Macleans Magazine - 2005 Canadian University Rankings
Primarily Undergraduate winner: St. Francis Xavier University - Nova Scotia tops Maclean's List     

2005 Overall Rankings Chart:

Primarily undergraduate ranking.

The Maclean's ranking takes a measure of the undergraduate experience, comparing universities in three peer groupings. Those in the Primarily Undergraduate category are largely focused on undergraduate education, with relatively few graduate programs

Steeped in a tradition of community building, this Nova Scotia campus offers an environment where students can flourish and find their place in the world.

2005 Overall Rankings Chart: Comprehensive ranking
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2005 Overall Rankings Chart: Medical Doctoral ranking
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Canada to review immigration policy
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 (Toronto):

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Canada has decided to unveil sweeping changes in its immigration policy and is planning to take in as many as 300,000 new workers annually for the next five years to tackle a huge backlog of prospective immigrants.

Canada is on track to accept 245,000 immigrants this year, the very high end of last year's target, and will raise its target for next year to between 225,000 and 255,000, Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said.

"We have to start thinking about the Immigration department as a recruiting vehicle for Canada's demographic and labour market needs," Volpe was quoted as saying by The Globe and Mail yesterday.

"We are producing more jobs than the labour market has workers for. We're desperate for immigration," he added.

He said the country was facing a backlog of 700,000 prospective immigrants and pledged to tackle the problem by introducing a system to expedite processing of their applications.

Volpe said prospective immigrants currently face waits of as long as four years to have their applications processed in Canadian missions around the world.