Category: sector research

I try to post as many reports as I can here. But, there are a number of sites where you will find reports and research on Canadian immigration and settlement. Use this handy custom search engine to search those sites all at once, from this page.

Like many organizations, in response to the pandemic, 2Life Communities built an accessible, community-supported, user-friendly Digital Device Lending Library (DDLL) for low-income elders who have little to no experience with technology. They created a replicable model for effectively connecting linguistically diverse, low-income older adults to services, programs, and each other through technology.

This site (eskills.km4s.ca) is an archive of the original eSkills.ca website developed by RRC Polytech’s Language Training Centre. It includes access to all of the original site files and resources through these links.

IRCC has released the full list of projects funded under their 2020 Service Delivery Improvement (SDI) funding call.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ensuring the success of international students: A collaborative model between governments, post-secondary institutions and the settlement sector, Highly educated newcomers in Canada, Course correction: How international students can help solve Canada’s labour crisis, Canada’s Rohingya fear world has forgotten refugee crisis 5 years after genocide in Myanmar, and more.

Today is Labour Day. A good day to reflect on wages, salaries, and working conditions in the Immigrant and Refugee-serving Sector. Where are we at? The bottom line is that front line sector work is underpaid and undervalued. That's well documented in years of research. In this post I'm going to focus on what we know about salaries from sector salary surveys.

Please consider revising your job postings to include a salary or salary range. There are many reasons to do this, not the least of which include diversity, equity, and inclusion, which I know you are committed to. Please have a policy to always disclose salary, as not doing so perpetuates racial and gender wage gaps.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Expanding the benefits of immigration in rural and northern communities, Canada will Lose Highly Skilled Immigrants without a Proper Retention Strategy, How universities can support international students beyond orientation, Almost half of Canadian report a strong sense of belonging to their local community, As the planet warms, people are moving. Will Canada welcome them?, and more.

We'll do what we always do, which is to be resilient and innovative in the face of uncertainty and adversity and lack of leadership when it comes to digital. I hope to play a small role in working with the sector on all of that, but it's up to all of us to share, learn, work, and build together.