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The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Immigration will fuel Atlantic Canada’s population upswing, Express Entry draw updates: Canada to introduce major changes soon, How can Canada avoid major immigration backlogs in the future?, Canada needs to be as welcoming to Afghan refugees as it is to Ukrainians, and more.

The Newcomer Research Network (NRN) at the University of Calgary is an interdisciplinary community of researchers from the Faculties of Education, Nursing, Arts, Social Work and Medicine who work to advance and advocate for research that will inform intercultural practices supporting newcomers across the University of Calgary and the surrounding communities, nationally and internationally, through interdisciplinary collaborative partnerships.

Researchers looked at the landscape of technology solutions available to immigrant and refugee-serving agencies, focusing on Customer Relationships Management (CRM), Case Management, Non-profit Software, Database Information Management Systems (DIMS), and Digital Business Platforms.

IRCC recently funded a number of projects under their Service Delivery Improvements (SDI) funding, but hasn't released funding information yet. So I sifted through the Government of Canada's Proactive Disclosure site and found some info.

Settlement agencies still have work to do to ensure they’re offering enough online services to newcomers, including using online channels to communicate with them before they arrive in Canada.

The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Immigration backlog must be tackled immediately, Canada needs to stop wasting talent of skilled immigrants, From the front lines: An urgent agenda for Decent Work, Government of Canada launches online portal to support Ukrainians, and more.

NorQuest College created these elearning modules as SCORM packages which you can link to or embed on your websites and Learning Management Systems (LMS). On this page, I have embedded their Module 3 Unit 2: Digging Into Disinformation, to show you how you could embed a module into one of your web pages.

This paper outlines places where technology can provide or is providing innovative approaches in the skills and employment ecosystem. It also details the ways in which technology can address the skills gap, including its potential for enhancing skills development and helping organizations improve and adapt.

This article highlights how the Sisyphean cycle of technology panics stymies psychology’s positive role in steering technological change and the pervasive need for improved research and policy approaches to new technologies.