inflation which happens when there is a over supply of money and credit that simulates the overall demand of goods and services beyond the economy production capacity. Don't forget that during the pandemic, government was dashing people money while we were on lockdown. Interest rate was very very low giving people incentives to borrow money. Money piled up in the system and people spent less. No travel, no activities so people spent less and people's savings rose to am all time high. After the pandemic, these whole situation created a demand-pull inflation where these piled up money needs to be spent coupled with very low interest rate. In economics, when demand outstrip supply, inflation happen as more money chase fewer goods. If you recall, house prices were rising at an alarming rate after the pandemic. People were over bidding more than the asking price cos there was so much money to spend. What the bank did was to kill demand or slow it down drastically so as to bring demand and supply to an equilibrium. The only way to do that through monetary policy instruments is to hike the interest rate to make things expensive. When things become expensive, you no longer have the incentive to buy buy buy so the supply would start catching up with demand. This is why house prices rise have cooled down and the prices of other goods and services have also cooled down. Since the bank has succeeded in halting the unsustainable prices rises, the next thing will be to start bringing down the rates gradually as they have started doing. Those pandemics piled up cash is gone so there won't be a spike in demand as rates come down. 11 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 4:09pm On Jul 16 |
u3fine:from the afterlife? 1 Like |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by onuwaje(m): 5:07am On Jul 17 |
Hi guys To the seniors who made it via Manitoba PNP i have been on this thread since last year and no one as given me any answers. I got my LAA from Manitoba in December 2023 and i have done everything asked by February 2024. So my question goes 1. How long does it take for me to get a response? It says 6 months on their website. 2. If they are to make a contact is it to my relative or me ( if i am contacted is it by calls or email) Thanks very much as i await your urgent response |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ferfer(m): 5:14am On Jul 17 |
leksite120: lol.. You live in a world class city so there is that. It is -40 degrees C in winter here for a cumulative of 14 days per season. Lastly, there is an update, facility manager is saying the actual price is $1,680 but I know that is still a dime to Toronto's toonies! 1 Like |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kosizo: 2:51pm On Jul 17 |
Hello house. Please i just got admission to University of Manitoba (applied business management) for January 2024. Please is there anyone with similar resumption date or group for people who are going or are already at the school? Please i will be needing all the assistance i can get 🙏🏽 |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 5:37pm On Jul 17 |
Kenn55:my question now is, was government dashing each person enough money to buy a house that all of a sudden, everyone wanted to buy house? so now the government has stopped dashing money, why have prices not returned to nearly pre-pandemic levels? also, Nigeria where the government did not give anybody one kobo instead some of them were sharing COVID-19 palliatives to people that attended their birthday party, why did the prices spiral out of control there? I appreciate your effort in explaining this but I still don't understand. 4 Likes |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Kenn55: 6:53pm On Jul 17 |
legionISproteus: Like I said earlier, it is a combination of different factors in which government palliatives was part of. Housing demand skyrocketed mostly due to very low interest rates. For example, prime rate as at March 30, 2020 was just 2.45% which was the lowest in a decade. I bought a house around that period and my interest rate was prime minus 1.2% bringing it to just 1.25%, what a sweet rate. This made a lot of people jump into the housing market creating too much demand that pushed the prices higher. The high interest rate was to depress demand so that house prices and other prices don't keep rising. As for Nigeria, as far as I'm concerned, Nigeria does not have a real economy. I don't know what they are doing there. For example, CBN benchmark interest rate is 24.75% where as prime rate in Canada despite all the noise is 6.95% today. How can an economy function with 24.75% rate? It goes to show that Nigeria's economy is not a real economy as it doesn't follow basic economics principles like the rest of the world. How long have you been in Canada? It will be difficult to understand if you are not in the system. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by legionISproteus: 1:31am On Jul 18 |
Kenn55:no wonder economics in Nigeria does not make any sense. I told a friend that Nigeria operates more like a company than a country. 1 Like |
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by onegig(m): 5:28am On Jul 18 |
Kenn55: Lol. You know how long it took Canada to get to where they were? Also we all talk as if we just didn't come out of a Global pandemic. Everything that happened between 2020 and later is just a classic case of humans and economics reacting to a deeply abnormal situation. Even oil derivatives went negative which is absurd to think about. Yes, people have a right to complain about Nigeria and its growth but when it comes to analysing things we should also be a lot more objective. Canada's interest rates in the 1980s was as high as 25%. Did this mean they were not a "real economy" like you postulated? Did they tell you how they implemented price controls , strigent budget cuts, removal of subsidies and how difficult those periods was? Speak to elderly Canadians about their experience in the 80s and get their first hand experience. Classic economics might seem to defy logic in Nigeria not because Nigeria is an abnormal case but because of how limited the scope of reach of these policies due to how very unregulated and large the informal sector in Nigeria is. Money outside the banking sector alone far outweighs whatever is covered by the regulated market. It would take decades to be able to attain such levels where it is easier to make a major impact with controls by a central body. 7 Likes 1 Share |
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