What’s the value of a Canadian post-secondary education?
Now that media columnists and government officials have pointed their fingers at international students for decades of bad Canadian housing policy, it’s time we ask questions about the value and role of Canadian post-secondary education.
2023 Conversations Shaping Canadian Immigration in 2024
2023 was a year that the Canadian public really started paying to immigration.
Quick Thoughts on the 12/7/2023 Updates to Canada’s International Student Program
We finally have some answers, which do well to find middle ground among many stakeholders.
Refugees Welcome? Family-based humanitarian program (Colombia, Venezuela & Haiti)
This pathway looks paltry to me in the face of the many displaced people in the Americas. I do, however, see it as a wonderful extended family reunification program for Columbian-, Haitian- and Venezuelan-Canadian PRs and citizens with family.
Canada Easing Visa Rules for 13 Countries
13 countries in the Caribbean, South America & SE Asia are on the list.
A Quiet Application Backlog Update
IRCC quietly updated its application backlog tracker last month. The trumpets heralding the tracker’s launch in August 2022 have been silent.