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Two options:
1. As mentioned by Scylla you find an employer willing to hire a foreign national and then go through the Labour Market Opinion, HRDC approval and work permit process. This will allow you wife to accompany you and study in Canada if she wanted to.
2. Your wife applies for studies and goes through the study permit process. If she qualifies, you accompany her as her husband and apply for a open work permit once in Canada that will then allow you to work.
# 1 will depend on your qualifications and what you have to offer to a prospective employer. If your skills are wanted by an employer (and they cannot find any Canadian to fill the job), they may apply on your behalf for sponsorship to come and work. There is no other way to obtain a work permit if you are overseas.
# 2 will depend on your wife and her ability to convince the officers that she is a bona fide student and can afford to study while you come and accompany her while she is studying (ofcourse, assuming a study permit is issued, she can then work part time and you can work full time via a work permit that is issued to accompanying spouses of full time students).
Studying can be expensive. But if you have already paid in the UK there foreign student rates, then it is cheaper in Canada. From my personal experience in Calgary, the University there may cost for an international student anywhere from 17-25,000 a year in tuition. You add to that 10 to 15,000 for living expenses a year and your total amount may come to 40,000 year atleast.
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