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.
Radio-Canada — Immigration : les places attribuées aux provinces de l’Atlantique fondent de moitié
Ottawa réduit de moitié le nombre de places attribuées aux provinces de l’Atlantique dans le cadre des programmes d’immigration visant à attirer des travailleurs. La ministre de l’Immigration de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador se dit « furieuse » et soutient que la décision nuira au recrutement de travailleurs de la santé et à l’économie de la région. Le ministre des Affaires intergouvernementales du Nouveau-Brunswick, Jean-Claude D’Amours, estime pour sa part que la décision du gouvernement fédéral « met en péril » le recrutement des travailleurs et la croissance économique de sa province.
Le Devoir — Croissance démographique record au Québec, particulièrement à Montréal
La population du Québec est en pleine croissance dans presque toutes les régions de la province, et en particulier à Montréal, selon les données dévoilées jeudi par l’Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ). La métropole est responsable à elle seule de près de la moitié de l’accroissement démographique, qui s’explique en grande partie par l’immigration, en particulier l’afflux de résidents temporaires. Environ 208 000 personnes se sont ajoutées à la population québécoise entre le 1er juillet 2023 et le 1er juillet 2024, une hausse de 2,3 %. La population du Québec est maintenant estimée à près de 9,1 millions de personnes.
National Post — The U.S. and Canada quietly agreed to share personal data on permanent residents crossing the border
Top immigration lawyers say it’s “shocking” that the federal government quietly signed a new deal with the U.S. government that automatically trades troves of personal data of millions of permanent residents in either country when they try to cross the U.S.-Canada border. In July, the U.S. and Canadian government quietly made a major change to a 2012 agreement that authorized the automatic sharing of personal information between both countries of non-residents who applied for visas. The original deal deliberately excluded permanent residents and citizens of both countries from the information sharing regime.
CBC News — Protest held at Vancouver college after cuts to English language program for newcomers
More than 100 people rallied at Vancouver Community College (VCC) on Tuesday to protest the looming closure of a program that offers English classes for immigrants and refugees, part of a wider swath of cuts affecting newcomer services in British Columbia. The Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program at VCC is among a number of immigrant services in B.C. that are losing federal funding, as the government moves to decrease immigration levels across the country. Protesters at Tuesday’s rally at VCC’s campus on East Broadway said the cuts would affect vulnerable immigrants, and leave a major hole in enrolment that the college would struggle to fill once funding runs out on April 1.
Radio-Canada — One third of Ontario newcomers say they felt safer in home countries, survey finds
Oleg Redko came to Canada in 2022 to escape the war in Ukraine, while Parth Shah moved to Canada from India with dreams of prosperity and a specialized education. Both had an image of what Canada would be, but soon after arriving, they had experiences that shattered their sense of safety in their new country. I was going to the metro station while somebody was stabbed and then people were running out, Redko said. For me, it was kind of shocking because I imagined like for many years, I knew that Canada is like one of the safest countries in the world, one of the best countries in the world.
The Globe and Mail — Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as ‘no-shows’ by Canadian schools
Close to 50,000 international students who received study permits to come to Canada were reported as “no-shows” at the colleges and universities where they were supposed to be taking their courses, according to government figures for two months last spring. Numbers obtained by The Globe and Mail show that the non-compliant students made up 6.9 per cent of the total number of international students recorded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Universities and colleges are required by the immigration department to report twice a year on whether international students are enrolled and going to class in compliance with their study permits.
