SUCCESS receives funding to provide pre-arrival services

Credit to Author: Canadian Immigrant| Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 20:14:21 +0000

Vancouver-based SUCCESS will help more newcomers before they arrive in Canada Pre-arrival settlement services help soon-to-be immigrants understand what they’ll be facing in Canada as new arrivals. The federal government has announced it will give Vancouver-based immigrant services agency SUCCESS  $22.4 million in funding to help deliver these important services. SUCCESS has already been offering […]

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Canada adopts Global Migration Compact

Credit to Author: Margaret Jetelina| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:29:40 +0000

The United Nations’ Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration is the first global framework on international migration More than 258 million migrants in the world are living outside their country of birth today — a 49 per cent increase compared to 2000. Of these, 68.5 million are refugees who are forced to flee their […]

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Taking Citizenship Week in Canada to new heights

Celebrating Canadian citizenship It’s Citizenship Week (October 8 to 14, 2018) and there are 72 special citizenship ceremonies happening across the country this week, including a special CN Tower ceremony in Toronto where six new citizens braved the EdgeWalk,  the world’s highest hands-free walk, while taking the oath of citizenship — 116 storeys from the […]

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Minister Hussen addresses asylum system criticism

OP/ED by Ahmed Hussen, minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Conservative politicians have been peddling false information to stoke fear when it comes to those seeking asylum in Canada. It is time for the misleading, divisive and dangerous political rhetoric to end, and to set the record straight. The fact is that Canada has a strict […]

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