Tom Macleay

@TTRRMK The Operational Instructions linked at the bottom still show a modification date of 2024-08-15, but they are in fact different than the previous version. I saved a copy in November. Language requirement, field of study, program stacking etc. have all been changed.

Program delivery update: Post-graduation work permit (PGWP) [R205(c) - C43] – International Mobility Program canada.ca/en/immigration…

@bordersinform “Construction” and “natural resources” could do a lot of heavy lifting to this end.

And another anticipated change … I sure hope skilled trades make it on the list of priorities!! Changes to open work permits for family members of temporary residents - Canada.ca canada.ca/en/immigration…

@smeurrens This has been my understanding for years. Accompanied minors with the intention to study are required to apply for SPs prior to coming to Canada. Doing so avoids the ambiguous VR status question.

Borderlines Podcast #141 - Deanna and I discuss what seems to be a growing interpretation at IRCC that visitor records are cancelled when someone leaves Canada. What is occuring with some frequency is this. A family enters Canada, with the parents receiving three-year work permits and the children granted three-year visitor records. After one year, the family travels abroad for a month. Upon their return, the Canada Border Services Agency stamps the children's passports but does not issue new visitor records or indicate an extended stay. Before the parents' work permits and the children's visitor records expire, the family applies to extend their status. IRCC approves the parents' work permit extensions but informs the family that the children's visitor records were automatically canceled when they left Canada. IRCC explains that upon re-entry, the children were only granted a six-month stay because CBSA did not issue new visitor records or mark an extended date in their passports. While the parents' new work permits are approved, the children are ordered to leave Canada. shows.acast.com/659f464c3f6907…

@JulianLennon @seanonolennon Wait, who lives at the Dakota?

♥️🙏🏻😘 A Goodnight kiss for my brother, after spending the evening with him, having a lil dinner & chatting the night away, at The Dakota. Something we rarely get to do… Thankful

SDS stream is closed.

@MarkHolthe Party on Mark

OH MY GOODNESS! That was the most fun I have had in a long time. Just wrapped up my LIVE STREAM: 🎃"Halloween #EXPRESSENTRY Horror Stories"🎃 - real cases that went terribly wrong. 👻 There were scary 🪦EE stories, bats, ghosts, freaky demon girls, wolf howls, and disturbing screams💀. And there was a ton of helpful advice on how to avoid becoming a scary EE story yourself. I also did something that I have not done in a very long time. I dropped the price of my 🇨🇦Express Entry Accelerator DIY🇨🇦 course by 50%. The code will only be available until November 4th. There is a link in the YT video description. But seriously, you have to check it out. It was so much fun.🎃 I truly outdid myself this time. There was a ton of audience interaction, polls, and a Live Q&A at the end. Watch the recording here: youtube.com/live/khZLUl3Il…

We’re going to have fewer temporary foreign workers in Canada. We’re bringing in stricter rules for companies to prove why they can’t hire Canadian workers first.

In the interest of diversity MIFI has announced a 25% cap on Quebec Regular Skilled Worker invitations (PRTQ) from any given country. publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/gaze…

@TTRRMK Here's the StatsCan list, but I want to see actual programs offered by institutions with corresponding CIP codes. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/pub/12-5…

@TTRRMK If anyone has a comprehensive list of academic programs and their CIP codes please share. (It may not exist yet)

IRCC Releases List of Programs Eligible for #PGWP #field-of-study" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">canada.ca/en/immigration…

@TTRRMK However, in their press conference today, both Premier Legault and Minister Christine Fréchette referred to the Island of Montreal, not the CMM. cpac.ca/headline-polit…

@TTRRMK MIFI typically divides the province into the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, and the rest of the province. The CMM includes municipalities surrounding the island of Montreal too. cmm.qc.ca/a-propos/terri…

The refusal to process is only for the Montreal economic region: : Baie-d'Urfé; Beaconsfield; Côte-Saint-Luc; DDO; Dorval; Hampstead; Kirkland; L’Île-Dorval; Montréal; Montréal East; Montréal West; Mount Royal; Pointe-Claire; Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue; Senneville; and Westmount.

