“Not speaking English is not an impediment to our work.” One migrant justice organization is calling on Ottawa to expand the pathway to permanent residency for essential migrant workers by removing the language requirement.
View More Migrant Workers Call on Ottawa to Remove Language Barrier for PR
Physicians trained abroad want to help with the fight against COVID-19. Why won’t Canada let them? Jagdeesh Mann investigates in this long-form essay written in collaboration with The Walrus.
View More Even During a Pandemic, Immigrant Doctors Struggle to Find Work
Many immigrants who come to Canada in the skilled workers class, find it difficult to get employment that matches their education and skill level. Seeking help from Canadian settlement agencies, many find that the agencies instead encourage them to settle for jobs they are overqualified for because of a lack of ‘Canadian experience.’
View More Agencies Ask Newcomers to Settle for Less
Ottawa is granting 90,000 applicants a pathway to permanent residency to reach its immigration target this year. But the program does nothing for the migrant workers feeding the country, says one migrant justice organization
View More Advocates Call Ottawa’s PR Program “A Smokescreen”
It’s not enough for executive leadership to commit to diversity and inclusion as values within an organization. They need to help middle managers execute this on an everyday, operational level, too
View More Middle Managers Key to Integrating Newcomers
Is Quebec a less welcoming place for international students? In the second part of this two-part series, Christopher Chanco examines the situation for those caught between a pandemic and changes to provincial immigration policies.
View More Is Quebec Pushing Away Its International Students?
Canada has announced an ambitious immigration target as a major part of its post-COVID-19 recovery. NCM reporter Zahra Mahdi looks into what this will look like and what experts say about the feasibility of this new plan
View More Meeting Immigration Targets During a Pandemic Will Be a Challenge, Say Experts
In Quebec, the pandemic has reinforced systemic inequities faced by international students from the developing world. In the first part of this two-part series, Christopher Chanco explores the experiences of one student from the Republic of the Congo.
View More In Quebec, Pandemic Hits Students From Developing Countries Harder Than Most
Three nurses share the challenges to practising their profession, and how planning and financial resources helped
View More The Long Road to a Nursing Job in Canada
Internationally-educated nurses go through several hoops to practice as registered nurses in Canada. This wasn’t the case in the early 1960s, specifically for nurses recruited from the Philippines.
View More What History Can Tell Us About Working as an Immigrant Nurse in Canada