The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: They came to Canada to be doctors. Then Ontario dashed their dreams. How a judge’s rulings are giving them new hope, REPORT | Employment Practices and Skill Demands in Canada: A National Survey, and more.

This November 2025 P2P Conference workshop examined how Canada can better leverage immigrant talent through workforce integration, upskilling, and pathways to entrepreneurship. Drawing on national research, presenters identified systemic barriers that limit newcomer participation and highlight policy and program solutions that support equitable employment outcomes.

In this November 2025 P2P Conference plenary presenters were asked to include a future-oriented focus in their presentations, considering how these dynamics may evolve over the next 10 to 15 years and what they could mean for migration to Canada.

This report examines how recent newcomers living in Scarborough learn about and use free community and settlement services, and why many do not access them.It aims to identify information and service accessibility, challenges, and gaps for newcomers who have lived in Canada less than five years and have used only one or no settlement services.

This research synthesizes findings from empirical studies on how digital technologies (DTs) are used with immigrant plurilingual language learners in educational settings. Its explores contexts, methods, and outcomes of technology use for facilitating language learning and plurilingual teaching practices, as well as to assess how much current research integrates plurilingual approaches.

The article examines how undocumented Venezuelan migrants traveling through Central America toward the United States‑Mexico border navigate a landscape of “information precarity” and confront disinformation.

This case study comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines a Facebook group by and for Ottawa residents who are private sponsors of refugees, as well as organizations that facilitate refugee sponsorship

This good idea comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines the use of a private Facebook group for francophone newcomers to Canada. Members can ask any question and get answers from settlement professionals within 48 hours on business days.

OTEC, a sector-specific training, consulting, and workforce development organization, teamed up with Magnet to launch ALiGN, a “psychometric-based talent-to-role fit assessment and job-matching model” to connect unemployed youth to job vacancies.