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    Canadaโ€™s increased immigration targets: great for labour, not so good for housing

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    Canadaโ€™s increased immigration targets: great for labour, not so good for housing

    Last year, Canada broke its annual immigration record with 405,000 newcomers. The nation will continue to break this record until at least 2025.   According to a plan revealed by Sean Fraser, the Canadian minister of immigration, Canada aims to welcome 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025.   The catalyst for…

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  • Laurier and Waterloo-Kitchener region both doing their part to help incoming refugees

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    Laurier and Waterloo-Kitchener region both doing their part to help incoming refugees

    Community-based organizations in Waterloo have started a fund to help incoming refugees settle in the region. The Immigration Partnership Fund was created after an influx of arrivals from Afghanistan and works to help groups in the community bolster the services they offer to refugees entering Canada.   One of the joint founders of the fund, Immigration…

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  • Here’s why the “Quebec values test” won’t work

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    Here’s why the “Quebec values test” won’t work

    Quebec is the Canadian province that would be most likely to make โ€œIโ€™m not like most girlsโ€ their Instagram bio. Itโ€™s always been a little different, and has been recognized as such – but in the last few years, the province has taken a sharp turn towards increasingly tight secularist laws. So you can get…

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  • The Lazaridis Institute seeks out the ten best ventures in the country

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    The Lazaridis Institute seeks out the ten best ventures in the country

    The Lazaridis Institute for the Management of Technology Enterprises is currently on a cross-Canada quest to seek out the ten best ventures in the country to join the first cohort of the Lazaridis Institute Scale Up Program. The institute was created to work within the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University,…

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  • WLU partnership on immigration research

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    WLU partnership on immigration research

    A joint project between Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Ottawa is the first in the country to examine the relationship between climate change and migration to Canada. The Environmental Migration Project brings together researchers to investigate how droughts, pollution and other environmental issues are affecting migration dynamics in less developed countries and how…

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