APRIL 11, 2014-EMPLOYMENT-IMMIGRATION-YOUTH-CANADA- Come visit, come study, come immigrate Canada is a young, beautiful and vibrant culturally embracing huge nation- from coast 2 coast 2 coast... we'd love 2 have u youngfolks...seriously...
Why do
so many European immigrants go to Canada or Australia instead of the US?
I've
been saying it over and over again. The US is no longer the preferred
destination for young European immigrants and instead both Canada and Australia
are seen as the promised land where millions of EU citizens move to. Check out
this video about young people leaving Ireland, notice how none of them are
going to the US:
BBC
News - Youth emigration 'devastating' for Irish economy
From talking with some friends who moved from
Germany to Canada a few years back and from reading threads online I hear, over
and over, that the US immigration and work visa policies are so strict it just
is too hard so many don't bother. They also see it as a major positive that
both Canada and Australia have true universal single payer health care where as
the US is seen as backwards for not having single payer.
What are your experiences and if you have any
links with more information I would love to see them.
COMMENT:
Regardless
of what anyone says, there is basically only one reason a person would ever
actually move to another country, better economic opportunities. Why else would
so many people in Ireland be getting up and moving to Canada?
There
are other factors that influence peoples decisions. Such as crime, weather,
amenities, and many more. But those are almost always secondary to economics.
The
truth is, Canada has a much healthier economy overall than the United States.
Largely because it has become a resource-based economy. Australia is also a
highly resource-based economy.
Moreover,
when we talk about immigrants coming from Europe, we are talking about educated
immigrants, because really, they are the only ones actually allowed to
immigrate. An educated immigrant coming to America most likely has a good job
lined up, which means they aren't going to have a difficult time getting
healthcare. It is almost guaranteed to be provided by their employer. So it is
doubtful that healthcare plays any major role in the decision of potential
immigrants.
I
would say, it probably has mostly to do with either the ease of immigrating to
other countries, and possibly things like crime rates and "feeling
comfortable". Canada is more culturally European than the United States.
The
real question is, if you were a white European, why would you want to move to
the United States over Canada? Better weather? Australia has better weather
than the United States. The only reason I would pick the United States over
another country, is if I was getting paid considerably more money than what I
would be paid elsewhere
COMMENT:
Well,
unfortunately for USA in Europe there's a lot of bad press in Europe about
crazy republican policies as well as gun fetish, religious wackos, auto-centric
urban sprawl and other awful things.
But
overall the majority of european people realize that there are sensible
differences between progressive states and conservative ones... therefore I
wouldn't say that europeans are no longer interested in the USA: California,
NYC, New England (maybe Florida) are still attractive places for immigrants.
As far
as my experience as european immigrant in USA (first Dallas then NYC) I could
say that - while I loved NYC - I strongly disliked Texas: republican policies
and conservative american culture are absolutely a cultural shock for a
european
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CANADA
National
Graduates Survey shows class of 2010 did well
See
how much graduates from your province were making in 2013
by
Josh Dehaas
Convocation
at York University (Andrew Tolson)
Statistics
Canada has just released results from its National Graduates Survey, 2013,
which show how well 2009-10 post-secondary graduates were making out in the
labour market three years after graduating. It turns out they were doing very
well.
Although
graduates from some provinces were paid much better than others, there was only
a five per cent unemployment rate among survey respondents no matter what type
of credential they had earned: college, bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate.
How
can that be when we hear so frequently about high youth unemployment? It may be
because Statistics Canada’s youth unemployment figures (13.6 per cent in March)
capture those aged 15 to 24 years while the median age at graduation was 24 for
bachelor and college graduates, 28 for master’s graduates and 34 for PhDs.
Here’s
the big picture. Nationwide, 90 per cent of 2009-10 college graduates surveyed
were working in 2013, as were 92 per cent of bachelor’s and master’s graduates
and 93 per cent of doctoral degree holders. (Three to five per cent weren’t
looking for work.)
There
was a notable discrepancy between provinces in employment rates for college
graduates. Those from Atlantic provinces did less well. In Newfoundland and
Labrador, 82 per cent were working, in New Brunswick 81 per cent were employed
and in Nova Scotia it was 86 per cent. Compare that to 90 per cent in Ontario,
91 per cent in British Columbia and 92 per cent in Manitoba, Saskatchewan,
Alberta and Quebec.
Employment
rates for university graduates were more uniform. Rates for those with
bachelor’s degrees ranged from 90 per cent in British Columbia to 94 per cent
in Prince Edward Island and Manitoba. Among master’s graduates, the range was
from 90 per cent in New Brunswick and British Columbia to 95 per cent in
Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. For doctoral graduates, the spread was from 90
per cent in Manitoba to 100 per cent in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland.
It’s
worth noting that the statistics include part-time employment so there may be
many “underemployed” people hidden in the data. For example, there may be
plenty of graduates working below their skill levels or for fewer hours than
they would prefer.
Now on
to how much graduates were earning.
The
median estimated earnings before taxes for college graduates surveyed was
$40,600 overall, lowest for graduates of New Brunswick colleges ($34,800) and
highest for graduates of Newfoundland and Saskatchewan colleges ($52,000).
For
bachelor’s graduates, the median was $53,000 nationwide, higher for
Newfoundland graduates ($67,000) and lower for British Columbia’s ($49,200).
Master’s
graduates earned a median of $70,000 nationwide. The highest paid were from
Alberta ($85,000) and Saskatchewan ($83,500); the lowest paid were from Quebec
($65,000).
Doctoral
graduates earned a median income of $75,000 nationwide with less variation.
