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Canadian province looks to Ireland to fill almost 300 jobs

Government backs trip to recruitment fairs in Dublin and Cork

PATRICK COUNIHAN,

IrishCentral Staff Writer

Published Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 7:31 AM

Updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 11:04 AM

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Regina, the capital city of the region Saskatchewan in Canada

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One of the most remote provinces in Canada is to seek almost 300 skilled workers in Ireland next month.

The government of Saskatchewan and employers throughout the province will embark on a labour recruitment mission to Ireland in March.

Premier Brad Wall and Advanced Education, Employment and Immigration Minister Rob Norris will participate in the trip to Dublin and Cork.

Employers from the province will look for workers at career fairs in the two Irish cities, with over 9,000 qualified candidates expected to attend.

Immigration staff are to support the employers in their visit to Ireland when they will meet with prospective workers in the trades, construction, engineering and health sciences sectors.

Premier Brad Wall said: “The new Saskatchewan offers jobs, a high quality of life and a welcoming environment to newcomers.

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“We look forward to telling our story in Ireland. Immigration is helping sustain our economic momentum and enriching our cultural diversity.”

Minister Rob Norris added: “There is a tremendous pool of qualified people in Ireland who are actively seeking opportunities abroad.

“The Irish Economic and Social Research Institute estimates 75,000 Irish are expected to emigrate in 2012 as unemployment in the country continues to rise.

“The mission will connect Saskatchewan employers with qualified candidates who are seeking to emigrate.”

Already, 22 employers have committed to participating in the mission with more than 275 vacancies on offer.

Irish candidates who receive an offer of employment will work with immigration officers to apply to the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program.

Saskatchewan is known as the warmest and the coldest of the Canadian provinces. It holds the record at 45 degrees for the highest temperature ever recorded in the country but temperatures can remain as low as minus 17 for long periods in the winter.

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Curitiba | Feb 09, 2012, 05:27 PM EST

Allez les verts!

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ciaradexy | Feb 09, 2012, 04:52 PM EST

Ive no idea where the US or Canadian accents come from at all! I was never able to tell the Aussie and Kiwis accents apart until I lived there but i got pretty good at telling the difference eventually. Its only very recently that Ive started really noticing the differences in the Canadian and US accents. Im still trying to work that out. My French is pretty good but I need to learn some swear words for Saturdays match.

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Curitiba | Feb 09, 2012, 04:43 PM EST

I'm not really interested in English-speaking Canada, it always seemed to me like Australia with no sun. However. I think it would be fascinating to live in Quebec. I find it quite amazing that French language and culture is thriving in modern North American cities such as Montreal. Crossing from New York State to Quebec must be like crossing the English Channel, except there is no Eurostar train to whisk you from New York to Montreal, like from London to Paris, alors!

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Curitiba | Feb 09, 2012, 04:37 PM EST

Ciara,you confirm what I thought about the origins of the Aussie accent. However, I wonder if the various American and Canadian accents are based on a mixture of Cockney and Irish accented English, as there is a mixture of both in those accents, I think. There's not really any trace of any Irish pronunciation in Aussie, I think.

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bob40wil | Feb 09, 2012, 12:38 PM EST

If Senator Brown from Massachussetts gets his way the Irish will be getting 150,000 Visas a year for skilled workers.

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ciaradexy | Feb 09, 2012, 08:29 AM EST

Curitiba, I noticed that too but then I met an Aussie anthropologist who told em that the Aussie accent comes directly from cockney. I started to listen closer and I started to notice that even more. Sirpete, are you fantasizing about me again???

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ciaradexy | Feb 09, 2012, 08:27 AM EST

Curitiba, the Aussie accent is very close to cockney. I met a guy in Australia who studied anthropology etc and he informed me of that then the more I listened to the accent the more I heard it. Still, the other 2 accents irritate me. You'll be hard pressed to find an Irish person who likes the American accent. Sirpete, have you been fantasizing again???

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ballindaggin | Feb 09, 2012, 08:20 AM EST

slurpeter strikes again

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 09:35 PM EST

I'm sure Ciaradexy has her reasons for not settling on the Saskatchewan prairies.It's hard for a woman to be laying sunning herself on her back and suddenly be known as the Ciaradexy mountain range.

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Curitiba | Feb 08, 2012, 06:13 PM EST

The odd thing is, after a few years in Australia, the Aussies all started to sound to me like they were from Essex, and then on the occasion I would hear a real Essex accent, it sounded foreign! You just get used to the way people speak, wherever you live.

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ciaradexy | Feb 08, 2012, 05:01 PM EST

Nah. I could never live in the US or Canada. The accents would do my head in. Id miss home way too much anyway.

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Curitiba | Feb 08, 2012, 03:16 PM EST

But you didn't go, ciara. You're not tempted by life in the prairies then?

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ciaradexy | Feb 08, 2012, 12:52 PM EST

Ive been to a few 'Work Abroad Expos' here in Dublin and seems to be a piece of p1ss to get a job there. I was offered 2 in the one afternoon and a recruitment firm is still emailing me with job offers nearly a year later!

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 09:49 AM EST

Don't go anywhere.Stay at home with all your friends and family.The government will be giving out plenty of beer vouchers and the craic will be mighty at the weekends like it was in the 80's.Paying cash for work will again be king.I have never met anyone in Ireland who didn't eventually get a job in their field of expertise if they had a bit of patience and kept their ear to the ground.A job is only a job at the end of the day.Remember nobody ever said on their death bed they should have spent more time at work.Ireland is your home and home is where you fit in and when you do get a job that's where you are going to be the most happy.I have seen it all before meeting up with these Irish people who have left.Always trying to convince themselves they did the right thing in leaving with one half doing worse than if they stayed and the other half would have made it no matter where they were.

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angrypaddy | Feb 08, 2012, 08:56 AM EST

Paddy will have no problem with the weather in Canada,he is used to the cold as he cannot afford to heat his house in Ireland 8 months of the year as for the extreme heath thats no bodder when he was is Spain on holidays a few years ago when it got to hot for him all he did was spend most of the time in the pub,and that was when he was living on the DOLE.So i see no problems at all

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