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On June 12, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced that Canada has launched two new Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) streams to provide Canadian employers with the opportunity to access a talent pool of skilled refugees and other displaced people from around the world.  This allows Canada to not only increase ...

Toronto’s overstretched shelter system cannot cope with the high numbers of refugee claimants seeking bed spaces and will begin referring them away from at-capacity shelters towards federal programs, said deputy mayor Jennifer McKelvie. McKelvie said at a press conference Wednesday that the federal government has not provided Toronto with the funding ...

Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua has called on Kenyans to apply for jobs in Canada.  Mutua said during his official visit to Canada, he held a meeting with the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada Sean Fraser. He said they agreed on the various migration opportunity pathways for Kenyans ...

With the goal of increasing available housing supply in the City, Toronto’s Vacant Home Tax will kick in on January 1. This means homeowners are required to declare their property’s 2022 occupancy status by February 2, 2023… and there’s a penalty for not doing so. According to the City of Toronto’s ...

A consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic has been increased processing times at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).  Until recently these processing times appeared to only be worsening, as IRCC each day seemed to receive more applications than it could process. After several years of unfulfilled promises that processing times would ...