Here’s
a chart that shows the median incomes for graduates in each province by type of
schooling. Keep in mind that these are salaries earned three years after
graduation.
CHART:
Considering
that the median salary of Canadians aged 25 to 55 was $52,000 in March, an
obvious conclusion is that, at least for most people, post-secondary pays off.
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canada
The
French are coming
Greater
employment opportunities are bringing French youth to Canada
by
Alex Ballingall
Mathieu
Lam was 23 when he decided to leave his home country of France in 2005 to work
and travel in Canada. He was interested in the country’s reputation for natural
beauty and its relatively high standard of living. Plus, he felt his prospects
for employment at home were dismal.
Now,
six years later, Lam is a permanent Canadian resident who runs a software
development company in Toronto. He also operates a website called Programme
Vacances Travail, which helps French youth who, like him, want to live and work
abroad. “Canada has always been a country that attracted me,” he says in
French, describing why he chose to come to Canada.
Lam’s
not alone. Over the past decade, the number of French people coming to Canada
has risen significantly. Permanent residents admitted from France jumped from
4,345 in 2000 to 6,930 in 2010. The increase in temporary workers is even more
dramatic. In 2000, 5,932 temporary foreign workers entered Canada from France.
By 2010, that number had risen to more than 17,000.
Many
of these temporary workers came through a government program called
International Experience Canada. The program allows more than 35,000 people
between 18 and 35 from countries all over the world to come to Canada each year
for work co-ops, internships, or on work-travel permits. France participates in
the program through a 2004 youth exchange agreement with the Canadian
government. Since 2007, the program has undergone a surge in popularity in
France, with the yearly quota of pariticipants easily being filled. As a
result, the number of spaces for France has doubled in three years. It now
stands at 14,000.
Through
his website, Lam helps other French youth apply for work-travel permits through
the program and find housing in Canada. According to his numbers, 65 per cent
of French people with these permits settle in Montreal, while 20 per cent
choose to live in Toronto. Nancy Caron, spokesperson for Citizenship and
Immigration Canada, says the motivating factors behind this increase are
complicated. “I don’t know if we can pinpoint it to just one thing,” she says,
speculating that it could relate to Europe’s debt crisis and levels of
unemployment.
As Lam
sees it, it’s simple: Canada holds more opportunities for employment and a
better life—the unemployment rate in France for March was 9.5 per cent.
“Finding work in France is complicated for young people,” he says. “And even if
we have work in France, we’re not paid very well.”
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Youth
immigrating to Canada don't meet physical activity guidelines
2014-02-25
By
Anne Craig, Communications Officer
Ethnicity
and the time spent since immigrating may work together to determine whether or
not youth will be physically active after moving to Canada.
Queen’s
researcher Atif Kukaswadia examined young immigrants coming to Canada and their
levels of physical activity, and discovered they are less active than Canadian
youth during their first one to two years in Canada. However, within three to
five years of moving to Canada, the physical activity level of most immigrants
equals that of Canadian youth.
Mr. Atif
Kukaswadia
“Every
year Canada admits over 200,000 immigrants, and around 25 per cent of these are
below the age of 14,” says Mr. Kukaswadia, a PhD Candidate in the Department of
Public Health Sciences. “These youth form a large and growing part of the
Canadian population. However, despite how important physical activity is to the
health of youth, very few studies have investigated the role of immigration on
physical activity levels.”
The
Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines recommend 60 minutes of moderate to
vigorous physical activity seven days a week. Mr. Kukaswadia found that youth
who immigrated within the last 1-2 years were 40 per cent less likely to meet
the guidelines.
Using
data contained within the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey, a
national survey of youth in Canada, Mr. Kukaswadia examined youth immigrating
to Canada from East and Southeast Asia, Africa, East India and South Asia. He
found that as immigrants live longer in a country, their physical activity
behaviours more closely approximate those of the host culture, although this
did vary by ethnic group.
“The
results for East and Southeast Asian youth were the most striking,” says Mr.
Kukaswadia. “Regardless of if they were born in Canada, or if they immigrated
within the last one to two years, youth who identified as being East and
Southeast Asian reported consistently lower levels of physical activity than
other ethnic groups.”
With
this phase of the research completed, Mr. Kukaswadia will next investigate how
to remedy the issue of a lack of physical activity in immigrant youth. “We need
to find out what the barriers are – is it the cost involved, a comfort level
with the climate, or a third reason? I want to talk to the youth to find out.”
The
research was published in the international peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE.
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Developed
Nations Attract Young vs. Educated Migrants
Developed
Asia would see significant brain drain
by
Neli Esipova, Anita Pugliese, Rajesh Srinivasan, and Julie Ray
WASHINGTON,
D.C. -- If all adults worldwide who would like to migrate actually left and
moved where they want to, Gallup's Potential Net Youth Migration and Potential
Net Brain Gain indexes show highly developed countries would see an influx of
young people rather than educated people. Only developed Asia would see
significant brain drain.
migration
These
results are based on Gallup surveys of the migration desires of nearly 350,000
adults in 148 countries between 2007 and early 2010. Gallup created three
indexes -- the Potential Net Migration Index, Potential Net Brain Gain Index,
and Potential Net Youth Migration Index -- to gauge the likely changes to the
population if people who say they would like to migrate permanently actually
move where they want. The higher the index score, the larger the potential net
population gain. Negative scores indicate net population loss.
