Category: WES Canada Programs Research Summaries

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: How Canada's study permit cap will change where international students are coming from, 'Is the Canadian dream broken?' Earning gaps are emerging for second-generation Canadians, Opinion: Recognizing immigrants’ credentials is important — but it’s just one piece of the puzzle.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: New immigration funding planned to aid growing tourism and hospitality industry in Alberta, Provincial variation in the retention rates of immigrants, 2022, Addressing anti-Black racism is key to improving well-being of Black Canadians.

This report explored the contexts in which IRCC Settlement Program services could be offered online, which newcomer clients could be best-served through remote services, and whether online services can be offered in a responsive, effective, and efficient way.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: OPINION: Canada’s cap on international students shows a university bias, Immigrants most affected as Quebec boasts 'robust' 2023 job market, Organized crime, including Mexican cartels, smuggling migrants to Canada.

In this January 2024 webinar, Refugee 613 provided information for Immigrant and Refugee-serving organizations to build their capacity to communicate with clients and other stakeholders. The session shared specific advice related to the recent IRCC CFP, including a suggested budget template, but the information and advice is useful beyond the CFP process. They presented generally accepted principles of good communications in the non-profit sector. 

This October 2022 CYRRC session focused on building the capacity of Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) to access and use data from the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB) to answer questions about refugee retention and economic outcomes.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ottawa pledges $362 million to provinces, cities to temporarily house asylum seekers, Provinces introducing measures to improve integrity of post-secondary education for international students, The good, the bad and the ugly: who is to blame when policy lacks clarity, coordination and is contradictory? and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ottawa to offer low-cost loans for student housing, Toronto’s Housing Crisis: When Immigration and Housing Policies Don’t Align, Canada hosted more than 1 million international students in 2023, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Income dynamics of new immigrants to Canada, Canada is caught in a population trap, Legault asks Trudeau to slow influx of asylum seekers, Feds announce two-year cap on international student admissions.