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 – Leamington Is at the Frontlines of the Boom in Migrant Workers. Here’s How It’s Changed
Like many of Ontario’s downtowns, Leamington’s has seen better days. But the thousands of low-wage temporary farm workers from Mexico and the Caribbean, the work they provide and the money they spend here — Mayor John Paterson figures $15 million a year — have transformed the local economy. While these migrant workers and their effects on the community are particularly obvious in Leamington, the racial tension between them and the locals is far from unique in a rural Canada increasingly reliant on the labour provided by the migrant worker program.
Le Devoir – Merkel accepte de limiter à l’avenir le nombre de réfugiés en Allemagne
Angela Merkel a accepté dimanche pour la première fois un objectif de plafonnement annuel du nombre de réfugiés acceptés en Allemagne, cédant à la pression de sa famille politique conservatrice qui réclamait un durcissement après les récentes élections législatives.
Toronto Star – Bill Would Protect Against Discrimination Based on Genetics, Immigration Status and Police Records
The private member’s bill, tabled by Liberal legislator Nathalie Des Rosiers, would expand and modernize Ontario’s human rights code which was first established in 1962. If passed, the legislation would add the four new areas of rights protection to the code and give anyone discriminated against recourse they currently don’t have at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Des Rosiers, a former human rights lawyer, said the code as it stands has gaps and doesn’t fully protect many of the province’s residents, especially those in poor or marginalized communities.
Toronto Star – Canada Blasted for ‘Needlessly Punitive’ Immigration Detention System
A group of prominent human and civil rights organizations has filed a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on the eve of its periodic review of Canada’s domestic human rights conditions and records. The review, scheduled for early 2018, is conducted once every four years. Despite progress made by the federal government in the past year in addressing some systemic issues with the detention system, the group said its treatment of immigration detainees, including children and individuals with mental health issues, continues to violate binding international law.
Radio-Canada – L’immigration transforme le portrait linguistique du Canada.
Les nouvelles données du recensement à propos des personnes ayant une langue maternelle autre que le français ou l’anglais sont frappantes : 7,6 millions de personnes et plus de 200 langues. Où habitent-elles et quel sera l’impact sur la démographie linguistique du pays?
Le Devoir – Le Bangladesh veut rassembler les Rohingyas dans un camp géant
Le Bangladesh a annoncé jeudi vouloir rassembler les 900 000 Rohingyas sur son sol dans un seul gigantesque camp de réfugiés, ce qui en ferait l’un des plus gros de la planète. Depuis fin août, le Bangladesh est submergé par l’exode sans précédent des musulmans rohingyas du […].
