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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.
Syndicats, parents et gestionnaires ont fait front commun, jeudi, pour décrire à quel point la situation de la Commission scolaire de Montréal « est insoutenable ». Ce qui justifie, à leurs yeux, l’obtention d’un statut particulier et l’octroi de quelque 36 millions de dollars supplémentaires de la part de Québec.
Are we a nation that would stoop to treating the vulnerable human beings we would purport to help as livestock, to be collated, corralled and verified by their individual body parts? Are we willing to put those we should be rescuing from peril at further risk with a procedure that would produce no guaranteed benefit? “It is inappropriate and unethical to take radiographs of people when there is no health benefit for them,” warns the dental association. Have we reached the stage where we would apply a lower set of safeguards to migrants than we might apply to ourselves?
Canada is among the four countries of the world that consistently attract the top tier of highly skilled immigrants, new research from the World Bank suggests. In a working paper, researchers Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Çaǧlar Özden and Christopher Parsons looked at migration patterns in recent decades to track any changes in either the volume of people moving around the world, or where they are coming from or going to. Four countries — the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia — attract the vast majority of the world’s immigrants, the researchers have found.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/world-bank-skilled-immigrants-canada-1.3811523
A high-powered group of external advisers is calling for a dramatic increase in Canada’s immigration levels, but Immigration Minister John McCallum says that might be too ambitious. McCallum said Wednesday he’s read the report by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth that calls for a 50-per-cent increase in targets to 450,000 people a year. The measure would target skilled, entrepreneurial newcomers in an attempt to stimulate economic growth.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immigration-system-increase-mccallum-1.3812749
The times may be a-changin’, but London is still largely run by white men, a new study has found. Not one visible minority can be found in the 15 top-paying city of London management positions, according to the study conducted by Western University researchers in partnership with Pillar Nonprofit Network. […] The study did not look at elected officials. It aimed to explore the makeup of leadership on boards, commissions and in the non-profit, education and municipal public sectors — including police and fire chiefs. More than 2,400 leaders were analyzed for visible minority status and gender in London, Ottawa and Hamilton that considered medium-sized cities.
Des organismes d’aide aux immigrants demandent que soit accéléré le traitement des demandes de réunification familiale pour les Haïtiens, dont les délais étaient de 39 mois, selon les données d’Immigration Canada pour 2015. Ils souhaitent aussi le retour du programme spécial de parrainage humanitaire qui a permis […].