Job referral/paid or unpaid internship/ returners program/ career gap/ remote/ wfh/ open to work

Hi everyone, I reside in Toronto, Canada and looking for job in IT. Back home I have experience of 6 years in IT followed by 6 years career gap. I had worked as java backend developer and upskilling myself on the same. I am a permanent resident in Canada and had been looking for jobs here for last year but no responses. Please let me know if any referrals or companies who hire retuners back to work. Thank you.