Newcomer youth are a growing presence in Canada but more so in Ontario. As this young population leads the way for a “new” Canada, it is important for service providers, researchers, teachers, and social policymakers to investigate the multiple challenges and barriers that newcomer youth face as they navigate through their adjustment and settlement processes.
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Course/Training
Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities
The Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC) course will engage participants from across Ontario who are working with newcomer youth through a series of interactive modules.Last updated Jul 29, 2024
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Course/Training
Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC)
The professional development e-learning course Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities is designed to engage participants from across Ontario working with newcomer youth through a series of interactive modules. The course will build on essential foundational concepts and take anLast updated Feb 2, 2024
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Course/Training
Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities
The Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC) course will engage participants from across Ontario who are working with newcomer youth through a series of interactive modules. The course will build on essential foundational concepts and take an anti-oppressive, youth-centredLast updated Jan 16, 2023
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Research/Dataset
Here’s Canada’s new plan to help foreign students and workers become permanent residents. Some say it isn’t nearly new enough
Nicholas Keung The Star Wed., Sept. 21, 2022
After much hype over a new strategy to help more migrants become permanent residents, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser has delivered a plan that largely reinstated the policy changes made during the pandemic.
A motion unanimously
Last updated Sep 22, 2022
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Newcomer Youth Connections for Success
Newcomer Youth Connections for Success
New to Canada? In high school? Thinking about your future? NYCS is the program for you!
Newcomer Youth: Connections for Success (NYCS) helps newcomer teens, ages 14-18, build community connections, find peer support and enhance leadership &
Last updated Jul 11, 2022
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Canada identifies international students as ‘ideal immigrants’ but supports are lacking
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…
Published November 15, 2022
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Some Quebec colleges say Ottawa denies 80 to 90 per cent of study permits from Africa
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…
Published November 4, 2022
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Newmarket program assists youth experiencing anti-Black racism
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…
Published October 19, 2022
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International students enticed to Canada on dubious promises of jobs and immigration
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…
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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Inflation hits international students hard, with some turning to food banks
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…
Published October 5, 2022
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Hamilton, Six Nations organizations marking National Day of Truth and Reconciliation all week
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…
Published September 29, 2022
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Some international students in Barrie taking Georgian College courses online due to student visa backlog
Brett Glover The Star Thu., Sept. 22, 2022
One international student in Barrie feels they’re missing out due to online learning, while it may boil down to an increased demand in student visas.
Jim Swales, a Barrie man who has hosted international students at his home for several…
Published September 22, 2022
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The future for tens of thousands of international students is in jeopardy. Here’s why
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…
Published September 21, 2022