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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.
Les immigrantes se heurtent à plus d’obstacles à l’emploi que les femmes nées au Canada, mais aussi davantage que les immigrants masculins, révèlent des données compilées par le gouvernement fédéral. Ces immigrantes gagnent aussi moins que les autres. Les données du ministère fédéral de l’Immigration, obtenues par La Presse canadienne grâce à la Loi sur […].
In his April 4 decision, Federal Court Justice Robert Barnes ruled that the citizenship judge ignored relevant evidence and instead was preoccupied with prior fraudulent conduct by the applicant. According to the decision, Mohd Rabi Morelly, who previously lived in Kuwait, had his citizenship denied by Citizenship Judge Veronica Johnson in 2017 on the basis that he failed to establish a physical presence in Canada for three years as required by the Citizenship Act.
Newcomers living in southwestern Ontario are being warned about a scam in which the caller demands everything from digital currency to prepaid gift cards, all while threatening an arrest or deportation. Adding to the trickery, software is being used to alter call display numbers to match that of Immigration Canada or other services providers. Immigration Canada will never request the following: Bitcoin, iTunes cards, Steam (gaming) cards, prepaid credit card & gift cards, or any kind of money transfer including Western Union and Money gram.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/scam-immigration-london-police-1.4612764
The divisive debate in Quebec about the clothes Muslim women choose to wear is back in the spotlight, less than six months before the fall provincial election. Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante suggested last week she is open to city police officers wearing a Sikh turban or an Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab, as part of the official uniform. Around the same time, Eve Torres, a 44-year-old Muslim mother of three who proudly wears a hijab, announced she was seeking the nomination in a Montreal-area riding for Quebec solidaire, the legislature’s most left-leaning party.
L’accueil de nouveaux arrivants divise les Québécois non seulement dans l’ensemble de la population, mais aussi entre les groupes d’âge et les régions. Selon les résultats d’un sondage Léger effectué pour la chaîne LCN dans le cadre de l’émission «La Joute» en vue des prochaines élections générales, 44% des Québécois estiment qu’on devait diminuer le seuil d’immigration ou […].
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/04/10/la-question-de-limmigration-divise-profondement-les-quebecois
Les pays développés devraient recourir à de la main-d’oeuvre immigrée pour contrer un inévitable déclin de leur population active et un probable ralentissement économique liés au vieillissement de leur population, a suggéré lundi le Fonds monétaire international (FMI). « Bien qu’accueillir des migrants puisse poser des problèmes et susciter potentiellement un revers politique, ceux-ci pourraient aussi être une aubaine pour les pays hôtes », affirme le FMI […].