Pathways to Prosperity: Canada

A recent study commissioned by the Canadian Immigrant Settlement Sector Alliance (Reconfiguring Settlement and Integration: A Service Provider Strategy for Innovation and Results) argues that the settlement sector as a whole has an existential interest in strengthening its intellectual capacity and its ability to manage…

Project Description: This study collates data on a number of indictors of a welcoming community. These include employment opportunities, educational opportunities, affordable and suitable housing, attitudes toward immigrants and cultural diversity, presence of newcomer-serving agencies, accessible public transit, accessible and suitable healthcare, municipal features and…

Project Description: This study examines innovative and promising practices by settlement service provider organizations. Using a cross-Canada case study approach, it tests a methodology for identifying promising practices and analyzing the conditions that contribute to their effectiveness. In the first phase of the project, a…

Project Description: This study looks at immigrant students’ outcomes in the Greater Toronto Area and a number of second- and third-tier Ontario cities; the Academica Group and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario are partners. The project includes an examination of the college applications…

Project Description: Universities are increasingly focused on recruiting fee-paying undergraduate foreign students to increase their revenues and enhance their international profiles and networks. Simultaneously, the Canadian government has begun to develop strategies for attracting foreign students as future citizens, including an initiative to make it…

Project Description: This study focuses on Local Immigration Partnerships (LIP), program and project assessments, and dissemination of promising practices. The goals of this project are to equip the Ontario Region of Citizenship Immigration Canada with a ‘tool’ for assessing the LIP initiative, disseminating promising practices…

Project Description: The study provides detailed information about the programs, organizations, and activities available to immigrants and visible minorities in each of the WCI’s communities. A variety of techniques is used to develop inventories and audits of local resources, services, and measures that attract and…

Participants at the Canadian Political Science Association Conference, held in May at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, heard the results of a study examining the perceptions of community leaders with regard to immigration and diversity. As the number of immigrants settling outside the Greater Toronto…