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Unfortunately you will find that wherever there are more jobs available, the cost of living will jump astronomically. I live in Calgary in a nice 3 bedroom house and we pay $2500/month in rent. If I were in Saskatchewan, I could probably find a house just as nice for half that price.. but jobs that would not pay as well.

Teaching positions are very hard to come by nowadays, at least here in Alberta. I have several friends that are teachers and it's always an extremely stressful time waiting to get a new teaching contract as there have been severe budget cuts. Given how many teachers have already been laid off that had experience teaching here in Canada, I think it will be rather hard to get a teaching position, unless they are highly qualified.

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unless they are highly qualified.

everybody who has teaching licence is highly qualified. even up north. you wont get hired unless you have canadian qualifications.
there is no teacher shortage.

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Thanks for the info. :)

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than subject my kid to a sub-standard education and the learning of a useless language.

that's a shame that you don't have a good program. i did late immersion (having studied language acquisition, i am totally anti-early immersion, except possibly as a gifted kids program). i was consistently in teh top 10 percentile at my high school in both english and french classes. i went to uni and did extremely well--twice.

20 years gone, my french is still very good, i use it frequently. it helped me in the job i do today (teach english language), and there's a lot of evidence that having a second language is good for the brain. not to mention that as the world approaches bilingualism, monoglots won't get no respect.

anyhoo.

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true.

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in brampton ontario. canada Punjabi is official second language.

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How interesting.