TORONTO – Canada will reduce the number of international student permits by 35 per cent as part of “a temporary two-year cap on foreign enrollments,” Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced this morning. The cap will reduce the number of approved study permits in 2024 to 364,000, while the 2025 limit will be re-evaluated at the end of this year. Students enrolling in master’s and research doctorates will be exempt from the cap. “These are the bright people we need to retain instead,” Miller said, adding that doing so will allow them to decisively confront the institutions and “bad actors” who have to pay exorbitant tuition fees to international students. (more…)
TORONTO – RCMP officers will be freer to smoke marijuana on their off hours, as long as they are “fit for duty” once they return to work. The turning point has come in recent days and represents a strong relaxation of the RCMP’s policy on the consumption of cannabis by its members. (more…)
TORONTO – In 2021, UNESCO officially recognized the remarkable artistic and cultural value of the magnificent fourteenth-century frescoes by Giotto, depicted in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padoa. These frescoes have been included in the World Heritage List. To celebrate this significant acknowledgment, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto (IIC) is proud to present the second stop of the exhibition “The Magic of Giotto”, February 8-29, at Istituto Italiano di Cultura | 496 Huron Street, Toronto.
TORONTO – “The situation in Quebec is unsustainable due to the continuous arrival of asylum seekers”: that’s what Prime Minister François Legault wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to slow down the influx of asylum seekers entering the province, which – according to Legault – is approaching a “breaking point”. (more…)
TORONTO – Housing and international students: too many arrivals and too few homes. An issue that is being discussed in recent days and which has seen various positions taken and even points in common – sometimes – between the opposition and the majority. Now, the latest “rumor” is that the government would like to reduce the volume of international students in some provinces. (more…)