The
Potential Net Migration Index measures the total potential net change to the
adult population by subtracting those who would like to move out of a country
from those who would like to move into a country. The Potential Net Brain Gain
Index is calculated with a similar approach and measures the potential net
change to the adult population with four or more years of education after high
school or the equivalent of a bachelor's degree or higher. The Potential Net
Youth Migration Index measures the net change to the 15- to 29-year-old
population.
United
States Attracts Less Educated
The
United States and Canada -- two of the top desired destination countries in the
world for potential migrants -- are poised to experience higher youth gains
than education gains. The Potential Net Brain Gain score of 12% in the United
States, however, is relatively small compared with its Potential Net Migration
Index, which indicates that this country would likely attract more people but
not necessarily more educated people.
migration
European
Union Brain Gain or Drain?
Most
developed EU countries in Western and Southern Europe, too, are more attractive
to young potential migrants than those who are the most educated. Although they
potentially could see education gains from migration, countries such as the
United Kingdom, with a relatively low Potential Net Brain Gain Index score of
13% and a relatively high Potential Net Youth Migration Index score of 235%,
are particularly unattractive to the most educated. However, only Portugal and
Belgium would see significant brain drain.
migration
Spain
and Germany, on the other hand, stand out among these EU countries because they
attract disproportionately high levels of educated people and younger people,
compared with the size of their total potential adult population increase.
Developed
Asia Poised to Lose Most Educated
Developed
Asia's relatively low Potential Net Migration Index score suggests its total
adult population would not change much from migration. Its negative Potential
Net Brain Gain Index score, however, suggests that the region would lose a
significant portion of its most educated people. In fact, with the exception of
Singapore, countries in the region all post negative Potential Net Brain Gain
scores.
migration
That
more young people want to move to Japan and Singapore than want to leave those
countries, however, is good news because they have among the fastest aging
populations and lowest fertility rates in the world.
In
Developing Regions, Potential Population Losses Across the Board
Everywhere
else in the world, populations could potentially experience losses in every
area -- particularly among youth. Latin America, for example, would see similar
losses in its total adult population and its most educated population, but
losses among youth would be significant. Latin America's -27% score on the
Potential Net Youth Migration Index means it could lose as many as 35 million
young people. Only India could potentially face brain drain; its Potential Net
Brain Gain Index (-18%) is significantly lower than its Potential Net Migration
Index (-6%).
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Implications
While
Gallup's findings reflect people's aspirations rather than their intentions,
the implications of what could happen if hypothetical desires became reality
are serious considerations for leaders to think about as they plan development
and migration strategies now and in the future. Gallup will continue to monitor
trends in desired migration and will publish updated index results in 2011.
For
the complete index results on all countries surveyed, see page 2.
For
complete data sets or custom research from the more than 150 countries Gallup
continually surveys, please contact SocialandEconomicAnalysis@gallup.com or
call 202.715.3030.
Survey
Methods
Results
are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with 347,717 adults, aged 15
and older, in 148 countries from 2007 to early 2010. The 148 countries surveyed
represent about 95% of the world's adult population. For most countries,
aggregated sample sizes (across multiple years of surveys) range between 1,000
and 4,000 interviews. A total of 8,196 interviews were conducted in India,
7,561 in China, and 7,010 in Russia. As with any survey-based estimate, the
indexes reported in this article have corresponding margins of error,
calculated using the Standard Error of the index. Sample size, size of the
country, and range in population projection weights affect margin of error of
the indexes.
Gulf
Cooperation Council countries are excluded from these analyses, as only Arab
nationals and Arab expatriates were surveyed. Potential Net Migration Index
scores are not reported for subregions/countries with a total sample size less
than 500 because of the volatility in the index as measured by the margin of
error. Potential Net Brain Gain and Potential Net Youth Migration indexes are
not reported for subregions with a sample size less than 500 and are not
reported for countries with a sample size less than 200.
The
Potential Net Migration Index is measured on a scale of -100 (meaning the total
adult population of the country would leave) to infinity (meaning the potential
inflow of adult population to the country is unlimited and depends on the
number of adults who want to move in from around the world).
The
Potential Net Brain Gain Index is measured on a scale of -100 (meaning the
total population of highly educated residents -- those who have completed four
years of education beyond high school or have the equivalent of a bachelor's
degree -- would leave) to infinity (meaning the potential inflow of this highly
educated group is unlimited and depends on the number who want to move in from
around the world).
The
Potential Net Youth Migration Index is measured on a scale of -100 (meaning the
total aged 15 to 29 population of the country would leave) to infinity (meaning
the potential inflow of 15- to 29-year-olds is unlimited and depends on the
number who want to move in from around the world).
The
index for each subregion/country and range at the 95% confidence level are
presented in the table on page 2. For example, the Potential Net Migration
Index for El Salvador is estimated at -45%, meaning if all adults who desire to
move in and out of the country did so, the adult population would decline by
45%. With the margin of error at the 95% confidence level, this estimate ranges
from -48% to -43%. Gallup estimates that Singapore's adult population would
increase 219%, and with the margin of error, this estimate ranges from +168% to
+270%.
Gallup's
migration indexes are based on responses to the following questions:
Ideally,
if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another
country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country?
(If
"would like to move permanently to another country") To which country
would you like to move? [Open-ended, one response allowed]
migration
migration
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IRELAND BOYS....HELL YEAH!
This is no country for young men’ say job-hunters with eyes on Canada
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Michael Ryan, William Kelly and Sean Coleman, from Tipperary town, at the Canadian Jobs Expo. Pictures: Denis Minihane.
By Sean O’Riordan
It’s no country for young men, especially in rural areas where the recession has decimated the jobs market.
