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.
Globe and Mail – U.S. Data Fuelling Canada’s Crackdown on Immigration Violators
Under a 2011 continental security pact, Canada and the United States agreed to set up co-ordinated systems to track the entry and exit information of travellers. The effort involves exchanging entry information collected from people at the land border — so that data on entry to one country serves as a record of exit from the other. Canada says the information will be helpful in everything from tracking known fugitives to responding more effectively to missing-child alerts. The federal NDP and privacy advocates are watching closely.
Radio-Canada – Le Myanmar et le Bangladesh se donnent deux ans pour régler le retour des rohingyas
Le Myanmar et le Bangladesh se sont donné mardi deux années pour régler le retour des 655 000 Rohingyas qui ont quitté le territoire birman depuis la fin août, fuyant une campagne militaire qualifiée d’épuration ethnique par les Nations unies. C’est la première fois que les deux pays évoquent clairement un calendrier pour le retour de cette minorité musulmane persécutée depuis des années dans ce pays d’Asie du Sud-Est majoritairement bouddhiste.
Radio-Canada – Les réfugiés palestiniens subissent les foudres de Washington
L’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés palestiniens traverse la plus grave crise financière de son histoire à la suite de la décision de l’administration Trump de geler plus de la moitié de ses versements à l’organisation. Sur les 125 millions de dollars américains de contribution volontaire attendue pour 2018 par l’Office de secours et de travaux des Nations unies pour les réfugiés de Palestine dans le Proche-Orient (UNRWA) […].
CBC News – Newcomers Facing First Canadian Winter in Need of Warm Clothing, Authorities Say
The bitter cold hasn’t stopped asylum seekers from making their way to Canada, and authorities say there is a pressing need for jackets, gloves and tuques to help them cope with their first winter. PRAIDA, the provincial government organization that helps claimants in their first months, and the Salvation Army are asking Quebecers to dig into their closets and give away any winter clothing they no longer use.
CBC News – ‘In the Dark’: Canadian Eyed by CSIS Blocked from Visiting Dying Father in U.S.
In 2014, after years of visiting his family in the United States without incident, the Muslim Canadian learned he was no longer allowed to enter the U.S., where his parents live, his father a green-card holder. While not guilty of any crime, the man says he is no longer treated like an otherwise innocent Canadian citizen — and has no way of knowing whether his border troubles are a result of being on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service’s radar.
CBC News – Liberals Miss Deadline to Resettle ISIS Survivors of Rape, Genocide Due to Flight Restrictions
The Liberal government missed its target to resettle 1,200 Yazidis and other survivors of ISIS in Canada by the end of 2017 because of an extended ban on international flights at a key airport in northern Iraq.
According to figures provided to CBC News from Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees Canada (IRCC), the department has issued just over 1,200 visas to government-sponsored survivors, but as of Dec. 31, 2017, only 981 had arrived in Canada, 81 per cent of them Yazidi.
