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.
Metro News – Newcomer B.C. youth honoured by Fresh Voices as ‘unsung heroes’
Immigrant and refugee youth from across the province may not make the newspaper front page often, but an awards ceremony this week hoped to raise the profile of these “unsung heroes,” according to the group Fresh Voices. Out of roughly 80 nominees, eight young people received leadership awards Monday night from the initiative, which was launched by the B.C. Representative for Children and Youth and the Vancouver Foundation. “The Fresh Voices awards are not about academic excellence or straight A’s,” explained the Vancouver Foundation’s Vi Nguyen in a phone interview. “Fresh Voices really wanted to highlight unsung heroes, leaders leading the revolution who wouldn’t otherwise be recognized.”
Vancouver Sun – The hidden cost of foreign-student policy
Campaigns to attract foreign students and their money to Canadian campuses are increasingly assertive. Even though Higher Education Minister Andrew Wilkinson proudly says B.C. already has a third of this country’s 330,000 foreign students, efforts are escalating to bring in more, especially to Metro Vancouver. The city’s universities and colleges are paying millions of dollars to agents around the world to sign up student recruits for their programs. Developers like Toby Chu are planning 50-storey towers in Surrey to house more foreign students. University officials are excited that, with the election of immigration-wary Donald Trump as U.S. president, foreign-student interest in Canada is soaring, even while Canada already has three times as many foreign students per capita as the U.S.
Radio-Canada – Tromperie à l’immigration : des centaines de Chinois risquent la déportation
Une quinzaine d’anciens clients d’un consultant en immigration de Colombie-Britannique incarcéré pour fraude ont été expulsés du pays vers la Chine. Des centaines d’autres au profil similaire pourraient subir le même sort dans les prochains mois. Xun « Sunny » Wang purge actuellement une peine de sept ans de prison pour avoir falsifié de nombreuses demandes d’immigration.
Acadie Nouvelles – Réfugiés syriens : un long chemin vers l’intégration
Apprentissage de la langue, recherche d’emploi, les réfugiés sont prêts à toutes les épreuves pour s’intégrer à la société canadienne. L’Association multiculturelle du Grand Moncton y travaille sans relâche. Dans les écoles, on se mobilise afin que les jeunes Syriens deviennent un jour des citoyens épanouis.
Radio-Canada – Réfugiés syriens en C.-B. : les défis de la langue, du travail et de l’immobilier
Plus de 2200 réfugiés se sont installés en Colombie-Britannique depuis un an. Si le climat y est plus clément, le prix des logements est l’un des plus grands handicaps pour les nouveaux arrivants. Les Dghaim en font partie. Le couple et ses trois enfants ont entamé leur long et périlleux périple vers la province de l’ouest en 2011.
Montreal Gazette – Quebec’s population growth slowed in 2015 as births, immigration drop
Quebec’s population growth slowed in 2015 as more Quebecers died, fewer babies were born and fewer immigrants settled in the province. But Quebec is expecting to reverse the trend in 2016 thanks in part to the arrival of Syrian refugees. As of Jan 1, 2016, Quebec’s population was 8,287,843, an increase of 50,010 people compared to the previous year, the Institut de la statistique du Québec said in a report published Wednesday.That means the growth rate was 6.1 per 1,000 population, the lowest increase in 10 years.
