Medical tourism in the West is considered a luxury: you travel to a place with top-of-the-line doctors who can be seen faster than you’d ever expect at home, undertake a battery of tests more thorough than what’s generally done at home, and receive an assessment more all-encompassing than, again, would be expected at home.
Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.
Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.
Minister @CitImmCanada says she’s unsure what became of 800 foreign students identified as fraudsters in federal audit by @OAG_BVG 6 weeks ago.
“I don’t have that information.”
— @LenaMetlegeDiab https://t.co/NnGntFLGOZ@BradRedekopp @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/d40xlcenjS— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) May 5, 2026
There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.
More than 30,000 temporary foreign workers who live in small, remote and rural communities will be able to apply for a fast track to permanent residency, under an initiative announced Monday by Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will accelerate permanent residency, or PR, for up to 33,000 temporary foreign workers in “in-demand sectors” such as agriculture and natural resources, trades and transportation, and health and caregiving.
Canadians still haven’t really debated immigration’s fundamental questions, like what exactly is it for? Does it merely serve short-term economics or shape our future prosperity and identity? What debate there is reveals both regional divides and ideological anger.
What’s also largely off the radar is our looming demographic collapse. At an average 2024 birthrate of 1.3, without newcomers, Canada’s population could halve by 2100. This invites the question of “To grow or not to grow?” which, unsurprisingly, gets different answers in Quebec and English Canada.
In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.
The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.
There was a time when young people in this country outearned retirement-aged Canadians. That time was long ago, and after a brief respite during the pandemic, the generational gap is widening once again.
On Wednesday Statistics Canada released its income survey of Canadians for 2024, revealing that the median aftertax income for Canadian households was $75,500 that year, more or less flat compared to 2023 after adjusting for inflation.
‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about refugees as payment requirements take effect
Refugees now have to pay out of pocket for part of their drug prescriptions, mental health counselling, dental services, vision care and health equipment — including wheelchairs — as changes to a federal program take effect.
For decades, Canada’s Interim Federal Health Program has provided complete health coverage to refugees and refugee claimants until they are eligible for provincial health plans and benefits.
But starting Friday, they must pay $4 for every prescription and 30 per cent of the cost of supplemental health products and services.
Remigration is the answer.
Be nice if our medicos cared as much for citizens.
Progressive Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford has a bad habit of saying what “sounds kind” in the moment, while leaving taxpayers to deal with the real cost later.
His latest comments on temporary foreign workers are a perfect example.
At a press conference in Brampton, Ford said he wished he could “snap his fingers” and let temporary workers stay in Ontario.
The nuisance Brampton protesters pressured Doug Ford about extending their work permits.
His response? "These hard-working people are here to contribute to the community and have been trained in certain areas and I can tell you that your employers want you to stay."
Doug… pic.twitter.com/Qz5VGs6zjZ
— Curious George (@01CuriousGeorge) April 25, 2026
For decades, discussions surrounding mass immigration into Western nations have largely been confined to two unproductive viewpoints. One perspective, which views culture as a superficial element and asserts the fundamental similarity of all human beings, suggests that immigrants primarily require sufficient time and opportunities to integrate. Conversely, the other attributes assimilation challenges to cultural values, patriarchal attitudes, or religious conservatism. Both approaches, however, exhibit an intellectual reluctance to delve deeper. What remains conspicuously absent from the prevailing discourse is an understanding rooted in developmental psychology and civilization theory. This framework offers significant explanatory power while avoiding genetic determinism and simplistic cultural explanations, yet it still presents genuinely uncomfortable truths.
Canada urged to open up new permanent resident program to all temporary workers
With so many temporary residents running out of legal status this year, Ottawa has been urged to immediately release details on an announced program that’s meant to grant permanent status to migrant workers in limbo — and make sure the process is fair and inclusive.
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab has been in the hot seat, accused of failing to promptly and properly communicate about the highly anticipated program to transition temporary foreign workers with expiring permits to permanent residence.
The Star hates you.
The Toronto Star is literally platforming violent Syed Hussan, Exec Director of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change who was charged with assaulting and obstructing cops. https://t.co/gHveQRx6zl
— Rowan (@canmericanized) May 1, 2026
In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.
The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.
… Conventional wisdom tells us that immigration is always good for the economy. But countries such as Britain and Germany have recently managed to combine historic levels of immigration with stagnant growth. The Econ 101 crowd may be sticking to a textbook that is badly out of date. But one point is clear: If you are going to slash the number of migrants, you need to make sure your existing population is working as hard as possible.
Canada is as bad as England or Germany. The Liberal party has lied about the economic benefit of mass immigration by focusing on GDP as opposed to GDP per capita which is a truer measure of a nation’s wealth.
The LPC like their Democrat counterparts criminally exploited Canada’s immigration policy to line their pockets and skew voter demographics in their favour.
Will net zero migration make us all poorer? If you believe the latest “analysis” by Oxford Economics, it “risks blowing a £700bn hole in the economy by 2026”.
In an echo of the Brexit campaign, the report is being used to challenge Reform’s plans to transform the British immigration system, reverse the post-Covid migration wave and end Indefinite Leave to Remain. Unfortunately for open-borders advocates, the analysis doesn’t add up.
One very obvious weakness is that it is solely concerned with GDP, rather than GDP per capita. The difference is that GDP measures the size of the whole economy, whereas GDP per capita tells us the average economic output per person. Per capita is a much better measure of how rich a country and its people are.
The Bishnoi gang may not be the only criminal organization involved in extortion crimes in Canada, according to a new federal report.
The report, from the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), also states that international students from India facing financial pressure are being used as “money mules” in extortion crimes.
I bet LPC fingers are to be found in this criminal pie. The LPC have turned immigration into a crime syndicate.
Federal figures show Ottawa spent more than $43 million last year providing health care benefits to illegal immigrants and rejected refugee claimants, fuelling criticism from Conservatives who say taxpayers are footing the bill for services many Canadians struggle to access.
Blacklock’s Reporter says data released by the Department of Immigration indicates 19,771 individuals whose asylum claims were denied still accessed coverage through the Interim Federal Health Program, including prescriptions, clinical care and transportation to medical appointments.
