9 d. ago Canada Should Reform or Axe Foreign Worker Visa, BC Premier Says

Canada should overhaul or end a program that allows companies to bring in foreign workers, British Columbia’s premier said, adding to a national debate about how Prime Minister Mark Carney should revamp the country’s immigration policy.

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1 week ago Poilievre calls on Liberals to scrap the temporary foreign worker program

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the Liberals to scrap the temporary foreign worker program and to stop issuing visas under the program. Poilievre argues a jobs crisis among young people has been caused in part by corporations hiring foreigners who work for less than Canadian citizens. He is calling out specific […]

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2 w. ago Man convicted of triple murder put to death in Florida’s record 11th execution this year

STARKE, Fla. — A man convicted of killing his girlfriend, her mother and a man he claimed owed him $2,000 was put to death Thursday in a record 11th execution this year by the state of Florida. Curtis Windom, 59, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near […]

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2 w. ago 2.7M people sign petition of support of illegal truck driver after deadly Florida crash

A petition calling for leniency for an illegal immigrant trucker who killed three people in Florida has received millions of signatures. Harjinder Singh, 28, is facing three charges of vehicular homicide after he allegedly made an illegal U-turn on the Florida Turnpike while driving a tractor-trailer earlier this month. A change.org petition signed by more […]

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3 w. ago What to know about visas for foreign truckers and the politics of a deadly Florida crash

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week that the U.S. will pause issuing work visas to some foreign truck drivers, warning darkly that they are “endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.” He provided no details Thursday in his two-sentence post on the social platform X, leaving some in the trucking […]

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3 w. ago U.S. halts visas for truck drivers after fatal Florida crash

(Bloomberg) — The US will stop issuing worker visas for commercial truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, the latest in a series of Trump administration moves to clamp down on foreign workers. “Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers,” he wrote on X Thursday. “The increasing […]

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