For years, the stories of the overseas sacrifices that were made to fuel Ontario’s international student boom have been told.
Families in poor countries that sold their few worldly possessions, sometimes the actual farm, to pay the steep college tuition costs for foreign students in the land of milk and honey. Often, they found the education and opportunity were not at all what they expected.
The Canadian economy has lost 112,000 jobs just since January. That’s the weakest four-month stretch since the pandemic. The unemployment rate has climbed to 6.9 per cent.
But a closer look at the numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada reveals two even more disturbing trends.
Thousands of temporary residents are being squeezed out by Canada’s shifting immigration reality. Here’s what the country could lose
They’ve spent months and years living, studying and working toward the Canadian dream, once touted as the “economic engine” for this country’s post-COVID-19 recovery and future growth.
But after all their toil to build a new life here, their journeys have stalled.
An IT specialist, a special-needs teacher, an engineer with two master’s degrees: They’re among hundreds of thousands of temporary residents who have been left in limbo by Canada’s immigration pivot.
And the latest immigrant Sob Story from CTV – 28 seems a bit “old” for a youth and I doubt he was even born in Canada.
The Media is busy working the immigration scam on behalf of their paymaster.
SEND THEM HOME.
The federal government is going to try something new: counting.
Now mind you, this is a pilot project. We don’t want to commit to anything in case we run out of fingers and toes to count with, or if the results are embarrassing. But as confirmed by Immigration Minister Lena Diab during the House of Commons immigration committee meeting Monday, Canada’s government is going to start tracking when temporary residents enter and exit the country. The minister said she expects the program to be fully implemented by the end of the year. After that, Ottawa will decide if it’s something worth doing permanently.
Ottawa has found another way to make Canada’s immigration system bigger while claiming it is making it smaller.
Immigration Minister Lena Diab announced on Monday that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) will accelerate the processing of permanent residence for up to 33,000 foreign workers already in Canada in 2026 and 2027.
The judiciary, so-called civil society rackets, and the faculty lounge must be sputtering with rage.
Cops in Surrey, B.C. did something utterly counter-intuitive in Canada: They released a slew of mugshots of suspected criminals in the Vancouver suburb’s chaotic extortion rackets.
This is criminal abuse by the Liberal Party.
Medical tourism in the West is considered a luxury: you travel to a place with top-of-the-line doctors who can be seen faster than you’d ever expect at home, undertake a battery of tests more thorough than what’s generally done at home, and receive an assessment more all-encompassing than, again, would be expected at home.
Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.
Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.
Minister @CitImmCanada says she’s unsure what became of 800 foreign students identified as fraudsters in federal audit by @OAG_BVG 6 weeks ago.
“I don’t have that information.”
— @LenaMetlegeDiab https://t.co/NnGntFLGOZ@BradRedekopp @MichelleRempel @CostasMenegakis #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/d40xlcenjS— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) May 5, 2026
There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.
More than 30,000 temporary foreign workers who live in small, remote and rural communities will be able to apply for a fast track to permanent residency, under an initiative announced Monday by Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada will accelerate permanent residency, or PR, for up to 33,000 temporary foreign workers in “in-demand sectors” such as agriculture and natural resources, trades and transportation, and health and caregiving.
Canadians still haven’t really debated immigration’s fundamental questions, like what exactly is it for? Does it merely serve short-term economics or shape our future prosperity and identity? What debate there is reveals both regional divides and ideological anger.
What’s also largely off the radar is our looming demographic collapse. At an average 2024 birthrate of 1.3, without newcomers, Canada’s population could halve by 2100. This invites the question of “To grow or not to grow?” which, unsurprisingly, gets different answers in Quebec and English Canada.
In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.
The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.
There was a time when young people in this country outearned retirement-aged Canadians. That time was long ago, and after a brief respite during the pandemic, the generational gap is widening once again.
On Wednesday Statistics Canada released its income survey of Canadians for 2024, revealing that the median aftertax income for Canadian households was $75,500 that year, more or less flat compared to 2023 after adjusting for inflation.
‘Denial of care’: Doctors worry about refugees as payment requirements take effect
Refugees now have to pay out of pocket for part of their drug prescriptions, mental health counselling, dental services, vision care and health equipment — including wheelchairs — as changes to a federal program take effect.
For decades, Canada’s Interim Federal Health Program has provided complete health coverage to refugees and refugee claimants until they are eligible for provincial health plans and benefits.
But starting Friday, they must pay $4 for every prescription and 30 per cent of the cost of supplemental health products and services.
Remigration is the answer.
Be nice if our medicos cared as much for citizens.
Progressive Conservative Ontario Premier Doug Ford has a bad habit of saying what “sounds kind” in the moment, while leaving taxpayers to deal with the real cost later.
His latest comments on temporary foreign workers are a perfect example.
At a press conference in Brampton, Ford said he wished he could “snap his fingers” and let temporary workers stay in Ontario.
The nuisance Brampton protesters pressured Doug Ford about extending their work permits.
His response? "These hard-working people are here to contribute to the community and have been trained in certain areas and I can tell you that your employers want you to stay."
Doug… pic.twitter.com/Qz5VGs6zjZ
— Curious George (@01CuriousGeorge) April 25, 2026
For decades, discussions surrounding mass immigration into Western nations have largely been confined to two unproductive viewpoints. One perspective, which views culture as a superficial element and asserts the fundamental similarity of all human beings, suggests that immigrants primarily require sufficient time and opportunities to integrate. Conversely, the other attributes assimilation challenges to cultural values, patriarchal attitudes, or religious conservatism. Both approaches, however, exhibit an intellectual reluctance to delve deeper. What remains conspicuously absent from the prevailing discourse is an understanding rooted in developmental psychology and civilization theory. This framework offers significant explanatory power while avoiding genetic determinism and simplistic cultural explanations, yet it still presents genuinely uncomfortable truths.
