{"id":49888,"date":"2021-03-31T15:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=49888"},"modified":"2021-03-31T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T19:44:56","slug":"federal-program-seeks-to-add-diversity-to-rural-and-northern-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/federal-program-seeks-to-add-diversity-to-rural-and-northern-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal program seeks to add diversity to rural and northern communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the pandemic having brought Canada\u2019s economy \u2014 and the world\u2019s \u2014 to a knee, the federal government and business leaders throughout the nation have embarked on an urgent effort to solve a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>Our country, despite being one of the best and brightest to live in, doesn\u2019t have enough skilled workers. In big cities, and rural areas too.<br \/>\nSo Ottawa has rolled out a very ambitious aim to attract 1.2 million immigrants workers to the country \u2014 and countryside \u2014 over the next three years.<\/p>\n<p>One of the solutions is the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP). Nelson\u2019s Erin Rooney is the RNIP\u2019s region coordinator in the West Kootenay region.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke with Kootenay Co-op Radio\u2019s Kootenay Morning current affairs show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the pandemic having brought Canada\u2019s economy \u2014 and the world\u2019s \u2014 to a knee, the federal government and business leaders throughout the nation have embarked on an urgent effort to solve a serious problem. Our country, despite being one of the best and brightest to live in, doesn\u2019t have enough skilled workers. In big&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":49892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218],"tags":[],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49888"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=49888"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=49888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}