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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 représentants des 46 ordres professionnels du Québec participent, jeudi, à une toute première rencontre sur l’accès aux professions et à l’emploi pour les immigrants formés à l’étranger. Au Québec, l’écart entre le nombre de demandeurs d’une reconnaissance d’équivalence […].
Dans le camp de Moria, près de 5000 réfugiés s’entassent dans des conditions effroyables, non loin des touristes. Les ONG dénoncent le cynisme des dirigeants européens alors qu’en trois mois, plus de 10 000 personnes sont arrivées dans les îles grecques.
Kuiper’s family immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands more than three decades ago. He was only 14 months old at the time. He grew up in the town of Aylmer, near London, Ont. and lived the Canadian experience over 27 years, attending school, working, paying taxes and making friends here before pursuing a Master’s degree, and eventually finding work and settling in Europe. Kuiper applied for Canadian citizenship in 2013, only to be denied two years later because he hadn’t spent a total of at least four of the six years previous to his application in the country.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3800423/yoani-kuiper-canadian-citizenship/
The Functional Language Program offers beginner-level English to newcomer students to help them more easily integrate into the school system and communicate with their peers. The program is offered at several schools in Charlottetown and Stratford and lasts between four and six weeks. Though some students arrive shy, it doesn’t take them long to open up and have fun learning the basics, says Valentina Malysheva, a teacher in the program.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-immigrant-students-english-1.4352181
Most international students planning to make a new life in Canada after their graduation are instead returning home in frustration due to confusion about immigration programs and a lack of coordination between provincial and federal governments, experts say. That is as federal immigration officials are increasingly declaring students from abroad to be the country’s preferred stream of immigrants.
http://vancouversun.com/feature/how-international-students-are-filling-funding-shortfalls/chapter-4
As of Aug. 31, the backlog of claims for refugee protection is about 29,000 cases. There are also 5,000 legacy claims from before 2012 — when there was an overhaul of the country’s refugee system — that are being processed by a separate task force. Since January, that backlog has been growing by about 1,400 cases per month, and it’s expected to have increased over the summer.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/refugee-board-delayed-16-months-1.4344254