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Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rapid retreat from his election pledge to protect human rights defenders and refugees is troubling 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
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | November 4, 2025
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab’s department has a new quota for international students that drastically cuts the number of permits awarded to new arrivals. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | November 4, 2025
News | BY PETER MAZEREEUW | November 4, 2025
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab’s department has a new quota for international students that drastically cuts the number of permits awarded to new arrivals. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 16, 2020
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured outside a Liberal cabinet meeting in January, says the recent ruling striking down the Safe Third Country Agreement is being challenged by the feds to make clear the legal framework governing asylum law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 16, 2020
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 16, 2020
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured outside a Liberal cabinet meeting in January, says the recent ruling striking down the Safe Third Country Agreement is being challenged by the feds to make clear the legal framework governing asylum law. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 2, 2020
Independent Senator Mobina Jaffer, left, and NDP MP Jenny Kwan both say they’re disappointed by the Liberal government’s appeal, while Conservative MP Peter Kent says it's the right call after the government has failed on the refugee file. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, file
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 2, 2020
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | September 2, 2020
Independent Senator Mobina Jaffer, left, and NDP MP Jenny Kwan both say they’re disappointed by the Liberal government’s appeal, while Conservative MP Peter Kent says it's the right call after the government has failed on the refugee file. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, file
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | August 31, 2020
Thousands gathered on the Parliament Hill for a rally to call attention to anti-black racism and police violence against Black people on June 5, 2020. Prof. Afua Cooper said symbolic action, like the Prime Minister kneeling at the rally, is not good enough. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | August 31, 2020
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | August 31, 2020
Thousands gathered on the Parliament Hill for a rally to call attention to anti-black racism and police violence against Black people on June 5, 2020. Prof. Afua Cooper said symbolic action, like the Prime Minister kneeling at the rally, is not good enough. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020
Rohingya refugees are pictured in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh in 2018. A recent study projected the potential impacts and burden of COVID-19 on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, where a single introduction of the virus in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site with 600,000 people would lead to up to 370 people infected within the first month and up to 589,000 people infected in 12 months. U.K. Department for International Development photograph by Russell Watkins
Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020
Opinion | BY RUKHSANA AHMED AND ZEBA TASCI | August 26, 2020
Rohingya refugees are pictured in the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh in 2018. A recent study projected the potential impacts and burden of COVID-19 on Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, where a single introduction of the virus in the Kutupalong-Balukhali Expansion Site with 600,000 people would lead to up to 370 people infected within the first month and up to 589,000 people infected in 12 months. U.K. Department for International Development photograph by Russell Watkins
Canada’s economy has hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs that depend on temporary migrant workers—harvesting crops, caring for children and the elderly, working in construction and meat packing, and a host of jobs across the service sector, write a group of academics. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
Canada’s economy has hundreds of thousands of permanent jobs that depend on temporary migrant workers—harvesting crops, caring for children and the elderly, working in construction and meat packing, and a host of jobs across the service sector, write a group of academics. Photograph courtesy of Pexels
Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020
The July 22 Federal Court ruling, should the government choose not to fight it, does away with the sketchy and dangerous way of dealing with asylum seekers who are coming from the United States and sent back and detained, writes Jim Creskey. Flickr photograph by Chris Connelly
Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020
Opinion | BY JIM CRESKEY | July 29, 2020
The July 22 Federal Court ruling, should the government choose not to fight it, does away with the sketchy and dangerous way of dealing with asylum seekers who are coming from the United States and sent back and detained, writes Jim Creskey. Flickr photograph by Chris Connelly
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 20, 2020
Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured Feb. 6, 2020, is fielding calls from the Canadian Hong Kong community to develop a scheme to provide refuge to at-risk activists in Hong Kong. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 20, 2020
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 20, 2020
Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured Feb. 6, 2020, is fielding calls from the Canadian Hong Kong community to develop a scheme to provide refuge to at-risk activists in Hong Kong. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 15, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured on the Hill on June 8, 2020, addressing reporters on the feds' coronavirus response. The government has a moratorium in place for deportations amid the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 15, 2020
News | BY BEATRICE PAEZ | July 15, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured on the Hill on June 8, 2020, addressing reporters on the feds' coronavirus response. The government has a moratorium in place for deportations amid the pandemic. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 17, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured on June 8, says he hopes to share details about the government's program to temporarily grant some refugee claimants permanent residency status in the 'not too distant future.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 17, 2020
News | BY PALAK MANGAT | June 17, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured on June 8, says he hopes to share details about the government's program to temporarily grant some refugee claimants permanent residency status in the 'not too distant future.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | May 27, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump have divergent political interests that will lead to tough talks on reopening the border, said Chris Sands, director of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade. Donald Trump. White House Flickr photograph.
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | May 27, 2020
News | BY AIDAN CHAMANDY | May 27, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump have divergent political interests that will lead to tough talks on reopening the border, said Chris Sands, director of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade. Donald Trump. White House Flickr photograph.
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 22, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured at his November 2019 cabinet swearing-in, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture on May 22. He acknowledged there are 'regional disparities' in the numbers of available temporary foreign workers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 22, 2020
News | BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN | May 22, 2020
Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino, pictured at his November 2019 cabinet swearing-in, appeared before the House Committee on Agriculture on May 22. He acknowledged there are 'regional disparities' in the numbers of available temporary foreign workers. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | April 6, 2020
Before the federal government reversed its position, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured on the Hill on March 18, 2020, said asylum seekers would be allowed to make refugee claims even as non-essential travel to Canada was barred. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
News | BY NEIL MOSS | April 6, 2020
News | BY NEIL MOSS | April 6, 2020
Before the federal government reversed its position, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, pictured on the Hill on March 18, 2020, said asylum seekers would be allowed to make refugee claims even as non-essential travel to Canada was barred. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade