WES Weekly Roundup September 10, 2025
Published on: September 10, 2025
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.
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Exploring the Dynamicity of Racialized/ Immigrant Community Health Literacy Needs (webinar recording)
Published on: September 5, 2025
This November 2024 Community-Based Research Canada presentation explored research that examines the multifaceted health literacy challenges faced by racialized and immigrant communities.
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WES Weekly Roundup September 3, 2025
Published on: September 3, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada On Track To Surpass Immigration Targets In 2025, The occupational outcomes of provincial nominees, Use of temporary foreign workers soars in Canadian health care, Canada’s New Immigration Minister Silent On Important Issues, and more.
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Life on the Edge of Connectivity: A Digital Divide Simulation (webinar recording)
Published on: September 1, 2025
This April 2025 DigitalLIFT session provides an immersive experience that sheds light on the profound challenges faced by individuals with limited access to technology. The Digital Divide Simulation, presented by KC Digital Drive, invites participants to step into the shoes of those navigating an analog life in our digital world.
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WES Weekly Roundup August 27, 2025
Published on: August 27, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Young people face new challenges in the job market as youth unemployment soars, Opinion | Canada’s growing immigration challenges: are we returning to dangerous policies of exclusion? As Canada reduces immigration, francophones settling outside Quebec are an exception, Who Owns Canada’s Labour Data? (Hint: Not Canada), and more.
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WES Weekly Roundup August 20, 2025
Published on: August 20, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Should the feds or provinces call the shots on finding economic immigrants?, Ottawa pressed to factor in 500,000 undocumented residents as it consults on immigration targets, Views on Immigration in Canada Fluctuate Widely by Age, Nearly 30 Canadian language programmes closed in Q1, marking the “sharpest decline in the sector’s history”, Immigration applicants to Canada face rising refusal rates, data reveals — and critics say the pressure to reduce a backlog may be a factor, and more.
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Ottawa Refugee Sponsorship Groups – A Facebook forum for private sponsors of refugees in Ottawa
Published on: August 14, 2025
This case study comes from the Refugee 613 Using Digital Messaging to Support Newcomer Communities – A Toolkit for Individuals and Organizations. It outlines a Facebook group by and for Ottawa residents who are private sponsors of refugees, as well as organizations that facilitate refugee sponsorship
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WES Weekly Roundup July 31, 2025
Published on: July 31, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Recent trends in immigration from Canada to the United States, They came to Toronto for safety. Instead, African asylum seekers faced racism, homelessness, says new report, Immigrants in Europe and North America earn 18% less than natives – here’s why, Thousands of Canadians to start receiving invitations to apply to sponsor parents and grandparents, and more.
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WES Weekly Roundup July 18, 2025
Published on: July 18, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000—2024, Canadians will see wages pick up as immigration slows, Quebec won’t accept some sponsorship applications for immigrants until 2026, Most of Nova Scotia's universities are in the red. Here's why, and what's next, and more.
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