Immigration, Work and New Technologies: Access to the Labour Market & Workforce Dynamics (webinar recording)
Published on: December 9, 2025
In this November 2025 P2P conference session, presenters discussed how the labour market is undergoing multifaceted transformations driven by processes of digitalization, with profound implications for the professional trajectories of immigrants.
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AI, Newcomers, and the Future of Work: Barriers and Pathways to Success (webinar recording)
Published on: December 9, 2025
This November 2025 P2P Conference presentation provides an overview of how AI is rapidly transforming how work is organized and who benefits from new opportunities. This session explores the impact of AI on newcomers and equity-deserving workers, using national labour market data to identify which groups are most affected by automation and digital task change.
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WES Weekly Roundup December 3, 2025
Published on: December 3, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: One in five immigrants are leaving Canada. Data reveals these highly skilled newcomers are leading the exodus, Social Capital and Settlement: Study of Resettled Syrian Refugees in the Greater Toronto Area, A Shrinking Pipeline: The Cost of Fewer International Students in Ontario, WES REPORT | In Search of Information: Insights from International Students in Canada on Improving Access to Immigration Information, and more.
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Useful sites and resources for AI chatbot frameworks and prompts
Published on: November 30, 2025
OK, so you're using ChatGPT or one of many other AI chatbots. Are you maximizing your chat prompts? If you're not sure, there are some great sites and resources out there. Some offer really great prompting frameworks. Others offer sample prompts you can copy, paste, customize and use across various AI chatbots. Some are non-profit specific, some are not, but still very useful. Here are a few.
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IRCC-Statistics Canada joint studies in 2025
Published on: November 28, 2025
IRCC's Research at a Glance newsletter is designed to inform the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) community and other interested parties about recently published, policy-relevant research from government, academic and NGO sources. In a recent edition, they shared a listing of IRCC-Statistic Canada studies, along with some additional recent and relevant Statistics Canada reports.
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A brief foresight exercise on immigration, work and new technologies
Published on: November 26, 2025
At the recent P2P National Conference I participated in the first of 2 panel presentations focused on Immigration, Work and New Technologies. My contribution was a presentation titled How Digital Diversity Shapes Employment Outcomes – Digital Inclusion Is a Settlement Imperative. It was a very interesting panel with some interesting connecting threads I want to share before I forget them.
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Newcomer Access to Information and Services in Scarborough - Needs Assessment Pilot Project (2020)
Published on: November 24, 2025
This report examines how recent newcomers living in Scarborough learn about and use free community and settlement services, and why many do not access them.It aims to identify information and service accessibility, challenges, and gaps for newcomers who have lived in Canada less than five years and have used only one or no settlement services.
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Using digital technologies with immigrant plurilingual language learners: A research synthesis (2025)
Published on: November 24, 2025
This research synthesizes findings from empirical studies on how digital technologies (DTs) are used with immigrant plurilingual language learners in educational settings. Its explores contexts, methods, and outcomes of technology use for facilitating language learning and plurilingual teaching practices, as well as to assess how much current research integrates plurilingual approaches.
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How Migrants Experience Information Uncertainty and Vulnerability: Lessons for (Dis)information Studies (2024)
Published on: November 15, 2025
The article examines how undocumented Venezuelan migrants traveling through Central America toward the United States‑Mexico border navigate a landscape of “information precarity” and confront disinformation.
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