Category: innovation

In these 2 Globe and Mail events, participants focused on how Canada might develop a workforce to support long-term prosperity, business resilience, and national security.

Apparently, this survey may close tonight so here it is with some comments from me. Context? From IRCC's slide deck: "The purpose of this presentation is to solicit your early thoughts and co-generate ideas about how we can adapt the Settlement and Resettlement Programs to better suit the needs of clients over the next few years in a context of reduced funding and lower immigration levels."

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada’s immigration department reveals eye-popping application processing times — some of which exceed 10 years, Canada’s postsecondary system must pivot to meet economic challenges ahead, RBC report says, Canada is failing to reward top-talent immigrants, hurting GDP: Study, Backlash grows against Ontario’s new rule that would affect family doctors as Canada’s physician groups call change ‘baffling’, IRCC invites thousands of healthcare professionals in Express Entry draw, Canadians’ views on immigration see growing split along political lines: Survey, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Discriminatory and devastating’: New Ontario rule for medical residency that would exclude most immigrant physicians sparks outrage, REPORT| Canadian international student policy at a crossroads, Liberals introduce 2nd border bill with aim to quickly pass less controversial measures, OPINION | Ottawa narrows the private path for settling refugees, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Immigrant nurses in Canada: Alignment between intentions and employment outcomes, Labour market outcomes of the Black populations in Canada, 2020 to 2025, The new, steep price for this U.S. visa could be a blessing for Canadian tech, Which international students in Canada are getting postgraduate work permits? The list is shrinking, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Report | Foreign Credential Recognition - The Case for Better Labour Market Information in Canada’s Foreign Credential Recognition Process, Canada should drop immigration levels even further, think tank says, Pierre Poilievre says the temporary foreign worker program is stealing jobs from Canadians. We fact-check some of the most frequent claims about it, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Are temporary foreign workers taking young Canadians' jobs? Here's what experts think, Not Just Another Internship: The International Student WIL Experience, Federal agencies fumble privacy safeguards on asylum system revamp, risking refugee data, Canada’s new immigration bill seeks power to cancel or suspend applications and documents. Experts say these are the groups likely to be targeted, and more.

Watch the final presentations from the top 10 semi-finalist teams of the Migration Data Challenge 2025 from the Bridging Divides program at TMU. This was a first-of-its-kind competition in Canada that invited undergraduate and graduate students from across the country to turn raw migration data into meaningful, real-world insight.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Ontario to break interprovincial barriers for regulated professions, Poilievre calls for temporary foreign worker program to be scrapped, REPORT| Foreign Students: Should We Restrict or Encourage Them? Designed to fail? Palestinian-Canadians fault Ottawa’s refugee program for Gazans, and more.