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Understanding and Challenging Anti-Black Racism
This 4-module course aims to assist people working in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector understand how systems operate and how they create and manifest racism and anti-Black racism.Last updated Mar 4, 2025
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Template/Sample
A framework for delivering case management services to newcomers
The Case Management Framework by IRCC provides personalized support for vulnerable newcomers, ensuring access to essential settlement services. It coordinates assistance through wraparound care, service navigation, and follow-ups to help clients achieve stability and integration.Last updated Jan 31, 2025
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Building Blocks for Engaging Newcomer Volunteers: A Guide for Organizations
Building Blocks for Engaging Newcomer Volunteers: A Guide for OrganizationsLast updated Jan 21, 2025
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Research/Dataset
A Cybersecurity On-Ramp for the Settlement Sector
The report outlines the challenges nonprofits face with cybersecurity and introduces a five-step guide and resources to help strengthen their defenses.Last updated Dec 12, 2024
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Research/Dataset
OCASI Survey Results on Hybrid Work & 4-Day Work Week Models
In 2024, OCASI in partnership with The Public Good Initiative (University of Toronto) launched 2 surveys to address the Ontario immigrant and refugee-serving sector's perception of these models.Last updated Dec 10, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
ANTI-RACISM AND ANTI-OPPRESSION POLICY
The New Canadians Centre (NCC) Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Policy reaffirms the organization's commitment to creating an inclusive and equitable environment free from racism and discrimination.Last updated Dec 5, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Taking time off work: For new and expecting parents
If you are going to have a baby or adopt a child, Ontario law says you can take time off work without losing your job. This is called taking a leave.Last updated Dec 4, 2024
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Glossary/Factsheet
Ontario-Quebec Labour Mobility Agreement
The Ontario-Quebec Fact Sheet outlines the mutual recognition of professional qualifications between Ontario and Quebec under the Ontario-Quebec Trade and Cooperation Agreement.Last updated Dec 3, 2024
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Tool
Free SEO Tools
These free SEO tools include keyword research, backlink checking, website traffic and authority analysis, SERP tracking, and competitor analysis. They help optimize content, assess keyword difficulty, and discover top-ranking pages.Last updated Nov 22, 2024
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
CLEO's New Guided Pathway for Open Work Permits
CLEO has a new Guided Pathway to help people fill out draft forms to apply for an open work permit in Canada. An open work permit allows someone to work for any employer in Canada.Last updated Nov 5, 2024
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Not everyone thinks Canada’s new immigration plan will grow the economy the way it should
Brian Hill Global News December 1, 2022
Nadine Rana’s family has been proudly cleaning clothes for more than 50 years.
Her parents immigrated to Canada from the West Indies in the late 1960s and opened a dry cleaner in Toronto’s east end. Rana now runs the business with the hope…
Published December 2, 2022
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Why are migrant farm workers calling for permanent residence status for all? A Niagara lawyer explains
Zahraa Hmood St. Catherine’s Standard Tue., Nov. 8, 2022
Mandip Grewal is a staff lawyer with the Niagara Community Legal Clinic, focused on handling the legal concerns of seasonal farm workers in the Niagara region, particularly Niagara-on-the-Lake. "I've seen workers speak…
Published November 9, 2022
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Ottawa Public Health confronts systemic racism, initiates action plan for reform
By Gail Pope Capital Current October 17, 2022
A report examining systemic racism within Ottawa Public Health has highlighted various challenges faced by racialized employees at the City of Ottawa agency that’s leading local efforts to fight COVID-19 and bring greater “health…
Published October 19, 2022
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Don’t speak English or French? In Hamilton, you might earn 57 per cent less than people who do
Ritika Dubey Spectator Reporter Thu., Oct. 13, 2022
If your English or French is weak, you might be earning 57 per cent less than Hamiltonians with better linguistic skills, according to the latest census data.
The fluency of official languages in Hamilton strongly reflected on…
Published October 13, 2022
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Cap on international students' working hours should be permanently lifted: advocates
Laura Osman | National Observer | October 12th 2022
A new pilot project to lift the cap on the number of hours international students can work should be made permanent, say advocates who have spent years asking for the change.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced last…
Published October 13, 2022
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Students say lifting cap on working hours doesn't fix bigger issues for international students
CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2022
Post-secondary students in Calgary say a one-year pilot project that will lift the cap on off-campus hours international students are allowed to work is good news.
But it's a short-term fix that does not address bigger problems, they said.
On Nov…
Published October 11, 2022
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Recruiters and employers increasingly taking advantage of temporary foreign workers, advocate says
Joel Ballard, Francis Plourde · CBC News · Posted: Sep 23, 2022
Temporary foreign workers are reporting paying recruiters and employers thousands of dollars to obtain a permit to work in Canada — only to end up with nothing.
CBC Radio-Canada spoke with multiple experts who say…
Published September 29, 2022
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Ontario has promised to put immigrant nurses to work faster. That change is long overdue
Yamaan Alsumadi · CBC News · Posted: Sep 20, 2022
I'm a fourth-year nursing student studying at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., and I'm in a classroom filled with people who are perfectly qualified to help out with Ontario's health-care shortage.
Instead, they're…
Published September 20, 2022
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Ontario Passes the Working for Workers Act
Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, issued the following statement in recognition of the passing of the Working for Workers Act, 2021:
“Our government is working for workers everyday to help them earn bigger paycheques, stay safe, and have…
Published December 1, 2021
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Door opens to Chatham-Kent’s agricultural workers
Oct 19, 2021 - There has been broad praise for changes to Canada’s immigration policy announced earlier this year that provide a path to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers – including agricultural workers.
In Chatham-Kent, workers the Caribbean, Latin America and…
Published October 19, 2021