Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada acknowledges gaps in employment during COVID-19, allowing newcomers an easier way to resettle in rural communities by relaxing the rules around work experience.
View More Helping Rural Communities Recover from the Last Recession
The level of care provided by internationally-trained or immigrant physicians is roughly equal to that provided by Canadian-born or American-born physicians, says Robert Falconer.
View More Research Shows Canada Has Overlooked Immigrant Doctors
With the explosion in the number of COVID-19 cases, Canadian provinces are recruiting retired doctors and redeploying healthcare practitioners. Webinars organized by the Muslim Medical Association of Canada (MMAC) are providing refresher training to the healthcare community.
View More Retired and Re-deployed Doctors Pitch In During COVID-19 PandemicAs the Fort McMurray emergency passes, those without housing and citizenship status face an uncertain future. Over 160 temporary foreign workers from Fort McMurray came together at an emergency meeting Monday night to discuss issues…
View More Temp Workers in Fort Mac: Hope Quenched by FireCalgary is celebrating the best of its immigrant communities at the 20th annual Immigrants of Distinction Awards this month. Immigrant Services Calgary (ISC) will host the awards show on Mar. 11. Krystyna Biel, the chief…
View More Distinction Awards Honour Calgary ChangemakersFor some, Alberta’s history is just about cowboys, oil, and Conservatives, but a new television series is shedding light on the many contributions that minority groups have made in the province. An Omni TV magazine-style…
View More Immigrants Don’t See ‘Redneck’ Side of AlbertaPatricia Gallagher admits it is hard to keep up with social media in her line of work. As the Operations Manager at the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) she has a vested interest in utilizing…
View More Taking Immigration and Settlement to Twitter
Deepak Obhrai, Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Calgary East and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and for International Human Rights, has reason to be optimistic about the future – or at…
View More A Talk With Canada’s Longest-Serving Visible Minority MP
In concluding this series, I’d like to offer some context to what happened on May 5 in the Alberta provincial election and some insights on what, if anything, it might mean for federal party prospects…
View More What Alberta’s Political Climate Means for this Fall’s Election
The roots of Canada’s political culture can be traced through the history of its immigration patterns. In his classic analysis of the Founding of New Societies, Louis Hartz demonstrated how the political cultures of new…
View More Immigrant Waves and Alberta’s Political Culture