May 18, 2018 - Ontario Immigration issued 30 Notifications of Interest under Ontario's Express Entry stream for French Speaking Skilled Workers.

Alberta has received a modest increase in its federal government allocation for 2018 under the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP).

December 1, 2017 - British Columbia immigration officials have announced that the final 2017 round of invitations under the B.C. PNP Tech Pilot will take place on December 18th.

October 14, 2020 - Canada's Parents and Grandparents Program opens for the submission of Interest to Sponsor forms from noon EST on October 13, 2020. The three-week window for the submission of the form closes on November 3. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada officials will then select at random candidates to be issued invitations to apply.

January 30, 2018 - Canadian citizens and permanent residents who want to sponsor parents and grandparents to come to Canada must declare their Interest to sponsor by noon on Thursday, February 1, 2018.

2019-12-31 – Canada's federal government has delayed the opening of the intake process for the 2020 Parents and Grandparents Program (PGP).

April 17, 2018 - Canada's immigration department has announced changes to its medical inadmissibility policy expected to eliminate the vast majority of cases where candidates are rejected on medical grounds.

March 20, 2019 - Canadians travelling to Europe will soon be required to have a new travel authorization, obtained by filling out an online form and paying a small fee.

June 10, 2020 -Canada has exempted certain temporary foreign workers in 3 industries, crucial to the battle against coronavirus from having to give biometrics before arrival.

February 16, 2021 - Canada is to allow international students to complete their entire programs online from their home countries and still qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP).

November 5, 2020 - Immigrants who come to Canada under the Express Entry system usually make more money and are more likely to get jobs in their fields than other newcomers to Canada, figures show.

January 23, 2019 - Canada's Parents and Grandparents Program opens in less than a week for sponsors to declare their interest in bringing family to Canada.

March 19, 2018 - Canada has seen an increase in the number of international students transitioning to permanent residence in 2017.

January 11, 2021 -Canadians overwhelmingly want temporary foreign workers who live here to also be able to stay here as permanent residents and get workplace benefits, a Nanos Research poll reveals.

Of those ITAs, 200 went to skilled workers already in Manitoba, with a minimum points score of 719.

May 28, 2018 - A new round of Notifications of Interest under Ontario's Express Entry stream for French Speaking Skilled Workers took place on May 25, 2018. The draw saw 34 NOIs issued to candidates who submitted their Canada Express Entry profiles between January 1 and May 25, 2018, bringing the total for 2018 to 502.

April 15, 2021 - Ontario immigration is set to make changes to its Entrepreneur Stream to make the process easier for applicants.

A parliamentary report on the temporary foreign worker program has made 21 recommendations on how it should be adapted to further meet the needs of Canadian employers. We assess what Ottawa intends to achieve and why.

August 20, 2018 - Quebec has announced its new skilled worker Expression of Interest system, named ‘Arrima', is scheduled to begin in September 2018.

February 26, 2020 - Quebec has updated the list of occupations that qualify for its facilitated Labour Market Impact Assessment process through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.