That was the opinion of three friends from Tipperary town who were among 2,000 people who travelled to a Canadian Jobs Expo in Cork yesterday in the hope of getting a job abroad.
Michael Ryan, 26, Sean Coleman, 27, and William Kelly, 21, are all unemployed construction workers.
“We’re depressed doing nothing. There are no opportunities for us. If we found a bit of happiness there I think none of us would come back. This country’s just ruined,” Mr Coleman said.
Michael Breen, Limerick, and Gary Mooney, Tullamore
The others agreed, adding that while they were patriotic they saw no future in Ireland.
“I’d be gone now if it wasn’t for all the (visa) forms we have to fill in,” added Mr Ryan.
Bernard O’Shea, 26, from Killarney, was there with his girlfriend, Mary Quigley, 21, from Turners Cross, Cork.
The chef said he’d like to work abroad for a while, but would like to return to Ireland. However, Mary, who works in healthcare, didn’t seem to share his aspirations.
Richard O’Leary, Carlow, job-hunting at the Canadian Expo in Cork.
“I’m not coming back, this country is rubbish,” she said.
Unemployed plasterer Richard O’Leary, 29, who travelled from Carlow, said six of his friends had gone to Canada to find work and were getting on well and he was hoping to follow in their footsteps.
CIT engineering students Gary Mooney and Michael Breen, both 22, wanted to see the world and “get a bit of work experience” which they said is hard to gain here.
Calgary, which is the driving force of the province of Alberta, has plenty of jobs on offer across the board.
Jeanette Sutherland, manager of Calgary’s workforce and productivity department, said 18,000 jobs were created in the province last month alone and the prospects looked rosy.
Mary Quigley, Turners Cross, Cork, and Bernard O’Shea, Killarney at the Expo
“Calgary has the highest salaries in Canada and is home to most of the head offices of all the major energy companies,” she said.
While many of the jobs on offer are male-orientated in construction and mining, she added there was also a huge need for people in the hospitality, management, finance and IT sectors.
“We have a very strong Irish population and the average population age in the whole community is 36.5.”
Kristy Whetham, HR manager with Tarpon engineering, said they’d taken on 80 Irish electricians in the last 18 months and were looking for 25 more.
“They’re good workers and a good addition to our overall strategy,” she said.
Linda Scott, a recruitment officer for Alberta Health Services, said she was always looking for registered nurses.
Kristy Whetham of Tarpon Energy Services, Western Canada.
“There are great opportunities for them. Basic salaries can be up to €58,500, and that’s without shift premium, overtime etc,” she said.
Des Alvey, a Wicklow-born business development manager with Talon Energy, emigrated to Canada along with his wife, Ciara, who is from Dublin.
They left in 2007 with their one-year-old son and now have three children and an envious lifestyle.
Last year his company recruited 10 people at the Cork expo and he was hoping to recruit more.
“There are lots of opportunities for people. If you work hard you get well paid for it and you’ll get successful quite quickly.”
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/this-is-no-country-for-young-men-say-job-hunters-with-eyes-on-canada-263291.html
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Lobster
Trails
BEVERLEY
WARE SOUTH SHORE BUREAU
Published
April 12, 2014 - 12:00am
Last
Updated April 12, 2014 - 11:45am
The stuffed
lobster, which costs $89 US at the Venetian’s Aquaknox restaurant, is ready to
serve at The Venetian in Las Vegas. Nova Scotia lobsters are the best-selling
item on the menu and the restaurant goes through more than 1,000 pounds in an
average week. (ALEX FEDEROWICZ)
Salt
water glistens on their yellow slickers in the cold morning sunlight as the two
young men reach over the starboard side of the boat with a long-handled gaff,
snag the rope attached to a blue metal cage and haul it aboard in one tidy
motion. They work quickly, grabbing the bodies of half-a-dozen lobsters from
the cage; dark antennae dart madly about while crusher claws snap their
collective disapproval at the two men who deftly toss them into two plastic
black containers.
The
water is choppy, but with the thermometer just above the freezing mark, the men
welcome the unusually warm day on the job. For the many days that it isn’t so
pleasant, they seek the warmth of two bus heaters in the cabin during the rare
moments they have the time.
This
is where our lobsters’ journey from the pot to the dinner plate begins — a
6,000-kilometre voyage from the deck of the Blue Thunder as it trolls 80
kilometres off the coast of Shelburne County to the most popular item on the
menu at Aquaknox, a five-diamond seafood restaurant in the Venetian, a casino
resort on the strip in Las Vegas.
On the
deck of Blue Thunder, Seth Smith and Ronnie Nickerson are focused as their
hands, protected by thick blue rubber gloves, quickly snap rubber bands around
the claws of a five-pound and of a two-pound lobster and place them in a thick,
grey plastic crate. Along with the bands, they attach an orange tag with a bar
code. It will still be there when Steve Aguglia, executive chef at Aquaknox,
places it on a plate for which a diner will pay US$89. The person who eats this
lobster can take the tag back to his hotel room, type in the bar code on a
website and find out exactly when, where and by whom his lobster was caught and
chart its expedition to Las Vegas.
That
is possible because Blue Thunder’s captain, Dougie Adams, signed on to
ThisFish, a program that gives consumers information about the quality of their
sustainably harvested seafood and where it comes from. It does that by having
fishermen like Adams put bar-coded tags on the lobsters when they are caught
and uploading information on him and his fishing trip when he gets back to the
wharf with his catch.
“It’s
a good thing for the industry,” says Adams, because he wants only the
best-quality lobsters attached to his name, and because people all over the
world will learn about his community of Woods Harbour. Nova Scotia’s lobster
industry is worth about $450 million — that is 45 per cent of the Canadian
value.
