International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News.
The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”
Video surfaces of an extremely long Toronto job fair lineup pic.twitter.com/uXMucx4MyI
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) May 13, 2025
We Catholics have had a few days since Thursday to reflect on the appointment of our new leader Pope Leo XIV. The cardinals have flown home, St Peter’s Square is less crowded and tourists will be back in the Vatican Museum surreptitiously photographing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The election was mercifully quick, Cardinal Robert Prevost chose a significant Papal moniker. Reflecting one of our greatest popes who established a significant aspect of Catholic social teaching with Rerum Novarum (1891) on the proper relationship between capital and labour, his demeanour and mode of address when he appeared on the Vatican balcony were encouraging.
Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, economists warn
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s aim to reduce immigration to “sustainable levels” will be achievable only on paper unless changes are brought in to ensure that Canada doesn’t continue to undercount the number of non-permanent residents living here, economists warn.
Mr. Carney, at his first press conference after the election, pledged to cap the total number of temporary workers and international students at less than 5 per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027.
For years, Canada’s top telecom providers rode a wave of high immigration, collectively adding hundreds of thousands of new mobile phone subscribers most quarters. Those days are over.
Canada’s three biggest wireless firms — BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. — all cited tighter immigration rules when explaining to investors over the past two quarters why subscriber growth has slowed. The trio recorded fewer than 54,000 net new mobile subscribers in the first quarter, the lowest number in four years.
Believe nothing from corporate Canada or the Liberal gov’t on immigration.
Conestoga College is moving to a four-day week at most of its facilities for the summer semester, with new initiatives to limit spending across its campuses.
A series of internal staff emails documenting the operational changes come as federal data shows the college was approved for just 410 new study permits for foreign students in the first three months of 2025.
That’s down 95 per cent compared to 2023, when 8,550 new study permits were approved over the same period.
h/t Wes
Canada’s jobless numbers could have been worse in April – in fact, Statistics Canada is pretty clear they would have been worse if not for the election.
The month jobs report was released Friday showing unemployment rising to 6.9%, up from 6.7% in February.
BREAKING – IMMIGRATION TRAIN WRECK IN CANADA
Between April 2024 and April 2025
Canada added 512,000 working aged Canadians (25-54 years old) ….
but recorded only 182,000 more people working full-time pic.twitter.com/zraQXvITu1
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) May 9, 2025
Allyson Vandenberg of Toronto was rejected for back surgery before even stepping into a doctor’s office, at a point when her pain had become unbearable, she said.
“One doctor agreed to see me — with an eight-month wait — then rejected me before even entering the room,” she wrote in an email to CTVNews.ca. In severe pain, she began considering medical assistance in dying.
“I had started saying goodbye,” she said.
Interview with author Douglas Murray: ‘Canada has disgraced itself’
With rising Jew-hatred, what might be the tipping point for Jewish North Americans?
DM: It’s extremely hard to say, because everybody has their own early warning system in their heads, in their hearts. All I would say is that many Jews in the West have felt the first time in their lives, the re-eruption of hatred of Jews.
And by the way, nowhere more so than in Canada. To my mind, Canada has disgraced itself in the last 18 months by showing that that anti-Jewish hatred is permissible and is tolerable in a way which hatred of no other group would be.
I would submit that if there were a large number of protests across Canada calling for lynching of black people or Indigenous people or gay people or anything else, that all of the strength of government and civil society would condemn the people doing that. Swiftly, too.
This is the great shame of Canada, that synagogue after synagogue and Jewish school after Jewish school across Canada should have been attacked, fire bombed, shot at. Canada’s politicians, if they care about Canada’s view in the world, should address this. But of course, seems that they’re doing the classic thing of feeding the crocodile.
The average Canadian does not share the toxic values of our elite.
Our political class, the crony capitalists who crave cheap foreign labour and the 5th columnists who infiltrated the academy and our government bureaucracy are responsible for this mess, ordinary Canadians had nothing to do with it.
Canadians were bullied and bludgeoned with the smears of Islamophobia and racism if they dared declare the obvious, that Islam is a violent cult and should never have been allowed to gain a foothold in Canada.
Rather than admit their lunatic decision to import Islam was a horrid disaster our government encouraged DEI programs that ensured white working class people were scapegoated as Canada’s “official national oppressors”. All because our skin tone automatically makes us Nazis.
So it should be a slam dunk that Canada’s many many millions of Nazis could make a case that the Swastika has been culturally appropriated by Islamists and their useful idiots.
Unfortunately Islamist marches have more “Jews For Palestine” in their ranks than wannabe white Hitlers nixing that notion.
I wonder what plans Carney’ immigration advisor Wiseman has in store for us. What other countries besides Canada does he think should enjoy the benefits of unvetted mass immigration?
Please forgive my confusion but why should we rally to our cynical elites call to fight an evil they imported and continue to support? Wouldn’t that be Islamophobic?
A gift from Canada’s elite to you.
Had enough of these pigs? I sure have. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gKjslEi3mJ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) May 10, 2025
Canada lost more than 30,000 manufacturing jobs last month while Windsor saw a jump in its unemployment rate as U.S. tariffs take aim at the automotive sector and feed into economic uncertainty.
Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey on Friday said employment increased by 7,400 nationally, though that figure was padded by an increase in election-related hiring. The overall unemployment rate rose to 6.9 per cent, up from 6.7 per cent in April.
The April jobs figures illustrate how tariffs are beginning to squeeze the Canadian economy, affecting regions and industries most exposed to trade with the United States.
I feel for anyone who has lost their job except for the Liberal Party’s job stealing, medical services swamping, housing shortage causing migrants.
Ottawa looking for ways to mend tears in Canada’s social fabric, document shows
OTTAWA — Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.
With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.
Ajax man charged after 14-year-old girl was allegedly confined and sexually assaulted, police say
“No place for a reasoned discussion: When newly-minted high school teacher “Cassie” tried to lead her English and Art class in a discussion about race and oppression, a black student in her classroom called her a “gook” and then attacked her with a large pair of art scissors, leaving her with several “big, dark” bruises and a severe case of PTSD.”
It’s a mystery to me.
h/t Patti Jo
In New York, Frank Sinatra says, they want to be a part of it. Chicago, he claims, has all that jazz. But it turns out Toronto is where people are going.
Toronto was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada and the U.S. for the second consecutive year and saw an estimated population increase of nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, according to data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.
… In 2021, 47 per cent of Toronto residents were born in Canada. According to the Census, there were 1,286,140 immigrants in Toronto, or 46.6 percent of the population. In Canada overall, immigrants made up 23.0 per cent of the population.
