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Black & Griffith: Visible minority women are still sidelined in competitive ridings policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/02/mino... Women visible minority candidates have higher % chance of being sacrificial lambs, experiencing biases in political process across two fronts, both women & vismin

‘Birth tourism’ organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to US Not aware of any similar cases in Canada in terms of charges given that there is no such prohibition. However, Richmond had an active cottage industry of services to pregnant Chinese women and any …

‘Birth tourism’ organizer jailed over scheme to bring pregnant Chinese women to US multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/06/b... via @Andrew_Griffith Not aware of any similar cases in Canada. Google indicates a number of lawyers and consultants who offer their services #citizenship

Carney government replacing Islamophobia and antisemitism envoys with advisory council Can’t claim credit but it has been something I have been advocating for some time, as separate envoys tend to accentuate differences: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said Wednesday th…

Carney government replacing #Islamophobia and #antisemitism envoys with advisory council multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/05/c... via @Andrew_Griffith Can’t claim credit but it has been something I have been advocating for some time, as separate envoys tend to accentuate differences

Order of Canada Appointments: 2025 and historical multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/02/04/o... via @Andrew_Griffith

Thompson: Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy Comprehensive, accurate and depressing read: …There’s no sugar-coating it: A year of Donald Trump has been more catastrophic for American democracy than we could have predicted. I don’t know …

@debthompsonphd.bsky.social Year one of Donald Trump’s second term has been catastrophic for American democracy multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Comprehensive, accurate and depressing read

Lederman: The fallout from the Gaza War continues to be felt in the literary world Sad that this needs to be said: …A plea – and I make this as someone whose own appearance at a book festival last year attracted letters of protest: We must ensure literary spaces are inclusi…

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"We must not seek to censor well-meaning, serious artists, but to invite them in & respectfully challenge opinions that rankle"

Immigrants more likely to cite human rights, diversity as ‘Canadian values’: survey Of note: Immigrants are more likely than those born in Canada to identify things like respect for human rights and gender equality as “shared Canadian values,” say survey results in briefing notes …

#Immigrants more likely to cite human rights, #diversity as ‘Canadian values’: survey multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note

L’immigration se régionalise au Québec, The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities Of note: “Le dernier bilan démographique des régions laisse entrevoir une répartition accrue de l’immigration aux quatre coins du Québec. Si Montréal attire encore la majorité des nouveaux arrivant…

L’immigration se régionalise au Québec, The immigration shift away from Canada’s three biggest cities multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/17/l... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note

Fixing Canada’s broken immigration system – Presenting more data to Parliament: Michael Barutciski First in a series of opinion pieces by MLI. In reading Barutciski’s recommendations for more data, he presents the case as if no data available when in fact in most areas he mentions, open da…

Fixing Canada’s broken #immigration system – Presenting more data to Parliament: @maxmako2015 multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/f... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of his recommendations already underway, some useful strengthening data and annual plan, others not realistic

Parkin – Freedom vs. equality: Quebec and the rest of Canada More interesting findings: …Do these differences among provinces and regions matter to our politics? On the one hand, they should not be exaggerated (and we should always resist the urge to s…

@parkinac.bsky.social Freedom vs. equality: Quebec and the rest of Canada multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/16/p... via @Andrew_Griffith More interesting findings

StatsCan: Overrepresentation of Indigenous and Black adults in provincial and federal custody Usual sound data analysis from StatsCan, higher gaps than I expected: In 2023/2024, Indigenous adults were incarcerated at a rate 10 times higher than non-Indigenous adults in the six provinces wit…

StatsCan: Overrepresentation of #Indigenous and #Black adults in provincial and federal custody multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/s... via @Andrew_Griffith Usual sound data analysis from StatsCan, higher gaps than I expected

MacDougall | Canada does not need to lie down and accept Elon Musk’s giant mess Good commentary: …Welcome to the classic Big Tech manoeuvre: make (or enable) a giant mess, and then bark at others to clean it up. But that’s a poor response to minor offences and an egregio…

@AGMacDougall | Canada does not need to lie down and accept Elon Musk’s giant mess multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/15/m... via @Andrew_Griffith good commentary

Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future Hard to square “rigorous integrity checks” with speed in decision making. Government generally has a poor record in assessing business immigration programs: …We are not the only c…

Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/o... via @Andrew_Griffith Hard to square “rigorous integrity checks” with speed in decision making. Government generally has a poor record in assessing business #immigration programs

Horak: The protests in Iran echo past uprisings. But this time, they feel different, Regg Cohn, Ebadi and Akhavan Some of the better analyses of the situation in Iran, starting with former Canadian diplomat Dennis Horak: …Notwithstanding the challenges the regime faces, it would be foolish to underestima…

@dhorak.bsky.social The protests in Iran echo past uprisings. But this time, they feel different, @reggcohn , Ebadi and Akhavan multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/14/h... via @Andrew_Griffith Some of the better analyses of the situation in Iran, starting with former Canadian diplomat Dennis Horak

ICYMI – Revealed: How international student spots are being distributed — unevenly — across Ontario Good and useful data: …Previous efforts to understand how PALs were distributed across the province were hindered by confidentiality claims and concerns about the impact on competitive advant…

ICYMI - Revealed: How international student spots are being distributed — unevenly — across Ontario multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Good and useful data

ICYMI: Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario immigration changes Fixing problems after the fact rather than more due diligence in program planning or earlier corrective measures should be the goal: …Lou Janssen Dangzalan, an immigration lawyer in Toronto, …

