Category: digital literacy

This November 2025 P2P Conference presentation provides an overview of how AI is rapidly transforming how work is organized and who benefits from new opportunities. This session explores the impact of AI on newcomers and equity-deserving workers, using national labour market data to identify which groups are most affected by automation and digital task change.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: One in five immigrants are leaving Canada. Data reveals these highly skilled newcomers are leading the exodus, Social Capital and Settlement: Study of Resettled Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area, A Shrinking Pipeline: The Cost of Fewer International Students in Ontario, WES REPORT | In Search of Information: Insights from International Students in Canada on Improving Access to Immigration Information, and more.

This November 2025 Refugee 613 webinar highlights early findings from the 2025 MTM Newcomers Survey and explores how to apply them in real settings, in ways that are practical and won’t add to your workload. The session reviewed communication patterns and gaps that affect outreach, program design, funding applications, and community partnerships.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada’s new immigration plan: Who wins, and who is losing out, CANADA’S AT-RISK TALENT PIPELINE: The impact of immigration delays on people in refugee circumstances and the workplaces waiting for them, Ottawa pressed to grant EI to foreign workers affected by Hurricane Melissa, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Is the Dial-Back of Immigration Having the Intended Impact in Canada? REPORT | 2025 State of the Ontario Nonprofit Sector, REPORT | Portrait of the Arab populations in Canada, Despite appetite for foreign workers, small businesses can't stand dealing with the immigration department, Canadians say relatives in Sudan receiving visas after massacres, and more.

CERIS – The Ontario Metropolis Centre was one of five research centres that promoted policy-relevant research about immigration, settlement, and diversity in Canada. It existed from 1996 to 2013. CERIS maintained a useful virtual library of reports, working papers, and more. When CERIS closed, that repository was lost. I was able to download 408 documents before the repository was lost. While I've been wanting to post them all individually, I haven't been able to, and wanted to share the reports.

This November 2024 webinar, with members from the “Beyond Technology, Beyond Healthcare” project, shared lessons learned from a series of multi-stakeholder dialogues that can transform approaches in ensuring responsive and equitable service delivery for newcomers to Canada.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada's growth engine is stalling – Key Insights 5th edition 2025, The crisis of wage theft in Ontario, The Successes and Challenges of Canada’s Welcome to Displaced Ukrainians, She arrived in Canada as an immigrant and now teaches newcomers how to resist misinformation, and more.

In this May 2025 Civic Tech TO session, Aniket Kali reveals how immigrant voting patterns in the GTA have shifted toward the Conservatives. His analysis, using data visualization and mapping, combines electoral results with census data to create visual stories that challenge assumptions about immigrant voting blocs in Canadian politics.