The hidden tension at Canada’s latest newcomer fair

The hidden tension at Canada’s latest newcomer fair

Hundreds of people attended a newcomer fair in Calgary this week looking for jobs, housing information and settlement services. But behind the optimism and opportunities on display was another conversation about Alberta’s referendum questions on immigration, and what it could mean for those hoping to build a life in Canada.

“That will have a negative impact on the harmony of society,” said Sally Zhao, chief executive officer of The Immigrant Education Society in Calgary. “They’re not going to have a sense of belonging. If you don’t have a sense of belonging, how can you be motivated to give back to society?”

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Immigration Minister Says Having Canadian Ancestor Doesn’t Make One ‘Automatically Eligible’ for Citizenship

Immigration Minister Says Having Canadian Ancestor Doesn’t Make One ‘Automatically Eligible’ for Citizenship

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says people seeking Canadian citizenship by descent must prove their connection to Canada through each generation and that genealogy websites alone are not sufficient evidence.

Diab made the comments June 16 during Question Period in the House of Commons, when asked how many individuals had been given Canadian citizenship using inaccurate documents under a law passed last year that lets some people born before Dec. 15, 2025, obtain Canadian citizenship by descent if they can document a chain of descent to a Canadian citizen.

 

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Homeownership increased for recent immigrants in Canada and decreased for Canadian-born individuals: StatsCan

Homeownership increased for recent immigrants in Canada and decreased for Canadian-born individuals: StatsCan

Homeownership rates for recent immigrants in Canada grew recently, but it also decreased for Canadian-born individuals, according to a Statistics Canada study released Tuesday.

Homeownership in Ontario among recent immigrants in their fifth year in Canada rose by from 35.7 per cent in 2018 to 40.2 per cent in 2021, recording an increase of over 12 per cent. While Canadian-born individuals saw a five per cent decrease in homeownership rates for the same period from 50.7 per cent to 47.8 per cent.


I guess the Elbow people who voted for economic security wrecking mass immigration all have homes set aside for their children and grandchildren.

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Toronto child poverty rates rise for third straight year: ‘How can it be acceptable?’

Toronto child poverty rates rise for third straight year: ‘How can it be acceptable?’

Sharma Queiser has researched the social issues that Torontonians face for more than a decade, authoring reports that aim to raise awareness and improve lives.

Every few years, she’s been part of the team that puts together a report card on child and family poverty for Social Planning Toronto.

But co-authoring the report this time was different for her. It’s the first time the report has come out since she became a parent. The team found that for the third consecutive year, child poverty rates have risen in Toronto, disproportionately affecting families who are immigrants, racialized or have a single parent in their households.


This article suggests Canada do a better job crafting a beneficial to citizens immigration policy rather than using it to feed a vote buying machine.

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Rempel Garner criticizes government’s plan to launch foreign worker ad campaign

Rempel Garner criticizes government’s plan to launch foreign worker ad campaign

OTTAWA — Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner is criticizing federal immigration officials after testimony revealed the government is preparing an international advertising campaign aimed at attracting more foreign workers to Canada.

Appearing before the committee, Alexis Graham, acting assistant deputy minister for economic programs at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, said officials are preparing a promotional campaign targeting prospective workers abroad.

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Youth unemployment in Canada jumped 57% in 3 years, hitting levels previously unseen outside a recession

Youth unemployment in Canada jumped 57% in 3 years, hitting levels previously unseen outside a recession

In 2025, 437,000 young Canadians were looking for work and couldn’t find it, a 57 percent increase in joblessness for the demographic of 15 to 24 years old over just three years. The average young person spent an average of about 16 weeks searching for a new job in 2025, up nearly a month and a half from 2022.

Canada’s youth unemployment rate hit 19.5 percent for 15- to 19-year-olds, a level that has historically only appeared during severe recessions—yet the broader economy was not in recession, but growing at an anemic 1.7 percent of real GDP.

Carney and his corporate crony’s are more than happy to rob a generation of their future just to line their pockets.

