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Super proud of and Michael Wong's series which has been picked up by 61 other media outlets (and counting). Check out the original piece here: theijf.org/donations-from
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Our political donations stories have been published 61 times across the @CdnPressNews wire in the past week, including in @globalwinnipeg, @VancouverSun and @calgaryherald.
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Wellington—Halton Hills, which includes Halton Hills, Ont., and several townships, saw the highest total donations during this time period. Out of our Ontario ridings series, Timmins–James Bay, a more rural riding, saw the lowest total donations.
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Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000. But what is the bigger picture? #CrimSL Director Audrey Macklin comments on Canada's immigration targets. / via &
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A great story from my colleague at . Especially fascinating when considering the contrast between Canada’s full embrace of high-skilled immigration and the UK government’s new push to restrict immigration, including some high-skilled.
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Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000, an analysis by IJF reporter @hannahc245 shows 🧵: theijf.org/record-number-
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As Canada is bringing in the most new permanent residents ever, IRCC is also accepting the highest percentage of applications processed. My story for !
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Economic permanent residency applications in Canada are being accepted at the highest rate since at least 2000, an analysis by IJF reporter @hannahc245 shows 🧵: theijf.org/record-number-
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In the first year of the Express Entry program, the acceptance rate for high skilled applicants increased from 86.3 per cent to 90.2 per cent. By 2021, the programs using Express Entry had among the highest acceptance rates of all immigration categories, at 98.2 per cent.
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The acceptance rate for economic applicants has risen steadily in recent years as the federal government introduced narrower acceptance criteria while pushing hard to increase immigration, particularly among high skilled applicants who can economically benefit the country.
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My latest story with & is live! Using the IJF's donations data combined with other riding-level data (census, elxn results), our analysis found that in general, donors in wealthy ridings represented by higher-profile MPs donated the most to federal parties👇
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Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, lead the country in total donations to Canada’s federal political parties in the 5 years after the 2015 election, according to an analysis by @LNDatahub and the IJF (THREAD) theijf.org/donations-from
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Political donations can help buy donors access 👉 “You might get a phone call returned faster. You might get invited to the exclusive little meet and greet … at some large donor's house [or a] backyard barbecue,” said former Ontario finance minister Janet Ecker
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Wealthy urban ridings, especially those represented by higher-profile politicians, lead the country in total donations to Canada’s federal political parties in the 5 years after the 2015 election, according to an analysis by and the IJF (THREAD)
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