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.
CBC News – Warehouses Benefiting Syrian Refugees in Calgary Set to Close
The idea was a simple one — fill donated warehouse space with household items that new Canadians might need to rebuild their lives and hand them out free of charge. With the lease set to expire June 30 on two donated warehouse spaces used by the group — which were provided by Calgary philanthropist and businessman Brett Wilson — operations are now winding down.
CBC News – New Legal Hotline a Lifeline for Ontario’s low-income Chinese and Southeast Asians
A new toll-free hotline operated by the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) went live Sunday, providing free legal consultations in five different languages for non-English speakers. New funding from Legal Aid Ontario allowed it to open its services to low-income Chinese and Southeast Asian people in every corner of the province.
CBC News – Undercover Investigator Unmasks Cash-for-jobs Chinese Immigration Scheme
In his 30 years as an immigration expert, Richard Kurland said he’s only ever heard rumours of people paying money for job offers to foreign nationals. In an undercover investigation, CBC’s iTeam recorded an immigration consultant offering to pay a Prince Albert, Sask., business owner cash in exchange for a letter offering a Chinese national a job.
Radio-Canada – De l’argent contre une offre d’emploi au Canada
L’équipe d’enquête de CBC a enregistré des extraits de conversation qui suggèrent qu’une firme de consultants en immigration a offert de l’argent à une entreprise de la Saskatchewan en échange d’une offre d’emploi promise à un ressortissant chinois.
Toronto Star – Heated Exchange over Legal Rights as Lawyers Battle to Have Refugee Claimant Let Out of Jail
The relative fairness of monthly detention reviews for immigration detainees was called into question Thursday in a testy exchange between the lawyers for a West African man who has been in maximum-security jail without charge for nearly four-and-a-half years and an Immigration and Refugee Board member. Jared Will, who is representing Ebrahim Toure — a failed refugee claimant who has been behind bars since February 2013 because the government has been unable to deport him — objected to the fact that the government’s representative, who acts as a kind of prosecutor at the quasi-judicial hearing, had not disclosed evidence cited to justify Toure’s continued detention.
Radio-Canada – FrancoQueer espère pouvoir continuer à aider les réfugiés LGBT francophones
L’organisme torontois, FrancoQueer, offre depuis deux ans un programme d’intégration qui aide chaque année une cinquantaine de réfugiés LGBT francophones. Son financement n’est toutefois pas garanti après l’année prochaine.
