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.
Toronto Star – ‘Sunshine’ Approach to Diversity in Federal Public Service Working, Study Says
An employment equity regimen that relies on public disclosure rather than a mandatory quota system seems to have improved representation from women, visible minorities and Indigenous people in the public service, according to a new study. Women now make up 54.4 per cent of federal government employees while visible minorities and Indigenous people account for 14.5 per cent and 5.2 per cent of the workforce, respectively, according to the report by the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
National Post – For Ai Weiwei, Human Flow Is Both a Personal Journey and a Global Issue
Activist and artist Ai Weiwei has embarked on a major role as director of Human Flow, a documentary that chronicles the issue of refugee migration across the planet. Travelling through Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and North America, he finds vast populations on the move, but often penned in by a growing number of physical and bureaucratic barriers.
Radio-Canada – Le gouvernement albertain simplifie son programme d’immigration
Le chemin de travailleur temporaire étranger à résident permanent en Alberta devrait être plus facile à parcourir à compter du 2 janvier 2018, lorsque le gouvernement provincial implantera plusieurs mesures de simplification de son programme de candidats.
CTV News – Conditional Sentences Don’t Count as Jail Time in Immigration Law: Supreme Court
Equating time served in the community with time spent in jail opens up the door to absurd possibilities within immigration law, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In an unanimous decision, the court said conditional sentences do not count as jail time when it comes to deciding whether permanent residents convicted of a crime should lose their status in Canada. The justices also ruled that deciding whether a permanent resident is inadmissible to Canada depends on the maximum sentence on the books at the time they committed the offence and not at the time their immigration proceedings begin.
Toronto Star – New Data Show 69% of Illegal Border-Crossers Are Being Granted Asylum
Of the 10,790 asylum claims received from March to September of this year, the refugee board has processed 592, or 5.4 per cent. Of those claims 69 per cent, or 408 cases, were granted asylum, while 141 were rejected. Forty-three other claims were either abandoned or withdrawn. The acceptance rate for the border-crossers is even higher than the 63-per-cent overall rate for asylum-seekers in 2016. The data were released this week by the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Toronto Star – Nisa Homes Provides a Safe Haven for Muslim Women in Need
Nisa Homes is the GTA’s first transitional shelter specifically geared to serving Muslim women. The Mississauga location of Nisa — which means women in Arabic — opened its doors three years ago. Every day, the small house in Mississauga opens its doors and its heart to women in need. And for up to three months a year, 14 women and children from across the GTA, make it their home.
