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Canada will reduce international student permits by more than half, budget reveals
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025
The 2026-28 plan will allocate 239,800 permanent residence spots for economic immigration, and 84,000 for family reunification programs, including the sponsorships of spouses and parents/grandparents. The share of skilled immigrants will go up from 59 per cent to 64 per cent, while spaces for protected persons and resettled refugees from abroad will drop from 68,350 this year to 56,200 in 2026 and 54,300 in 2027 and 2028.
Tags: economy, immigration, jurisdiction
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Budget to include millions to help foreign-trained workers get credentials recognized, expand skilled-trades training
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
The federal government recruits skilled immigrants to come to Canada, but then those immigrants see their credentials turned down by individual provinces or regulatory bodies… The increased training money will help mitigate a shortage of people trained in the skilled trades — a gap that is expected to grow over the next decade… The government also announced a temporary federal tax credit of up to $1,100 for personal support workers.
Tags: budget, economy, immigration, jurisdiction
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Immigration Policy Still in Need of a Course Correction
Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Immigration policy should raise average human capital, rather than focusing narrowly on filling short-term labour market gaps… or meeting non-economic objectives… Policy should also be transparent, predictable, and oriented toward long-term prosperity, ensuring that economic immigrants have strong skills, earnings potential, and integration prospects.
Tags: economy, immigration, standard of living
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Yes, Canada should (mostly) end our temporary foreign worker programs
Wednesday, September 10th, 2025
Make it easy for businesses to recruit from overseas for the most highly skilled and highly paid positions. Make it impossible to bring in temporary workers from overseas for low-wage and low-skill work… hundreds of thousands of temporary foreign workers to make pizzas, stock shelves or deliver food orders? At a time of rising unemployment and near-record youth unemployment, it makes less sense than ever.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, youth
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Job Creation Falls Behind Rapid Population Growth
Thursday, June 5th, 2025
Canada’s labour market faces mounting pressures that cannot be fixed merely by adding more workers… “We cannot afford to leave talent on the sidelines – whether it’s older workers retiring too soon or immigrants struggling to use their skills,”… the country’s most acute demographic challenges [include] rapidly aging populations, lower workforce participation among seniors, high unemployment, and labour mismatches compounding regional disparities… “If we don’t act now, these gaps will only widen.”
Tags: economy, immigration, participation, pensions
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Canada can be the first choice for high-skill talent fleeing Trump’s America. But we have to act fast
Saturday, April 19th, 2025
We have the political stability, multicultural harmony and robust R&D activity in our world-class universities, teaching hospitals and networks of entrepreneurial tech startups to attract top talent from beyond our borders. But Canadian universities — epicentres of advanced research in a multitude of fields, and the intended destination for many potential U.S. immigrants — are coping with a funding crisis…
Tags: Education, Health, immigration, jurisdiction
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Rage is having its moment, but author Carol Off sees hope for return to civility
Friday, January 24th, 2025
She… examines six words, in six chapters, that she believes are in danger of losing meanings that have been well-earned and hard fought: “Freedom,” “Democracy,” “Truth,” “Woke,” “Choice,” and “Taxes.”… The “freedom” call grows loudest from those who believe their place in society is slipping… and their definition of freedom means they are liberated from responsibilities to strangers or the constraints of government…
Tags: ideology, immigration, rights
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Canada’s international student crisis was predicted — and ignored
Tuesday, December 10th, 2024
These are days of doom and gloom at Ontario’s universities and colleges. You don’t have to have a PhD to know why… provinces outside Ontario provide universities an average of $20,772 per full-time student. Ontario coughs up $11,471. To catch up — that is to be just average — would require spending another $7 billion a year. Ontario has responded by promising $1.3 billion over three years.
Tags: budget, housing, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction
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These doctors can help tackle Ontario’s shortage. They just need a licence
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
… medical residencies should have a different stream for foreign-born doctors that more accurately assesses their qualifications… the expansion of supervised clinical positions in family health teams and Indigenous health centres where these doctors could gain clinical experience while meeting the needs of underserved communities… In the short term… the government could lower barriers to licensure by waiving exam fees — which can quickly run up to thousands of dollars — and funding additional residency positions.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, multiculturalism
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In search of political will: Strengthening Canada’s mechanisms for the domestic implementation of international human rights commitments
Monday, October 28th, 2024
The history of domestic implementation of Canada’s international human rights commitments is disappointing, particularly when it comes to economic and social rights… Over the past 75 years, Canada has neglected to build the necessary legal foundations, government structures, and political will at home to institutionalize human rights and provide accountability to rights holders. We need a new national framework for international human rights implementation.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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