Days before the China business mission commences, Alberta Oil sits down with Kent McMullin, interim vice-president with the Enterprise division of Edmonton Economic Development Corporation
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Trades Alberta: Overseas search for skilled tradespeople both rewarding and challenging for Alberta companies
EDMONTON – Temporary foreign workers have been described as a Band-Aid solution to Alberta’s ongoing labour challenge.
But a projected shortage of 114,000 skilled workers in Alberta through to 2021 has convinced some employers it is necessary to conduct searches for skilled tradespeople outside Canada, in conjunction with other strategies.
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Senator wants new Canada Revenue Agency head to rein in overseas tax cheats
OTTAWA — One of the first books a visitor notices in Sen. Percy Downe‘s downtown Ottawa office is one about foreign tax havens. His desk has piles of papers on overseas tax evasion, including a fact sheet — a Coles Notes version of five years of work.
He has been a lone actor for the most part, save for the help his staffers offer, but things changed in the last four weeks as MPs in the House of Commons began taking an interest in why not one fine, or one charge has ever been made public after years of investigating foreign tax evaders in one European country.
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Japan reclaims standing in the global financial limelight
It is an Asian economic powerhouse and its corporations, bolstered by a strong currency, are in the midst of an unprecedented $100-billion (U.S.) foreign acquisition spree.
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