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HE PAST year of lockdowns and travel restrictions has been terrible for migrants. In the first six months of 2020 members of the
OECD, a club mainly of rich countries, issued half as many residence permits as they did the year before, a record decline. But one country is determined to buck the trend. In October Canada’s government said it hoped to admit 1.2m new residents from 2021 to 2023, equivalent to 3% of the population. The targets for this year and next are a total of 100,000 higher than originally planned.
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Even among high-immigration countries, Canada stands out. Australia has kept its annual immigration target steady at 160,000. Employers in New Zealand should give priority to training people already in the country, says its immigration minister. Canada, by contrast, is gung-ho. Immigration is “a key element” of Canada’s economic recovery and its long-term prosperity, says Marco Mendicino, the
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Hundreds of migrant workers in Windsor-Essex have received first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine
About 440 farm workers in Windsor-Essex received the first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine in Leamington on Sunday.
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Leamington and Kingsville have been identified as hotspot regions in Windsor-Essex as the areas have seen high COVID-19 case rates in migrant worker populations. (Ousama Farag/CBC)
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Canada is offering permanent residency to up to 40,000 more students from abroad who graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years. Photo by Armin Rimoldi / Pexels
International students and recent graduates were overlooked in Canada’s response to COVID-19, but Ottawa is now offering a shortcut to permanent residency to some of those who can fill critical jobs as pandemic travel restrictions make it hard to hit immigration targets.
Some 90,000 new spots will be offered this year, including 40,000 for students from abroad who have graduated from a Canadian institution in the last four years, the federal government said this week.