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Canadian-born visible minorities earn less
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Feb. 25, 2011
One of the cherished notions of Canadian multiculturalism is that the children of immigrants succeed economically in a way that makes them indistinguishable from other Canadians. But since Canada opened up its immigration policy in the late 1960s, those children are much more likely to belong to a visible minority. Now that the eldest are in their 40s and have established themselves in the work force, it’s evident that Canadian-born visible minorities (and those who came to Canada as young children) earn less than their similarly qualified white counterparts.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, standard of living
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The big picture on poverty
Monday, February 21st, 2011
Feb 20 2011
The Poverty Reduction Act of 2009 proposes to decrease the number of children living in poverty by 25 per cent (90,000 children) by 2013. Although this is an admirable step, this act does not recognize the severity of poverty amongst a sub-group of the community who suffer from mental illness, have addictions problems, are single parents, people with disabilities, and persons who are new immigrants to our country… Is it okay to just put money toward children in poverty, or do we need to start looking at a bigger picture?
Tags: disabilities, homelessness, immigration, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s immigration policy: Who is on the guest list?
Monday, February 21st, 2011
February 18, 2011
In 2010, there were 283,096 temporary foreign workers in Canada, doing work that employers asserted there was no Canadian available to do… In 2000, 11 per cent of temporary foreign workers performed basic labour or unspecified skills; now 34 per cent of them do. They used to primarily fall into the categories of nannies and caregivers, or seasonal agricultural workers. Employers are now using the temporary work permit program to bring in workers for hotels, fast food outlets, janitorial services and factories — typical Canadian jobs, albeit low-paying.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, rights, standard of living
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Divisive [multiculturalism]
Monday, February 14th, 2011
February 13, 2011
The forces at work have become sadly centrifugal, as we desperately search for a sense of national community and purpose, against a domestic background of creating growing numbers of internal solitudes… Ottawa’s brand of multiculturalism has merely contributed to the kind of “multi-identity-ism” that has turned all of us, myself as an immigrant included, into a nation of hyphenated Canadians. Canada’s journey to nationhood must be based on that deeper sense of diversity from which, fed by a multitude of tributaries, flows a new, distinctive and enriched national stream.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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Multicultural hogwash
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
February 9, 2011
Canada is now a multiracial, multi-ethnic society of disparate, segregated communities. This so-called Canadian multiculturalism may ultimately lead to a crisis similar to the one facing Britain and Germany where Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor Angela Merkel have been honest enough to admit the failure of this policy… True, Canada may not have one large monolithic immigrant group… but it has its multiple monolithic enclaves that are getting bigger by the year with the influx of new entrants… the way to address the issue is to rejig immigration policies
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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Reversal of Fortunes or Continued Success? [children of immigrants]
Friday, February 4th, 2011
January 26, 2011
Aneta Bonikowska and Feng Hou of Statistics Canada have released a report examining the earnings and educational attainment among children of immigrants. The study shows that successive cohorts of childhood immigrants who arrived in Canada during the 1960s through the 1980s had increasingly higher educational attainment than their Canadian-born peers by age 25 to 34…
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Ontario urged to eliminate OHIP wait
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Feb 03 2011
…advocates for immigrants are calling on the province to eliminate the three-month wait time for newcomers to access OHIP. The Right to Health Care Coalition, a network of more than 30 Greater Toronto agencies, will launch a “postcard campaign” Friday to put the issue on the electorate’s radar… The policy, said to save Ontario $90 million a year, also serves as a “disincentive to persons moving to Ontario only briefly for the purpose of getting free medical services” …Ontario and British Columbia [are] the only provinces with such restrictions in place.
Tags: budget, immigration, mental Health, participation
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A border security deal is good for Canada
Thursday, February 3rd, 2011
Dec. 15, 2010
A deal to enhance border security while ensuring more open access for the movement of people, goods and services would be a timely assertion of sovereignty, consistent with decades of common cause on bilateral economic and security issues. Ever since 9/11, security considerations have predominated border management, adding new requirements and new procedures and causing costly delays… we should welcome any agreement that smoothes the way for jobs and growth while toughening up our borders to security threats against both our countries.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, rights
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Immigrants use of welfare a mixed bag, documents show
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
January 11, 2011
A review of data from Statistics Canada and Citizenship and Immigration Canada shows… As a whole, immigrants have a somewhat higher incidence of welfare usage than the general population, but some classes of immigrants use the system far less. The data also shows that while welfare usage goes down for both economic class immigrants and refugees the longer they are in Canada, the rate of welfare dependency often rises for family class immigrants.
Tags: immigration, participation, standard of living
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Immigration funding: Tory spin doesn’t add up
Sunday, December 26th, 2010
Dec 26 2010
Ontario is bearing the brunt of cutbacks across Canada, absorbing more than 80 per cent of the funding reductions, while other provinces — notably Alberta, which just happens to have heavy representation on the government benches — will come out ahead. Quebec, too, will largely escape the budget axe. The big losers will be ethnic communities in Toronto that rely heavily on agencies that lay the groundwork for integration and citizenship among newcomers.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism
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