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When the COVID-19 pandemic started in Canada, it hit refugees, immigrants, and racialized populations really hard. Many racialized communities, including immigrant and refugee communities, became hot spots for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. As infection rates grew, newcomer populations made it clear to community leaders and service providers that they did not have enough information about the COVID-19 pandemic, as most of the information about the pandemic was either not produced...

Learn how a team of Together Project volunteers empowered newcomers from the Crossroads Clinic, Women’s College Hospital’s refugee health clinic, to overcome language and technology barriers to access COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccine Access Project.

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Date and time: Tuesday, November 23, 2021, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST

Cost: Free of charge

In 2016, the Government of Canada resettled more than 1,000 Yazidi refugees in various cities across Canada. The resettlement was in response to the 2014 massacre carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as Daesh, to systematically eradicate the Yazidi population in Northern Iraq. The experience of persecution and genocide has left many Yazidis with mental and physical trauma. It is important...

CERC Migration's Data and Methods Lab designed this dashboard to help researchers segment the immigrant worker population to analyze how various groups are being impacted by COVID-19 relative to Canadian-born workers. 

This dashboard makes explicit the compounding of disadvantage among immigrant subgroups.

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N4’s online program with Saint Paul University to support professionals in the healthcare, social service, and settlement sectors in working with newcomer clients was recently included in an article in the Ottawa Citizen. 

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Refugee 613 is growing - a lot! - and we’re looking for talented connectors and communicators to join us. 

During the pandemic, our team has applied our knowledge of strategic communications and newcomer audiences to addressing gaps in information equity. In plain language: how do language, race and immigration status impact who gets the information they need, and how they get it?

We have created multilingual content to increase access to information about the virus and the vaccines. We have...

October 26, 2021
Ottawa, Ontario

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced the members of Cabinet following this fall’s election, when Canadians chose to keep Canada moving forward. This diverse team will continue to find real solutions to the challenges that Canadians face, and deliver on a progressive agenda, as we finish the fight against COVID-19 and build a better future for everyone.

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Ottawa Language Access (OLA) is looking to expand its team of professional language interpreters. We are currently seeking interpreters in the following languages: ASL & LSQ (sign language in English and Quebec French), Burmese, Creole, Hindi, Karen, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

We are proud of our ability to hire and employ health interpreters, many of whom are newcomers themselves and who have a background in health care. These...

BC’s newcomer integration sector is going through major transitions as many of its founders have or are about to retire.

To document insights on the Sector, AMSSA is launching “Memoirs of the Newcomer Integration Sector”, a series of video-interviews of key sector individuals who have spent much of their life’s work in the Sector.

These interviews aim to capture their stories and journeys and document the creation of BC’s settlement agencies and other sector milestones to ensure that future leaders...