As 2025 began, federal records showed that there were 4.9 million visas set to expire in the coming 12 months, with Conservatives pressing the Liberal government on how it would deal with those who didn’t leave willingly.
“The vast majority leave voluntarily, and that’s what’s expected,” was the official committee testimony of then Immigration Minister Marc Miller.
Guess who’s serving you at Tim’s?
New research has found an increase in the number of Britons who believe that a person must be born in the country to be considered truly British, with a significant number tying national identity to race and ancestry. So, are we witnessing the rise of ethnic nationalism in modern Britain?
A YouGov poll carried out on behalf of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) found that 36% of the public thought a person had to be born in Britain to be truly British — almost double the 2023 figure of 19%. Ethnic and ancestral conceptions of nationhood are the norm among supporters of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, which continues to lead in the polls. While seven in 10 Reform supporters said that having British ancestry was a prerequisite for someone to be truly British, six in 10 believed the nation was an ethnic — not a civic — community. More than a third of Reform UK voters (37%) said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer ethnic-minority people in 10 years’ time, with one in 10 holding the view that it was important to be white to be considered a good British citizen.
On a warm afternoon in New Delhi, Suraj Upadhyay stood in the doorway of a classroom that once overflowed with young Indians preparing for Canada. For years, this room was a small assembly line for Canadian dreams: language prep, application coaching, visa support.
Now, the rows are nearly empty.
“Every month, we used to have almost 200 to 250 students in our classrooms,” he said. “It’s down to just five to 10 students now.”
Who knew Human Trafficking was a bad thing?
Alberta Next survey respondents believe the number of temporary and permanent immigrants entering Canada needs to be significantly reduced, and that the province should take more control of immigration to Alberta.
“I would like to go back to a more normal level of immigration, which is about 1% or less of the total population,” Premier Danielle Smith told the Western Standard at the UCP AGM in November. “That’s what we had historically.”
Unfortunately for Ontario residents Doug Ford continues to advocate for the import of cheap foreign labour to help his buddies out.
According to estimates released last week by Statistics Canada, the Carney government is making progress on one of its immigration goals – reversing the enormous run-up in the country’s temporary resident population.
However, though the government appears to be making headway in terms of lowering immigration numbers back to historical levels, it’s a very different story when it comes to raising quality.
Ottawa also needs to take steps to ensure that the population drop reported by Stastcan is real, and not a statistical mirage.
Yup it’s a mirage.
Canada has spent more than $78 million deporting over 18,000 people in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the most since the government of Stephen Harper, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.
The vast majority of those deported have been asylum seekers whose refugee claims have been rejected, the data says.
The surge comes as the federal government tightens immigration targets and limits new international student permits, a shift that experts say is likely to fuel a rise in deportations as hundreds of thousands of temporary residents face shrinking pathways to permanent status and as a “regularization program” for undocumented migrants, initially promised by the Trudeau government, remains stalled.
… The deportation level in 2024 was the highest since 2012, when more than 19,000 people were removed under Harper’s Conservative government. Deportations include all removals enforced in a given fiscal year, including refugee claimants as well as those living, working or studying in Canada who have overstayed their legal status.
The Star wants you to believe Carney is deporting failed asylum seekers at the same rate as Harper!
But the Star commits a sin of omission failing to point out Harper outperformed Carney by a huge margin based on the total number of asylum seekers each administration has faced.
Google AI – How many asylum seekers did Canada receive in the year 2024 vs. 2012?
In 2024, Canada received approximately 190,000 new asylum claims, a significant increase compared to the 20,500 applications received in 2012.
The Region of Waterloo has identified a water capacity issue affecting the Mannheim Service Area, which supplies Kitchener, Waterloo, parts of Cambridge, and surrounding townships.
Officials say there are no immediate impacts on residents, and water remains safe for now.
However, a third-party review of the system is now underway to determine the best course of action.
OTTAWA — Canada’s long-held consensus on immigration — that it’s a net positive for the country — has been coming apart in recent years.
Roughly half of the population thinks too many immigrants have been coming to Canada, according to several private polling firms.
That parallels a government survey from November 2024, when 54 per cent of respondents to a phone survey conducted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said “too many” immigrants were coming to Canada.
It’s not “anti-immigrant” to fight back when your country is being stolen from under your feet, when you can’t buy a home, afford rent or even find a job because the elites profit from the cheap foreign labour they import.
It’s called self-defense and it’s not racist.
The Liberals are cooking the books and actually staying on track to nearly meet Trudeaus nation killing goals.
Gaslight much? “Taken together the actual number for new permanent residents would be closer to 445,000 a year until 2027, which is closer to the record number Trudeau had been earlier approving.” https://t.co/f8XL30DYGb
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) December 20, 2025
Douglas Todd: Confidential government polling showed support for lower migration targets. But actual numbers are slippery for both permanent and temporary residents.
The federal Liberals have been getting some good news from public opinion polls by emphasizing, for the first time in five decades, cutting migration targets.
