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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
Faute d’avoir trouvé une «formule magique» permettant de fixer le nombre idéal d’immigrants que devrait accueillir le Québec, l’Institut du Québec (IDQ) recommande que les seuils d’immigration soient flexibles au Québec et révisés chaque année, afin de réagir plus rapidement au marché du travail changeant. Plus le Québec réussira à intégrer et à faire travailler ses immigrants, plus il devrait leur ouvrir la porte.
A Halifax woman applying to become a permanent resident of Canada says the federal immigration system is keeping her and many others in limbo waiting for a decision. Skyler Li has repeatedly asked for more information about her case from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, offering to supply anything agents need to give her an answer. But she said she is always told to wait. “I only need a decision,” she said from her Halifax home. “I just need to know what I should do next.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-woman-s-immigration-application-stuck-1.5143377
Under the federal Global Talent Stream pilot program, the federal government can issue a work permit in less than two weeks, while in the U.S. the process can take months. According to the federal government, since the launch of the two-year program in 2017 to this past January, more than 1,000 Canadian companies have used it to hire more than 4,000 highly skilled foreign workers. The program received such positive feedback from employers and applicants that Ottawa announced in the March budget that it was making the pilot permanent.
Radio RIAC started as a dream. It was the dream of Jose Rivera, co-founder of the Refugee and Immigration Advisory Council, to have a radio station dedicated to the growing voices of the new Newfoundlanders. It’s only been a year since the first show went to air, but the small staff at Radio RIAC already has all the affirmation they need to move forward, grow its presence on the airwaves and reach more people.
The Calgary Board of Education continues to offer few details of a promised independent review into bullying at its schools, as more complaints and stories from concerned parents surface. The worst case involved nine-year-old Amal Alshteiwi, who took her own life at home after sustained bullying at her northeast elementary school. Now another parent says her young son, who is in Grade 2, continues to suffer racist bullying at his northwest CBE elementary school, which she says the school and board have refused to take seriously.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cbe-calgary-bullying-schools-1.5142536
It hasn’t been easy, and Syrian newcomers are forced to overcome serious language and employment barriers, but early fears about how thousands of new families would cope were misplaced. Statistics Canada recently took a close look at that first cohort of 25,000 Syrian refugees who landed as of May 10, 2016.
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/how-syrian-refugees-to-canada-have-fared-since-2015/