Latest news happening in the settlement sector of Ontario.
Here we post new publications (studies, reports), government notices and more.
Rabia Khedr The Star Wed., Jan. 18, 2023
It’s perplexing for us disabled people and advocates that so many media headlines point to the extreme financial struggles of people with disabilities in our inflationary economy while the powers that be continue debating details.
Paige Parsons · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 18, 2023
The Alberta government has announced a deadline for ending an agreement to hold federal immigration detainees in provincial jails.
The province says that written notice has been given to the federal government to end the agreement with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). The agreement entailed use of provincial correctional centres to house people being detained on immigration matters.
Sara Jabakhanji · CBC News · Posted: Jan 19, 2023
A Toronto-area community group says it has cash, jobs lined up and people ready to help two vulnerable Afghan families come to Canada, but it says the federal government is not moving fast enough to get the refugees out of danger.
Nicholas Keung The Star Tue., Jan. 17, 2023
Canada’s Syrian resettlement project spurred an outpouring of public support for refugees, but now the federal government is trying to ease growing pains that have come with the hugely popular private sponsorship program.
Amnesty International January 9, 2023
The rights of refugees and migrants must be a top priority during the North American Leaders’ Summit in Mexico City, said Amnesty International today. President Biden, President López Obrador and Prime Minister Trudeau must stop implementing inhuman shared migration policies and replace them with polices that are in accordance with international human rights standards.
Policy Options Kaitlin Peters January 9, 2023
Adrian Humphreys The National Post Published Jan 09, 2023
“The moral debt owed to immigrants who worked on the frontlines to help protect vulnerable people in Canada during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic cannot be understated,” a judge said last year in a ruling for Bhaona Mohammed, a woman from Fiji working as a health-care aide at a long-term care home in Alberta.
TVO Veaceslav Balan and Frederick John Packer Jan 9, 2023
In August 2022, Statistics Canada released the latest census data on languages in Canada. According to the data, over 9 million people — or one in four Canadians — have a mother tongue other than English or French (a record high since the 1901 census).
Courtney Dickson · CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2023
Simon Fraser University professor Svitlana Matviyenko was in Kyiv on New Year's Eve when Russia fired missiles into the city.
"It was a very strange experience, obviously. And scary in many ways," she told Stephen Quinn, the host of CBC's The Early Edition.
She and many others took cover in old subway stations and listened to the sounds of explosions above.
J.P. Antonacci The Hamilton Spectator Sat., Jan. 7, 2023
Olha Diletchuk first came to Titan Trailers near Courtland in June, one week after she and her two young children landed in Canada as refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine.
“I was ready to do any job just to stay here. I was ready even to weld,” said the 40-year-old businesswoman.