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Many jobs available for Nannies/Caregivers in the Lower Mainland in the following areas:

Nanny / Caregiver Jobs

Childcare and Elder Care

• West Vancouver – Elderly person is in need of a live-in caregiver. Very good salary offered. Duties: housekeeping only. Starting date: ASAP
• West Vancouver – Family with three children looking for a live-in nanny. Duties: childcare, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP.
• North Vancouver – Family with one baby looking for a live-in nanny. Good salary offered. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP
• Vancouver – Family with 2 children (2 and 5 year old) looking for a live-out part-time nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP
• Vancouver – Family with 3 school age children looking for a live-out full-time or part-time nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP
• Delta – Family with 2 children ages 1 and 3 year old looking for a live-in nanny. Good salary offered. Duties: childcare and housekeeping. Starting date: ASAP
• Abotsford – Family with 2 children (school age) looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP.
• Chilliwack – Elderly looking for a live-in caregiver. Salary negotiable. Duties: companionship, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP.

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Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day or Armistice Day (the event it commemorates) or Veterans Day – is a Commonwealth holiday to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918 (major hostilities of World War I were formally ended “at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month” of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice).

The poppy’s significance to Remembrance Day is a result of Canadian military physician John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy emblem was chosen because of the poppies that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields of Flanders in World War I, their red colour an appropriate symbol for the bloodshed of trench warfare. A Frenchwoman, Anna E. Guérin, introduced the widely used artificial poppies given out today.

In Canada, Remembrance Day is a public holiday in all provinces and territories except Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba.
(According to “Wikipedia – The Free Encyclopedia”)

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s plan to accept 10,000 more skilled workers into Canada next year is a sound one, and so is the government’s overall target of 255,000 newcomers. Some other changes make less sense, and may be motivated by politics, more than economics.

Mr. Kenney acknowledged that the seven-year backlog to sponsor grandparents and parents has become unmanageable, and announced a two-year moratorium on applications. In the meantime, however, he will increase the quota by 10,000 over two years, to 25,000, and introduce a two-year multiple-entry visitor’s visa for these family members.

To compensate, there will be a lower quota in other categories, including live-in caregivers. The target is 8,000-9,300, compared to 10,500-12,500 in the past two years.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Why would a country with a declining fertility rate and the expected mass retirements of baby boomers want to recruit yet more older people? “The government has it backwards,” says Sergio Karas, an immigration lawyer.

While family reunification is a goal for Canada’s immigration program, family-class newcomers already make up two-thirds of all those accepted. Parents and grandparents are unlikely to create economic growth and will have more health needs.

Live-in caregivers are a category that should be expanded. They perform a key role in the labour market: caring for children in a country with no national daycare policy, and looking after the elderly. There is already a shortage of quality care for the aged, a problem that will grow in years to come with the country’s demographic shift.

Canada’s live-in caregiver program is unique in the world, and allows caregivers to apply for permanent residency after living with a family for two years, caring for either children or the aged. It has real weaknesses, such as long application-processing times, abusive employers and nannies being recruited for “fake” jobs, but the program itself remains sound.

The government would be wise to put resources into having it run more smoothly, and make sure that well-qualified caregivers are recruited to bona fide jobs and that their permanent residency applications are processed in a timely fashion. As the population ages, Canada will need more of them.

Many jobs available for Nannies/Caregivers in the Lower Mainland in the following areas:

o West Vancouver – Family with 2 children (toddler and a baby) is in need of a live-in nanny.Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o West Vancouver – Family with 2 children school age looking for a live-in nanny. Top salary offered. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o North Vancouver - Family with 1 child, school age, looking for a driver live-in nanny. Top Salary offered. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation, driving the child to activities. Starting date: ASAP

o Burnaby – Family with one baby looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o Burnaby – Family with two toddlers looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping. Starting date: ASAP

o Vancouver – Family with three children, school age, looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o Vancouver – Family with two kids, school age, looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o Richmond – Family with two toddlers looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

o Victoria – Family with two children, school age, looking for a live-in nanny. Salary negotiable. Duties: childcare as required, housekeeping, meal preparation. Starting date: ASAP

