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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.
A federal judge has just given the Trudeau government the kick in the pants it apparently needs to get on with fixing a bad law left over from the Harper era. The law involves changes to Canadian citizenship. One of the most glaring flaws is a measure that allows immigration officials to revoke a person’s citizenship without the possibility of a hearing before an independent decision-maker.
A year and a half after the first of hundreds of Syrian newcomers landed at the Edmonton airport, a city councillor wants the city to study how they’re faring, as advocates warn they continue to face big hurdles. “If we don’t respond to these challenges, there’s going to be that increase in poverty,” said Coun. Michael Walters on Thursday, “and an increase in poverty comes health care and criminal justice costs — all the negative things.”
The United Nations children’s agency is urging Justin Trudeau to press his fellow G7 leaders to do more to help vulnerable and isolated refugee children who face rampant sexual and physical abuse. UNICEF says 96,000 unaccompanied children claimed asylum in Europe in 2015, but the full picture for 2016 is not yet known.
Près de 500 migrants, dont 277 Marocains, entassés sur une seule embarcation, ont été interceptés par les garde-côtes libyens mercredi au large de la ville de Sabratha, à l’ouest de la Libye, alors qu’ils prenaient le large vers les côtes italiennes. « Une ONG [allemande], Sea Watch, a tenté de perturber l’opération des garde-côtes […].
Retirer aux nouveaux Canadiens leur citoyenneté sans leur donner une occasion valable de s’expliquer constitue une violation de leurs droits, a déterminé mercredi une juge de la Cour fédérale. Dans une décision clé, la juge Jocelyne Gagné a invalidé des dispositions de la Loi sur la citoyenneté promulguée par le précédent gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper [….].
Taxi driver Nisreen Ahamed Mohamed Nilam fled Sri Lanka almost a decade ago and successfully claimed refugee status, but he’s still waiting to become a full Canadian citizen because his case is snarled in a changes to immigration policy. His lawyer says he followed the rules when he made two return trips home, but now that Canada’s immigration laws have changed, he’s caught in a legal limbo.