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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.
The Liberal government is prepared to adopt some of the Senate’s proposed amendments to its citizenship bill, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Friday. Bill C-6 is designed to repeal many of the previous Conservative government’s changes to how people become citizens — and how they can lose that status.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-bill-senate-amendment-1.4154904
The federal immigration minister has ordered a review of the asylum process in Canada in a bid to speed up the system. The IRB is struggling with a rising influx of new asylum claims and also shortages of decision-makers and judges to handle the claims already in the system.
The Calgary Catholic Immigration Society has graduated a new crop of engineers. The 15 immigrants have qualifications from their home countries, but couldn’t find a job in Calgary because they lacked Canadian experience. CCIS has graduated about 450 engineers through the province-sponsored program since it began in 1994, according to Sholeh Mahdavi, the program’s manager.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-catholic-immigration-society-engineers-jobs-1.4154906
Sous couvert de vouloir «défendre l’Europe», le groupe Génération identitaire, associé à ses homologues européens, souhaite lever une flotte de bateaux pour empêcher le sauvetage en mer des réfugiés qui tentent de traverser la Méditerranée.
New data on potential applicants to global business schools, released recently by the U.S.-based Graduate Management Admission Council, show that between 2009 and 2016 Canada muscled its way onto a top-five list of international study destinations. The United States and Britain typically are preferred choices, but last year Canada moved into second place (from fifth in 2009) as a destination for prospective MBA students from Africa.
Ottawa a annoncé lundi que les candidats à l’immigration économique au Canada obtiendront davantage de points s’ils maîtrisent le français ou s’ils ont déjà un frère ou une sœur au pays. Le gouvernement fédéral modifie ainsi son programme « Entrée express » […].
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1038393/maitriser-francais-atout-payant-immigrants-economiques