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Newcomer Youth Connections for Success
Newcomer Youth: Connections for Success (NYCS) helps newcomer teens, ages 14-18, build community connections, find peer support and enhance leadership & employment skills.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
CUAET - Webinar Recording
Here is the link to the recording of the webinar hosted by IRCC about CUAET.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
Innovation in Immigrant-owned Firms in Canada
This paper uses data from a survey of Canadian firms in 2011, 2014 and 2017, and asks whether immigrant-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were more likely than those owned by Canadian-born individuals to implement an innovation.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
The Financing of Immigrant-owned Firms in Canada
Using data from the 2011 and 2014 Survey on Financing and Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises, this paper examines access to financing by immigrant business owners.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada
This study documents the evolution of the wealth of immigrant families and of their Canadian-born counterparts from 1999 to 2016. The study uses data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Financial Security.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
Labour Market Outcomes Among Refugees to Canada
Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database, this paper examines the labour market outcomes of refugees from 13 source countries with large inflows to Canada over the 1980-to-2009 period.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Tool
Planning Accessible Events
This booklet will show you many low-cost and no-cost things you can do to make your event more inclusive. It also includes a checklist to help you plan.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
International review: Strategies to support ethno-cultural and linguistic diversity for seniors
This review aims to identify and describe promising strategies that have been developed to improve access to programs and services for seniors from diverse communities.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Tool
Media Reference Guide: Discussing Trans and Gender Diverse People
Are you covering stories about trans and gender-diverse people? This guide and its accompanying handy tip sheet will help you do it respectfully and accurately.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Refugee 613's Digital Messaging Summit - session recordings
In January 2021, Refugee 613 hosted the Digital Messaging Summit to share practical strategies and advice about managing digital messaging services by and for immigrants and refugees and build a network of people working in this area.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Seeking asylum is a legal human right – why are we treating it as the opposite?
Lloyd Axworthy and Allan Rock The Globe And Mail January 23, 2023
Lloyd Axworthy is a former Canadian foreign minister and current chair of the World Refugee and Migration Council. Allan Rock is president emeritus of the University of Ottawa and a former Canadian ambassador to\u2026
Published January 23, 2023
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Canada should fly vulnerable Afghans directly here, do checks after: advocate
Rachel Gilmore Global News January 22, 2023
Afghans who are facing immediate, high risks from the Taliban should be brought straight into Canada now, an advocate says.
Canada can worry about identification checks, such as fingerprinting, afterwards, Tim Laidler of the Veterans…
Published January 23, 2023
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There's an increase of newcomers to Waterloo region to help with labour gaps
James Chaarani · CBC News · Posted: Jan 23, 2023
The Region of Waterloo has seen a significant rise in new permanent residents in recent years, which the federal government said will help to fill gaps in the labour market.
Data provided to CBC News by Immigration, Refugees and…
Published January 23, 2023
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Calls for more newcomers to help ease labour shortage
Richard Hutton St. Catherine Standard Fri., Jan. 20, 2023
Adrion Brion came to Canada from the Philippines along with his wife and son. Since landing in Canada last August, he has found a job in information technology with the Algoma Central shipping company,
Adrian Brion had…
Published January 20, 2023
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People with disabilities need financial relief now
Rabia Khedr The Star Wed., Jan. 18, 2023
It’s perplexing for us disabled people and advocates that so many media headlines point to the extreme financial struggles of people with disabilities in our inflationary economy while the powers that be continue debating details.
What…
Published January 20, 2023
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Opinion: Coming to a new country as a refugee can be overwhelming
Rosemary Legge Fort Erie Post Thursday, January 19, 2023
Uprooting yourself from what is comfortable and known can be overwhelming and scary. Traversing the highways and byways, moving into a new home, changing careers, or other major changes can make the best of us feel stressed…
Published January 20, 2023
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This pilot program makes it easier for newcomers to Canada to become permanent residents
Jonathan Migneault · CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2023
Felix Koros moved from Kenya to Sault Ste. Marie., Ont., with his family in early December, and thanks to an immigration pilot program, he says he is on track to become a permanent resident soon.
"We thank God that we are here…
Published January 20, 2023
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Alberta immigration program changes to prioritize those with immediate family in the province
Omar Sherif · CBC News · Posted: Jan 18, 2023
Alberta is adjusting its immigration process in an attempt to make it easier for those with ties to the province to move to Canada.
The province announced Wednesday that they will allocate 25 per cent of express entry nominations to…
Published January 20, 2023
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Alberta will no longer hold federal immigration detainees in provincial jails
Paige Parsons · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 18, 2023
The Alberta government has announced a deadline for ending an agreement to hold federal immigration detainees in provincial jails.
The province says that written notice has been given to the federal government to end the…
Published January 20, 2023
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Quebec taking dwindling share of immigrants to Canada, according to new data
Ryan Tumilty National Post Jan 17, 2023
OTTAWA – Quebec is taking a dwindling share of Canada’s new immigrants, and significantly less than its proportional national share, as it maintains tight caps on newcomers, even as the Trudeau government continues to open the floodgates…
Published January 20, 2023