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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.
Un nouveau regroupement tente de faciliter les échanges entre les employeurs et les gens à la recherche d’un emploi dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick. L’Équipe d’Action Emploi Sud-Est est menée par Opportunités NB. La rétention de la main-d’oeuvre qualifiée ainsi que les nouveaux arrivants font partie des priorités du regroupement.
The United States appears to be working toward a system for privately sponsoring refugees, potentially making it the latest country to emulate the program Canada has deployed during the Syrian migration crisis. A group that works with the government on resettling refugees says a pilot project is in the works. An assistant secretary of state reportedly referred to it at a public forum. Canada’s immigration minister says he has heard about a pilot project, and one small-government advocate says he’s been advising policy-makers on it.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/10/11/us-working-on-private-refugee-sponsoring-system.html
Nikoletta Szarka said she cringed when she learned the refugee judge who would preside over her family’s case was going to be David McBean. And she said it came as no surprise when her family’s refugee claim was rejected last October after a four-year delay by the adjudicator who is known for his extremely low acceptance rate. Hence, they took their appeal to the Federal Court of Canada — and won.
Sitting at a table in the Tim Hortons on Highway 21 in Goderich was Gezahgn Wordofa, founder of the Multicultural Association Perth-Huron. […] When the organization started, he was given some funds from the Trillium Fund through United Way. In 2015, United Way cut funding. The organization’s main office space in Stratford is being donated by local folk singer Laura Mckinnon. He is hoping to get funding in the future. Right now he relies on the kindness of volunteers, churches and the community for support.
Two years of strong immigration numbers have made a big difference in how fast the population of Atlantic Canada is aging. In 2014 the region was on a straight line course to have more people older than 45 than younger by now. But that didn’t happen. The population aged 45 and older is still growing at about the same rate, a little more than one per cent per year. The younger population, previously falling at about the same rate, began to level off in 2015 and fell only 0.1 per cent in 2016.
The Trudeau government used powers granted by the Harper government’s controversial citizenship law to make 184 revocation decisions without legal hearings between November 2015 and the end of August. About 90 per cent of the decisions resulted in a negative finding and the loss of a person’s citizenship. The numbers show that the Trudeau government has used the law far more aggressively than the Harper government itself.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics/citizenship-revocation-trudeau-harper-1.3795733