Women immigrants

How will $10-per-day child care impact Canada’s immigrants? ANALYSIS: Canada's new daycare program is likely to be greatly beneficial to newcomers.

In April 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau outlined the goal of daycare costing an average of $10 per day across the country within the next five years.

By Kareem El-Assal

How Canada is encouraging newcomer women to play sports Immigrant women are the least represented group in Canadian sport, and community organizations across the country are trying to change that

Kruti Bhadarka has been a regular participant at the Moosejaw Newcomer Welcome Centre, since she immigrated to Saskatchewan in 2013. The community organization offers a variety of services to immigrants including sports programming that is tailored to newcomer women.

By Shelby Thevenot

Skilled immigrants: Canada is making progress toward gender equality The number of women with CRS scores above 400 has increased 56 per cent since 2017, latest Express Entry report shows

More and more women are finding themselves as the principal applicants in Canada’s Express Entry immigration process.

By Alexandra Miekus