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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.
In what the RCMP is calling an “unprecedented” boom in asylum seekers, it says more than 3,800 people crossed the border illegally into Quebec during the two weeks spanning Aug. 1 to Aug. 15. The figures were released after RCMP held a technical briefing Thursday with the Canada Border Services Agency and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Over 3,800 migrants crossed illegally into the Canadian province of Quebec in the first two weeks of August. That is well over four times the number of asylum seekers that arrived in Quebec from the United States in the month of June.
The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says it will carry out an independent audit of the process used to reassess the long-term detention of permanent residents and foreigners after two recent court decisions raised concerns that the rules may not always be applied fairly. The audit will be completed this fall and delve into detention reviews from closed files, the board said. The results will eventually be made public and taken into account as the board revises its guidelines on detention, it said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/immigration-board-audit-1.4251651
More than 3,300 people have pledged to come out to a protest against a nationalist anti-immigration rally being held in Toronto next month, a wave of support that vastly outnumbers those who have indicated they will attend the controversial event.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-nationalist-counter-protest-1.4248960
Depuis février dernier, Montréal est une « ville sanctuaire ». Dans les faits, toutefois, l’adoption de cette déclaration par le conseil municipal n’a rien changé pour les sans-papiers et ne changera rien dans l’immédiat au sort des demandeurs d’asile qui arrivent au pays depuis quelques semaines.
The University of Toronto has told a group espousing white nationalist views that it won’t be allowed to hold a rally on campus next month. Travis Patron, the party’s founder, told the Star on Tuesday that he will choose an alternative location if his group was denied a permit for its Toronto Nationalist Rally.