This
time of year, Adams and his two-man crew can expect to crate about 800 pounds
of lobster per trip — seven times more than at the beginning of the season — as
he guides his boat through the ocean north of Browns Bank off the coast of
Massachusetts, where the sonar shows the water is about 137 metres deep. At 44,
Adams is pursuing the business his father, Bowman, practised before him, and
his grandfather before that. In those days, crews hauled the traps by hand from
a dory. It is a tough life, marked by hard work, long hours and the dangers of
being on the ocean in the winter.
The
season on the South Shore began the last week of November and runs until May
31. Blue Thunder sometimes leaves the dock at 2 a.m. and gets back at about 11 p.m.,
but the pay is good and it lets the men stay in their community to work. Adams
has been lobstering since he was 15. He threw up every day those first 18
months he went to sea, and he still gets seasick if his boat has been tied up
for a few days.
Catching
swordfish and groundfish used to keep him busy in the summer, but Adams says
there is no quota left, so many of the men around here pick up carpentry work
and other jobs to see them through the off-season.
Nickerson
quit school to go to sea when he was 15. He is 31 now and makes a good living
but says he wants a better life for his nine-year-old son. “He’s staying in
school,” Nickerson says firmly.
When
the season opens, Smith, 28, says he can expect to work off about 10 kilograms
in just a few days as they set 375 traps connected by 305 metres of rope and
baited with nylon bags filled with herring.
There
is barely a spot to stand on the deck, with cages piled everywhere waiting to
be dropped into the ocean. The crew has to be alert every moment, because a
piece of rope caught around an ankle can spell death. Adams was 20 when that
happened to an older fisherman on his boat. The man was pulled off the stern
into water just a degree or two above the freezing point, but he was lucky
because the crew was able to get him back in the boat.
When
Blue Thunder and its three-man crew get back to Woods Harbour, it takes just 15
or 20 minutes to get the lobster crates hoisted into Adams’s truck parked on
the wharf. The lobsters mustn’t be exposed to the air for long. Today, Adams
gets $6.50 a pound for his lobsters on a trip that cost him $1,000 in fuel and
$600 for bait.
QUALITY
TIME IN TANGIER
Laden
with 100-pound crates of lobsters, Adams’s pickup backs up to the unloading
area at R.I. Smith’s in Bear Point, just a 10-minute drive up the road. This
company buys lobsters from the fishermen and stores and exports them. Manager
Jonathan Sears’s great-grandfather, Robert I. Smith, founded it in 1933. The
ledger, dated Dec. 2 of that year, shows his great-grandfather bought 208
pounds of lobster from a number of fishermen at the wharf in nearby Shag
Harbour, paying them 18 cents a pound.
“Today,
one boat catches more than that. If they don’t bring in 2,000 pounds the first
day, they’re not even in the game,” Sears says.
Better
technology, better boats and an improved ability to track weather have meant
larger landings of better-quality lobsters, he says. Sears also speculates the
decline in the cod population has led to an increase in lobster numbers because
cod eat soft lobsters that have just completed moulting.
With
its 10 holding tanks, plus a tidal pond in a cordoned-off section along the
coast outside, R.I. Smith has a peak holding capacity of almost 600,000 pounds
of lobster and handles more than 2.2 million pounds a year. Some are shipped to
customers right away, while others are stored here for up to a couple of
months. Ocean water is piped into the tanks, circulated with air pumps and then
piped back outside again. The temperature, oxygen and ammonia levels are
monitored every day to ensure the lobsters stay healthy. The water is kept at 2
C, which keeps the lobsters dormant, ensuring they stay fresh and last longer
once they begin their journey by truck and plane.
Those
intended for such far-reaching destinations as South Korea are packed into
cardboard containers lined with Styrofoam that has soaker pads and a couple of
frozen gel packs to keep the lobsters wet and cold.
The
grey plastic crates from Adams’s boat are put onto wooden pallets and taken by
forklift to an area where they are weighed and then put into floating tanks
where the lobsters can revive from their journey ashore. They’re destined for
Tangier Lobster, 380 kilometres away on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore, to which
R.I. Smith delivers once a week.
This
day, 105 of crates of lobster from fishermen along the southwestern shore are
loaded into one of R.I. Smith’s three trucks. It sets out at 8:30 a.m. and
arrives at Tangier Lobster at 1:30, where it’s quickly unloaded by forklift.
“We are travel agents for the lobsters, and our job is to take chaos and put it
into order,” says Tangier Lobster’s managing director, Stewart Lamont. They are
taking the shipment of lobsters and sorting them into the sizes requested by
the distributor, who will deliver them to the Venetian.
“We
make sure the undesirable lobster doesn’t get included as part of the pack,” a
commitment Lamont says has translated into a less than three per cent death
rate of lobsters exported by Tangier, which has customers in 19 countries,
including China, Dubai and across Europe.
If
Tangier buys its lobsters from fishermen who place a premium on quality, Lamont
says, the facility can keep lobsters up to six months before shipping them. Handled
right, they’ll arrive as fresh as when they were caught. Canadian
lobsters are superior to American ones, which tend to have softer shells and
less meat, but are cheaper, says Lamont. “The Canadian challenge is to tell our
story effectively and make people aware of the greater attributes of the
Canadian lobsters — that it’s better value because you get a higher meat
yield.”
Tagging
with ThisFish helps, “because when you have your name on a product, it’s an
endorsement of its quality and Dougie (Adams) is not going to want his name on
a lobster that he’s not proud of.”
