The COVID-19 pandemic could derail Canada’s immigration-driven economy, writes columnist Howard Ramos.
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Howard Ramos
Howard Ramos is a political sociologist at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who investigates issues of social justice and equity. He is currently working on projects looking at Atlantic Canadian, secondary cities, integration of immigrants and refugees, hockey and multiculturalism, and the social implication of AI and new technology.
Being Counted in Canada’s Coronavirus Data
Stronger data collection is essential to understand how COVID-19 impacts immigrant communities across Canada.
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In a country where over one in five people are immigrants and far more are children and relatives of immigrants, questions of who gets into Canada and how decisions are made on immigration matters are…
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In the fall of 2015, in the heat of a federal election, the country was deeply moved by images of refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war. No image had a greater emotional impact — or…
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Research Watch #10: Entrepreneurship for Survival
Canada’s immigration system recruits the overwhelming majority of its immigrants to the country through economic pathways. Still, many highly educated and skilled economic immigrants struggle to find decent jobs and many end up working in…
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Myth Busting in Nova Scotia
With a rapidly aging population and low birth rate, Canada’s Atlantic provinces have turned full force towards immigration. Nova Scotia, for instance, has nearly doubled its allocation of provincial nominees and Premier Stephen McNeil has…
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