Waitlist for English language classes in Calgary shoots up to 7,455 people
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It's mid-afternoon on a Friday at the Calgary International Airport and Jon Yee is checking the arrivals listing; he sees a flight has arrived from Germany and heads to the gate.
"We're going to a flight that is arriving from Frankfurt to see if there are newcomers arriving," he said.
"Usually there's at least one."
They don't know who might get off the flight, but Wali Mohammad Dawari, who is working alongside Yee, says they know what they are looking for.
"We can recognize them [newcomers] when they start asking questions," he said.
A family of five from Cameroon, in Central Africa, walks through the arrivals gate.
Dawari approaches and hands the man a pamphlet from his organization.
"They will guide you. They will give information where and how to get a house," he said.
The Cameroonian man says he has an Airbnb booked for his family.
Also, he has a friend in the city who has promised to help him find work in IT.
Dawari encourages him to connect with agencies like the Centre for Newcomers and Immigrant Services Calgary in a few days.
"With the job search, we will help you, [and] with finding a school for your kids," he said.
Yee and Dawari work at the Immigrant Arrival Centre, a service that local immigrant-serving organizations started in October 2022 to help newly arrived Ukrainians fleeing war.
More Alberta seniors are now eligible for a provincially funded RSV vaccine.
More than 100 workers at a steel plant in eastern Ontario are being laid off either temporarily or permanently, as a company with facilities in Quebec and Ontario cuts its workforce due to challenging market conditions — including U.S. tariffs.
A small town northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., has become the unlikely home for hundreds of foreign workers, but many may have to leave the community they've embraced after the end of a federal program put in place to fill gaps in Canada's labour market.
There's mixed reaction in Waterloo to an injuction allowing police to detain, arrest and charge anyone who is participating in unsanctioned street parties in that city this weekend.
Diabetes Canada is excited about Prince Edward Island's new pharmacare deal with the federal government, but hopes the province will reevaluate copays on diabetes supplies, says a senior manager with the organization.
After 26 years of accommodating guests from across the world, Faith Embleton says she and her husband Ken are ready to sell their bed and breakfast.
A group of big-name companies including Google, Meta and Dow have signed a pledge to support tripling the world's nuclear energy capacity by 2050, a signal of the technology's growing resurgence in popularity.
Five years on, Toronto-area doctors and public health officials are looking back at what they've learned since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — and most agree the early experience will prove useful if the city faces another infectious disease crisis.
City staff would like Londoners to take a good look around their home and ask themselves a direct and possibly difficult question: Could everyone in your family survive at home, without leaving and with no other help, for a full 72 hours?
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will officially become Canada's next prime minister within a few hours, taking the reins as the country barrels toward a general election and continues to fend off verbal and economic attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Recent cyberattacks in Newfoundland and Labrador should have been a wake up call for the federal government about the reality of an increasingly hostile world, says one cybersecurity expert.
A recent CBC News analysis found that Nova Scotia is rapidly losing some of its most affordable apartments, but housing experts say there are ways to prevent that.
Premier Susan Holt is defending her decision to not use electricity exports to Maine as leverage against U.S. tariffs, arguing the move might cause long-term pain for New Brunswickers.