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.
Ottawa Citizen – ‘Into the Abyss’: Immigration Lawyers Baffled Over Why Spousal Sponsorship Applications Sent Back
The federal government has made family reunification a priority. It created a “triage” processing system to reduce wait times and said it was committed to processing 80 per cent of the applications it received as of Dec. 7, 2016, by the end of December 2017. But lawyers in Ottawa say some packages have come back with scant explanation of what’s wrong or missing. It forces the applicant to re-apply, which keeps families apart and prevents spouses from being able to accept or keep jobs, they say.
Globe and Mail – Salvadorans Look for Plan B After Immigration Program
The Trump administration is ending the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that has shielded immigrants from El Salvador from deportation after devastating earthquakes struck the country in 2001. The move has generated confusion and anger among nearly 200,000 Salvadorans covered by the program, many of whom have been in the US for decades. The announcement has also sparked a renewed push by the Canadian government to avoid a repeat of last summer, when thousands of migrants fled to the Quebec border to claim asylum in Canada.
Globe and Mail – Canadian Approval of U.S. Leadership Drops 40 Per Cent in a Year: Poll
A new global survey suggests the world’s impression of the United States is plummeting under President Donald Trump, with Canada registering the largest such decline of any country within the Western Hemisphere. The Gallup polling company registered the worst annual score for the U.S. since it began doing annual global leadership surveys in 2007 — with approval of U.S. leadership down nearly 20 points in one year, now languishing at 30 per cent worldwide.
Le Huffington Post Québec – Le Canada et les États-Unis s’échangent des données frontalières
Un nouveau programme d’échange de données transfrontalières avec les États-Unis permet au Canada de sévir à l’endroit de ceux qui contreviennent aux lois sur l’immigration. Des informations fournies par les États-Unis auraient ainsi permis au gouvernement fédéral d’identifier plus d’un millier de personnes dont le visa serait expiré ou qui auraient commis d’autres infractions en matière d’immigration, révèlent des notes internes dont La Presse canadienne a obtenu copie.
CBC News – Survivors of ISIS Atrocities Settling in Calgary Urge Canada Not to Turn Away Others
Kamo Zandinanis one of hundreds of Yazidi people now living in Canada, in a handful of cities across the country, mostly women and children, who require intensive psychological support to cope with their unimaginable ordeal. Many of them are now urging the federal government to go beyond its initial commitment to bring in 1,200 survivors of ISIS, because they know it’s the only way the horrors will stop for those still facing persecution.
CBC News – Hyphenated Identity: SFU Researcher Examines What It Means to Be Canadian
Italian-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, Irish-Canadian and other hyphenated identities are at the heart of a new research project about Canadian identity and the future of multiculturalism. Eva Sajoo, a researcher at Simon Fraser University, looked at Italian identity in Vancouver in a survey three years ago and has been asked by the city to expand her project for Canada 150. Sajoo’s newest project, called Being Canadian: The Future of a Hyphenated Nation, goes beyond Vancouver’s Italian community to look at the wider scope of Canadian identity
