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Marc Miller announced on Monday.Miller announced a slew of other curbs while speaking at the Liberal cabinet retreat, which he said would reduce the intake by 35 per cent over the next two years.The cap, he said, would be distributed provincially per capita, according to population.“In order to maintain a sustainable level of temporary residence in Canada, as well to ensure that there is no further growth in the number of international students in Canada for 2024, we are setting a national application intake cap for a period of two years for 2024. The cap is expected to result in approximately 364,000 approved study permits, a decrease of 35 per cent from 2023,” he said.He added that the cap will look different for each province.“In the spirit of fairness, we are also allocating the cap space by province based on population,” Miller added, saying that “some provinces will see much more significant reductions.”Miller said he has already had “productive discussions” with the governments of Ontario and British Columbia.Miller said the cap will not apply to students at graduate levels of studies, including master’s and doctoral students.

Canada issued to Indian students fell sharply late last year after India ejected Canadian diplomats who would process the permits and fewer Indian students applied due to a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada, a top Canadian official told Reuters. Immigration Minister Marc Miller added in an interview that he believes the number of study permits to Indians is unlikely to rebound soon. Diplomatic tensions erupted after Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June said there was evidence connecting Indian government agents to the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia. Click & check your eligibility for immigration Find out The tensions are likely to weigh on the numbers going forward, Miller said. «Our relationship with India has really halved our ability to process a lot of applications from India,» Miller said. In October, Canada was forced to pull 41 diplomats, or two-thirds of its staff, out of India on orders from New Delhi. In addition, the dispute has prompted Indian students to seek to study in other countries, a spokeswoman for the minister said.

Countries around the world have been racing to introduce transparency requirements in many different areas of the law. Examples include corporate shareholder registries, required disclosure when implementing certain tax transactions and trust beneficiary reporting requirements.

Extreme cold has swept across Canada, bringing heavy snowfall and strong winds and breaking temperature records in Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.Those temperatures, the Red Cross warns, can bring frostbite and hypothermia — even death.“As Canadians, no matter where we are, whether it’s Winnipeg or up north or Victoria, we all experience some level of winter,” said Jason Small, Canadian Red Cross spokesperson.“And we need to be prepared for that.”The advice comes as Alberta has issued multiple alerts to the public over the last three days to immediately conserve electricity as its provincial power grid strains to keep up with demands amid the frigid temperatures.Parts of B.C. and southern Ontario are also facing deep freezes.Searches for terms like “extreme cold” have spiked on Google among Canadian users and are projected to keep climbing.

After the warmest December on record, an extreme cold wave is sweeping through Canada bringing heavy snowfall and strong winds that are forecast to continue this week.

Insured damages from natural catastrophes and severe weather in Canada topped $3 billion for the second year in a row.

B.C. residents will soon become the first in Canada to have access to an at-home, self-screening test for cervical cancer.About 200 people are diagnosed with cervical cancer a year in the province, Premier David Eby said Tuesday morning.He said doctors in B.C.

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Canadian Police may have been able to identify a vehicle that was responsible for the shooting at the residence of the son of the president of a local temple in the town of Surrey in British Columbia on 27 December. The incidences of violence, and defacing Hindu holy shrines, have surged in Canada after tensions simmered between Delhi and Ottawa over pro-Khalistan activities. According to a Hindustan Times report, the Surrey detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said that its “General Investigation Unit has been working to advance the investigation and a vehicle of interest has been identified." The report says the vehicle is believed to be a blue, 4-door hatchback, Mitsubishi Mirage GT or SE between the model years 2017 and 2019.

A top British Columbia law enforcement official says a recent court decision placing a temporary injunction on a law to restrict public drug use takes away police enforcement tools.

ANI Editor Smita Prakash, EAM Jaishankar said, "The issue at heart is the fact that in Canadian politics, these Khalistani forces have been given a lot of space and have been allowed to indulge in activities which I think are damaging to the relationship, clearly not in India's interest, and not in Canada's interest either. But unfortunately, that is the state of their politics," EAM Jaishankar said. The External Affairs Minister also clarified that the G20 summit in New Delhi had no relation to the Khalistani issue in Canada.

After nearly two years of hikes to the Bank of Canada’s benchmark interest rate, some forecasters are expecting the housing market correction will come to an end in 2024.

Justin Trudeau says he knows young people are frustrated with him, and chief among those frustrations is the high cost of housing, which has left many young people feeling home ownership is out of reach.However, Trudeau denies critics who suggest the federal government only began taking the housing file seriously in the last few months.“We’ve actually made commitments that are adding up to about 300,000 new units over the coming decade. These are the kinds of things we need to accelerate, and there’s no one way of doing it.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is heading to Jamaica next week for a family vacation over the holiday break.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that a Vancouver Island People’s Party of Canada candidate who ran against Elizabeth May in the last federal election must stop describing himself as an engineer.

Miljenko “Mike” Grgich, a celebrated winemaker who helped establish Napa Valley as one of the world’s premier wine-making regions, has died

A woman from Dartmouth, N.S. now holds the most academic degrees of any woman in history, making her an official world record holder, according to the World Record Academy.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government must refocus spending on boosting investment instead of consumption to address Canada’s sluggish productivity growth, argues a new report co-written by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge.

Canadians hoping for better food prices going into 2024 may not get their wish immediately, but as inflation cools, a new report suggests people could soon see some savings at the grocery store.

Big crowds and big emotions were on the menu as British Columbia’s biggest stadium prepared to play farewell host to one of the country’s most iconic athletes.

How to factor an inheritance into your retirement planning is a looming question for a growing number of people, given that an estimated US$84.4 trillion in savings, stocks and property will pass from baby boomers to their heirs and favoured charities by 2025 in the greatest transfer of generational wealth in history.