Canada on Friday increased its immigration targets to bolster the economy and fill jobs in sectors experiencing shortages after the COVID-19 pandemic led to closed borders and a sharp slowdown in new ...

Aside from the pandemic-affected period in 2020, this represents the slowest second-quarter growth since records began in 1946. This modest rise follows a period of rapid immigration-led expansion, ...

Once a runaway train, Canada’s immigration-driven population growth has come to a grinding halt. For the second straight quarter, the country’s population changed nominally, compared with a quarterly ...

Canada’s population barely grew in the second quarter this year, continuing a trend of near-zero growth after Ottawa’s moves last year to curb immigration. The slow growth was driven by outflows of ...