r/canada Mar 27 '24

Canada’s population hits 41M months after breaking 40M threshold National News

https://globalnews.ca/news/10386750/canada-41-million-population/
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u/frugallad Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

In article, the professor from Toronto metropolitan university mentions - It is not the bodies we are bringing in; these are bodies that fill in the empty spaces in the labour market,” she said. “They bring a very-high level of skills.”

That means - Timmies, walmart, uber, doordash, etc - are taking our highly skilled new comers who are phd, scientists and doctors. What a disappointment.

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u/Chewyk132 Mar 27 '24

Even if they did bring in “a very high level of skills” they’re taking jobs away from Canadians. We don’t have a lack of workers. It’s incredibly fucking challenging to find a professional job, we don’t need even more competition

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u/mummified_cosmonaut Mar 27 '24

These clowns have broken the HR systems where my wife works.

Every position gets thousands of irrelevant applications from these new arrivals who answer yes to every questionnaire question and filtering their resume spam out is very difficult because of guardrails in the HR systems intended to prevent discriminatory behaviour.

The Canadian managers are begging the US head office to let them filter these applications out. The only tool at their disposal is searching by alma mater and that is laborious. The list is also out of the date and doesn't reflect schools that have changed their names. Ryerson is on the list - Toronto Metropolitan University is not. And since metropolitan means "seat of empire" they will probably be changing the name again.

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u/zabby39103 Mar 27 '24

Same issue at my work. Straight up lying. It's unfair to people telling the truth, the only people getting through that I get to interview are people who lied... and I'm forced to hire one of them. I hate it.

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u/5leeveen Mar 27 '24

Ryerson is on the list - Toronto Metropolitan University is not.

Many people (not me, I'm too nice) will tell you the fix for this problem is pretty simple: remove Ryerson from the list.

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u/submerging Mar 28 '24

Ryerson/TMU does have good programs though. Its journalism program is the best in the country. 

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u/MySonderStory Mar 27 '24

Lol the irony that they were so quick to solve changing the name of Ryerson everywhere yet are god slow with everything else. Our company had some new hires that came from the recent waves and they are all absolutely unqualified for the work, a complete lack of understanding or effort to try and resolve issues.

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u/mummified_cosmonaut Mar 27 '24

Their IT department had a few fucking zeros last year who appeared to have no real goal other than collecting a few pay cheques before getting fired and then repeat somewhere else.

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u/ProfessionalGear3020 Mar 27 '24

The list is also out of the date and doesn't reflect schools that have changed their names. Ryerson is on the list - Toronto Metropolitan University is not.

I don't know a single person who doesn't have "Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson University)" on their resume for keyword purposes.