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Featured Member: Lisa Jane de Gara
Posted on Friday, March 22, 2024 02:48 PM
Lisa Jane de Gara is a dedicated leader, blending her experience in public service and academia to make a difference. Currently leading a team at Action for Healthy Communities, she's focused on bringing top-notch immigration services to small towns in rural Alberta. She is also a Sessional Lecturer with the University of Saskatchewan's Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy where she herself learned the "tricks of the trade." As a scholar, her work on the internet and disinformation has...
Featured Organization: World Education Services
Posted on Friday, March 22, 2024 02:19 PM
Re-posted from May 2023
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 nearly 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...
CBC: 'Migrant Spring' protesters demand regularization for undocumented people
Posted on Wednesday, March 20, 2024 01:02 PM
Demonstrators gathered in Montreal's Parc-Extension neighbourhood Saturday to demand the federal government grant permanent residency status for all undocumented people living in Canada.
Similar protests took place across the country as part of what's been called the "Migrant Spring."
Protesters called on Immigration Minister Marc Miller to create a program to regularize the status of migrants, end deportations and immigration detention.
In December Miller said he was preparing a program that...
CTV News: Prime Minister Trudeau rejects Quebec request for full powers over immigration
Posted on Monday, March 18, 2024 10:47 AM
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday rejected Quebec's request for additional powers over immigration, saying the province has more control over newcomers than any other Canadian jurisdiction.
In response, Premier Francois Legault said Quebec would "study all its options" to quickly reduce the number of asylum seekers and temporary foreign workers in the province, which currently stands at more than 500,000 people.
Trudeau made the comments to reporters after a meeting with Legault at the...
Government of Canada: Canada announces new immigration pilots for rural and Francophone minorities
Posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 10:37 AM
Rural and Francophone minority communities are critical to Canada’s long-term growth, and regional immigration plays a key role in strengthening their economies. In particular, the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) has been successful in connecting businesses and employers in remote communities with the skilled newcomers they need to thrive.
Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced new pilots for rural and Francophone minority communities, as...
Saint Paul University: Graduate Diploma in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2024 10:35 AM
Learn as You Practice, Practice as you Learn
Anchored in practice, our small cohorts and inclusive pedagogies welcome people of diverse identities in both English...
Trusted Resources on Health Equity for Newcomers
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2024 09:50 AM
Many organizations have made commitment to advance equity but struggle to enact real change and outcomes for their patients or clients.
N4 has put together trusted resources to share examples of interventions such as the utilization of data analytics, education and training, quality improvement, and health literacy to combine learning with action.
N4 Webinar
Real Organizational Change to Advance Health Equity for Newcomers
Speakers:
- Alicia Tieder, Associate Vice President and Chief Health Equity...
CBC: Federal government commits to permanent rural, northern immigration program
Posted on Monday, March 11, 2024 07:07 AM
The federal government has unveiled two new immigration pilot programs to help tackle labour shortages in rural areas and among Francophone minority communities.
The Rural Community Immigration Pilot is essentially an extension of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), the existing program that will expire this summer. When the new pilot launches this fall, it will be joined by an additional offering, the Francophone Community Immigration Pilot.
The changes were announced Wednesday by...
CBC: Ottawa says it will bypass Quebec's immigration cap to speed up family reunification
Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2024 11:50 AM
After several months of asking the Quebec government in vain to increase its family reunification capacity, Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says it's time for his government to pull rank.
Miller says his ministry will begin issuing permanent residence permits to those looking to unite with their loved ones in Quebec, regardless of the province's self-imposed cap on applicants, which he describes as "artificially low."
"We're talking about people who are husbands, wives, parents,...
StatCan Report: The improvement in the labour market outcomes of recent immigrants
Posted on Monday, March 04, 2024 12:00 PM
Several factors may have contributed to the improved labour market outcomes for recent immigrants since the mid-2010s.
The first factor is the expansion of the two-step immigration selection process, where an increasing number of economic immigrants are chosen from the pool of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) (Hou, Crossman, & Picot, 2020). In 2022, 36% of all new immigrants had work permits in Canada before immigration, a significant rise from 19% in 2010 and 33% in 2019.Note Former TFWs,...
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