There could be 63 million people living in Canada by 2073, new Statistics Canada projections released on Monday show.
The new StatCan projections are a peek into the future of Canada’s rapidly evolving demographics — but, the report notes that the projections, which include several low- to high-growth scenarios “are not predictions.”
From fast food to construction, employers turn more and more to temporary foreign workers
Businesses’ demand for temporary foreign workers has surged across the country in recent years, with employers given the green light to hire more than double the people through the federal program last year as they did five years ago.
The program is designed to provide short-term relief to employers as a last resort, but has been scrutinized for its potential knock-on effects to the broader economy and the vulnerable position in which it can place workers.
Last year, employers were cleared to hire 239,646 temporary foreign workers, about the population of Regina. That’s up from 108,988 in 2018, according to figures published by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Housing shortages, depressed wages, racist hiring practices, health care services among many others stretched beyond breaking. Thank Trudeau.
Announcing his intention to stand as an MP in the deprived English seaside town of Clacton, Essex, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage stated that “something is happening out there”’ concerning the number of young people who insisted he return to frontline politics. This vibe shift at the upcoming British general election was foreshadowed earlier this month in Europe. The success of patriotic populist parties across the continent is driven by Gen Z: lacking homes and families of their own due to inflation, energy insecurity, and mass immigration. As I have warned, Zoomers will be a reactionary force—and they have started their march.
When Joy Ojehanon left Nigeria seven years ago, she said she had “high hopes” for a new life in Canada, filled with opportunity and professional success.
But what’s followed her arrival in Toronto has been what she describes as a “heartbreaking” job search, despite her experience and education in the field of child and youth care.
“After some months in Canada, I started looking for a job, but my job applications were consistently rejected by employers, citing my lack of Canadian qualifications/work experience,” she told CTV News Toronto.
But Bank of Nova Scotia economists Rebekah Young and Anthony Bambokian aren’t so sure.
Canada’s overall population growth is “still going hot,” Bambokian said.
Young said the growth rate is trending stronger than last year and last year was a record-breaking one.
“We think it’s going to be really tough for them to reign in the numbers so dramatically in such a short time frame,” she said. “We are not seeing it in terms of data flows just yet.”
… The OECD emphasizes how oddly slow Canada’s growth is despite these conditions. Real GDP advanced just 1.1% in 2023, nearly a third of the population growth. At the same time, they also point out that unemployment climbed to 6.1% in March as the country added more people than jobs.
Like a degenerate gambler, Canada found a little growth from its rising population. Then, it placed a bet to go all-in on that growth, despite diminishing returns that placed it in a worse situation than it was previously trying to solve.
Canada’s population grew to top 41 million in the first quarter: StatCan
The agency says the population reached 41,012,563 on April 1, a gain of 242,673 people in the first three months of the year.
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the country’s population topped 41 million people in the first quarter of this year as it grew by 0.6 per cent.
Our elites are criminals for visiting this immigration horror on us.
Sgt. Daniel Dubois pulled his unmarked SUV in behind a black Kia hatchback as it began to pick up speed down a two-lane country highway through Quebec’s borderlands with New York State.
Dubois, who leads the RCMP’s Champlain border patrol unit, has a honed eye for the small details that separate local traffic from suspected vehicles on human smuggling border runs through this region of forests, fields and farms about 70 kilometres south of Montreal.
His first sign there’s something off with the Kia was the speed: rising over 100 km/h in an 80 km/h zone on a June evening when most local traffic was heading into driveways, coming back home.
If times are good, immigration does not drive politics. If times are bad, immigrants fast become a lightening rod — and a political football. This predictable pattern played out in recent European Parliament elections, where the economy, migration and war were the top issues. Nationalist right-wing parties promising to crack down on immigration, including that of Marine Le Pen in France and Georgia Meloni in Italy, won the day.
Conventional wisdom on Canadian immigration policy has been shifting so quickly in recent years it can be hard to keep up. Here’s my best attempt at a succinct summary of the narratives that have defined the topic since the mid-2000s or so.
Good read, lots of guilt to go round.
The historic success of the radical right in last weekend’s European Parliament election may have come as a shock, knocking two of the bloc’s most important governments off balance.
But it shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise for anyone paying attention to the outraged mood among many of the Continent’s young people, who have not only embraced hard-line anti-immigration views but seem prouder than ever to broadcast them.
Consider this as evidence: A 14-second clip filmed on the German holiday island of Sylt and uploaded to the social media platform X about two weeks before the vote. In it, a group of expensively dressed German youths can be seen belting out the words “Ausländer Raus!” (“foreigners out!”) over a euro-dance beat as they swirl glasses of rosé.
Evidently it’s a crime to demand that the mass migration of incompatible cultures be stopped. Good to know!
In Germany people getting on the train sing "auslander raus" & "Deutschland den Deutsche".
It means foreigners out & Germany for the Germans.
The police did nothing. pic.twitter.com/hzzbMEY8oU
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) June 16, 2024
With shots fired at two Canadian Jewish schools in late May, and an anti-Israel tirade waged by a guest speaker reported at a Catholic school, where should Jewish students turn? Where are we safe?
On May 21, students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada.
It is long overdue that blame be placed on our mainstream political parties for their callous import of Islamists. Why were they so cruel to us?
Global study ranks two Canadian cities high on list of most expensive places to buy a home
As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.
A study by Demographia, which examines international housing affordability, has deemed Vancouver and Toronto as “impossibly unaffordable.”
David MacDonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says the findings of the study aren’t surprising.
Canadians — and Liberals — split on giving the undocumented status: immigration minister
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government is continuing to investigate options for giving status to some undocumented people in Canada — but he doesn’t see consensus on the issue in the country or in the government caucus.
In an interview airing Saturday on CBC’s The House, Miller spoke positively about the idea but cautioned that the ongoing debate over the prospect prompted him to “reflect” on taking any action.
“I think from a humanitarian perspective it makes sense. From an economic perspective, it makes sense,” he told host Catherine Cullen.
How about thinking of your own citizens from a ‘humanitarian perspective’ for a change asshat?
With Canadians continuing to face a housing crisis and high living costs, a new survey has found a growing number of residents view immigration as having a negative affect on the country.
The Research Co. poll, which was released Wednesday, found 44 per cent of respondents believe immigration is having a mostly negative affect on Canada, up six per cent from last year.
“This is not something we saw a year ago or two years ago,” said Mario Canseco, Research Co. president. “It’s been slowly bubbling.”