Lobsters
in Tangier are stored in a couple of ways. In one room, plastic boxes holding
60 pounds of lobster are stacked to the roof in what’s referred to as a
trickle-down system. Water pumped in from the ocean, just seven metres away,
flows from overhead pipes into the top crate, which doesn’t hold any lobsters,
and cascades into the crates below to keep salt water circulating over the
crustaceans.
They’re
kept here up to six weeks, but floor supervisor Darrin Hutt regularly takes
blood samples and measures protein levels to ensure they are healthy. The
samples also tell Hutt when the lobster is going to moult. That’s important
because Tangier Lobster guarantees its lobsters have a hard shell, ensuring
optimal meat content.
Hutt
takes the samples by cleaning a syringe with alcohol and the refractometer with
distilled water. He draws a sample of clear blood from the softer underside of
the lobster and places a drop on the refractometer, which instantly gives him
the blood protein level.
The
number 11.0 tells him this lobster has a good, hard shell and good meat
content. If the number is low, they likely wouldn’t buy from that fisherman
again. Other rooms have holding tanks much like the ones at R.I. Smith back in
Bear Point, keeping the lobsters in an environment as close as possible to the
one from which they came.
Today,
the workers are packing Adams’s lobsters for Las Vegas. Yesterday, they were
preparing shipments to South Korea, Denmark and Belgium. “We’ve been taught to
treat them like an egg just out of the carton,” Hutt says as half-a-dozen men
gently placed lobsters bearing Adams’s ThisFish tag into cardboard boxes
bearing the Tangier company’s name. When he started out in the business 23
years ago, workers just tossed the lobsters into packing boxes. “You’d lose
your job if you did that today,” Hutt says.
The
lobsters are packed the same as they had been back at R.I. Smith. Lamont says
they travel best when the temperature in the box stays from 2 to 4 C. In less
than 45 minutes, 67 boxes containing 2,000 pounds of lobsters from southwestern
Nova Scotia, including Adams’s, are packed and ready to go to the airport. The
boxes are stacked onto wooden pallets, enveloped in shrink wrap and raised by
forklift into the back of a refrigerated truck headed for Halifax Stanfield
International Airport.
An
hour later, the truck backs up to Gateway Facilities, a $15-million structure
designed to handle perishables destined for a plane and the only one of its
kind on the East Coast north of Miami. A forklift puts the pallets into the 650
square-metre refrigerated space as cold air blasts from fans high on the wall.
Workers take the shrink wrap off the boxes and put on stickers that are much like
a boarding pass, denoting details of the flight and contents, then wrap the
boxes back up again.
Within
minutes, the pallets are placed by forklift into an insulated steel airline
container contoured to the shape of the aircraft. The entire container is taken
by forklift outside through the back of the building, where a FedEx plane sits
on the tarmac metres away.
“What
makes Gateway unique is that from the warehouse to the plane, it’s about two
minutes,” says Gateway co-owner Doug McRae.
McRae
used to be in the seafood exporting businesses himself, but as the demand for
Nova Scotia seafood overseas grew, he saw a lack of proper infrastructure to
handle the delicate product, so he built it. He’s now basically a travel agent
for cargo as Cargojet, UPS, FedEx, main airlines and charter planes constantly
pull up to his operation.
Shortly
after the sun sets, the FedEx plane with Adams’s lobsters on board takes off.
A SAFE
BET IN LAS VEGAS
After
a brief stopover in Montreal, the plane lands in Las Vegas at 9 a.m. Supreme
Lobster picks the shipment up at the airport and distributes it to 15
restaurants and hotels across the city, among them the Bellagio, Wynn luxury
resort and casino, MGM Grand Hotel & Casino and the Venetian.
“Our
lobsters are all out of Eastern Canada because it’s a much better lobster, it’s
a healthier lobster, and that’s a key function in my market. We give a 100 per
cent guarantee for all the products that we market and distribute. I’ve got to
buy the best of the best of whatever I purchase,” says John Sands, director of
live and fresh purchasing for Supreme Lobster.
Sands
sold Maine lobsters up until 15 years ago, but he says they didn’t hold up.
Many died and they lacked quality meat, so he started buying Nova Scotia lobster.
Just hours after landing at the airport, the Tangier lobsters are in holding
tanks in restaurants across the city.
Sands
says consumers are increasingly concerned about where their seafood comes from
and how it is caught. An educational campaign directed at chefs in the city
about 10 years ago did a tremendous amount to boost the sale of Canadian
lobsters, which now comprise about 95 per cent of the market.
Some
consumers don’t even wait to get back to their room to find out where their
lobster came from, typing the bar-code number into their smartphone while
they’re still at the table, Sands says.
Nova
Scotia lobsters are the bestselling item on the menu at Aquaknox on Las Vegas
Boulevard. No others have the flavour, says executive chef Aguglia. “It’s a lot
sweeter, has more richness to it, it’s more buttery. It’s the best-tasting
lobster you can get. The quality is there, too. Fresh all the time.”
He’ll
take a two or 2 1/2 pounder, stuff it with crab meat, drizzle it with some
butter, herbs, salt, a touch of pepper and some truffle oil and then cook it in
an oak-wood-burning oven until it has a dark caramelized char on the outside of
the shell. Aguglia adds some lemon and butter and a side of asparagus and the
restaurant’s top-selling dish, which costs US$89, is ready for the table. The
surf and turf option that includes filet mignon or some other fine cut of steak
is almost as popular, costing over $100. Then there’s the lobster salad,
lobster cocktail, lobster bisque and the side of lobster succotash with
black-eyed peas and okra.
