Integration and Settlement

Urban HEART stands for "Urban Health Equity Assessment and Response Tool."

What are the current pathways to Canadian citizenship for Toronto's residents? Are these changing? What are the barriers and what supports can we put in place?

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2014
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

(Registration starts at 9:00 a.m.)
Location: Toronto City Hall, Council Chambers 100 Queen Street West

OCASI – Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants as well as other sector umbrella organizations across Canada were given the opportunity to provide a written submission to CIC NHQ with further input and suggestions on Canada's settlement policy following the conclusion of the National Settlement Conference Vision 2020.

How can the City of Toronto better connect newcomers to City services? What is working and what are some barriers?

Open Dialogue Event - Thursday, January 16, 2014

Time: 1:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(Registration starts at 1:00 p.m.)

Location: The 519 Church Street Community Centre, 2nd Floor Auditorium

A Community Dialogue on Reparations and Reconciliation
November 12, 2013, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Osgoode Professional Development
1 Dundas Street West, Suite 2602, Toronto, Ontario

My Canada Includes All Families

A Campaign to Stop Further Restrictions on Family Class Immigrants

The Government of Canada has proposed changes to theImmigration and Refugee Protection Regulationsto further limit family class immigrants to Canada.Such as:

 June 27, 2013

For Immediate Release

The changes to family sponsorship announced recently by the federal government will make it more difficult to sponsor children, and parents and grandparents and will ultimately keep Canadian immigrant families apart.

The proposed changes with respect to the sponsorship of parents and grandparents, and dependent children were announced on May 10 by Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney.

Hundreds of thousands of Toronto residents pay local taxes and use city services, but have no say in who represents them, because they are not yet Canadian citizens. Recently, the City of Toronto's Community Development and Recreation Committee put forward a request to review “the opportunity to have permanent residents in Toronto be given the right to vote in municipal elections.” Join OCASI - Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office for a panel discussion on the merits of this proposal.

OCASI is proud to announce the launch of our School of Social Justice (SSJ) in the Spring of 2013! We are now accepting applications until February 8th.