Myself and my wife would like to Immigrate to Edmonton area. My wife is a Registered Nurse in critical care and I am a manager in a warehouse what are the job prospects in the area like ave salary etc.
Thanks in advance for the replys

There is a company called Geneva Health that help nurses to get into Canada and other places, my sister went over with them to Toronto at the start of 2001.

Welcome, Newtie.

It's 7.00 a.m. here, and the Edmontonians will be along in due course, I'm sure. In the meantime, the forum's search feature is a useful tool for finding the large store of information in previous discussion threads. Here are some recent ones on Edmonton:
There are loads of others, but I've run out of time to scroll through them all.

Anyway, all the best in your quest.

Another good place in which to search for information around here is the Nursing sub-forum in the Working Abroad by Profession forum. For example, here is an informative thread in the Nursing sub-forum:
LindaP posted in that thread. Her husband, Michael, is a nurse, and they arrived in Edmonton in March 2005, if I remember correctly.

Another thing that is useful to do is to find out if you or your spouse would earn enough points to apply for permanent residence in Canada as a skilled worker. Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has an on-line self-assessment tool that you can use to figure that out. Be warned that the permanent residence route is taking somewhere in the order of four years from the time that you initiate the process to the time that you land in Canada.

Some people take a short cut by applying for a temporary work permit, which can be a quicker way of getting into Canada. Once they're granted a temporary work permit, they apply for permanent residence. That short cut works out for many people.

The work permit process is not without its challenges and pitfalls, however. For example, the Canadian employer has to demonstrate that he/she/it has genuinely tried but has been unsuccessful in recruiting a Canadian resident for the position. This usually means that the employer has to be able to demonstrate that he/she/it has advertised the job, etc.

Then, when a work permit is issued, it often has conditions attached to it. Often it's for a limited time (one year or two years or whatever). It can be renewed, but that involves money and more paperwork.

Another typical limitation is that it is valid only as long as the permit holder is working for a specific employer. If the relationship between the employer and the employee ends for any reason, the work permit fizzles out. That has happened to a couple of people on this forum just recently. That is not amusing if you've bought a house in Canada, taken out a mortgage, etc.

Another way your wife may be able to enhance her application is to enter Alberta via the Provincial Nomination Program (PNP). I don't fully understand how that works, but I think it's a sort of hybrid work permit / permanent residence application. What I mean by that is that it is designed for people who work in a field in which there is a demonstrated shortage of skilled workers. That is the sense in which it is similar to a work permit. But, unlike a work permit, which is temporary, the Provincial Nomination Program supports a person's application for permanent residence. I think it's worth doing a search for PNP on the Nursing sub-forum and reading about Alberta's Provincial Nomination Program.

Finally, it's a good idea to try to ask one question per thread. That is, if you ask about the immigration process, job prospects (in two different fields), the cost of living, the housing market, how to get a driver's licence, etc., all in one thread, people will tend to feel overwhelmed, some people who could have answered some of your questions just won't answer, what answers you do receive will be all over the map, and there is a risk that the thread could get messy.

It's difficult to know which issue belongs in which forum, because some topics overlap to some extent. However, generally speaking, questions about applying for permanent residence or a work permit or PNP are best posed in the Immigration - Canada forum. Questions about your job prospects, cost of living, housing market, health care insurance, schooling, etc., are best posed here in the Lifestyle & Culture - Canada forum. Questions about nursing are best posed in the Nursing sub-forum.

Hope that helps.

My wife is a physio and she has just secured a job with Aspen Health who are a large health authority covering the rural community around Edmonton. They are sorting out a work Permit for her and as such are obviously willing to jump through the hoops to get staff and I have little doubt that if your skills were needed they would go down the PNP route or the Work Permit one. This (hopefully) is a link to the Nursing vacancies and if you need more info about them this is their homepage http://www.aspenrha.ab.ca/
and this is their nursing vacancy list
http://aspenrha.canadianrural.com/cgi-bin/searchnew.cgi
If you need more info let me know
Stuarty

http://www.genevahealth.co.uk/canada.php#2

They need nurses in Edmonton on that site, and Critical Care is one of the ones needed!