Ottawa rewrites Express Entry points to favour high-wage jobs and Canadian experience
Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab announced major changes to Canada's Express Entry scoring to prioritize domestic work experience and high-wage job offers, launching November third, twenty twenty-six. In this briefing: Ottawa threatens Cleveland-Cliffs with penalties or forced divestiture of Stelco over planned layoffs; health ministers make five hundred million dollars in rare-disease funding permanent; and two RCMP officers face criminal charges in the Yellowknife custody death of Lawrence Blackduck.
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Express Entry now awards up to one hundred points for high-wage offers and domestic work experience.
Qualifying job offers will no longer require Labour Market Impact Assessments under Canada's immigration rewrite.
Ottawa threatened Cleveland-Cliffs with forced divestment or daily fines over five hundred planned steel layoffs.
Federal funding of five hundred million dollars annually for rare-disease drugs is now permanent.
Two Mounties face criminal negligence charges following the in-custody vehicle death of a Tlicho man.
- 01Intro1 min
- 02Ottawa rewrites Express Entry points to favour high-wage jobs and Canadian experience: The New Scoring Rules3 min
- 03Ottawa rewrites Express Entry points to favour high-wage jobs and Canadian experience: Economic Stakes and What Comes Next2 min
- 04Joly warns Cleveland-Cliffs of penalties or forced sale of Stelco over 500 layoffs1 min
- 05Health ministers' meeting makes $500M rare-disease drug funding permanent1 min
- 06Where things stand1 min
- 07Two RCMP officers charged in Yellowknife custody death of Tlicho man Lawrence Blackduck2 min
- 08Outro1 min
- Canada refocusing Express Entry on top talent that drives economic growth
- Canada boosts CRS points for Express Entry candidates with high-wage job offers, drops LMIA requirement
- 2026 Changes to points for Canadian work experience and job offers in the Express Entry system - Canada.ca
- Canada changes Express Entry points system to favour high-wage workers
- Canada’s Immigration Minister Announces New Express Entry Changes on October 16, 2026.
- Canada Expands Express Entry Points for High-Wage Occupations - Erickson Immigration Group
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- Lena Diab - Wikipedia
- Canada adding new express entry points for immigrants in ‘high-wage’ jobs
- Immigration Minister Announced New Express Entry Changes On October 16
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- 'Everything is on the table,' Joly says, as Ottawa weighs legal action over Stelco layoffs | CBC News
- Ottawa gives Stelco's U.S. owner 5 days to share plan to keep jobs | CBC News
- Ottawa threatens forced sale of Stelco’s assets warning ‘they must keep the jobs in Canada’
- Stelco layoffs: Cleveland-Cliffs CEO defends idling Hamilton plant
- EXCLUSIVE: Cleveland-Cliffs CEO accuses Canada of ‘bullying and harassment’ over Stelco threats
- EXCLUSIVE: Cleveland-Cliffs CEO accuses Canada of ‘bullying and harassment’ over Stelco threats
- Federal, Provincial and Territorial (FPT) Health Ministers' Meeting
- Winnipeg health meetings end with federal commitment to extend funding for rare disease research
- Health ministers meet in Winnipeg after funding extension announced for mental health, addictions | CBC News
- Winnipeg health meetings end with federal commitment to extend funding for rare disease research | CBC News
- Health ministers united in calling for federal funding certainty despite extension
- Ottawa to extend $1.2B in funding for home care, mental health services
- Province of Manitoba | News Releases | Provincial and Territorial Ministers Meet to Discuss Federal Health Funding and Concerns of Imminent Fiscal Cliffs
- RCMP officers charged in death of Tlicho Nation man in Yellowknife
- RCMP officers charged with negligence causing death after suspect dies in police custody - Yellowknifer
- 2 N.W.T. RCMP officers charged in connection with 2025 death of man in custody | CBC News
- Two Mounties charged, suspended in connection with death of Indigenous man 'This is a difficult day for our organization and the communities we serve,’ says G-Division Chief Supt. Dyson Smith
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