The B.C. government is more than quadrupling funding for newcomer services from $6 million to $25.6 million per year, partnering with 30 organizations throughout the province.
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Newcomers in Canada are more than twice as likely to fall prey to scams compared to other residents, with more than one-third reporting they have been targeted by fraudsters, according to Scotiabank 2024 Fraud Poll.
Once considered a vital part of Canada’s economic recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, international students are facing ever tightening restrictions, leaving those who came here to fear for their future.
Temporary immigration pathways are putting downward pressure on wage growth in Canada, but aren’t responsible for the country’s stagnating GDP per capita growth rate or the productivity rate, economists say.
A new survey suggests immigrants are less likely to experience sexual and other harassment in the workplace, but experts say it’s more likely that fear of reprisal is preventing newcomers from reporting the incidents in the first place.
When Vernetta found out four years ago that she got into a bridging program to help people with precarious immigration status study at York University, it was “truly one of the happiest days” of her life. “It was very helpful,” she recalls. “It came at a point in my life where I was just facing…
The federal government’s reimposition of a travel visa requirement for Mexicans coming to Canada could result in higher numbers of asylum seekers making irregular border crossings, two immigration lawyers and a refugee advocate said.
Shelter providers across many of Canada’s major cities are saying that even with the federal announcement last month that $362.4 million will go into refugee funding this year, they’re worried the money won’t be enough, or might not make it to them at all.
Imagine not being able to watch your child grow up. This is the reality of countless Filipino mothers and fathers. As Family Day in Canada approaches, it brings to mind the growing number of Filipino workers, many of whom are parents, who sacrifice the familial union of this holiday to work abroad.
Canada’s new category-based immigration stream will make it easier for economic migrants and students to find work in the trades at a time when the country faces a shortage of skilled tradespeople, say, immigration consultants, trade boards, and settlement agencies.