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Welcome to today’s From the Editor.
In today’s newsletter: My four year old left all he knew behind, missed a year of school, and bounced through three learning setups in six months only to be treated as a problem to diagnose rather than a child to understand.
Also in the news: Ontario looks like it’s about to launch a version of the Global Talent visa; Only 1 in 5 newcomers end up in their intended job; Canada’s study permit fee stays at $150 as other immigration costs go up.
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The system diagnosed my son before trying to understand him
My first son was four when we landed in Ottawa in February of 2021, mid-pandemic. Before then, he had spent the last ten months at home because his school in Nigeria had shut down due to the lockdown, with a homeschool teacher doing her best to fill the gap.
He had barely settled into his first Canadian school before we found a permanent place and had to move him to another one within our catchment area. Within a week, the new school went remote so he finished the term learning at our dining table, with me acting as a faux teacher and online classroom guide.
By the time he walked back into a real classroom, he had spent more of his life out of school than in it.
He lasted about two weeks before the complaints started. He wasn't sitting still, or he was distracted, or something else I can’t even remember now. It was always the same note arriving in different words every few days. We kept saying the same thing back to his teachers: this kid has been through a lot of changes, can we give him some time?
What we got instead was a referral to a developmental psychologist who would assess him and, they said, get to the bottom of what was going on with him.
We were stunned. A four year-old who had left all he knew behind, missed a year of school, and bounced through three learning setups in six months was being read as a problem to diagnose rather than a child to understand.
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Ontario looks like it’s about to launch a version of the Global Talent visa. The province has proposed a permanent residence pathway called the Exceptional Talent stream that would let the province nominate candidates in academia, science, technology, innovation, and creative fields, even if they don't have a standard employer-backed job offer. — Full article here.
Only 1 in 5 newcomers end up in their intended job. A new Statistics Canada study of more than 568,000 immigrants finds that occupational mismatch is the norm, not the exception, and that those who do land in their intended field earn nearly 50% more than those who don't. — Full article here.
Canada’s study permit fee stays at $150 as other immigration costs go up. Canada's permanent residence and citizenship fees went up on April 30, 2026. However, the federal cost to apply for a Canadian study permit, or to extend one from inside Canada, remains CA$150 per person, according to the official IRCC fee list updated the same day. — Full article here.
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