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Lena Diab
Immigration Minister Lena Diab recently announced a measure requiring one year of Canadian work experience to qualify for permanent residence, which reinforces the very barrier Ontario is dismantling, writes Akolisa Ufodike. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | December 3, 2025
A constituent of Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she was told by the cabinet member that she wouldn't speak about matters under her ministerial responsibility while in Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | December 3, 2025
News | BY NEIL MOSS | December 3, 2025
A constituent of Immigration Minister Lena Diab says she was told by the cabinet member that she wouldn't speak about matters under her ministerial responsibility while in Halifax. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY STUART BENSON | December 3, 2025
After successfully proposing nearly 30 amendments to strengthen and enhance Bill C-12, Conservative Immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner says the Liberals still need to go further to meaningfully reform Canada's immigration system. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY STUART BENSON | December 3, 2025
News | BY STUART BENSON | December 3, 2025
After successfully proposing nearly 30 amendments to strengthen and enhance Bill C-12, Conservative Immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner says the Liberals still need to go further to meaningfully reform Canada's immigration system. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY TESSIE SANCI | December 1, 2025
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab, left, and Health Minister Marjorie Michel appeared at the House Health Committee on Nov. 18 to explain their respective departments' roles in helping health-care workers move to Canada to help with the health human-resources shortage. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY TESSIE SANCI | December 1, 2025
News | BY TESSIE SANCI | December 1, 2025
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab, left, and Health Minister Marjorie Michel appeared at the House Health Committee on Nov. 18 to explain their respective departments' roles in helping health-care workers move to Canada to help with the health human-resources shortage. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY MICHAEL CHOLOD | November 25, 2025
Evan Solomon
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon. Making Canada a leader will require a lot of smart AI students, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from around the world, writes Michael Cholod. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY MICHAEL CHOLOD | November 25, 2025
Opinion | BY MICHAEL CHOLOD | November 25, 2025
Evan Solomon
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon. Making Canada a leader will require a lot of smart AI students, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs from around the world, writes Michael Cholod. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY S. YASH KALASH | November 12, 2025
Lena Metlege Diab
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab. If the U.S. turns away the builders of tomorrow, Canada must ensure they don’t just land here but thrive here, writes S. Yash Kalash. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY S. YASH KALASH | November 12, 2025
Opinion | BY S. YASH KALASH | November 12, 2025
Lena Metlege Diab
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab. If the U.S. turns away the builders of tomorrow, Canada must ensure they don’t just land here but thrive here, writes S. Yash Kalash. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY MELODY VICZKO | September 15, 2021
The recovery from the pandemic is an opportunity for us to reconsider how internationalization in higher education reinforces the boundaries that limit our understanding of the connectedness in which we live, writes Melody Viczko. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
Opinion | BY MELODY VICZKO | September 15, 2021
Opinion | BY MELODY VICZKO | September 15, 2021
The recovery from the pandemic is an opportunity for us to reconsider how internationalization in higher education reinforces the boundaries that limit our understanding of the connectedness in which we live, writes Melody Viczko. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
Opinion | BY GRAHAM CARR | September 15, 2021
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is pictured in Ottawa on July 23, 2021. The pandemic exposed serious operational shortcomings in Canada’s immigration programs. To correct this, we need to support IRCC’s implementation of the $430-million streamlined, digitized visa process promised in the April 2021 federal budget, writes Graham Carr. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Opinion | BY GRAHAM CARR | September 15, 2021
Opinion | BY GRAHAM CARR | September 15, 2021
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is pictured in Ottawa on July 23, 2021. The pandemic exposed serious operational shortcomings in Canada’s immigration programs. To correct this, we need to support IRCC’s implementation of the $430-million streamlined, digitized visa process promised in the April 2021 federal budget, writes Graham Carr. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino and Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef greet Afghan refugees arriving in Canada on Aug. 4. Barriers to accessing available mental health services and the lack of culturally appropriate and tailored services impede on the ability of refugees to ameliorate the state of their mental health, write Rukhsana Ahmed and Victoria Strachan. Photograph of Marco Mendicino's Twitter
Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister Marco Mendicino and Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef greet Afghan refugees arriving in Canada on Aug. 4. Barriers to accessing available mental health services and the lack of culturally appropriate and tailored services impede on the ability of refugees to ameliorate the state of their mental health, write Rukhsana Ahmed and Victoria Strachan. Photograph of Marco Mendicino's Twitter
