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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.
Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada réduit son financement des cours d’anglais avancés pour se concentrer sur les cours d’anglais de niveau de base. Une décision qui hypothèque les chances des immigrants d’accéder à de meilleurs emplois, selon plusieurs acteurs du milieu.
A Syrian doctor says he won’t return to the United States to finish his studies at Brown University because of the Trump administration’s immigration ban. Almilaji, 35, moved to Canada this month to pursue his master’s degree at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
British Columbia’s legal aid society will no longer represent new immigration and refugee claimants starting August 1, 2017 because the society says there is a lack of funding. The LSS says the society receives $1.7 million total per year for immigration legal aid. However, officials say claims have increased by 145 per cent over the past three years without enough of an increase in funding. The society says it would need an additional $1.07 million just to maintain services until the end of the year, and so it says it must suspend services to make sure it can pay for the cases that have already been accepted.
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court reinstating part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Canadian advocacy groups are calling on Ottawa to suspend a bilateral pact that bans refugees from seeking asylum in Canada if they’ve entered the country from the United States. A spokesperson for Hussen said the government hasn’t changed it’s stance on the U.S.-Canada pact.
During a speech in Iowa last week, in the middle of his red-meat calls for a border wall and tougher immigration enforcement, President Trump called for something decidedly less sanguinary: “a total rewrite of our immigration system into a merit-based system.” The real surprise, though, is his source of inspiration: Canada.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/opinion/canada-immigration-policy-trump.html?_r=0
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will continue to promote Canada’s open immigration policy on the world stage as controversy rages over U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Trudeau said Tuesday during a news conference in Ottawa to wrap up the parliamentary sitting that government officials have had “multiple conversations” with the U.S. administration about protecting Canadian rights in the face of immigration decisions south of the border.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-parliament-news-conference-1.4179377