https://www.reddit.com/r/TimHortons/s/uAjwrjrMp5.
So is this another way that Timmy's can tilt the table in favour of their work permit 'students'?
This interesting quotation is from a journalist writing about her dilemma in her journey to become a Canadian citizen.
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"Even today, offers continue to circulate through immigration networks and online groups. I have been approached with schemes that promised additional CRS points through credentials I never earned, including offers to obtain trade certifications in fields such as plumbing or electrical work, despite having no background in either profession."
She declined this scheme. How many have said "Yes!"?
EDIT: Many skilled trades people believe that it can't happen to their industry. The first goal here is to obtain permanent residency. Then new competitors to your employer are formed that only hire people from one community. These outfits undercut everyone else and knock the good firms out of business.
This exact thing has already happened to other industries. Trucking comes to mind. Wake up!
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Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), said the decision by the provincial government reads as "good politics" but not good for the economy.
>“There is almost no evidence to suggest that youth employment is being negatively affected by the number of temporary foreign workers that live in Ontario,” he said.
>“For the most part, temporary foreign workers are filling jobs for which there are no Canadians available, [certainly] not Canadians that want those jobs.”
Of course no mention the much larger International Mobility Program. The combination of the IMP and the TFW programs have eliminated many opportunities in my neighborhood for students seeking part time or summer employment, and entry level jobs. These programs have also severely suppressed wages and worsened working conditions.
Business wants a 'free market' in everything except for labour supply.
Conestoga College has brought back Eric Johnstone as vice-president of finance and chief financial officer. Johnstone, a Toronto certified accountant, had the same role with the college in 2023 and 2024.
In a statement from the college’s interim president, Norma McDonald Ewing, Johnstone will lead Conestoga’s financial strategy and operations, overseeing budgeting, forecasting and planning, reporting, capital management and procurement, and will focus on strengthening policies, practices and processes to support effective financial governance.
This brings up several interesting questions:
From r/OntarioNews
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Local police detected "suspicious activity".
Translation: Somebody neglected to pay somebody.
>"The right to move to Canada has been so valuable that migrants from around the world were willing to pay for it, Skuterud says. The federal government effectively outsourced part of the immigration system to colleges and universities, which figured out they could sell access to Canada indirectly by admitting international students and charging them high tuition. For facilitating that business, ApplyBoard got a cut."
https://thelogic.co/news/the-big-read/applyboard-culture-growth-problems/
AppyBoard was very tight with the leadership of CONestoga College in Kitchener. The college's former president just walked away from his $600k+/yr job with a $4-million dollar buy-out. This once respected college is now nearing financial collapse as it's reputation is a dumpster fire. Their Board of Governors have all been sacked.
Fidelity Investments reports that they have written-off 80% of their investment in this company. One of ApplyBoard's largest investors is The Business Development Bank of Canada, so in someway we all helped to fund this scam.
And from StatsCan on the International Mobility Program:
The IMP is a far larger program than the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and it allows for open work permits.
...and in other news, Canada's Youth unemployment rate sits markedly above pre-pandemic levels.
The spouse of a TFW gave birth while her hubby was not even eligible to work here yet. Lots wrong with this whole scenario.
Edit to add some questions:
On the bright side they state that the wait times are decreasing because the number of permits are fewer.
Also, temporary residents are supposed to drop below 5% of the population by 2027. As of March 2026 the number is about 6.5% (2.68/41.27 million) so there will have to be a reduction of 600,000 people over the next few months.
...and in other news, Canadian youth unemployment is 14.3% and close to 20% in some regions.
I counted 33 medals won by Ontario in the national Skilled Trades competition announced today. The competition was held in Toronto this year.
Everyone should be very proud of these achievements in very tough competitions, and we should congratulate all of the provincal winners who made it to the nationals.
The Skills Ontario winners are listed here:
https://skillsontario.com/wp-content/uploads/2026-SOC-Results.pdf
"Ontario's skilled trades training and qualification system is a giant mess!"
In other news, water flows downhill...
It seems as though the Region of Waterloo was following the Conestoga College plan of massive uncontrolled growth driven by newcomers to Canada, followed by a massive crash when the house of cards collapses.
This region is dealing with high youth unemployment, high housing costs, a water shortage, congested roads, the destruction and paving over of prime farmland, crime and homelessness. It's all made worse by a rapidly increase in population over the past few years... until it became unsustainable.
Edit: I can't help but wonder how extensive the links are to this other story... How many CONestoga College students are in the Bishnoi Gang terrorist group?
Finally, some good news that this Ponzi scheme has finally collapsed. The majority of these international 'students' were only ever here for a Mickey Mouse 'no-fail' college diploma and a post-graduate work permit leading to permanent residency. These students were overwhelmingly studying business, hospitality management, and the like.
The leadership of the colleges have now been revealed to be crooks who were only lining their own pockets in cahoots with companies like Applyboard... looking at you CONestoga.
Many of the people who are assumed to be here under the TFWP-LMIA are actually these graduates here still under the IMP-PGWP. Now only certain occupations are eligible (e.g., health care, trades, engineering) but this is still too much as domestic graduates are struggling to find entry level jobs in these fields.
Edit: Sorry, that's ~3-million by the end of 2027!
(7% of the 41-million population.)
"Nearly 1,940,000 study, work and visitor permits are slated to expire by the end of 2026 — with another 1,039,840 in 2027. And the annual permanent resident intake has been slashed from half a million to just 380,000."
But of course they are running a new series of sob stories featuring a select few sympathetic individuals to support the narrative that Canada is being unfair.
A man with a seven-page criminal record was back in court this week to plead guilty to two crimes — assaulting a stranger and urinating on the Kitchener City Hall ice rink while people were skating.
The man immigrated to Canada from Iraq with his family in 2010 and is now a permanent resident, defence lawyer Tom Brock told Kitchener court.
The man has been unhoused for most of his time here after getting hooked on crystal methamphetamine.
Now 36, he has the equivalent of a Grade 4 education. He can’t read or write English. He has mental health and cognitive difficulties.
On the night of Feb. 13, he peed on the ice while children and adults were skating, court was told. He also shoved a stranger, which broke his glasses. The victim said he was terrified the man might have a weapon.
Because of the troubles in Iraq, the man won’t be deported. “He’s protected, given where he originates from".
Or could it be that certain individuals came here with fraudulent language proficiency certificates, went to a strip-mall diploma mill, graduated from a program supposedly taught in English/French, and have never learned the language? Every applicant should be positively verified and interviewed in person.
"Permanent immigration targets rose 89 percent in a decade, while non-permanent residents reached four times the level of permanent immigration. The youth population grew 14.3 percent between 2021 and 2025, primarily driven by immigration."
Instead of hearing more about the scandals driven from the top down from crooked senior managers, here's some good news from that institution!
Congratulations to Conestoga’s 2026 Skills Ontario Competition winners:
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Conestoga’s gold medalists in Auto Service Technology, Brick Masonry, Cabinetmaking, Precision Machining and Welding qualify to represent Team Ontario at the Skills Canada National Competition from May 27-30 in Toronto.
Much more to come I'm sure. There are many more people involved here than just John Tibbits!