Opinion | BY COREY LEVINE | August 4, 2021
Afghan women leaders and rights activists are under no illusion of the risks they face. It is now time for Canada to step up to the plate and honour the commitment it has been making to Afghan women, writes Corey Levine. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations/Eric Kanalstein
Opinion | BY COREY LEVINE | August 4, 2021
Opinion | BY COREY LEVINE | August 4, 2021
Afghan women leaders and rights activists are under no illusion of the risks they face. It is now time for Canada to step up to the plate and honour the commitment it has been making to Afghan women, writes Corey Levine. Photograph courtesy of the United Nations/Eric Kanalstein
Opinion | BY PETER SHOWLER | July 28, 2021
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino and the government should be congratulated for implementing the new human rights defenders program, writes Peter Showler. It is a start. With success, and if well managed, it might even double or even triple its capacity. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY PETER SHOWLER | July 28, 2021
Opinion | BY PETER SHOWLER | July 28, 2021
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino and the government should be congratulated for implementing the new human rights defenders program, writes Peter Showler. It is a start. With success, and if well managed, it might even double or even triple its capacity. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY SCOTT TAYLOR | July 26, 2021
Master Corporal Daniel Choong helps stabilize Lieutenant Commander Gina Connor with her fire stance as she fires her C7 rifle during firing practice at the Kabul Military Training Centre range in Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation Attention on Oct. 30, 2013. DND photograph by Sgt. Norm McLean
Opinion | BY SCOTT TAYLOR | July 26, 2021
Opinion | BY SCOTT TAYLOR | July 26, 2021
Master Corporal Daniel Choong helps stabilize Lieutenant Commander Gina Connor with her fire stance as she fires her C7 rifle during firing practice at the Kabul Military Training Centre range in Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation Attention on Oct. 30, 2013. DND photograph by Sgt. Norm McLean
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | June 23, 2021
Players for England and Scotland take a knee during their Euro 2020 match on June 18. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News' The National YouTube
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | June 23, 2021
Opinion | BY ERICA IFILL | June 23, 2021
Players for England and Scotland take a knee during their Euro 2020 match on June 18. Screenshot courtesy of CBC News' The National YouTube
Canada must step up efforts to help displaced persons in the face of COVID-19 and engage at diplomatic levels to ensure that displaced populations are included in national vaccination programs. A new Abacus Data poll commissioned by World Vision confirms that nearly eight-in-10 respondents agree that if we don’t vaccinate everyone everywhere, the threat posed by COVID-19 will remain, write Rema Jamous Imseis and Michael Messenger. Unsplash photograph by Mufid Majnun
Canada must step up efforts to help displaced persons in the face of COVID-19 and engage at diplomatic levels to ensure that displaced populations are included in national vaccination programs. A new Abacus Data poll commissioned by World Vision confirms that nearly eight-in-10 respondents agree that if we don’t vaccinate everyone everywhere, the threat posed by COVID-19 will remain, write Rema Jamous Imseis and Michael Messenger. Unsplash photograph by Mufid Majnun
News | BY MIKE LAPOINTE | June 15, 2021
Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos, from left, Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Chris Aylward, and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. More than 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency workers will be commencing strike votes this week, after working without a new collective bargaining agreement for nearly three years. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY MIKE LAPOINTE | June 15, 2021
News | BY MIKE LAPOINTE | June 15, 2021
Treasury Board President Jean-Yves Duclos, from left, Public Service Alliance of Canada national president Chris Aylward, and Public Safety Minister Bill Blair. More than 9,000 Canada Border Services Agency workers will be commencing strike votes this week, after working without a new collective bargaining agreement for nearly three years. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 3, 2021
Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard, pictured in 2018, says she is ‘pleased’ the IRCC has since phased out a policy identifying frequent requestors of information, but those impacted feel some level of damage has been done. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 3, 2021
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 3, 2021
Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard, pictured in 2018, says she is ‘pleased’ the IRCC has since phased out a policy identifying frequent requestors of information, but those impacted feel some level of damage has been done. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | May 25, 2021
Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard, pictured in 2018, says while a select few workers helping with access to information requests often know the identity of the requester, it should not be ‘disseminated’ to the larger department. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | May 25, 2021
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | May 25, 2021
Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard, pictured in 2018, says while a select few workers helping with access to information requests often know the identity of the requester, it should not be ‘disseminated’ to the larger department. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade