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Canada does not have a single federal policy that directly pays employers to cover immigrant wages; instead there are multiple federal- and provincially‑delivered wage‑subsidy programs that employers ...
Newly arrived refugees in Ontario can receive federal income support through the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP), which provides immediate essential services and monthly income support for up to...
Canada’s housing affordability and some labour‑market tensions correlate strongly with very rapid population growth from immigration — including a large share from India — but the evidence shows a cau...
Ontario’s refugee-assistance funding rose sharply in 2024 compared with 2023 largely because the federal government injected new, targeted dollars — principally through an expanded Interim Housing Ass...
Refugees in Canada can and do access post‑secondary education and job training through multiple routes: targeted programs like the Student Refugee Program (SRP) that bring refugee students as permanen...
No source in the provided reporting documents a province in Canada that, in 2025, implemented a new provincial “refugee supplement” benefit or materially changed an existing provincial refugee supplem...
Online claims that refugees in Canada receive up to $82,000 a year are misleading: Canada’s main resettlement programs provide time-limited, needs-based support—primarily the Resettlement Assistance P...
Immigration status is a gatekeeper for many Canadian family benefits: permanent residents and protected persons qualify for core programs such as the Canada Child Benefit (CCB), while temporary reside...
The 2025 professional-classification reforms — most prominently the UK’s uplift from RQF Level 3 to RQF Level 6 for Skilled Worker sponsorship and related salary-table overhauls — removed roughly 180 ...
Canada has shifted to lower permanent-resident targets beginning in 2025 and added explicit temporary‑resident targets, aiming to “pause” short‑term population growth and prioritise in‑Canada workers;...
Bill C-9 (part of a series of “Strong Borders”/border-security bills in 2025) would tighten asylum ineligibility, expand administrative powers over immigration documents, and increase information-shar...
Government‑assisted refugees (GARs) in Canada receive immediate resettlement supports through the Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP): a one‑time “start‑up” payment plus monthly income support typic...
Ontario itself does not appear in the provided sources to offer a universal, province‑level “housing or settlement grant” that supplements cash assistance for all refugees; instead federal programs (l...
Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is concentrated in a handful of sectors: agriculture and food processing remain the most TFW-dependent (TFW made up 18% of paid workers in agriculture ...
Grandfathering for licensure eligibility is a common legal tool that lets people who were already in a program or profession before a rule changed remain subject to the old rules; specifics (who quali...