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The Rural Community Immigration Pilot will become a permanent program with 5,500 permanent resident spaces in 2027, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab announced Monday.

By 2050, global meat demand is expected to grow 70 per cent. Canada can help meet that demand and our own, if we keep the ranchers to do it.

The change will mean a low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment, the document an employer needs to hire a temporary foreign worker, will have a maximum duration of two years instead of one.

Cultural sovereignty requires more than financing the stories Canadians see and hear. It also requires retaining the talent, technology and production capacity to stage and broadcast those stories ourselves.

What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.

The hearings, slated for Monday and Tuesday at the Supreme Court of Canada, will give opponents of the ban another chance to make their case after losing in the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal.

A look ahead at the week in federal politics.

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While First Nations and Inuit have targeted funding measures in the budget, Métis do not, despite having pressed the government for supports in areas like housing and health care.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government has learned from past mistakes as it sets out its ambitious aim of eliminating homelessness within 10 years.

Ottawa could grant permanent residence to as many as 580,000 people in 2027, well about its 380,000 target, as a new one-time measure for up to 200,000 people already living in Canada is counted separately, officials said Friday.

This week's federal lobby wrap.