Youth

Published: November 9, 2022 The Conversation Isaac Garcia-Sitton

The number of international students in Canada has steadily increased over the last decade, contributing approximately $22 billion to the Canadian economy, and an estimated $5.1 billion in annual revenues to…

Morgan Lowrie · CBC News · Posted: Nov 04, 2022

Some Quebec junior colleges say 80 to 90 per cent of the international students they've accepted from Africa are being refused study permits by the federal government, jeopardizing their ability to offer programs and raising…

Newmarket Today Staff 17 October 2022

On Saturday, MPP Dawn Gallagher Murphy met with the team at the Newmarket African Caribbean Canadian Association (NACCA) to hear more about the impact that a six-month $49,600 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium…

Nazim Baksh, Lisa Ellenwood, Mark Kelley, Satbir Singh Aulakh · CBC News · Posted: Oct 13, 2022

Dilpreet Kaur's parents were worried it would be difficult for her to find a job in her home state of Punjab, India, where her father toils long, lonely hours as a rice and wheat…

 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…

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…

Nono Shen The Canadian Press Oct. 2, 2022

Laughter lights up the gathering twilight at Langara College in Vancouver, where first-year health science student Jagiit Singh is chatting with friends next to the school's fountain.

But his smile fades when he's asked about the cost of…

Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2022

Friday marks the second National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a day honouring "the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities."

The day was one of the…

Janet Hurley The Star Wed., Sept. 21, 2022

Leila Ghodrat Jahromi should have been sitting in class at Simon Fraser University this week, studying for her master of education degree.

Instead, the Iranian student is sitting in her temporary home in Turkey as she waits for a…

CBC Communications · Posted: Sep 14, 2022

There was a sense of comfort, empowerment, and belonging for the 400 Black youth who recently gathered in Halifax during the National Black Canadians Summit.

As author and educator Moashella Shortte said: "There is joy in the coming…