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.
Radio-Canada – Les refuges pour itinérants à Toronto pris d’assaut par les demandeurs d’asile
Le maire de Toronto estime que la Ville devra ouvrir un centre d’accueil d’urgence d’ici une semaine pour faire face à l’afflux actuel de demandeurs du statut de réfugié. John Tory soutient par ailleurs que les gouvernements provincial et fédéral devraient contribuer à réduire la pression croissante exercée par ces demandeurs d’asile sur le réseau municipal de refuges pour personnes en situation d’itinérance.
La Presse – L’intégration des professionnels immigrants fait du surplace
Dentistes, ingénieurs, infirmières ou psychologues : l’intégration au marché du travail des professionnels formés ailleurs stagne au Québec, selon le Conseil interprofessionnel du Québec (CIQ). En 2016-2017, les 46 ordres professionnels ont accordé 2582 permis d’exercer une profession sur la base de la reconnaissance des compétences, soit près de 14 % des nouveaux permis délivrés : un pourcentage qui est resté, à peu de choses près, inchangé depuis 2010-2011.
CTV News – Border Agents Diverted to Help with Asylum Influx; Union Fears Travel Delays
The Canada Border Services Agency has sent memos across the country advising that agents from other regions will be in Quebec May 28-Sept. 16 to help deal with the influx of refugee claimants crossing the Canada-U.S. border at unofficial entry points. The measure could mean staff shortages causing delays at major airports like Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, as well as land ports like Windsor and Niagara Falls, said Jean-Pierre Fortin, national president of the Customs and Immigration Union.
A top Bank of Canada official points to three areas that could lift the economy’s future growth prospects and have helped in the past: education, immigration and trade liberalization. Deputy governor Lawrence Schembri mentioned the potential prescriptions in a speech Wednesday that was focused on exploring and demystifying what he called the “somewhat abstract notion” of potential growth, which provides a reading on what the economy can achieve on a sustainable basis over the long run.
National Post – ‘A Very Critical Clash of Cultures’: Plea Deal Over Honour Killing Threats Saves Syrian Couple from Deportation
A Syrian refugee couple who threatened their adult daughter with an honour killing for dating a Canadian man have made a plea deal with New Brunswick prosecutors that will save them from possible deportation back to their war-ravaged homeland. Ahmad Ayoub, 52, and his wife Faten, 48, were freed this week after 72 days in jail, after pleading guilty to uttering threats as a summary conviction offence, and being sentenced to time served.
Toronto Star – Residency Delays Could Be Bad News for Country Dependent on Immigration
A study published this week paints a hypothetical picture of Canada’s future so unlikely that its authors call it “counterfactual”: a Canada without immigration. According to researchers Kareem El-Assal and Daniel Fields, if Canada stopped letting in immigrants, the country’s annual GDP growth would slow to 1.3 per cent between now and 2040. The population would age more quickly. The labour force supporting that aging population would shrink.