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Temporary foreign worker program cost Ottawa $1.6 billion

Temporary foreign worker program cost Ottawa $1.6 billion

OTTAWA — Conservatives are pushing the government to abolish the Temporary Foreign Worker program after newly released government figures showed the program cost Ottawa $1.6 billion over the past five years.

The figures were released through an Order Paper question submitted by Conservative MP Brad Vis.

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Jamie Sarkonak: How a Jamaican man remained in Canada years after robbing sex workers

Jamie Sarkonak: How a Jamaican man remained in Canada years after robbing sex workers

In 2019, Jamaican national Dwayne Marlon Douglas committed a number of vile acts. He held a gun to the head of a sex worker as three of his male companions took turns having sex with her; then, he had his way too.

Days after that, he pistol-whipped a man with an imitation handgun, stole his phone and other valuables, and threatened to kill him if he reported the robbery to police. He also robbed a female erotic masseuse in a stairwell around the same time, stealing $4,300 worth of items; after she reported the crime, he told her she was in “trouble.” He also distributed nude photographs of his girlfriend for money without her consent.

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Federal poll finds nearly half of Canadians think country takes ‘too many immigrants’

Federal poll finds nearly half of Canadians think country takes ‘too many immigrants’

OTTAWA — A survey commissioned by the federal government late last year suggests nearly half of Canadians believe the country is admitting too many immigrants — but the share of respondents who think so has dropped since last year’s polling.

The survey found 47 per cent of respondents believe “too many” immigrants are coming to Canada, while 38 per cent say “about the right amount” are coming.

A similar government poll conducted in late 2024 reported 54 per cent of respondents saying that “too many” immigrants were coming to Canada.


I bet the poll respondents in favour of immigration are foreigners.

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Ottawa opened the immigration floodgates and Canadians are paying the price

Ottawa opened the immigration floodgates and Canadians are paying the price

For decades, immigration in this country was tied to economic need, integration and national interest. Then Ottawa abandoned that model and opened the floodgates in the name of ideology, cheap labour and political advantage.

Now Canadians are living with the consequences.

Despite talk of lowering reliance on the TFW Program, there are currently 87 active LMIAs filed by Tim Hortons to fill jobs across Canada.
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Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

For years, Canada’s political elite insisted the housing crisis was caused by everything except immigration. It was a supply problem. A zoning problem. A financing problem. A speculation problem. A foreign-buyer problem. A NIMBY problem.

But never a population problem.

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B.C. court finds retailer liable for exploiting up to 880 migrant workers

Hundreds of migrant workers have won a class action lawsuit against Mac’s Convenience Stores and three B.C. immigration consultant companies after a judge found they had unlawfully charged recruitment fees for jobs that rarely materialized.

In a Thursday, May 28 ruling, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sharon Matthews found Mac’s had entered into employment contracts with the three Surrey-based consultant companies to provide temporary foreign workers for stores across B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories.

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Jamie Sarkonak: All-inclusive migrant health plan will burden Canada for years to come

There are thousands of asylum seekers and illegal residents awaiting deportation who get more free health care than regular Canadian citizens. These all-inclusive care packages cost the public treasury $1 billion last year — and a recent attempt by the feds to bring it under control won’t help much, based on a Parliamentary Budget Officer report released Tuesday.

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Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

Bishnoi extortion gang sent letter to Canadian police warning it had 1,000 gunmen

The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer revealed on Thursday.

Testifying at a deportation hearing, the extortion investigator described the letter from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang that was delivered to a police station in Abbotsford, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2025.

h/t Auntie Polly

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The Corporate “Labour Shortage” Myth

The Corporate “Labour Shortage” Myth

In March, the Carney government announced a relaxation of rules for the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in rural Canada. At the request of any premier, the allowable share of low-wage TFWs in rural workforces can be increased from 10% to 15%. So far, Manitoba, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia have opted in.

It is notable that most provinces have not chosen to avail themselves of the federal government’s offer to boost TFW numbers. The Canadian public’s support for immigration restriction shows few signs of cooling, and provincial governments are to some extent behaving accordingly.

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