immigration

As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market. 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called for the closure of the Roxham Road irregular border crossing but sidestepped questions about one of his MPs denying help to a family who used it to enter the country. 

Winnipeg Free Press columnist Tom Brodbeck looks at how the Conservative leader’s rhetoric is paving a more dangerous road, one that fuels extremist views and intolerance.

China's zero-COVID lockdowns have been linked to a rare wave of protests across the country in recent weeks, and immigration industry experts say the strict pandemic rules are also fuelling a surge in requests to live in Canada.

A new poll suggests the vast majority of Canadians are worried about how the federal Liberal government's plan to dramatically increase immigration levels over the next few years will affect housing and government services.

The federal Liberal government has unveiled plans for a massive increase in the number of immigrants entering Canada, with a goal of seeing 500,000 people arrive each year by 2025 as it seeks to address a critical labour shortage across the country.

Quebec Premier François Legault introduced a new, expanded cabinet on Thursday, October 20, 2022, a mix of veteran ministers from his party's first mandate and several newly elected members, including the province's first Indigenous cabinet minister.

Control over immigration and Quebec's religious symbols ban could be sources of conflict between Ottawa and the province as Premier François Legault begins his second mandate.

Quebecers are heading to the polls today, October 3, 2022, after a five-week provincial election campaign dominated by issues such as immigration, the environment and the rising cost of living.

The head of a major employers' group in Quebec says an election campaign is not the time to have a serious discussion about immigration.

Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault was forced to defend recent controversial comments on immigration as well as his handling of COVID-19 during a leaders debate on Thursday, September 15, 2022, as his four opponents tried to wrest support from the popular premier.

Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault found himself on the defensive on Thursday, September 8, 2022, trying to clarify comments made a day earlier that linked immigration to the province with extremism and violence.

A growing number of new immigrants to Canada are bringing with them increasingly diverse languages, setting a record for the number of Canadians whose mother tongue is neither English nor French, new 2021 census data reveals.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada needs an emergency mechanism to respond quickly to humanitarian crises, according to a new report from the special parliamentary committee on Afghanistan.

Language and immigration politics were back at the forefront in Quebec’s national assembly last week, as Premier François Legault drew criticism for sounding the alarm over a decline in the number of people who speak French at home.