Toronto ranked ‘best place to live’ in Economist ranking of cities around the world

The City of Toronto has been named “best place to live” in Economist ranking of cities around the world

When Canada’s largest city was weighed across six indicators including liveability, and food security, Toronto bested a shortlist of 50 other cities to qualify as “best overall.”

Montreal—the only other Canadian city examined in the report—scored second place.

Toronto only earned eighth place in the Safe Cities index (Tokyo was #1), but rose to the top when authors factored in Toronto’s place in five previous Economist rankings: Livability, cost of living, business environment, democracy and food security.

“Toronto in Canada is a consistent performer across the five other indexes, putting it top overall,” read the report.

The Ontario capital did not top any single index, but generally stuck to the top 10.

The only exception was cost of living, where Toronto fell behind a pack of contenders including Tehran, Rio de Janeiro, Abu Dhabi and even San Francisco.

While Canadian cities dominated the top 10 “best place to live” rankings, Australia scored two with Melbourne and Sydney, the United States ranked three (Washington, San Francisco and Chicago) and European cities (Amsterdam, Stockholm, Zurich) filled the remainder.

Canada's Express Entry program to fulfill immediate requirements of the country

Canadian government has newly kick started the new immigration program known as express entry for skilled professionals’ hassle-free entry to the country. This new immigration is replaced with the previous year’s temporary work permit. Canadian express entry program has come to force on 1 Jan 2015 by providing importance to individuals who hold the prior job offer letter from concerned authorities of the country as the failure of unsuccessful Temporary Foreign Worker plan that has been formed by the Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet the requests of the country’s labour market.

During the year 2002, the Canadian government has accepted the requests of around 100,000 from overseas workers to work in the sector of agriculture and during 2012 it has accepted 330,000 requests, of which most of them have chosen the domain of fast-food. On looking at this, CIC (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) Minister Chris Alexander promulgated that they would accept about 260,000 to 285,000 applications in 2015. The number of request that the county’s government is going to accept in 2015 is more than that of the previous year’s figure.

As per the Harper government, temporary foreign workers who are entering the country can attain only fewer benefits and rights and are not eligible to apply for permanent residence of the country, with the known fact that most Canadians say no tojobs in fast food chains.

Surge in temporary overseas workers’ count made the Harper government to pay 15% less salaries for the individuals from Philippines and Latin America. But the labor union of the country blasted the employers saying they were hiring low-paid overseas workers.

As a result of this, the country’s government has decided to suspend the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for some period.

Reportedly, the Canadian government has launched the new program called express entry to fulfill the immediate requirements of the financial division of the country.