The lived experience of racialized settlement workers who’ve dealt with discrimination is a key aspect of the help they provide young newcomers, many of whom experienced more discrimination during the pandemic.
View More Pandemic limits Saskatchewan students’ access to settlement services
Despite receiving nearly a billion dollars in taxpayer funding, settlement services designed to help all newcomers remain a well-kept-secret, with the government appearing to favour quantity over quality, Reedah Hayder reports.
View More Study Points to Gaps in Settlement Services for Newcomers
Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it, reports Nicholas Hune-Brown for The Walrus magazine.
View More The Shadowy Business of International Education
The federal government is foreshadowing a major overhaul of the immigration intake system so that it does not pit low-skilled workers against highly qualified applicants, reports Local Journalism Initiative reporter, Fernando Arce.
View More ‘We Can’t Take Immigrants for Granted’: Minister
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to a blended model of service delivery by settlement agencies, which have been forced to move many activities online and get creative in supporting clients with limited internet access.
View More Pandemic Leads to Hybrid Model for Settlement Sector
IRCC announces increased funding toward settlement services for newcomers to safely and sustainably recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
View More Ottawa Pumps $30 Million To Help New Canadians During Pandemic
Ruhina Taskin moved to Toronto from Bangladesh during the coronavirus pandemic and writes about the challenges of starting a new life in Canada when the world is in limbo.
View More Settling in Canada During a Pandemic is a Double-Edged Sword
A graphic novel that creates awareness about sexual abuse among immigrant and refugee women has upped its print order barely a month after its launch in Ontario. The overwhelming demand has come from far beyond…
View More Graphic Novel Highlights Sexual Abuse of Immigrant and Refugee Women
Sports has the ability to unite Canada, show the recently released findings of an Association for Canadian Studies survey. “A majority of Canadians agree that sports break down linguistic and cultural barriers to unite people,” the report…
View More Canadian Sports History Not Naïve of Exclusion
Canada is expected to welcome up to 305,000 immigrants this year. The last time Canada admitted that many newcomers was in 1913, when a staggering 401,000 immigrants arrived in the country. With immigration minister John…
View More Deciding on the Right Level of Immigration