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While international student graduates earn more than immigrants educated abroad, they remain disadvantaged relative to Canadian-born graduates. (Pexels/ Pavel Danilyuk)

International university grads speak about aspirations and barriers

Interviews with international university graduates reflect tensions between ambitions and barriers that often left them disillusioned, even after getting permanent residency.
When political leaders, media outlets and think tanks frame international students as the main source of societal woes, they miss the opportunity to fix underlying problems. (Shutterstock)

Demonizing foreign students sidesteps solutions to Canada’s problems

The Canadian government has said international students are abusing Canada’s asylum system. However, the data does not back the government’s claims.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the House of Commons on Nov. 20, 2024. Trudeau says his government could have acted faster on reigning in immigration programs, after blaming “bad actors” for gaming the system. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Migration experts scrutinize Justin Trudeau’s explanation for immigration cuts

Trudeau’s explanation paints an incomplete picture and perpetuates misleading narratives about Canada’s immigrant selection, higher education and asylum systems.
Some of the nearly 400 new Canadians from 65 countries take the oath of citizenship at a ceremony in Toronto, in July 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Canada has always had a ‘tap on, tap off’ immigration policy aimed primarily at filling jobs

Sharp increases and decreases in the number of immigrants are nothing new in Canada. Historically, immigration levels increase when the unemployment rate declines, and fall when unemployment rises.
Some tech companies are using artificial intelligence to predict which international students will be assessed favourably by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada so schools know before issuing admission letters. (Shutterstock)

International study cap: How some private companies are marketing tech and AI solutions

Private tech companies screening international students on behalf of public schools should be required to disclose more about their algorithms and training data.

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