Business groups warn Ottawa’s lower targets are stripping rural communities of workers needed to keep businesses, care homes and local services running
Decades of underfunding and a bet on high‑ fee foreign enrolment have pushed British Columbia’s public colleges and universities to the brink, derailing the migration dreams of thousands of students from Asia
Rights groups say Ottawa must back its global LGBTQ+ commitments with more funding and clearer diplomacy as queer communities in Asia and Africa face criminalization, violence and shrinking support
A new ICC report says Canada could add nearly 16,000 doctors and 27,000 nurses and related professionals by closing the immigrant overqualification gap, while 6.5 million Canadians remain without a family doctor
RBC Economics warns Canada’s workforce is heading into a structural squeeze, with retirements running near record levels, younger worker numbers falling and Ottawa’s immigration cutbacks set to tighten the labour market again
Canada is training and importing top talent, then losing too much of it to higher pay, lower taxes and bigger opportunities in the United States, a new TD Economics report warns
Canada is promising tougher penalties and compensation for victims of crooked immigration consultants, but critics warn foreign-based recruiters remain largely beyond Ottawa’s reach
A new report says immigrant women who help feed British Columbia are still facing wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions and weak workplace protections in the Fraser Valley’s farm sector
