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Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, U.S. President Donald Trump, and Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Thanks to Trump's recent capture of the Venezuelan president, Canada is massively effed, writes Erica Ifill. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade and photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Lena Diab
Immigration Minister Lena Diab recently announced a measure requiring one year of Canadian work experience to qualify for permanent residence, which reinforces the very barrier Ontario is dismantling, writes Akolisa Ufodike. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Our domestic ability to invent, manufacture, and export medical technologies, devices, diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines is not just an economic opportunity, but it is also a matter of survival, writes Cameron L. Groome. Unsplash photograph by Nappy Studio
We need an immigration and skills strategy built for the world as it is—not the world of decades past, writes Kumaran Nadesan. Unsplash photograph by Emmanuel Ikwuegbu
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a second-generation Cuban-American whose parents immigrated several years before Fidel Castro’s Communist regime took power. That history has shaped his politics, writes Gwynne Dyer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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