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An "overheated" immigration system that admitted record numbers of newcomers to the country has harmed Canada's decades-old consensus on the benefits of immigration, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said, as he reflected on the changes in his department in a year-end interview.

The system, he said, needed some discipline to get the country back on track.

Over the course of 2024, Miller moved to cap the number of student visas, reduced the number of permanent residents it plans to admit, made it...

The federal government will no longer be granting additional points toward permanent residence to some temporary foreign workers, less than two months after an undercover CBC News and Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) investigation revealed how easy it is to buy and sell these jobs online.

On Tuesday, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller announced that applicants to the Express Entry program will no longer receive 50 or 200 additional points for working in a...

Multiple programs supporting immigrant and refugee settlement in British Columbia are losing federal funding, as the Canadian government plans to decrease the number of newcomers allowed into the country.

Immigrant Parents as Literacy Supporters (IPALS), run by the non-profit Decoda Literacy Solutions, is one of the impacted programs. It had been fully funded by federal grants for ten years — about $450,000 per year.

"The funding was not renewed, full stop," said Decoda executive director Sandra...

In order to support healthcare managers, Société Santé en français (SSF) and the French Language Health Networks have developed a platform that supports the implementation of French language health services. The eQUITY Fundamentals guide, along with courses and resources that support the implementation process of this project, has undergone a rigorous validation process and is supported by proven solutions and tools.

The purpose of the eQUITY Link platform is to answer the question “Where do I start...

As the federal government looks to drastically reduce its immigration targets over the next few years, the mayors of northern Ontario’s largest cities say they need more immigrants to sustain local economies and population.

The mayors of Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay and Sudbury are calling on Ottawa to deliver on its promise to make permanent a pilot program that resettled skilled workers in their communities, saying a one-size-fits-all approach to immigration policy doesn’t benefit northern...