The
Aquaknox receives a shipment of Nova Scotia lobster six days a week and goes
through more than 1,000 pounds in an average week. If it’s particularly busy,
that figure doubles.
Back
on the rolling deck of Blue Thunder, Nickerson pauses in his work and smiles.
“I do often wonder about who’s eating these lobster,” he says, but it’s with
curiosity, not envy. After all, here is a fellow who can eat as much lobster as
he wants pretty much whenever he wants.
Not so
for Adams. He never touches them. He is so allergic to seafood that his eyes
swell shut just from the steam of cooking it. If he ever makes it to Aquaknox,
he expects he’ll opt for the chicken.
Beverley
Ware is the South Shore Bureau chief for The Chronicle Herald.
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Come get ur Acadian on folks...
Letter to the editor: Clare is not a place to avoid
Published
on April 14, 2014
·Lots of Acadian
colour.TINA COMEAU PHOTO
ACADIAN NOVA SCOTIA- Claire and all around Nova Scotia- come visit
My
name is Denise Alison and I am a 26-year-old entrepreneur who lives in Clare.
This letter is in response to the article “Dying towns: 10 towns in Canada
smart immigrants avoid” which has gone viral recently. Clare and its
surrounding towns Yarmouth and Digby all make this list.
I
question the content of this article as there is no reference indicating what
factors were used to create this list. Is it the unemployment rate, wages, or
population decline? Or is it driving time from a major city? Other red flags
are stating that Yarmouth is the lobster capital of Canada (I have a feeling a
few people in Shediac would disagree with you), alluding to “historic Acadia”
in the bit about Digby, but making no reference to Acadians in the write-up
about Clare (or Shippagan for that matter), and the fact that it is filled with
grammatical errors.
The
photo used to depict Clare is a photo of the Meteghan post office. Ask most
people what image they would use to represent Clare and they would quickly say
fishing boats, la Baie en Joie, or even the Acadian flag. The same source,
Immigroup, published a similar article in April 2013, and it has an entirely
different list (Top 8 worst places to move to in Canada). These oddities give
me the feeling that the authors of this article have no idea what these
communities are like and have never visited here. One factor they definitely
did not measure was quality of life, opportunity, and overall happiness.
It
is not a huge surprise that areas in southwest Nova Scotia are not on a top 10
list of most thriving communities. I've watched a lot of friends “go out west”
and I've seen many shops and bars close. But if i wanted to live in a place
with the most bars per area, I'd move to St. John's – which I did actually, and
it was not as great as it sounds. I moved away from Clare after High School to
attend University. I was away for 6 years. I had the opportunity to live
anywhere I wanted to in the world, and I chose to live in Clare.
When
I look around, I do not see a “dying town”, I see a vibrant Acadian community
filled with arts and culture. Clare is the only municipality in Nova Scotia
that conducts business and offers services in both official languages. This is
the home of numerous world renowned artists. There is a University here that
excels in the programs that it provides. People come from all over the
continent to attend their French immersion program. I see young families all
around me and there is so much potential for young people here. I've had
opportunities that would not even be possible in other areas. I am a Director
for the Chamber of Commerce, along with a surprising number of other young
people. I am a young entrepreneur, so having people in the community support me
and want to help me succeed is very important.
When
friends from away ask me what there is to do in Clare, I always have a lot to
tell them. Clare is located on the shore of St. Mary's Bay, but also reaches
far into the woods, which means there are beaches, lakes, rivers, and plenty of
forested areas. There are golf courses, campgrounds, beaches, picnic parks, and
hiking trails throughout the community. In addition to outdoor activities,
there are plenty of volunteer opportunities and groups to join in Clare.
Clare
and surrounding communities have a lot of interesting projects in the works,
especially in the area of green energy. Université Sainte Anne has been
proclaimed the greenest university in Canada. The Municipality of Clare has
invested in an Ecoparc which has a recycling facility, hosts a facility for
Cooke's Aquaculture, and will be the first commercial facility for CelluFuel
(producers of green bio diesel). Initiatives such as this, and the return of
the Yarmouth Ferry, provide business and
employment
opportunities.
Living in rural Nova Scotia may not be for everyone, but I would never trade it for rush hour and smog. Cheers, (where everybody knows your name)
Living in rural Nova Scotia may not be for everyone, but I would never trade it for rush hour and smog. Cheers, (where everybody knows your name)
Denise
Alison,
Saint
Alphonse
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In
1912, the Titanic struck an iceberg south of Newfoundland’s Grand Banks during
its maiden voyage from England. The luxury liner sank overnight with the loss
of more than 1,500 lives. The wreckage was found on the ocean floor in 1985.
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Port calls on SMU students
Internship program aims to help more international graduates stay in Nova Scotia
JOANN ALBERSTAT BUSINESS EDITOR
jalberstat@herald.ca @CH_JAlberstat
Cultural awareness and networking opportunities: These are two ways in which international students in particular benefit from internships, a Saint Mary’s University MBA student says.
“Someone like me who is trying to enter the Canadian workforce, it’s a very different work ethic," Miguel Bautista said in an interview Thursday.
“For example, I’m not used to coming in to an environment that doesn’t penalize you for being too early or too late. You can be who you want to be."
Bautista, a second-year student from the Philippines, was on hand for the launch of an internship program aimed at encouraging more international students to stay in Nova Scotia after they graduate.
The Halifax Port Authority is partnered with the Halifax university’s Sobey School on Business on the three-year project, which is getting underway this year.
