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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.
Le premier individu recruté dans le cadre d’un nouveau projet pilote sur l’immigration mené entre autres par l’Institut des politiques du Nord (IPN) est arrivé mardi à Geraldton, dans le Nord-Ouest de l’Ontario. Originaire du Cameroun, Inoussa Pempeme a été embauché par le Centre de formation pour adultes de Greenstone, où il offrira des cours d’informatique de base en français.
Aref Alshteiwi and Nasra Abdulrahmin, speaking through a translator, told CTV News Calgary that their daughter’s teacher was informed of the bullying, but claim the school did nothing to address the issue. “When I noticed that my kid was having problems at the school and slipping away, and all my other kids they are not happy at school, I went to the school myself,” explained Nasra Abdulrahmin, Amal’s mother. Her parents ultimately decided to transfer Amal to another school. She died by suicide four days after the move.
A jubilant Ruqia Wehliye was at the Saint John Airport surrounded by family for the first time since she fled Mogadishu, alone and scared, in 2009. “One person gets 10 people? God is great!” the Somali refugee said after she first laid eyes on her nephew, his wife and their eight children, ranging in age from 20 to a toddler. They’d been torn apart for at least 16 years, a consequence of the civil war and violence that has displaced more than two million Somalis over the past two decades.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/somali-refugee-story-saint-john-1.5104367
The Canadian government introduced an amendment to the country’s Immigration and Refugee Act that would prevent people who previously made an asylum claim in other specific countries from having a full refugee status determination hearing in Canada. Sharry Aiken, a law professor at Queen’s University in Ontario, said the change may end up “precluding people who are genuine refugees from having a hearing on the merits of their case”. “It’s just a bedrock principle of Canadian refugee law that claimants are entitled to an oral hearing.”
Sila Kisoso has called Canada home for 18 years, but in that time, the Kenyan-born Canadian’s immediate family has never been approved for a travel visa. “Can you imagine how many families are distressed because of not been given the advantage of having their families visit them?” she said. “It’s quite stressful.” Since 2011, Kisoso has applied six times for her sisters, Naisola and Peresian, to visit Canada. Their applications were rejected, with a different response each time.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canadian-travel-visa-rejection-1.5102180
In the Ontario budget released earlier this month, Legal Aid Ontario’s funding was $133 million less in this fiscal year than the $456 million it had anticipated. “If anyone needs support on legal aid, feel free to call my office. I will guarantee you that you will have legal aid,” Ford told Global News Radio during an unscheduled call to the Alan Carter Show on Monday. Asked about human impact changes to legal aid funding that amount to a cut of 30 per cent, Ford said that number was not accurate.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5192363/despite-budget-cuts-ford-guarantees-legal-aid/