Four months after a nationwide uprising erupted in Iran, a lethal crackdown and an ailing economy have quieted antigovernment street demonstrations. Students still occasionally gather at universities and high schools, and others shout slogans from city rooftops and balconies. But organized protests have largely tapered off. Those still willing to demonstrate gather in small groups, scattered […]
On Thursday, The Canadian Press reported on the “mixed reviews” from some “policy experts” on Canada’s aggressive new immigration targets for 2023-2025. They said that some are “worried” about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market. But the evidence shows that the health care, housing and labour market are all in need […]
Last week, the Globe and Mail reported that it had reviewed a “policy memo” from the federal government that says it is considering extraordinary measures to reduce its backlog of immigration applications, including waiving eligibility requirements for nearly half a million visitor visas. The newspaper said that this is “draft document” dated December 2022. The […]
This week Statistics Canada reported on the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI comprises hundreds of goods and services that people buy – everything from eggs and electricity to car rentals and cannabis. The government tracks the prices of all those items, then generates a final number. Generally speaking, when people refer to the inflation […]
How many times have we experienced situations where we get in a cab and start a conversation with the driver. Often, they have an accent and are obviously immigrants. We asked them where they’re from, why they came to Canada, and where they went to school. How many times have we heard “I am an […]
Since the Government of Canada has announced its widely publicized immigration targets for 2023-2025, a great deal of debate and discussion has taken place regarding Ottawa’s plans and intentions. But before the House of Commons adjourned for its annual Christmas break, Sean Fraser, the federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, presented the government’s 2022 Annual […]
It has often been said that hockey is “Canada’s game”, and it is. In large part, that is because we are a northern country and the sport has long been a national staple of our national life and part of our cultural fabric. It doesn’t matter what language we speak or where you live in […]
On December 28th, the Globe and Mail published a story by Eric Andrew-Gee. It is a beautiful story – one very typical in Canada and too often take for granted – of new immigrants to Canada. They come to live, love, work. And they often come to invest in and build businesses. Carlos Sodji and […]
Many Canadians often see the world through the prism the US news media, which gives us a distorted picture of the world more broadly. A case in point is immigration, and specifically the “crisis of illegal immigration” along the US-Mexico border. This week, the United States Supreme Court left in place a pandemic-era policy allowing […]
The Globe and Mail published an article on December 10th by Vanmala Subramanian reporting that dozens of migrant workers in Vancouver have allegedly been defrauded of thousands of dollars by an immigration consultant who promised the workers permanent residency through a federal immigration program that the workers say did not exist. The alleged scam is […]
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