Nicholas Keung
Immigration Reporter at The (Toronto) Star
@TorontoStar 🇨🇦 Immigration Reporter. Can find me at @nicholaskeung.bsky.social also. Please email story suggestions to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Nicholas Keung
Ottawa has offered more details on proposed immigration and asylum changes under the Strong Borders Act as 300 civil society groups joined forces to demand the complete withdrawal of what they call an “egregious” omnibus bill.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Nicholas Keung
Canada had almost no population growth in the first quarter of 2025, adding just 20,107 more people, a decline driven mainly by having fewer international students and more natural deaths than births. As of April 1, Canada had 41,548,787 people, marking the smallest quarterly growth since the third quarter of 2020, when the population dropped by 1,232 people in the wake of border restrictions to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Statistics Canada.
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1 week ago |
thespec.com | Nicholas Keung
Hossein Khodabakhsh decided to take a seven-week compassionate leave from work in March to visit his mother in Tehran, who just had a bone marrow transplant for leukemia. But little did the temporary foreign worker know he would be stuck in Iran — now caught in a war with Israel — and separated from his wife in Canada, their home away from home for six years.
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2 weeks ago |
thespec.com | Nicholas Keung
A single passenger survived the fiery crash of an Air India plane Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, killing 241 people bound for London — and others on the ground — with a Toronto dentist on board, officials said. It was not immediately clear what may have caused one of India’s worst airline disasters in decades. A video of the crash shows the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner taking off with its nose pointed upward, then sinking toward the ground before slamming into a medical college.
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2 weeks ago |
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Nicholas Keung
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“Mohammad’s entire family is here and he faces incredible risk in Afghanistan. While the eventual pathways of doing the permanent residency application may reunite this family, the truth is that if we don’t step in now, it will be too late.” https://t.co/Klmi7y6Cvt
To outscore others in Express Entry pool, married applicants have increasingly excluded spouses in applications & opted to sponsor them later, after they themselves secure perm residence. Now, immigration officials are going after them 4 misrepresentation. https://t.co/SNfA918z9N
RT @nbawaan: Patients who spoke with me said they felt pressured by private clinics to pay out of pocket for faster care or unnecessary add…