Canada's dependence on immigrant health-care workers has increased since the pandemic began, in our series' final story, we look closely at this relationship. Wrapping up our series on “Immigrants on the Frontlines of Fighting COVID-19,” we look into the relationship between health care and immigrants in Canada. There is an old joke that the best place in Toronto to get a heart attack is in the back of a city taxi because chances are the driver is an out-of-work immigrant doctor. Anecdotal re

Journalist Ranjit Bhaskar reflects on his recent virtual citizenship ceremony and the physical act that symbolized cutting of the cord with the land of his birth, India. This Canada Day will be different for all of us. We will not be coming together on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and in other cities, towns and communities, here and abroad. Instead, we will be coming together to celebrate it virtually. For me, the day will be different in a very special way. July 1, 2020 will be my first Canada D

As the new Canadian government lavishes attention on taking in 25,000 Syrian refugees, as promised by the Liberal Party, minority communities want to know its plans to regain their trust lost under the previous government of Conservative leader Stephen Harper.

Diversity of all kinds was pivotal for Justin Trudeau in the recent election, and on Wednesday, the 23rd Prime Minister of Canada kept one of his main campaign promises. We now have a cabinet that looks like the rest of Canada. Diverse and gender balanced “because it’s 2015” as Trudeau put it.

With Punjabi the third most common tongue in the new House of Commons, it is no surprise that the new Liberal Cabinet reflects the predominance of MPs sharing this South Asian linguistic and cultural heritage. So much so that Maryam Monsef, the Minister of Democratic Institutions, who is Muslim and of Afghan heritage, is the only one among the five visible minority ministers who is not a Sikh and doesn’t speak Punjabi.