@davepl1968 Please name him HAL

I've always secretly wanted a PDP-11. When I was a little kid, they were state-of-the-art. When I was in college, they were a staple of our CS program. I rarely got to touch one and never expected to own one. I found it on eBay for sale a couple of months ago, with proceeds going to charity. So I bid (yay, esnipe.com) and won it. The price included free national crating and shipping, so I felt slightly cheated that it was only coming from Oregon! A cheerful fellow dropped it off from his liftgate truck, wheeling it and the pallet on which it sat into my garage before leaving. According to the shipping manifest, it weighed 840 lbs. I have a 2-ton portable shop crane (engine hoist), but wasn't sure if it would go high enough to lift the PDP or if you were even supposed to grab a PDP by its chassis and lift it. Nonetheless, the lift had the height, but the legs weren't wide enough to clear the wood shipping pallet, so I couldn't get the lift over the PDP. We set up the lift on top of the palette, then blocked it up so we could lift the PDP and slowly cut the pallet away with a Sawzall. Which is what I did. It seemed super-sketch but was never dangerous. I'm much too good-looking to be killed by a 1970s minicomputer. I then did something that earned me the nickname "YOLO" on the PDP-11 groups: I just plugged it in and turned it on to see what confronted me. The machine emitted a scary roar, like a powerful fan rubbing on the chassis or maybe an arc. The power dipped out every time it made the sad sound. It wasn't happy. It turns out there's a big electrical contactor in the power block, which was cycling intermittently. A helpful forum member told me what capacity was most likely responsible, and he was right! Five cents and some solder later, it powered up! I pulled a VT220 over and connected it, which brought me to a boot prompt! But any attempt to boot from any device (I had 2 fixed drives and a removable as part of the system) just locked things up. Coming out of the back of the machine was a giant 100-pin ribbon cable that daisy chained from one drive to the next. It ended in a unibus card on the end of an 8' extension cable. Clearly intended to plug into another cabinet, which I didn't have. Long story short, the bus wasn't terminated because the termiantor was in the other stack. So I located one on eBay and waited patiently for it to arrive, spending most days on the front steps waiting for the UPS truck in anticipation. In the meantime I redid all of the filtration in the system, which is a lot of it! When the terminator finally did arrive, I installed it and the machine still wouldn't boot. None of the drives seems readable at this point, but at least it was trying. The good news is that I can load old DEC diagnostic packages over the serial port, and it passes all CPU, logic, and disk controller tests. So beyond the physical media (which I can emulate in the worst case) it's up and running, if not doing a lot yet! PS: I bought the M3 new in '03, and it has 12K miles on it now...

@roseandfriends N+1

Just wanted to check with Twitter; what is the correct number of Rosenkavaliers one should own please?

@smeurrens But if it's rejected for incompleteness the applicant's status ended when their previous permit expired. It's as if the extension was never submitted so they could find themselves beyond 90-day restoration period. canada.ca/en/immigration…

IRCC REP Q&A 2023-0577 Question: If someone applies to extend their status, and the application is refused, when does the 90-day restoration period start? Answer: From the date of refusal of the extension application.

@GraChurch @mattlundy33 It is back to 20 hours starting Wednesday. Then in the fall they will boost it to 24 hrs/week. canada.ca/en/immigration…

@mattlundy33 Why didn’t they go back down to 20 hrs/week?

Just announced: International students will be able to work up to 24 hours / week off-campus. Limits were temporarily scrapped in late 2022. Previous limit was 20 hours / week. (Thirty hours had been floated by the government.)

@nrken19 For the children!

Emperor Wu's heatmap to modern populations.

Temporary Resident update. youtube.com/watch?v=Ncy14L…

@MatthewIwama @CarlitaBrito x.com/GhostsofIRCC/s…

Just waiting for the official announcement that Mexicans will be removed from being a visa-exempt country. An announcement is to be made by IRCC tomorrow according to the news.

We're delivering on our plan for the biggest ever cut to migration. Overseas care workers brought an estimated 120,000 dependants to the UK from Oct 22-Sep 23. From March, we're putting a stop to this.