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Glossary/Factsheet
What is the Employment Standards Act (ESA)?
The Employment Standards Act (ESA) states the minimum standards of employment for workers in Ontario, along with the workplace rights and responsibilities of employers and employees. The Act covers most workers in Ontario, with several industry exemptions.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Leadership skills for the Future of the Sector
How can we build leadership together?Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
9 Non-profit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master
Without good leadership, everything falls apart. It’s like a band with no director – everyone is playing their own song and together it’s just noise instead of beautiful chords of music.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Tool
Use CLEO's Guided Pathways in Family Law to ask for an order in family court
CLEO has a new Family Law Guided Pathway to help people fill out a draft of Form 25 - Order (general). A party to a family court matter can use Form 25 to write out the terms of the order they want the judge to make.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Tool
UNHCR - Refugee-led Innovation Fund
The Refugee-led Innovation Fund champions the creativity of all displaced and stateless people.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Glossary/Factsheet
Changes to EI sickness benefits
On December 18, 2022, the Canadian government increased the number of weeks that workers can get Employment Insurance (EI) sickness benefits. Workers who started their claims on or after December 18 can get up to 26 weeks of benefits. For claims started before that date, workersLast updated Jan 19, 2023
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Tool
OCMS - OCASI Client Management System (for the Immigrant and Refugee Serving Sector)
The OCASI Client Management System (OCMS) is your sector preferred client management system developed with and for you. This is your ticket to an efficient and more accurate way to serve your clients.Last updated Jan 16, 2023
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
CLEO's Guided Pathway to Fight Eviction Now Has Personalized Checklist
CLEO is pleased to announce we have added a new personalized checklist feature to the Eviction Solution Explorer, our Guided Pathway that helps you fight eviction for unpaid rent.Last updated Dec 19, 2022
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Course/Training
Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Immigrant and Refuge-Serving Sector
OCASI is pleased to open registration for the upcoming self-directed online course on Addressing Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Immigrant and Refuge-Serving Sector.Last updated Dec 19, 2022
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Research/Dataset
#ImmigrationMatters: Canada’s immigration system
We follow a plan for immigration that helps distribute the benefits of immigration across the country. We select immigrants for their economic contribution, for their humanitarian needs and to reunite families.Last updated Dec 13, 2022
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Immigration requirements are driving new doctors away from N.S., says medical resident
Nicola Seguin · CBC News · Posted: Jan 25, 2023
Abhinaya Yeddala's plan to become a family doctor and build a life in Nova Scotia is coming to fruition — but she says she nearly gave up and left the province because of a requirement that added more than two years to the process. …
Published January 30, 2023
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Black Canadians worry possible recession would hit anti-racism progress at work: report
Aya Al-Hakim Global News January 30, 2023
Most Black Canadians feel their employers have made progress in addressing anti-Black racism in the workplace but worry a possible recession would stall or even wipe out those gains, a new survey has found.
The study by KPMG found that…
Published January 30, 2023
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Students, workers from Iran plead to speed up spousal work permits
Dilshad Burmanabout City News January 27, 2023
Editor’s note: The names of the participants in this story have been changed for their safety and that of their families in Iran.
For newlywed international student Sarah, her education and part-time job have taken a back seat as she…
Published January 30, 2023
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Montreal community groups call for help with influx of asylum seekers
CBC News · Posted: Jan 25, 2023
Community groups from across Montreal say they are being stretched to the breaking point by the rise in asylum seekers and refugees settling in the city.
"What we see is, on the ground, claimants going in places they would never go to ask for…
Published January 30, 2023
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It took him 2 years to get paid as a teacher in Ontario. He hopes his story helps other skilled immigrants
Vanessa Balintec · CBC News · Posted: Jan 26, 2023
It took Thiru Thirukkumaran almost two years to receive his certificate to teach in Ontario and he wouldn't have gotten it at all if he didn't appeal the regulatory college's initial denial.
CBC Toronto first told the story of…
Published January 30, 2023
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Montreal health-care services work to improve asylum seekers' journey to parenthood after Roxham Road
CBC News · Posted: Jan 25, 2023
When she crossed the Canadian border via Roxham Road last year, Géraldine Bertrand felt a deep sense of relief.
"When I got there, I was at peace, I felt safe, it was the first time in my life that I had that feeling," she said. "It was the best…
Published January 30, 2023
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How fraud artists are exploiting Canada’s international education boom
MacLean’s Stéphanie VergeJanuary 24, 2023
Nisha never doubted her family’s faith in her. Growing up as the youngest child in a big family in India’s Punjab state, Nisha—who agreed to speak with me if I didn’t use her last name—always had her sights set on bigger things. After she…
Published January 26, 2023
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‘Backwards immigration process’ creating red tape for future N.S. doctors, medical resident says
By Alicia Draus & Alex Cooke Global News January 23, 2023
A medical resident who came to Nova Scotia as an international student says the province is losing out on good doctors due to immigration challenges.
For the past several years, a handful of international students have…
Published January 26, 2023
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Indian migrant arrested near U.S. border last year accused of using fake documents to apply to Ontario college
Caitlyn Gowriluk, Karen Pauls · CBC News · Posted: Jan 24, 2023
An Indian citizen who was part of the same group of migrants as a family that froze to death near the United States border in Manitoba last year has been accused of forgery in his home country, after allegedly using…
Published January 26, 2023
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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