Canada Weekly News Digest

Here are the highlights of the past week.

Immigration news

Canada has announced the testing of a unique tool that will help potential immigrants choose a future city to live in.

Meanwhile, Quebec started accepting applications for a new immigration pilot for candidates who work temporarily in Quebec's food processing industry. The province of New Brunswick has temporarily reduced immigration requirements for truck drivers, and British Columbia is extending the immigration pilot for entrepreneurs.

The province of Ontario was the happiest, launching 5 new immigration streams at once. Read more in my new video.

Last week, the Canadian government held 3 immigration selections:

335 candidates received invitations to apply for the nomination from the province of Manitoba;
Saskatchewan has sent 418 invitations to candidates to apply for a provincial nomination;
BC also sent 95 invitations to IT candidates.

The third wave and the fight for vaccines

Although many restrictions have recently been relaxed across Canada, last week Ontario's Chief Medical Officer announced the coming of the third wave of COVID-19. I've already talked about how this could affect immigration to Canada in one of my videos.

The chief medical officer also noted that one of the main drivers of the fight against the third wave will be increased vaccination. The United States has already promised to send 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Canada. By the way, regarding this sensational vaccine — Canada has stated that the benefits of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine continue to outweigh the risks associated with thrombosis. Therefore, it will be actively used.

Another interesting question: will Canada use Russian or Chinese vaccines? More on this in our article.