Temporary Foreign Workers Program News Today

On Wednesday the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) announced changes to the way it provides compensation to injured migrant workers. IAVGO Community Legal Clinic welcomes the long-overdue changes, but is alarmed that the WSIB may still...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in a state of desperation. His minority Liberal government has been polling behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives for the better part of two years. They’re down in most opinion polls by 15 to 18 points, and only have the support of 23 to 26 per cent of the Canadian electorate. His left-leaning

Canada’s half-a-century policy of tying migrant workers to their employers denounced as modern-day slavery.

Allowing the number of temporary foreign workers to rise to an astounding 777,000 has contributed to Canada’s growing housing crisis.

A commonplace pretext is that Canada needs at least a half-million newcomers every year because of its aging population. Nonsense.

Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.

Canada’s federal government is facing a nearly half-billion dollar class action lawsuit from seasonal agricultural workers who say they were denied benefits and exploited, thanks to what they’re calling racist policies from the 1960s that are still in place today.

A proposed class-action lawsuit claims the federal government was “motivated by overtly racist policy objectives” when it implemented employer-specific work permits for migrant farm workers.

India welcomed Canada's National Housing Strategy Act, Accessible Canada Act, and efforts to combat human trafficking as the nation presented its national report at UNHRC.

Programs a breeding ground for abuse, report says