Moving to Canada was harder than ever this year—unless you were a scholar fleeing Trump
If 2024 was the year Canada slammed its doors shut to immigrants, 2025 was when the fallout began. At Maclean’s, we heard from students stuck in visa limbo and employers who can’t find enough workers to run their businesses. At the same time, Trump’s crackdown on higher education opened up possibilities for Canada to make the most of America’s brain drain. Here, our top immigration stories of 2025.
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