The program will allow two business students per year to have a paid internship at the authority. The work terms will range from four months to eight months, depending on their student and the work requirements.
Karen Oldfield, the authority’s president and CEO, said the new program builds on training opportunities — such as summer jobs and co-op placements — already offered to post-secondary students by the port organization. The international initiative has a specific focus on retaining senior business students at Saint Mary’s, she said.
“Their choice is either to go home or try to find a job here.
“We want to be that bridge that gives them that little edge that enables them to find a job here."
Oldfield said she hopes other organizations establish similar programs to help international students get work experience in the province.
Almost half the students at the Sobey School are from other countries, Saint Mary’s president Colin Dodds said. The program will cost an estimated $23,000 to $26,000 per year.
A local business group, the Atlantic section of the Hong Kong-Canada Business Association, was involved in helping the port authority put in place a memorandum of understanding with the university to set up the program.
Bautista, who had an internship last summer at Halifax tech consultancy T4G, said it’s not only international students who benefit from such programs. The perspective that international students bring to the workplace is also an asset for employers, he said.
“It’s a really different way of attacking problems, finding solutions, talking to people," the IT specialist said. “If someone needs a different perspective, that’s pretty much what we are, by definition."
Having a global perspective in the workplace also helps companies looking to do business in another part of the world, Bautista
said.
Their choice is either to go home or try to find a job here. We want to be that bridge that gives them that little edge that enables them to find a job here.
Karen Oldfield Halifax Port Authority president and CEO
Miguel Bautista attends an announcement Thursday at the Halifax Seaport Farmers Market of an internship program aimed at encouraging more international students to stay in Nova Scotia after they graduate. CHRISTIAN LAFORCE • Staff
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B’ fhearr leam an cuil le caileig!
TOM AYERS CAPE BRETON BUREAU
Last Updated April 3, 2014 - 8:14pm
If you can read this, you likely think you have a way with the lassies
SYDNEY — A pair of events this weekend should go a long way to dispelling one stereotype of Gaelic culture as dour and austere.
Sure, Gaels can throw a kitchen party like no one else, but there’s still a common image of stoic individuals who lack colour. A workshop on Saturday and a new book of naughty Gaelic words and phrases being released this weekend should show that the Gaelic language can be fun to learn.
“A lot of times, we talk about Gaelic in historical terms … and that contributes to the impression that it’s old-fashioned and Victorian,” said Heather Sparling, chieftain (vice-president) of the Cape Breton Gaelic Society.
Sparling said the group’s Fun With Nouns session set for Saturday at the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation — the former Holy Angels convent — is aimed at people who have at least a little of the Gaelic.
The daylong workshop will be run by well-known Gaelic teacher Kathleen Reddy of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish.
Reddy likely won’t be teaching people to cuss like the devil, but the day should be fun.
“What she will do is teach, basically, a grammar session, which sounds unfun, but using Gaelic idioms which can be very useful and colourful,” said Sparling, also a Cape Breton University music professor.
“Instead of being an old-fashioned drill exercise … we’ll be using the unique aspects of the language and the culture. Things like ‘as sick as a dog’ or stuff like ‘Oh, I nailed it.’ That’s an idiom we use in English, and it literally means one thing, but we use it in another context.
“In order to learn the richness of a language, you want to learn those idioms.”
Cape Breton University Press has just published The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic (All the Scottish Gaelic You Need to Curse, Swear, Drink, Smoke and Fool Around), by Michael Newton, and it’s in Nova Scotia bookstores this weekend.
Some of the words and phrases in the book are reasonably tame, but others are fairly salty. Sparling said that’s OK, because a language has to be used commonly to be learned.
“That includes curse words and off-colour jokes. If we really think about it, those are part of our English language, and Gaelic does have that as well.
“Part of the problem, too, is you don’t learn that kind of language in class at first. Any language, any culture, has to exist and for it to survive and be vibrant; it has to exist in everyday usage.”
Sparling said she took some Gaelic language classes on the Isle of Skye, where “you’re dealing with teenagers and they’re swearing all the time.”
Gaelic language classes in the past have meant rote memorization, which gives people a technical understanding of the language but not an understanding of everyday usage, she said.
“What we really need is to bring the language into the bars, into the kitchens, into the places where people are.”
Information on Fun With Nouns can be found on Facebook — search for the Cape Breton Gaelic Society — or by emailing Sparling.
The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic is available at most chain and independent book stores, said Cape Breton University Press editor Mike Hunter.
THE NAUGHTY LITTLE BOOK OF GAELIC:
The book contains an editor's note that reads: The content herein is uncensored and does not reflect the ideas or opinions of the author, illustrator, editors or publisher. It includes graphic and/or suggestive language not suitable for all readers. Contemporary readers may be offended by some expressions of gender and sexuality.
We have selected some of the translations that are printable in a family newspaper.
Cursing:
Buinneach o’n teine ort!
May you suffer diarrhea from the fire!
Swearing:
A mhic an uilc!
O son of evil!
Snuff/tobacco:
a’ gabhail toit
Taking a smoke
Drinking:
uisge-beatha
The water of life; the origin of the English word “whisky”
Sex:
Cho cinnteach is a tha bod’s an each
As sure as the horse has a penis
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Come visit... come work... come live... come study... we'd love to have ya.... Canada's such a young country.... and such high spirits... and we are like no other nation... 2 official languages... of course in Nova Scotia... we count Mi'kmaq, Acadian, Gaelic etc...just as critical as French and English and we have over 200 cultures.... and we're kinda crazy... and cool and love our kids desperately.... Come get ur Canada on darlins...
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