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World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international students. For 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at scale. From evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with a diverse set of organizations, leaders, and networks to uplift individuals and drive systems change. Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and thrive in new places. 

The WES Weekly Roundup began at WES as an internal scan to mobilize knowledge across teams and inform their work. Recognizing resource and capacity constraints in the sector, WES has partnered with KM4S to make the information accessible to all. The WES Weekly Roundup aims to curate information into one place for service providers and others in the immigration and settlement sector to access and stay informed on issues impacting the sector and the clients we serve.  

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 WES Weekly Roundup September 24, 2025
Published on: September 24, 2025
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.
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WES Weekly Roundup September 17, 2025
Published on: September 17, 2025
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.
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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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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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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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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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WES Weekly Roundup July 9, 2025
Published on: July 9, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Canada’s most valuable import is talent – we need more of it, 2025 mid-year review: major immigration policies and changes implemented, Immigrants ‘in limbo’ after Quebec suspends pathway to permanent residence with little notice, Palestinian students say visa delays have stranded them despite admission to Canadian schools (CBC), and more.
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