Category: Digital Inclusion

Are you asking your clients about their digital access, literacy, and comfort as part of your intake or assessment processes? You should be. Here are some questions you can and should add to your intake and assessment flow to help you understand your clients and make better technology decisions.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Looking Ahead to 2025: Predictions for Canada’s International Student Program, Changes to temporary foreign worker program will hurt workers and province, experts say, Unemployment in Canada: A Report From the Survey on Employment and Skills, Hopeful immigrants to Canada are learning French after other paths to permanent residency prove difficult, and more.

This webinar, hosted by Peel Newcomer Strategy Group with support of Digital Transformation committee of the Executive Council of Peel-Halton Settlement Partnerships, is designed to share knowledge and discuss the potential impact of Artificial Intelligence. This is the first session in a 4-part webinar series exploring the transformative potential of AI in newcomer-serving sector, with a special focus on how AI can enhance our services and operations.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada to restrict low-wage foreign workers, consider lower immigration targets, Thousands of international students in Canada face deportation, sparking protests nationwide, Sabine El-Chidiac: Stop blaming immigrants for Canada’s housing crisis, Differences in confidence in public institutions across generations of Canadians, an dmore.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Temporary Foreign Worker Program takes center stage as Ministers considers further reforms, Quebec announces six-month freeze on some temporary foreign workers in Montreal, Ontario colleges banned from new international activities, Labour market resilience in the face of an aging population, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada to grant a select group of international students permanent residence upon graduation with pilot program, DeepDive: Who benefits from surging immigration? Hint: it’s not Canadian workers, Visitors to Canada with valid visas claim they are being pressured to seek asylum upon arriving — or leave, A new kind of slavery’: Skyrocketing use of temporary foreign workers in restaurants and fast-food chains has advocates concerned, and more.

In this Technology in Human Services podcast episode I was joined by Ibukun Abejirinde and Nancy Clark to talk about their work looking at how to re-imagine digital or virtual health care through a compassionate lens, focusing on Newcomers to Canada.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Court grants Ottawa four more months to fix unconstitutional 'lost Canadians' law, Bridging the Gap between the Gig Economy and Migration Policy, Ottawa considers changes to reduce number of temporary foreign workers in Canada, What Does Integration Mean in a Multicultural Country like Canada?, Use it or lose it: The problem of labour underutilization among immigrant workers in Canada, Canadian labour market stalls as youth, newcomers struggle to find work, Looking for a job in the food service industry? Your race, immigration status and appearance could decide, and more.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Learning from International Student Families: Making a Home in Canada, Under pressure: How global migration and economic trends are impacting international education, Posthaste: Canada's immigration clampdown could have more consequences than we thought, The End of Asylum: Evolving the Protection System to Meet 21st Century Challenges.