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This week`s video news looks Canadian construction experts` concern over a labour shortage as the country prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, 800 overseas doctors, nurses and other health professionals have expressed interest in moving to South Australia following successful expos, increasing skilled immigration will create a stronger economy in Australia and make people richer on average.

This week`s video news looks at Australia`s shortage, that has seen vacancies for skilled trades people such as electricians and for industry-specific professionals such as mining engineers and metallurgists, go unfilled, identifies five key advantages to offshoring in Australia, a shrinking labor force is the number one challenge facing the global hospitality industry, a new work permit policy that came into effect on 19 December 2005 in New Zealand specifically for Samoans and Pacific Islanders.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: the Working Lives Research Institute says a `welcome pack` is needed for immigrants in the UK containing information on issues such as working families` tax credit and health provision, a one-year review of the German immigration law from January 2005, a record breaking immigration year for Australia as the country welcomed nearly 125,000 new immigrants in 2004-2005, the highest number in more than 15 years, British universities are trying to cope with growing student numbers by hiring more foreign academics.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: the European Union is considering ways to attract more skilled, legal imigrants, New Zealand hopes that a change to the way skilled migrants are selected will help target top quality immigrants and will increase the benefits to New Zealand, farmers in the US state of California, and other states bordering Mexico, are reporting labor shortages.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: the US Senate-passed measure to provide additional foreign worker visas for the high-tech and specialty fields was dropped from a budget bill that passed the House early on Dec. 19, the UK Government is introducing a new immigration category that allows religious workers in non-preaching roles to come to the UK to work for up to two years, lamb shearers are in short supply as summer shearing enters a bottleneck in New Zealand, thousands of nurses and midwives are still being hired from the world`s poorest countries to work in the UK.

This week`s video news includes the following stories: Australia is suffering a skills shortage because fewer young people are entering the trades, but instead want to enter university, new figures show the jobs market in Australia continues to strengthen, a version of Scotland`s Fresh Talent Initiative, which allows foreign graduates to live and work in Scotland for two years, will be launched in England, 3,302 of the US` H1B visas remain for those who hold master`s degrees or higher.