The government’s public relations effort was revealed in confidential emails obtained through a freedom of information request from Ottawa’s Privy Council Office, the powerful arm that advises the prime minister.
The emails state the findings of a series of telephone surveys conducted by the Privy Council Office late last year are “not publicly available — do not share outside government.”
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.
Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration.
The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates.
Canada’s population dropped by about 76,000 from July to October, according to federal estimates, in a decrease largely attributed to immigration policy.
Statistics Canada published its preliminary Q3 report Wednesday morning, which estimated Canada’s population to be 41,575,585 as of Oct. 1.
The main factor was a sharp reduction in non-permanent residents, whose numbers dropped by 176,479 – the largest drop since comparable records began, wrote the agency.
Cripes Liberal media is playing this up like the country will be empty next week.
Only four countries have seen a worse decline — Jordan, Venezuela, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
VANCOUVER — As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25.
He and his high school friends would be starting families. They’d be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably.
Now 27, he’s back living with his parents in Kitchener, Ont., driven out of Toronto by high rent and other costs.
“I think back then, in that generation, it was definitely a lot easier,” Sharma said of the path to adulthood for his parents, who moved to Canada from India about 30 years ago.
They’d probably be happier if you interviewed Canadians and not foreigners for this article.
Funny how mass immigration isn’t mentioned as if a generation’s problems appeared from nowhere.
I have faith young people are smart enough to recognize gaslighting. AKA Liberal Party Media/Academic propaganda.
Employers of immigrant skilled trades workers are concerned for their businesses after the Ford government cut part of an immigrant work program over fraud concerns.
Nasir Ali, owner of Insultech Ltd: Mechanical Insulation and Firestopping and Arafco Mechanical Services Ltd — located in Brampton and Mississauga — believes “the main issue is not for these workers, the issue is for the business owners.”
“I had 47 guys, now I have only 32 guys, so how can we manage the jobs,” said Ali. “I have a chance to get more projects, but I refuse it because we don’t have enough manpower.”
Everywhere you look we’re being scammed by foreigners.
Food banks are struggling, but it’s hard to feel charitable when some people treat them like an immigration perk
The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and “we don’t know how we’re going to keep up.”
On the other hand, food bank abuse seems to be a recurring problem. What’s being done to prevent it from happening? It’s not all that clear.
From Grok – What percentage of foodbank users in the GTA are not Canadian citizens?
43% of food bank users in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are not Canadian citizens, according to the most recent data from the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Who’s Hungry Report 2024. This report, based on surveys of over 1,300 clients across 79 food banks in Toronto (a core part of the GTA) and intake data from the city’s Link2Feed system, covers the period from April 2023 to March 2024. It shows that among all surveyed clients, 57% are Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, while the remaining 43% include temporary residents (22%, such as international students and work visa holders), refugee claimants (12%), those under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program (6%), and undocumented individuals (1%).
This figure reflects a slight increase in non-citizens compared to 2023 (when 49% were non-citizens). Among new clients—those visiting for the first time, who make up 57% of total visits—the share is higher at 73%, with 80% of them being newcomers to Canada (less than 5 years in the country). Overall visits reached a record 3.49 million, up 38% from the previous year, highlighting rising food insecurity amid economic pressures like housing costs and inflation.
For context, this aligns with national trends from Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2024, where 34% of clients nationwide are recent newcomers (in Canada 10 years or less), but GTA data shows a higher concentration of non-citizens due to the region’s diverse immigrant population.
Like locusts.
🚨HOLY CRAP! – NEW UNEARTHED VIDEO FROM 2022
shows an Indian Youtuber secretly filming in a Sydney Nova Scotia food bank
the ENTIRE place is filled with YOUNG South Asians waiting for food to show up and then raiding it
the host then encourages his viewers to come to Canada!! pic.twitter.com/ZTCE535oc3
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) December 10, 2025
Donations subsidize the ruin of our society.
Canada is making an aggressive effort to attract highly-skilled researchers from around the world, including H1-B visa holders in the United States who are coming under growing pressure because of the Trump administration’s restrictive immigration policies and cuts to research funding.
The Canadian government on Tuesday said it would spend more than $1 billion over the next few years to attract and retain scientists from around the world, including those at major hospitals and universities.
It also said that in coming months it would create an “accelerated pathway” for U.S. H1-B visa holders. H1-B visas are issued to highly skilled people working for American companies and are concentrated in major industries that compete for global talent, such as technology and medicine.
H1-B visas in the USA are just another way to hire cheap labour and otherwise skirt immigration scrutiny.
JESSICA VAUGHAN: Consular officers in India issued ~200 H-1B visas a day that were 80-90% fraudulent. Fake credentials, fake degrees, bribes paid; It is a deliberate scheme to replace American workers!
SHUT THE WHOLE PROGRAM DOWN!@JessicaV_CIS pic.twitter.com/6Peqai5OCQ
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) November 24, 2025
Imagine bragging about this – The University of Toronto, Canada’s top academic institution and one of the world’s highest-ranked universities, lured several top humanities and social sciences professors from Ivy League schools during the year.
