Margaret Walton-Roberts

Recruiting health workers from countries on the World Health Organization’s safeguard list without robust and reciprocal benefits for the countries sending them does not meet ethical standards. (Shutterstock)

July 11, 2023

The ethics of recruiting international health‑care workers: Canada’s gains could mean another country’s pain

Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Recruiting internationally educated health workers is a key part of Canada’s proposed solution to the health worker crisis. But there are ethical questions about recruiting from foreign countries.

New Canadians take the Oath of Citizenship during halftime at a Redblacks and Montréal Alouettes CFL game in Ottawa in July 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

May 28, 2023

How smaller cities can integrate newcomers into their labour markets

Mary Crea-Arsenio, McMaster University; Andrea Baumann, McMaster University; Bruce Newbold, McMaster University, and Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University

Canada is counting on immigrants to drive economic growth. Smaller urban communities can help take pressure off Canada’s most heavily populated regions by attracting and retaining newcomers.

This image captures the hope felt by many Canadians four years ago as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, posing for selfies with airport workers, greeted refugees from Syria arriving on a government-sponsored airplane in Toronto, on Dec. 10, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

December 2, 2019

Syrian refugees in Canada: Four years after the welcome

Leah Hamilton, Mount Royal University; Luisa Veronis, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Margaret Walton-Roberts, Wilfrid Laurier University

The overall outcomes of Syrian refugees’ resettlement experiences are positive, but challenges remain.

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