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Human Resources and Skills Development Canada – www.hrsdc.gc.ca
Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Notice for Employers:
New Requirements for Employers Using Third Party Representatives
On June 30, 2011, An Act to Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), came into force, along with related amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (IRPR). The new IRPA provisions will help regulate the intervention of paid third party representatives in the labour market opinion (LMO) and arranged employment opinion (AEO) application process. These amendments require the paid third party representatives to be authorized before providing services in order to better protect employers and temporary foreign workers from acts of fraud.
Authorized Paid Immigration Representatives
Only the following immigration representatives may charge a fee, or receive any other type of consideration, for representing or providing advice in connection with any Canadian immigration process or application:
• lawyers and paralegals in good standing with a provincial or territorial law society;
• notaries in good standing with the Chambre des notaires du Québec; and
• immigration consultants in good standing with the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council.
All immigration representatives paid by an employer must now be authorized before getting involved in any of the following activities:
• Representing an employer in an LMO or AEO application.
• Communicating with Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) or Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)/Service Canada on behalf of the client.
• Explaining and providing advice.
• Providing guidance on how to select the best immigration stream and completing the appropriate forms.
• Representing the client in an immigration application or process.
• Advertising that they can provide immigration advice.

As a live-in caregiver you are entitled to take a public holiday off work, with public holiday pay, regardless of how long you have been working. The following are the statutory holidays in British Columbia:

• B.C. Day – August 1, 2011 (Monday)

• Labour Day -  September 5, 2011  (Monday)

• Thanksgiving Day – October 10, 2011 ( Monday)

• Remembrance Day - November 11, 2011 (Friday)

• Christmas Day – December 25, 2011 (Sunday)

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1. Any contract / work permit extension required to continue the employment of your present caregiver for another year (or more) must be processed 6 months ahead of the date of expiry of the present work permit.
The procedures with Service and Immigration Canada will take approx. 6 months to complete.
Note: If the caregiver has already applied for a permanent residence status, asking Immigration Canada to provide an ‘Open visa’, there is no need to apply for a new work permit as long as the caregiver will continue working for the same employer.

2. The B.C. provincial government have already announced the new minimum wage rate that applies for the live-in caregiver program in B.C.:

• a. Effective May 1, 2011, the minimum wage in BC is $8.75 gross per hour
• b. Effective November 1, 2011 the rate will climb to $9.50 per hour
• c. Effective May 1, 2012 the rate is set to be $10.25 per hour

Note: The room & board deduction has not changed – $325.00 monthly ($150.00 bi-weekly).

Go, Canucks, Go!

As published on the website of philippinedayfestival.com, The Metro Vancouver Philippine Independence Day Council (MV-PIDC), organizers of 2011 PHILIPPINE DAY FESTIVAL, the biggest annual Philippine Independence Day celebration in British Columbia, announced its plans for a more vibrant and activity-filled celebration of the 113th anniversary of Freedom day.

With its theme, “Taas Noo Kahit Kanino, Ang Pilipino Ay Ako!” the day-long celebration focuses on the Filipino community’s pride for its ethnicity, arts, values and rich cultural heritage.
In promoting a spirit of national pride and unity, all Filipino-Canadians attending the celebration this year are requested to bring their “Barong” (for male), and appropriate Philippine costume (for female), and wear them to participate in the formal opening ceremony when the two colors (flags of Canada and the Philippines) are ushered in and the national anthems of both countries are played and sung. All Filipinos, business professionals, and members of Filipino organizations, wearing their national costume will highlight the opening program of the celebration.

The 2011 Philippine Day Festival will be held on Sunday, June 12, 2011, commencing at 9:00 AM at its official venue, the Waterfront Park, North Vancouver, which is easily accessible by bus, skytrain and seabus, at the Lonsdale quay terminal.

There is simply no way we can ever really thank mother for all she has done for us. She is the one who will be awake all night when we are sick. Praying to God to make us well and be ever ready to bear the pain that we may be experiencing. She is the one to wake up early in the morning to make the nicest snack and endure all our tantrums. Mothers are the ones who would forever complain that we are not eating enough or not eating right. They would cook all sorts of things so that we’ll be strong and healthy. In fact, mothers worry more for our examinations than we do. They would take pains to complete our school projects leaving all other works behind while we play around with friends or just away watching movies.

For all you are doing for us, thank you mom from the bottom of our hearts.

And Grandma’s Too…

While we honor all our mothers
with words of love and praise.
While we tell about their goodness
and their kind and loving ways.
We should also think of Grandma,
she’s a mother too, you see…
For she mothered my dear mother
as my mother mothers me.