Over the last 20 yrs, fertility rates among immigrants & their children have shifted markedly, and the trend affects debates over immigration levels, which streams to prioritize, and which source countries best support long-term population growth. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Immigrants were expected to solve Canada’s aging crisis. Here’s why birth rates are falling

Researchers see an increasing pattern among immigrants and their children, with implications for population growth.

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Canada Immigration rules updated to clarify existing eligibility requirements related to non-credit programs further tightening access to PGWP. “It is now being applied to pending applications from students enrolled and began these programs years earlier." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

She thought she did everything right for a Canadian work permit. Now she's one of hundreds of international students being denied

In June, the Immigration Department quietly updated its website to "clarify" eligibility requirements related to non-credit programs.

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Iranians here under in-Canada crisis response measures have been refused work permit renewals for having travelled out of Canada before applying. Officials say this is a longstanding requirement consistent w/the rules for Ukrainian and Hong Kong nationals. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

A 9-day trip has come back to haunt him. Iranians in Canada among those caught up in Immigration rule change

Some migrants here under in-Canada crisis response measures face losing their temporary resident status.

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CMS Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. María Cervantes Macías discusses how migrants' backgrounds, aspirations, and opportunities shape the meaning of permanent residency in Canada. 🔗 Read more: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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Many temporary residents are faced with more than just the struggle for immigration status, but the tremendous family pressure to stay in Canada and the possible shame of returning home without permanent residence, the prize that drew most of them here. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Many temporary residents are faced with more than just the struggle for immigration status, but the tremendous family pressure to stay in Canada and the possible shame of returning home without permanent residence, the prize that drew most of them here. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

His family in India took out a mortgage to fund his tuition in Canada. Why many temporary residents ‘can’t even think about going back’

Pressure to stay in Canada weighs heavily when families back home, often working-class, invest so much.

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Just because the immigration minister has the power to set/change priorities via "ministerial instructions," it doesn't necessarily mean it justifies resulting delays in your immigration application processing, says new Fed Court mandamus decision. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Court ruling opens door for Canadian immigration delays — and minister’s power — to be challenged

“Ministerial instructions” that make changes to programs shouldn’t be unlimited, Federal Court says.

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“We don’t want there to be too much more so that the wait time becomes unreasonable. This pause is to ensure we stay within what is a more reasonable wait time for clients,” said immigration official overseeing the resettlement/family/humanitarian programs www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada will pause invitations to parents and grandparents to apply for permanent residence

Immigration Department said it will keep processing applications that are already in the system.

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Mohammad Younesi is coming up on his second anniversary of being detained in Texas. US authorities are OK to release him and join the rest of family in Toronto if Ottawa is gonna issue him a temp resident permit, but Canada Immigration has refused. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada urged to let in this Afghan man stuck in U.S. detention: ‘This is a person whose life we can save’

Mohammad Younesi has been held almost two years after transiting through the U.S. to try to join his family in Canada.

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They contacted people over the internet & an Afghan TV program in the U.S. for help locate their mother & baby brother. "Then we got a message that people had seen them in Denmark...It’s beyond a miracle that we got to find each other again." www.thestar.com/news/gta/smu...

Smugglers separated this Toronto man and his family. 20 years later, they’re still fighting to reunite in Canada

They fled Afghanistan together but got split between Canada and Denmark, not knowing where the others were for years.

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Detailed breakdown shows nearly half of the 659 recipients of the inaugural Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards are citizens of the US, China, Iran and India. 10 universities received 60 per cent of the awards. Top field: health research/biotech www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada’s universities are recruiting hundreds of international researchers. They’re not just coming from Trump’s America

Half the recipients of new federal funding program, the Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards, are from 4 countries.

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New study looks at the challenges displaced people face to safeguard IDs & important docs from being damaged, lost or stolen during their treacherous journeys. Some food for thoughts for migrants facing displacement and policymakers in receiving countries www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

The little things that refugees need when they’re fleeing war that ‘nobody thinks about’

Researchers examined the challenges in securing things such as a birth certificate and medical records.

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US Supreme Court rules open the door for more deportations. Can Ottawa's new asylum rules, expanded Safe Third Country Agreement & intensified border control deter a new wave of arrivals? Here's what potential asylum seekers will face when they get here: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

The Trump administration is deporting a million migrants. Here’s what it means for Canada

Green light for Trump to deport 1M migrants is expected to lead to a surge here. But there are big obstacles to staying.

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IRCC just completed reviews of 6500 citizenship applications under C3, flagged 100 with insufficient documentations. Now 33 have been confirmed to have met the requirement. Remaining 67 applicants will be contacted and asked for additional info

“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights—to freely participate in our political community. The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land,' We keep that promise today.” www.thestar.com/news/world/u...

Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who ...

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In GTA, CBSA has initiated 196 extortion-related investigations against foreign nationals, issued removal orders against 33 people with ties to these crimes on various inadmissibility grounds, with 17 of them having already been deported. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canadian border agency investigates almost 200 extortion-related cases in Greater Toronto

Across the country, the Canada Border Services Agency has opened 484 immigration investigations involving foreign nationals tied to extortion.

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“When youth unemployment exceeds 15 per cent across the province, people rightly expect govts to work together to create the conditions for businesses to invest, grow and create good-paying jobs for domestic workers,” said Ontario's Labour & Immigration Minister www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

Doug Ford government rejects Ottawa’s offer to allow rural employers to hire more temporary foreign workers

The province took the stance in a letter on Thursday, citing the high youth unemployment rate across Ontario.

