Originally posted by Jake Boudrot of the Port Hawkesbury Reporter.
ARICHAT: What works and what can be improved in attracting and retaining newcomers to Cape Breton are the focus of a series of public meetings around the island.
Kailey Pedley, local immigration partnership coordinator with the Cape Breton Partnership, said the meetings will help gather input on how Cape Breton welcomes newcomers and explore ways to do better.
The meetings were organized by the Cape Breton Local Immigration Partnership (CBLIP), which is administered by the Cape Breton Partnership. The CBLIP is led by an advisory council representing 30 organizations from across the island, including municipal councils, school boards, chambers of commerce, settlement agencies, and public libraries. That group steers the immigration strategy and Pedley said the CBLIP’s staff implement the plan.
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Originally posted by Jake Boudrot of the Port Hawkesbury Reporter.
ARICHAT: Municipal officials reported a very productive visit with a delegation from Vietnam.
The Cape Breton Partnership hosted a group of representatives from the Association of Cities of Vietnam (ACVN) for a technical mission as part of the Partnerships for Municipal Innovation: Local Economic Development (PMI-LED) project.
Before departing for home, the Vietnamese delegation visited the Dundee Resort and Golf Club on June 11, then the Richmond County municipal office in Arichat on June 12.
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My name is Aby Maqui and here is my story…
I immigrated to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in July of 2014. Nena Venus is my partner and we have been together since June, 2002. It’s been almost 16 years we’ve shared our happy lives together. We met in Abu Dhabi in 2002. We fell in love and decided to live together. I was working in an Oil and Gas Company
as a Senior Document Controller and my partner, Nena, was working as a general aesthetician at the Sheraton Hotel Abu Dhabi, a five-star salon and spa.
As you can imagine, the United Arab Emirates is a strict country, their laws and culture are not as open as compared to other countries like Canada, and as a lesbian couple we experienced difficulties, our relationship was discreet out of fear of being discriminated against.
We had to present ourselves as “cousins” every time we had events and work gatherings to attend to, and not as a real couple.
Nena and I had always been dreaming of immigrating to Canada because of its open culture, equality and freedom of expression. We wanted to bring our relationship to the next level and we knew that our dreams could only materialize if we would immigrate to Canada. We were wishing that someday we could legally get married and be accepted by society, the law, and that someday we could be free to express ourselves and live our lives without hesitating and pretending.
In 2012, an opportunity of a lifetime presented itself when my partner Nena, received a job offer from a spa owner in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. One of Nena’s regular clients at the spa was a Canadian English teacher from Cape Breton who worked in one of the schools in Abu Dhabi. Thanks to her, Nena was referred to work as aesthetician at Secrets Spa.
This was an amazing opportunity, but at the same time we had mixed emotions. I knew that I was going to be left behind because it was only Nena that received a job offer. We knew it would be difficult to live without each other, but we had a dream to fulfill so we took the risk of being miles apart. Nena landed in Canada on February of 2013 as a Temporary Foreign Worker. Living in a separate world and far from your loved one was really turmoil. It took almost a year and a half before I was able to follow her to Canada in July, 2014. Thanks to the same Canadian employer who hired Nena, the owner of the spa hired me to work as an Office Administrator.
After four months of my arrival, Nena and I decided to get married, and so we did on November, 2014. A simple wedding held at a friend’s house with close friends, colleagues and a commissioner of oath.
told myself “At last! My partner and I can now live freely, no more inhibitions and no more pretending”. We can now present ourselves as a real couple, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health…till death do us part. This was our dream that we were waiting for and only in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia it materialized. People in Port Hawkesbury are welcoming, friendly and we love the simplicity of life here and that’s why we bought our own house here. We also we love fishing and the causeway is right next-door. Buying a house was another dream come true for us. There’s no reason for us to be anywhere else.
The next item on our family wish list is uniting Nena with her 25-year-old daughter.
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Originally posted by the Cape Breton Post.
SYDNEY — The Cape Breton Partnership is hosting a three-hour workshop for employers and entrepreneurs to understand the need for succession planning.
It is being presented by Grant Thornton.
The session will be held 8:30-11:30 a.m. at the Holiday Inn Sydney on June 19.
Topics will include succession planning 101, how to properly assess your operation, the selling process, the steps and what to expect, increasing the value of your business, as well as tax implications, selling shares or assets and capital gains exemptions.
Registration is available through https://cbpsuccessionplanningworkshop.eventbrite.ca. Seats are limited. The cost is $25.
For more information contact Kelly MacKinnon at 902-562-0122 or kelly@capebretonpartnership.com.