International No Tobacco Day, which the World Health Organization declared May 31, became in Toronto the last day when smoking was allowed in bars, billiard halls, and music clubs, casinos, and other…
On April 13, 2004, another amendment to Canada's new immigration law (IRPA of June 28, 2002) came into force, regulating who has the right to officially represent the interests of immigration…
Canadian citizens and legal immigrants should have the right to sponsor immigration to the country not only for their closest relatives. These new rights would facilitate family reunification and…
As soon as the next NHL regular season started, everyone immediately began to take an interested and close look at the 20-year-old native of Tver, Ilya Kovalchuk - a very promising hockey player from…
We have not yet sampled Canadian business schools. Just as we have not yet sampled calvados, Pernod, and other fine, generally speaking, drinks that simply do not fit into traditional perceptions…
As we have already reported, on September 18 Canada made cardinal changes to its immigration legislation (see "Zagranitsa" No. 40, October 2003). The retroactivity of the new law has been cancelled…
The world of the National Hockey League, once opened to Soviet athletes by Vyacheslav Fetisov, is now full of players from the former USSR. Now even an “ordinary” player can get lost among the many…
Interest in education in Canada has been steadily growing lately. This is hardly surprising, for in terms of the development of its education system, the Land of the Maple Leaf ranks second in the…
On September 18, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Denis Coderre, called a press conference to announce significant changes to the country's immigration system. Canada has come to its…
Russian Toronto considers the concessions of Canada's immigration authorities a populist step on the eve of the upcoming federal elections. On September 18, what was to be expected happened -…