Canada must reorient its immigration system for the 21st-century economy
December 30, 2020
By Globe and Mail | A mass exodus has commenced in Silicon Valley. Last month alone, Oracle Corporation, Tesla Inc., Charles Schwab Corporation, SpaceX and Hewlett-Packard Company announced relocation plans. Amid the pandemic, companies and their employees realized that remote work offered an opportunity to improve their competitiveness and quality of life elsewhere. But they are not coming to Canada. Instead, they are moving to jurisdictions that actively recruited their...
Read MoreTo cut through COVID-19 disinformation, Ottawa urged to make sure vaccination info also reaches newcomers
December 25, 2020
By the Star | The misinformation tends to go like this: “A vaccine will change your DNA.” Or … “COVID-19 vaccination is a scheme Bill Gates cooked up to insert microchips into our body.”...
Read MoreFive surprising things we’ve learned about migration during the pandemic
December 25, 2020
By Vancouver Sun | Things that do not fit well together: A novel coronavirus and the free trans-national movement of humans....
Read MoreSyrian family embraces surprise Christmas tree as symbol of their new home
December 24, 2020
By Saanich News | Sixteen-year-old Reem Al Ibrahim sounded practically giddy when asked about the snow that fell in Sidney on Monday. “I love the snow,” she said. “I hope we still have more snow to build a snowman.”...
Read MoreSeeking a better life, Syrian refugees find success living in Saskatoon
December 23, 2020
By Global News | It’s been five years since Syrian refugees first arrived in Canada. Over 1,000 Syrian refugees have moved to Saskatoon since then....
Read MoreBlack, minority women in Canada left behind in COVID-19 job recovery
December 18, 2020
By Reuters | Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, women of color in Canada still face far higher unemployment than white women, official data shows, in part because they tend to work jobs in hard-hit sectors and often care for children or relatives....
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