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“So I can clearly tell you that at this point we are not finalizing any new applications and all applications (under Bill C-3) are being reviewed. Those that are deemed to be OK are being told you’re fine.” www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Minister says ‘something’ happened to trigger order to surrender citizenship docs

The minister didn't say what problem led to a number of people getting emails last week ordering them to surrender their proof of citizenship.

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RIP. “The workers are devastated. They’re hurt and very saddened. Rupert and David played an integral role in their day-to-day activity.” www.thestar.com/news/gta/far...

Jamaican farm workers killed in Simcoe crash were ‘role models on the farm’

Agricultural community in Norfolk County mourns sudden death of longtime migrant workers David Lindsay and Rupert Bell, who worked at Schuyler Farms

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What Canada's low-key immigration minister has accomplished in her first year on the job, according to critics, is "turn down the political heat on immigration" for the Carney government + maybe return IRCC to a bureaucrats-led operation out of politics www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Critics see Canada’s immigration minister as weak and invisible a year into her mandate. But is she doing exactly what Mark Carney wants?

Lena Metlege Diab has done her job in a low-key way. But critics see an immigration system in flux and a weak minister in charge. Is it by design?

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In 2025, Rainbow Railroad received 20,215 direct requests for assistance from LGBTQ people worldwide, a 51% increase from the year before. The surge in requests was driven mainly by those coming from the U.S., which accounted for about 31% of the requests www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Donald Trump halted her path to safety — and Canada threw her a lifeline. Yet even here, new rules are making it harder for LGBTQ refugees

Countries including Canada are making it more difficult for refugees to access protection, says the group helping displaced queer people escape harm.

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Ottawa's proposal said there were 298,200 cases in the system as of March and the average wait times reached 25 months. Changes are necessary to "enable operational efficiencies that cannot be achieved through administrative measures alone." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada to impose new timelines for asylum processing. But critics doubt they’ll speed up the system

According to the proposal, a person seeking protection would be given 60 days to submit a complete asylum application, with an extension possible.

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Critics see Lena Metlege Diab, Canada’s immigration minister, as weak and invisible a year into her mandate. But is she doing exactly what Mark Carney wants? New #cdnpoli from @nicholaskeung.bsky.social:

Critics see Canada’s immigration minister as weak and invisible a year into her mandate. But is she doing exactly what Mark Carney wants?

Lena Metlege Diab has done her job in a low-key way. But critics see an immigration system in flux and a weak minister in charge. Is it by design?

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“What I can do with my hands can feed me. Not everyone is that lazy immigrant who saw the opportunity of coming to Canada and enjoying the (government) benefits. People are working so hard. I’ve met refugees who have done wonders.” www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Canada gave these former refugees a chance. Now they’re pushing back against anti-refugee claims

Ottawa has recently passed a law to restrict eligibility for asylum and changed rules to limit health-care coverage for asylum seekers.

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A refugee family from Honduras claims Ottawa violated their rights by handing them over to the U.S. — despite what they claim is mounting evidence of rights abuses linked to the Trump administration’s agenda of mass detention and deportation. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Turned away by Canada and deported by the U.S., this family is now in hiding — and challenging Ottawa’s refugee policy

Family sent back to Honduras accuses Ottawa of violating rights by handing them to U.S. — despite what they claim is Trump administration’s abuses.

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“I’ve been clear, just because you have a Canadian ancestor does not mean you’re automatically eligible for citizenship. You must definitively prove your link to Canada at each and every generation. Genealogy websites are not enough.” www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Minister says ‘lost Canadians’ must prove link to Canada in each generation

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says having a Canadian ancestor does not guarantee someone is eligible for Canadian citizenship.

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Recent immigrant homeowners rely more on higher mortgage debt & tend to build equity by prioritizing buying a home over retirement contributions. Hence they "may have been more exposed to shifts in the housing market than their Canadian-born counterparts." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

More recent immigrants in Canada are becoming homeowners. Here’s why

Statistics Canada study examined home ownership rates in Ontario, B.C. and Nova Scotia.

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Desperation is sparking a growing phenomenon among temporary residents that’s complicating Ottawa’s plan to cap their population & reduce Canada’s nagging immigration backlogs. Officials are stepping up effort to flag "dummy applications" to extend stay. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Temporary residents in Canada are filing 'dummy applications' to extend stays. The tactic may no longer work

Applications for permit extensions that are doomed from the start can allow for more time in Canada. They’re also further increasing processing times.

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Congrats to @TorontoStar photo journalists for the nominations! www.thestar.com/news/gta/sta...

Star photojournalists nominated in seven categories for National Pictures of the Year awards

Winners will be announced June 25 at an online awards ceremony during the News Photographers Association of Canada general meeting.

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Soccer fans from visa-exempt countries still need an electronic travel authorization to come to Canada. Panama, Australia, Germany, Brazil and England made up the top countries for eTAs with the FIFA flag in the applications. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

FIFA World Cup is drawing thousands of visa applications to Canada. Here are the countries with the highest refusals

Many applicants are from countries whose teams are not playing on Canadian soil or who aren’t even in the tournament.

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The decline reflected a sharp increase in the number of displaced people who returned home "under adverse circumstances" last year in some of the countries with the largest displacement such as Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Syria www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Surprising drop in refugees and forcefully displaced people worldwide, UN reports

The decline reflected displaced people who returned home last year in countries including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Syria.

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