The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear Nell Toussaint’s leave application to determine her constitutional right to access healthcare, effectively barring access to healthcare for thou-sands of uninsured people needing medical treatment. “When people do not want to allow me to have access to the healthcare I require, I feel that my life and health are devalued because of my...

More than one thousand Parent and Grandparent Super Visa applications have been approved in less than three months since the Super Visa program took flight, for an overall approval rate of 77 per cent, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney said. “I’m pleased that the Parent and Grandparent Super Visa is working as intended and giving large numbers of eligible...

Professional immigrant networks are not new, but the dozens of associations of immigrants helping immigrants in the gta have been operating mostly under the radar – until now. The Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (triec), the government of Canada and Scotiabank recently introduced a vital new website as part of the Professional Immigrant Networks initiative (pins) to forge...

For the fifth year in a row, the province of Ontario has been named one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers by Canada’s Top 100 Employers which reviews workplace policies and practices of employers across the country. Ontario is committed to advancing diversity and inclusiveness through a number of targeted initiatives. Of particular interest to new immigrants is the Diversity...

The population of Canada increased 5.9 per cent between the 2006 and 2011 censuses, compared with a 5.4 per cent increase during the previous five-year period. The increase in the growth rate was attributable to slightly higher fertility and to an increase in the number of non-permanent residents and immigrants. Canada’s population increased at a faster rate than the population of any...