Media

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Podcast and radio interviews

• • CBC Radio On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Kwantlen Polytechnic University announces mass layoffs (March 12, 2025)
  • Borderlines podcast: Options for International Students Narrowing in 2025, Asylum Claims Increasing, with Lisa Brunner (January 14, 2025)
  • Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Big Thinking podcast: Navigating Canada’s immigration and education nexus (December 6, 2024)
  • Vancouver Coop Radio Redeye podcast: Trudeau’s message glosses over complexities of immigration (November 30, 2024)
  • International Cash Cows podcast: Navigating the shifting landscape (July 15, 2024)
  • Toronto Star It’s Political podcast: Is Canada’s consensus on immigration fracturing? (February 9, 2024)

Documentary film interviews

• • Good Enough?: Feature documentary directed by Shubham Chhabra, Honeywagon Media (Summer 2025)
  • Away From Home: Short documentary directed by Tofunmi Olowo (February 2025)

TV interviews

• • Global News Morning BC: Expert on Trump crackdown (January 21, 2025)
  • OMNI Television: Sondaggio Leger, il “Canadian dream” è sempre più difficile realizzare (October 3, 2024)

Print interviews

• • Vancouver Sun: B.C. post-secondary schools must adjust as federal budget deepens cuts to international student targets (November 6, 2025)
  • Times of India: Canada’s 2026-28 immigration plan: Prioritises stability, sharply cuts intake of temporary residents, including students (November 5, 2025)
  • Toronto Star: Over half of Canada’s 2025 study permits going to international students already here (June 26, 2025)
  • The Tyee: Immigration Cuts Are Hurting Education in Small Communities (April 3, 2025)
  • University Affairs: Imagining the future of international education in Canada (April 2, 2025)
  • The Tyee: Are Canadians Safe Travelling to the US? (March 14, 2025)
  • CBC News: B.C.’s Kwantlen Polytechnic University lays off 70 faculty members (March 13, 2025)
  • CityNews Vancouver: What other impacts could the Trump administration have on B.C.? (January 20, 2025)
  • The Signal: The tuition gap between domestic and international students in Canada (December 16, 2024)
  • Toronto Star: Canadian startup that has helped spur our international student growth has cut its workforce in Ontario (September 21, 2024)
  • Washington Post: Canada bet big on immigration. Now it’s hitting the brakes. (April 23, 2024)
  • La Source: En quoi la réduction du nombre d’étudiants étrangers admis au Canada constitue un revirement historique? (March 5, 2024)
  • UBC News: How the international student cap affects immigration to Canada (February 1, 2024)
  • Toronto Star: How Canada can fix its ‘predatory’ relationship with international students (December 4, 2022)

Independent coverage

• • Rabble: Canada’s immigration system is lost in the bushes (November 4, 2025)
  • Asian Pacific Post: Canada’s student migration system faces credibility crisis (October 21, 2025)
  • The PIE News: Canada’s “edugration” model comes under scrutiny (October 13, 2025)
  • University of British Columbia Centre for Migration Studies Insights Series: From classroom to citizenship: Higher education’s role in migration policy (May 2025)
  • The Conversation: International students cap falsely blames them for Canada’s housing and health-care woes (January 25, 2024)