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Old Sep 17th 2006 | 9:06 am
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Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:16 am
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no, thanks, just huge delays and what i took to be a realistic timescale which has just vanished. instead of being over in ab for christmas its now looking like early summer. reading about nightmares with prospective employers it dosn't particularly endear me to the edmonton police. trying to stay focused is difficult.

I have no idea if this is of any help to you at this point in time, but I thought I'd bring it up for you or anyone else who may be interested.

From the Calgary Police Service website:

"Effective immediately, having Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Resident Status is not a necessary pre-requisite to apply to the Calgary Police Service as an international applicant. Interested persons may submit their entire application package at their convenience."

Also of interest to UK Experienced Officers

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Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:27 am
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Originally Posted by respecttradition
My wife and I will be moving to Edmonton in January 2007. We have researched and researched about pretty much everything but no doubt we will have overlooked something. So to all the people who have been in Canada for a while, using the beauty of hindsight, is there anything you would have done differently if you could have your time over?
1) Not come to Canada in the first place ... if I worked half as hard in the UK as I do here, I could afford vacations in the EU.
2) Ignoring 1), brought every single thing we owned in the UK to Canada instead of selling all that irreplacable stuff on Ebay or having garage sales ....

Not what you want to hear, but that's life.
 
Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:31 am
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[QUOTE=Voyager970]
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Stu getting a bit personal here mate

You got something you want to tell us all then !!!!!
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Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:32 am
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Willmore has got me sussed, better go now its my shot with the rabbit's fur mit.
 
Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:35 am
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Originally Posted by Cowtown
1) Not come to Canada in the first place ... if I worked half as hard in the UK as I do here, I could afford vacations in the EU.
2) Ignoring 1), brought every single thing we owned in the UK to Canada instead of selling all that irreplacable stuff on Ebay or having garage sales ....

Not what you want to hear, but that's life.

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Old Sep 17th 2006 | 11:52 am
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Willmore arrives with the one thing that's more readilly available in Canada than the rest of the world ... BC bud ... although Albertans are trying very hard to catch up.
 
Old Sep 19th 2006 | 5:30 am
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I have no idea if this is of any help to you at this point in time, but I thought I'd bring it up for you or anyone else who may be interested.

From the Calgary Police Service website:

"Effective immediately, having Canadian Citizenship or Permanent Resident Status is not a necessary pre-requisite to apply to the Calgary Police Service as an international applicant. Interested persons may submit their entire application package at their convenience."

Also of interest to UK Experienced Officers

Cheers
Steve
thanks as always very kind, though i feel like i have hijacked the thread in a fit of pique. i am aware, and like respect tradition on pnp with eps. didn't take to calgary personally when i visited.
 
Old Sep 19th 2006 | 5:33 am
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So what's gone wrong ? Feel free to tell me to get stuffed (public forum etc)

Are you going on PNP or skilled worker ? Are you reliant upon EPS because of that ?

I'm sure an employer like the EPS will bugger you about like your average construction/trucking firm would
hi, on pnp, not so much gone wrong as perhaps expectations, which may have been just mine to be fair, being dashed. this after a long, extensive, intensive and expensive programme, though i appreciate, nothing like what some are going through. don't want to winge as acknowledge i am very fortunate to be in this position, though thanks for asking.
 
Old Sep 19th 2006 | 6:01 am
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As Bleech said......I would have sold the UK house rather than renting!!!! It was a nightmare getting the tenants out and now it's not selling

Also wish we had bought a property here a year ago!!!! when they were affordable.

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Old Sep 20th 2006 | 8:49 pm
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As Bleech said......I would have sold the UK house rather than renting!!!! It was a nightmare getting the tenants out and now it's not selling

Also wish we had bought a property here a year ago!!!! when they were affordable.

Linda P
yes quite. we have considered this, but i have and am still having, first hand experience with equally dodgy landlords and tennants. only 2 days ago a right charmer after being evicted for non payment, superglued every single lock, cupboard, and moveable item in the house, including the loo seat. to round matters off, he had given the landlord false details, had always paid cash, when he did pay that is, so we have no idea who he was or how to trace him.
 
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Originally Posted by Dying to leave England
hi, on pnp, not so much gone wrong as perhaps expectations, which may have been just mine to be fair, being dashed. this after a long, extensive, intensive and expensive programme, though i appreciate, nothing like what some are going through. don't want to winge as acknowledge i am very fortunate to be in this position, though thanks for asking.
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We would have brought more belongings and made sure we were on the same flights - not 6 weeks apart - just caused more stress than was worth it.
 

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