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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.
Détenir en prison des immigrants indéfiniment pendant que le gouvernement se penche sur leur dossier ne viole pas la Charte des droits et libertés, a estimé la Cour fédérale. Dans une décision émise mardi, le juge Simon Fothergill a indiqué que la détention de personnes en vertu de la […].
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/07/25/le-canada-peut-detenir-des-immigrants-indefiniment
Police in Peel Region are sounding the alarm over what they say are a set of immigration scams promising to help customers secure documents for relatives to travel from China to Canada. The ads, which were published in several Chinese-language daily newspapers throughout the Greater Toronto Area, were directed towards the Chinese community, Const. Mark Fischer told CBC Toronto on Tuesday. Police say a “fictitious” company called Gao Sheng Investment Corporation advertised for visitor visas, work permits and immigration documents to foreign residents.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-region-chinese-immigration-fraud-1.4221538
The Federal Court of Canada rejected a constitutional challenge attacking the legality of detaining immigrants, saying checks and balances give enough protection to keep Canada’s immigration act on the right side of legal. After hearing a battery of complaints about the detention of immigrants who are difficult to deport, however, Justice Simon Fothergill said cases deviating from the expected process are a problem of bad management by the Immigration and Refugee Board not the legality of the process.
Canada’s practice of indefinitely jailing immigration detainees does not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday. Lawyers representing former immigration detainee Alvin Brown — who spent five years in a maximum-security jail before the government was able to deport him to Jamaica last September — had argued that Canada’s entire immigration detention regime was unfair and unconstitutional. They called upon the court to set a maximum length of time the government could detain non-citizens while trying to deport them, as is the case in some other countries.
Des travailleurs étrangers menacés d’expulsion demandent à pouvoir rester au Canada pour mener une bataille judiciaire contre une agence de placement qui les aurait floués. La grand-messe célébrée hier à l’oratoire Saint-Joseph pour les travailleurs agricoles mexicains et […].
Applications to emigrate to Canada by British citizens increased sharply after last June’s Brexit referendum decision to leave the European Union, figures released by the federal immigration department show. The rise in requests for permanent residency started in the fall of 2016, a few months after the vote.
http://globalnews.ca/news/3619448/british-emigrate-canada-brexit-vote/