Current Canadian Immigration News Stories

Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada Minister Jason Kenney recently announced the launch of the Somali-Jewish Canadian Mentorship Project, a new program aimed at improving cross-cultural understanding and facilitating the integration of newcomers. 

Canada's National Committee on Accreditation (NCA), which evaluates the internationally-obtained credentials of lawyers who wish to practice in Canada, has announced that the law degrees of legal professionals from India will be considered equivalent to those from the United Kingdom and Australia.

Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has announced that the Young Newcomers Internship Program (YNIP), introduced in 2008 by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) as a pilot project, will now be a permanent program.  He made the announcement at the graduation ceremony of the first year's participants.

In the May edition of the Canadian Immigration Newsletter, Attorney David Cohen blogged about a Canadian citizen who has been stranded in Sudan for six years as an al-Qaeda suspect.

The Afghan-Canadian Community Centre is the only school in the Kandahar area offering vocational training to women. 

Canadian universities have been increasing their marketing and recruitment efforts abroad to increase foreign student numbers and to give their campus a more international outlook.

Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Canada (CIMC) Minister Jason Kenney has recently returned to Canada from an official trip to the Middle East, where he met with senior government officials and important community and religious leaders in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Israel. 

The Canadian Immigrant Magazine has announced the winners of the first-ever Top 25 Canadian Immigrants awards.  A human rights defender, a filmmaker, and a scientist are among the winners of the national awards program which seeks to celebrate the achievements and the contributions that Canadian immigrants have made to the country.

Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) Minister Diane Finley recently met with community leaders in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to discuss the current economic situation and how plans are moving along to improve the process of assessing and recognizing foreign credentials.

A new program launched this month by Bow Valley College in Calgary, Alberta aims to improve to integration of Internationally Educated Nurses into practicing nurse positions in Canada.  The Integrated Practical Nurse Diploma program has a heavy focus on English as a second language and on learning the Canadian healthcare culture.