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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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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Accessible Document Best Practices
Accessibility Services Canada has complied some general best practices to help you to get started in accessible document design for Microsoft Word. These tips are not comprehensive but give you a few easy things you can start doing to make your documents more accessible.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
The Workplace and Suicide Prevention
This toolkit from the Centre for Suicide Prevention is a collection of facts, figures, and best preventative practices regarding suicide in the workplace.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Other
Free mental health services are available
Free individual counselling and support as well as workshops at Skills for Change, Wellness and Support program.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Research/Dataset
Employment and Work
Human rights at work: Can my union refuse to accommodate me in another position because someone has more seniority than me?Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Digital Transformation - a Knowledge Mobilization Resource for the Immigrant and Refugee-serving Sector
Contains resources, strategies and ideas to implement technology for delivery of direct services.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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NDP calls for end to most immigration detention cases
Brigitte Bureau · CBC News · Posted: Feb 01, 2023
The federal NDP is calling for an end to immigration detention — except for people who pose a danger to the public — after Radio-Canada/CBC reporting revealed that thousands of foreign nationals are detained each year with no…
Published February 6, 2023
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Why immigration detainee who died in custody had ‘no end date’ on stay in jail
Nicholas Keung The Star Wed., Feb. 1, 2023
There was no timeline to get Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan out of jail and out of this country.
The immigration detainee was being held at the provincial jail in Lindsay, Ont., as he awaited deportation from Canada.
He’d been there since…
Published February 6, 2023
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New regulations on migrant farm workers should tackle employer/employee power imbalances
February 1, 2023 The Conversation Stephanie Mayell, C. Susana Caxaj &Janet McLaughlin
The government of Canada recently amended the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to include new employer obligations. These amendments are intended to enhance protections for migrant…
Published February 6, 2023
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TD strikes deal with Canada immigration site as newcomers surge
Kevin Orland, Bloomberg News January 31, 2023
Gerry Butts, vice chair of Eurasia Group and former principal secretary to the prime minister of Canada, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the inclusion of Canada in Eurasia Group's Top Risks 2023 report. Butts speaks about the risks…
Published February 6, 2023
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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