Etiket: Permits
Wave of appeals from dismissed immigrants to Justice Pro Bono, notably for permits for vulnerable workers
Temporary workers are calling for help in large numbers to an information line of the Justice Pro Bono organization dedicated to them. Among them, many are asking if they can…
Nepal will have to limit the number of permits for climbing Everest
Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to limit the number of permits issued for climbing Everest and other Himalayan peaks, a lawyer who filed a petition to this effect…
100,000 km² of new oil exploration permits at offshore auction in Newfoundland
The Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has just auctioned off more than 100,000 km2 of oil exploration permits off the coast of the province. Several of these encroach on…
Building permits continue to decline in March, almost -20% year-on-year
Individual houses were the subject of 129,200 authorizations (-22.2%), while collective housing obtained 229,300 (-18.4%). Published on 04/30/2024 10:33 Reading time: 1 min A worker on a construction site in…
Building permits continue to decline in March, almost -20% year-on-year
Individual houses were the subject of 129,200 authorizations (-22.2%), while collective housing obtained 229,300 (-18.4%). Published on 04/30/2024 10:33 Reading time: 1 min Workers on a construction site in Poitiers…
ACUFC files complaint against federal cap on study permits
The Association of Colleges and Universities of the Canadian Francophonie (ACUFC), which has repeatedly expressed its “deep concern” about the consequences of capping study permits on French-speaking establishments in a…
Québec solidaire asks the Legault government to stop granting specialized medical center permits to private clinics
Québec solidaire is asking the Legault government to stop granting new specialized medical center (CMS) permits to private clinics that want to perform surgeries on behalf of the public health…
Loss of value of permits | Taxi drivers demand compensation
A trial opens Tuesday as part of a class action where taxi drivers accuse the Quebec government of having made their licenses lose all value by allowing the ride-sharing company…
The cap on study permits will be examined by the Senate Committee on Official Languages
The Senate Committee on Official Languages will study the cap on study permits, fearing that it will have “a considerable impact on French-language colleges and universities outside Quebec.” The Minister…
Exports of military equipment to Israel | Requests for permits on the ice
(Ottawa) For about two months, Canada has stopped giving the green light to the export of non-lethal military equipment to Israel, concerned that the goods and technologies could be used…
Work permits for asylum seekers
The Legault government is demanding a billion dollars from Ottawa to cover expenses caused by the influx of asylum seekers. Refugees need help settling in and, lacking work permits, rely…
Dismissed, temporary workers with closed permits find themselves in an impasse
Mourad Bouraoui sold his butcher shop in Tunisia and spent a year “in white”, as he says, doing the required procedures and waiting for his work permit. Arriving full of…
Limiting study permits should curb rising rents, Macklem hopes
As debate rages over how to tackle the housing crisis, Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says Ottawa’s recently announced cap on international student enrollment should help dampen inflation in…
In Ontario, the cap on study permits raises fears for the vitality of French
There is great concern in Ontario over the two-year capping of the number of foreign students accepted into the country. The measure raises fears for the financial health of French-speaking…
GYM permits are suspended for two months
The permits of the Yvon Michel Group (GYM) will be suspended for two months, announced the Régie des alcools, des courses et des jeux du Québec following a hearing which…
Incidents during the October 7 gala | GYM permits suspended for two months
The GYM group’s permits are suspended for the next two months, and the boxing promoter, Yvon Michel, will not be able to be present at his group’s galas or at…
Boom in mining exploration permits in 2023 in Quebec
The rush for mining exploration permits continued in 2023 in Quebec, with the addition of more than 83,000 new “mining claims”. The multiplication of these rights granted to industry affects…
New legal action in Ontario against the federal government and closed work permits
A second legal request opens against the federal government in order to abolish closed permits for temporary workers. After a request to the Superior Court of Quebec last September, the…
Issuance of construction permits | “I want us to raise the bar,” says Valérie Plante
The mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, wants a significant “culture change” in Montreal’s boroughs to speed up the issuance of building permits, for which delays have increased throughout the metropolis.…
the number of building permits issued drops further in 2023
Welcome radio replay The eco brief The Ministry of Ecological Transition published on Friday the statistics of building permits issued between October 2022 and September 2023. Less and less new…