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Canada Will Need Twice as Much Electricity by 2050, and Ontario Is About to Tear Up Its Immigration System.
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Canada Will Need Twice as Much Electricity by 2050
Canada's national energy regulator put out new projections on Tuesday, and the numbers are big. Electricity demand is expected to grow 44% by 2050, and the country will need to double its generation capacity - from 160 gigawatts to 310.
The growth is coming from all directions: homes switching off gas, factories expanding, and a wave of AI data centers that didn't exist five years ago. Wind power is set to do the heaviest lifting, growing from 40 terawatt-hours to 277. Oil production, meanwhile, is projected to peak at 6.1 million barrels a day around 2042 before flattening out - though the range of uncertainty is wide enough that output could grow 18% or shrink 12% depending on global prices.
For expats watching from abroad, this is a window into the economy you might return to. Canada is betting hard on electrification, but it's not walking away from oil and gas anytime soon - fossil fuel consumption is projected to stay essentially flat through 2050. CER Chief Economist Darren Christie put it plainly: "Canada's energy future isn't fixed."
A country that runs on both wind farms and oil sands for the next 25 years. That's the forecast.
Read more: CBC News
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Ontario Is About to Tear Up Its Immigration System
Ontario will get rid of nine of its Provincial Nominee Program streams on May 30 and replace them with a new selection framework that gives the province far more control over who gets in.
Gone is the foreign worker category, the international student stream, the in-demand skills stream, the master's and Ph.D. graduate categories, the French-speaking skilled worker stream, the skilled trades stream, the entrepreneur stream, and the human capital priorities category. That's essentially the entire existing program.
What will replace them is a targeted draw system. The OINP director will be able to rank candidates on education, language skills, earnings history, work experience, and - importantly - whether they plan to settle outside the Greater Toronto Area. The province hasn't confirmed whether all new streams will open on the same day, so there could be a gap where applications simply aren't possible.
If you know anyone in the queue for Ontario, they should be paying close attention between now and May 30.
Read more: CIC News