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Its critics call it ‘birth tourism.’ But is the practice real? COVID-19 is providing clues
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Griffith estimates that the percentage of “tourism births” has now reached one per cent of all births in Canada in an average year. “This is really a question of the integrity of the citizenship program… This is legal but it’s still a loophole that allows basically fairly affluent women and families to shortcut the process, find a backdoor entry and without going through the standard process of becoming a Canadian citizen.”
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction, rights
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Why Canada’s COVID recovery needs to include international students
Thursday, July 8th, 2021
While these temporary, one-time initiatives certainly provide interim relief for international students… we need to consider more sustainable measures… Our governments should also provide additional funding to colleges and universities to make it easier for international students to access better institutional support. Decades of government cuts to post-secondary funding has arguably made these institutions far too reliant on international tuition fees.
Tags: economy, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Measured progress: A new National Scorecard provides the framework for smart and inclusive long-term growth for Canada
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
Century Initiative’s inaugural 2021 National Scorecard identified the following key issues as focus areas… productivity… spending on research and development… household debt… public spending on training… availability of childcare… child & youth well-being… public spending related to children & families… quality of broadband internet… environmental sustainability… By measuring our progress, we can manage it
Tags: child care, economy, homelessness, immigration, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Our temporary residents provide a resource we can’t ignore
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
The de facto “two-step immigration process” that has emerged in recent years has been primarily driven by business demands for faster intake of newcomers, but could lead to better integration and lives for “low” and “high” skilled workers alike. If temporary foreign workers are good enough to work for us, they are good enough to live among us, permanently, if that is what they wish.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, rights
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We are not visible minorities; we are the global majority
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Describing someone as a visible minority situates whiteness as the reference standard and the norm by which all people are judged. It is a term of disempowerment that promotes the othering of racialized peoples and implies subordination to white power structures… If we are to end white supremacy in this country, we need to change our discourse on race. This requires changing the way we think and speak about Canada’s racialized population.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation
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Let’s make 2021 the year we eliminate online hate in Canada
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
the Canadian Coalition to End Online Hate, a broad-based alliance of close to 40 (and growing) organizations representing a diverse array of communities, are calling for the following concrete actions… Increasing resources for law enforcement, Crown attorneys, and judges to ensure they receive sufficient training on how to apply existing laws to deal with online hate… Creating a civil remedy to address online hate and… Establishing strong and clear regulations for online platforms and Internet service providers
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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2020 brought ugly truths about inequity to the forefront — like how Ontario’s Medical Association still upholds structural racism
Saturday, January 9th, 2021
… patients who must engage in such unequal bargaining with their physicians… are disproportionately BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Colour] including immigrants and refugees, who are massively overrepresented in the lower income classes. The OMA’s billing guide is a classic example of structural racism precisely because its effects are felt most by BIPOC communities.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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COVID-19 changed everything, except Canada’s values of inclusiveness
Saturday, January 2nd, 2021
Canadians are also increasingly sympathetic to vulnerable groups such as people with low incomes… support is growing in Canada for the idea of a basic income. Although that specific policy may not win the day, support for the principle suggests Canadians are growing more interested in a backstop for those at risk of being left behind… bucking trends in other countries, we have become less, and not more, polarized.
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Canada must reorient its immigration system for the 21st-century economy
Saturday, December 26th, 2020
If Canadian companies and postsecondary institutions are going to get the talent required to expand the Canadian economy, the government must shift to an aggressive, co-recruitment model of top talent globally… Our immigration officials will have to be less application processors and more head-hunters for the entrepreneurs, engineers, researchers, finance professionals, marketers, salespeople and other strategic vocations required to fuel Canada’s economy and vibrant society for generations to come.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living
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How Canada is fighting the war on talent
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020
… evidence suggests Canada has largely reversed its brain drain. This country’s fast-growing technology sector is more than holding its own in the global race for talent, even after the deep economic shock of the pandemic… there are nearly 100,000 more jobs now in so-called STEM disciplines – science, technology, engineering and math – in this country than there were before the pandemic. There is still a gaping hole in Canada’s job market, but not for these people.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, standard of living
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