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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.
Interest from Americans looking to study in Canada has increased sharply since the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president, Canadian universities say. For example, the University of Toronto‘s enrolment website received 10 times more traffic from computers based in the United States on the day after the election than on the day before, said Ted Sargent, the school’s vice-president international.
Since Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, civil-rights groups have documented an upsurge in hate crimes across America, many of them explicitly motivated by the Republican’s attacks on Muslims and Mexican immigrants.Some fear that Canada has now caught the same contagion. Hateful graffiti and racist harassment from the Pacific coast to Southern Ontario has sparked anxiety among ethnic and religious minorities that Mr. Trump may have emboldened Canadian bigots to act more freely and more violently.
Canadian border guards say they are encountering ever-increasing numbers of illegal immigrants seeking asylum in Canada. In the past three months 365 illegal immigrants were stopped at the border between Quebec and the United States.That is more applicants at those border crossings than in all of 2015. According to statistics obtained by Bell Media radio, most of the migrants come from Eastern Europe and Africa.
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/dramatic-rise-in-refugee-claims-at-u-s-border-1.3166709
Toronto has become a teacher for countries around the world grappling with newcomer integration. A Dutch government delegation, which visited the city this week, is the latest in a string of foreign dignitaries making their way here to learn about welcoming and successfully integrating immigrants and refugees. The city started attracting interest early this year when private sponsors brought in thousands of Syrian refugees, complementing government-led efforts as the world tried to get a grip on the Syrian refugee crisis, said Toronto Newcomer Office manager Vera Dodic.
Australia sends asylum seekers who arrive by boat to centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island. Francois Crepeau, the UN special rapporteur on migrant human rights, has just finished an 18-day stint examining Australia’s immigration laws. He said in Canberra on Friday that conditions on Nauru were “cruel, inhuman and degrading”. “Australia would vehemently protest if its citizens were treated like this by other countries and especially if Australian children were treated like this,” the Canadian lawyer said.
L’économiste en chef de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick, David Campbell, a annoncé jeudi les grandes lignes d’un projet pilote pour l’immigration qui sera lancé en janvier 2017. Il a profité de la tenue du colloque « Grandir ensemble » à Moncton pour faire cette annonce. Le Programme pilote pour l’immigration en Atlantique vise à accueillir 640 nouvelles familles, dès janvier 2017.