Immigration Policy
The number worth anchoring on from the Canada Gazette's June 12 publication is 30,665. That is how many of the 36,060 permanent residence applications suspended under Canada's Ebola measures — eighty-five percent — belong to the protected persons class. These are not speculative economic migrants
IRCC
Canada cut international student permits by 49% in a single year — the sharpest TR compression in modern Canadian immigration history. What June 2026's structural break signals for permanent pathways, Express Entry, and the two-step strategy.
Immigration Policy
On May 30, Ontario revokes all nine OINP streams with no confirmed replacements. What this means for applicants, practitioners, and Canada's broader shift toward labour-market-responsive immigration selection.
Immigration Policy
84% of Canada's population lives in a Census Metropolitan Area. Canada's new TR-to-PR pathway excludes all of them. A coherence argument about who the program is actually designed for.
Immigration Policy
Bill C-12's group processing powers are more consequential than its asylum provisions. What they mean, who they answer to, and what they leave unresolved.
Immigration Policy
Three CEC draws at 508, 508, 507 — and a March 15 language floor rise for FSW and CEC. Read together, they describe a system selecting differently, not less selectively. What IRCC's March moves actually signal about Canada's 2026 immigration architecture.
Immigration Policy
Canada is preparing to tighten immigration. Targets are down. The political narrative has shifted. And somewhere in that shift, 298,128 Ukrainians who came here under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) — and tens of thousands of others on special temporary measures — are watching their status clocks run