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 Monde – « Mexique : plusieurs centaines de migrants tentent de franchir la frontière américaine à Tijuana »
Plusieurs centaines de migrants venant d’Amérique centrale ont tenté dimanche 25 novembre de franchir la frontière américaine à Tijuana, dans le nord-ouest du Mexique. Au moins 500 d’entre eux, parmi lesquels des femmes et des enfants, qui participaient à une manifestation pacifique aux abords de la frontière se sont dirigés vers la barrière métallique de délimitation et y ont grimpé pour tenter d’entrer aux Etats-Unis. Ils ont été interrompus par les autorités mexicaines qui leur ont demandé d’attendre une autorisation pour manifester.
Global News – Live-In Caregivers Anxious with Path to Permanent Residency Up in the Air
The pending end to the federal government’s live-in caregiver pilot project is creating uncertainty for the countless workers who came to Canada, thinking they had a clear pathway to permanent residency. Many live-in Caregivers came to Canada as part of a five-year pilot project that’s set to expire on Nov. 29, 2019. Natalie Drolet, executive director of the Migrant Workers Centre in Vancouver, said the Trudeau government has said nothing about what comes next for these workers, who thought the program would be a pathway to becoming a Permanent Resident.
En attendant sa femme, affairée au comptoir de poisson de l’épicerie asiatique qu’ils ont l’habitude de fréquenter, Roméo Carlos, les traits tirés, berce machinalement la poussette dans laquelle dort son fils de 4 mois.Ces dernières années, la vie lui a grugé bien des heures de sommeil, pour des raisons évidentes et d’autres qui l’étaient beaucoup moins lorsqu’il a eu le projet d’immigrer au Canada, il y a cinq ans.
CTV News – Canadian, Waiting for Adopted Son’s Paperwork, Hospitalized in Ghana
In early August, Kimberlee and Clark Moran travelled to Ibadan, Nigeria to adopt their two-year-old son Ayo. The Abbotsford, B.C. couple spent weeks finalizing their son’s citizenship documents. Since then, Clark has returned home to Canada for work obligations while Kimberlee and Ayo wait in Ghana for the final phase of the citizenship process to be completed. Kimberlee has multiple sclerosis (MS) and her condition has worsened while she has been living in Ghana without access to her regular follow-up appointments for a treatment she received for the disease last year.
CBC Radio – The Divide between Winnipeg’s Oldest and Newest Residents is Starting to Heal
A legacy of mutual distrust between new immigrants and Indigenous people in Winnipeg is being bridged. “The only thing that I can recall growing up in Kenya was those cowboy movies where the white guy always hunted the Indians,” Abdikheir Ahmed says. “I never knew anything beyond that.” Ahmed is recalling his first introduction to Indigenous people or, rather, to stereotypes about them. When he immigrated to Winnipeg in 2003 and first met an Indigenous person, the encounter also left him with little more than stereotypes.
National Post – Liberals Studying Birth Tourism as New Data Shows Higher Non-Resident Birth Rates
Using numbers from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), which captures billing information directly from hospitals, researcher Andrew Griffith found over 3,200 babies were born here to women who weren’t Canadian residents in 2016 — compared with the 313 babies recorded by Statistics Canada. The finding suggests not only that the numbers are higher than previously reported, but that it’s a growing trend, Griffith says. A petition tabled recently in the House of Commons by Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido calls on Canada to take stronger measures to end birth tourism.
