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The federal government has unveiled two new immigration pilot programs to help tackle labour shortages in rural areas and among Francophone minority communities.

The Rural Community Immigration Pilot is essentially an extension of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), the existing program that will expire this summer. When the new pilot launches this fall, it will be joined by an additional offering, the Francophone Community Immigration Pilot. 

The changes were announced Wednesday by...

After several months of asking the Quebec government in vain to increase its family reunification capacity, Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says it's time for his government to pull rank. 

Miller says his ministry will begin issuing permanent residence permits to those looking to unite with their loved ones in Quebec, regardless of the province's self-imposed cap on applicants, which he describes as "artificially low." 

"We're talking about people who are husbands, wives, parents,...

Several factors may have contributed to the improved labour market outcomes for recent immigrants since the mid-2010s.

The first factor is the expansion of the two-step immigration selection process, where an increasing number of economic immigrants are chosen from the pool of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) (Hou, Crossman, & Picot, 2020). In 2022, 36% of all new immigrants had work permits in Canada before immigration, a significant rise from 19% in 2010 and 33% in 2019.Note Former TFWs,...

Canada’s immigration minister is pushing back against provincial assertions that the federal government didn’t consult with Ontario over the international student cap that upended the post-secondary sector.

The Ford government has repeatedly accused Ottawa of dropping the cap on international students out of nowhere.

Minister of Colleges and Universities Jill Dunlop previously said a lack of consultation had caused “chaos” in the province and Premier Doug Ford said the Trudeau government had...

In the terrifying months after the war in Sudan erupted, Kholoud Abakar and her children abandoned their home five times, moving from city to city in the devastated country in a race for survival.

Now, her Canadian family is fighting to get her and her seven children to safety in Canada. But even as Ottawa prepares a new family-reunification pathway to help thousands of Sudanese reach this country, restrictions in the rules could dash the hopes of Ms. Abakar and many others like her.

On Tuesday,...

There were 484 confirmed and suspected drug toxicity deaths in Saskatchewan in 2023. In speaking with community organizations, CBC News found that Canada's drug crisis is affecting a largely unchecked population of users — newcomers — and we don't even know how severe the issue is.

Now, experts are calling not only for better data collection, but also more attention to the realities that lead newcomers to use drugs, and culturally-specific care that could help them escape it.

Sultan Ali Sadat,...