The Atlantic Immigration Pilot program is going to become a permanent immigration stream.

So what, you ask? What does that have to do with North Bay?

Here’s what.

The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot program, of which North Bay is a part, was loosely based on the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, which began in 2017. The Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot, or RNIP, includes North Bay, Timmins, Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay, plus six other municipalities in western Canada,and is in its second year of a five-year pilot.
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