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WES Weekly Roundup July 31, 2024
Published on: July 31, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada might struggle to rein in surge of temporary residents, Bank of Canada projects, Refugee Success in Canada’s Labour Market: Labour Market Information Needs and Gaps, Staff warned immigration minister about setting 'significant precedent' with Ukraine visa program.
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WES Weekly Roundup July 24, 2024
Published on: July 24, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: OPINION: Trudeau-Legault immigration meeting shows federation at its cynical worst, ‘Shocking and unjustifiable:’ Canada is deporting migrants at its highest rate in more than a decade, Canada’s new care worker immigration programs need faster processing times to keep families together.
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WES Weekly Roundup July 17, 2024
Published on: July 17, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Optimizing Immigration for Economic Growth, Ontario court approves class-action by immigration detainees against federal government, Economic Impact of International Education in Canada, Quebec’s attack on refugee sponsorship.
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WES Weekly Roundup July 3, 2024
Published on: July 3, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Using Twitter to investigate discourse on immigration, With dipping study permit approval rates for international students, Canada may not meet its reduced target, Foreign workers in Canada: Differences in the transition to permanent residency across work permit programs, Higher share of foreign workers have made transition to permanent residency in recent years: report.
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WES Weekly Roundup June 26, 2024
Published on: June 26, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ottawa split on plan to let undocumented migrants apply to stay in Canada, Immigration Minister Miller says, Population projections: Canada, provinces and territories, 2023 to 2073, British Columbia makes Entrepreneur Regional Pilot Program permanent, Court grants Trudeau government extension to fix ‘lost Canadians’ citizenship rules — with a catch.
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WES Weekly Roundup June 20, 2024
Published on: June 20, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: EMBRACING IMMIGRANT TALENT: Perspectives and Practices of Toronto Region Employers, Ottawa pledges $750M for Quebec immigration costs, sets no clear reduction targets, Government immigration survey asks how many permanent residents Canada wants.
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WES Weekly Roundup June 5, 2024
Published on: June 5, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Let’s Clean Up Our Act: A Report on Legislative Reform of The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, Locked out by Canada’s family reunification program: These immigrants can’t even get into the queue to sponsor parents and grandparents, Financial boundaries look different for immigrants in Canada supporting families back home, Immigration protesters require medical care as dry hunger strike continues in Charlottetown, Relief and happiness as P.E.I. immigration protesters pause dry hunger strike.
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WES Weekly Roundup May 29, 2024
Published on: May 29, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: In Between Belonging: Immigrant Perspectives on Becoming a Canadian Citizen, Immigration Minister tables bill to extend citizenship rights to children born abroad, Canada to extend citizenship to children born abroad, restoring rights of ‘lost Canadians’, Canadian governments urgently need to collaborate to support refugee students.
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WES Weekly Roundup May 22, 2024
Published on: May 22, 2024
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Proof Point: Not addressing population aging can be very costly, Seek training in high-demand sectors, province tells immigrants with expiring work permits, Immigrant workers protest in P.E.I.: What's going on now and how did it start?, I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues.
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