ICYMI: Newcomers seeking permanent residency face uncertainty, frustration over Ontario #immigration changes multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith More due diligence in program planning, earlier corrective measures should be goal rather than fixing problems after the fact

ICYMI: The government is still not hiring enough disabled people: PSC report Of note (I await the EE report to assess the impact of the cuts on EE groups): …The report found that public servants with disabilities “were consistently under-represented in acting appointm…

ICYMI: The government is still not hiring enough #Disabled people: @PSCofCanada report multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/13/i... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note (I await the EE report to assess the impact of the cuts on EE groups)

An impatient Mark Carney would rather bypass the public service than reform it Public service reform is a thankless task politically and takes an inordinate amount of time, effort and political support. Needed but rarely executed given previous failures like UCS. Former deput…

An impatient Mark Carney would rather bypass the public service than reform it multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/a... via @Andrew_Griffith Public service reform is thankless task politically & takes inordinate amount of time, effort & political support. Needed but rarely executed #cdnpoli

Canada’s immigration system is favouring these kinds of applicants — even over others who score higher More of the preference for French-speaking immigrants in express entry, diluting the CRS: French-speaking candidates made up 42 per cent of the people invited for permanent residence last year via …

Canada’s #immigration system is favouring these kinds of applicants — even over others who score higher multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/c... via @Andrew_Griffith More of the preference for French-speaking immigrants in express entry, diluting the CRS

Jamie Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s immigration safeguards Judicial appointments matter and have impact. Column would have been more balanced if it had more examples of rejections: In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth a…

Sarkonak: The federal judge determined to dismantle Canada’s #immigration safeguards multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/j... via @Andrew_Griffith Judicial appointments matter and have impact. Column would have been more balanced if it had examples of rejections

Temporary foreign workers switch jobs and earn more after becoming permanent residents, study finds Of note, not terribly surprising but good to see the data behind it: …The research, which was conducted by economists at universities in Toronto and Chicago, found several benefits for worker…

Temporary foreign workers switch jobs and earn more after becoming permanent residents, study finds multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/12/t... via @Andrew_Griffith Of note, not terribly surprising but good to see the data behind it

Regg Cohn | Anti-Israel protests expose the lack of leadership at city hall and Queen’s Park Indeed, sad example of passing the buck back and forth: …The minister who oversees law enforcement says more needs to be done. The mayor says she’d like to see more arrests and has spoken to …

@reggcohn.bsky.social | Anti-Israel protests expose the lack of leadership at city hall and Queen’s Park multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/r... via @Andrew_Griffith Indeed, sad example of passing the buck back and forth

Idées | L’interculturalisme québécois est-il mort? Good assessment: L’un des faits marquants de l’année qui vient de se terminer, quasiment passé sous le radar, est la rupture opérée par le gouvernement caquiste à l’endroit de ce qu’il était conven…

Idées | L’interculturalisme québécois est-il mort? multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/i... via
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Good assessment

Want to immigrate to Canada? Learn French Political objectives over economic, with little evidence shared: At a time when Canada is clamping down on immigration, there is now a clear strategy for settling permanently in the country: Learn …

Want to immigrate to Canada? Learn French multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/w... via @Andrew_Griffith Political objectives over economic, with little evidence shared #Immigration

55 ans d’attente pour une résidence permanente Not tenable: Les immigrants qui ont demandé la résidence permanente via certains programmes humanitaires pourraient ne jamais l’obtenir de leur vivant. Devant la baisse des cibles d’admission d’Ott…

55 ans d’attente pour une résidence permanente multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/5... via
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Not tenable #Immigration

A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress Of note: The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress, depending on how the Supreme Court rules in a closely watched redistrictin…

A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/10/a... via @Andrew_Griffith of note

How productive is the public service? We’ll never know | Denley Some things easier to measure than others but productivity in service delivery, HR, finance and property management should be doable and are needed: …One need be only moderately cynical to id…

How productive is the public service? We'll never know | Denley multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/09/h... via @Andrew_Griffith Some things easier to measure than others but productivity in service delivery, HR, finance and property management should be doable and are needed

Geoff Russ: Immigration made affordability worse. Liberals gaslighted us all I lean more to incompetence and overly political objectives. But the debate is here, largely focussed on the practicalities of housing, healthcare and infrastructure, which are shared between immig…

Geoff Russ: #Immigration made affordability worse. Liberals gaslighted us all multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/09/g... via @Andrew_Griffith I lean more to incompetence and overly political objectives.

Lederman: The antisemitism you might have missed over the holidays Depressing list: …There is no question that the war in Gaza has been catastrophic. But Jews around the world deserve to live without discrimination. No other form of racism would be justified…

@marshalederman.bsky.social The #Antisemitism you might have missed over the holidays multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/09/l... via @Andrew_Griffith Depressing list

Older, 70% white, plunging fertility and lost faith: Who Canada is now Good detailed overview of Census 2021 (albeit years late). Possibly preparing for debates and discussions regarding the 2026 Census: Numbers can tell a story. Canada is home to 41.58 million people…

Older, 70% white, plunging fertility and lost faith: Who Canada is now multiculturalmeanderings.com/2026/01/09/o... via @Andrew_Griffith Good detailed overview of Census 2021 (albeit years late). Possibly preparing for debates and discussions regarding the 2026 Census