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Russian-born Alexey Saltykov came to Canada via Germany with a job in hand as a management consultant in the insurance industry. His company asked if he wanted to transfer to Toronto, and he jumped at the opportunity. Three years later, Saltykov saw a niche insurance need in Canada, and took ...

Asylum claims reached highest level in decades in 2017, and that trend isn’t slowing down. This week, Pew Research Center published a new analysis of data from the Canadian government on the number of people who sought asylum in Canada in 2017, and it found that more people sought asylum in Canada in 2017 than ...

Until recently, Greater Toronto’s housing market had been something of a fairy tale. Years and years of price growth convinced many that buying into the market — at any price — would pay off. In essence, a house in Toronto had become a miracle investment: no matter what happened, you ...

Free preschool is coming to Ontario. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced today that full-day licensed child care will become free for preschool children from the age of 2.5 until they are eligible to start kindergarten, beginning in 2020. Free preschool child care will save families an estimated $17,000 per child, allow ...

Canada has experienced a huge surge in its international student population in recent years. International students contribute more than $15 billion to our economy each year, which supports 170,000 Canadian jobs. On first inclination, one might think that the anti-foreigner sentiments in other countries have contributed to this surge, but ...