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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.
« Je suis contente qu’il y ait une cible [de 5 %]. Je veux faire partie des discussions. Mais ça donne quoi d’avoir une cible et de ne pas avoir la rétention qui vient avec ? » C’est en ces termes que Jacinthe Lemire, directrice de la Coopérative d’intégration francophone de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard, accueille le nouvel objectif de 5 % d’immigration […].
http://www.aquilon.nt.ca/Article/Priorite-retention-201608181417/default.aspx#article
À Moncton, au Nouveau-Brunswick, des femmes syriennes cuisinent et vendent des mets pour s’initier au fonctionnement des petites entreprises. Depuis quelques semaines, ces nouvelles arrivantes ont un kiosque aux marchés des fermiers de Dieppe et de Moncton pour vendre des pâtisseries et des bouchées.
Every year, some 25,000 migrant labourers from Mexico and the Caribbean come to Ontario through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. They spend six to eight months of the year on farms in Niagara and Simcoe and Prince Edward County, and send as much money home as possible. Participants live on the farms, sometimes with 20 men to a house, and get paid minimum wage to till the soil, harvest the crops, thin the trees—jobs that most Canadians won’t do. The program is strict: they sign an exclusivity clause, which makes it difficult to work for anyone other than the employer who contracted them.
Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Wednesday they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention centre on Manus Island, but gave no timeline, leaving the fate of 800 refugees held in the camp unclear. Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea. They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/manus-island-refugee-closing-1.3724213
Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is trying to make it easier for Chinese tourists, students and temporary workers to get visas to come to Canada — but not to the overheated housing markets of Vancouver and Toronto. McCallum said he had “very positive and open” discussions with Chinese officials last week, seeking permission to double or triple the number of visa application centres where Chinese people can apply to come to Canada. There are currently five, including Hong Kong.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-immigration-canada-china-1.3725202
Advocates are applauding an increase in federal funding for mental health care for immigrants held in detention. Scott Bardsley, spokesperson for the public safety minister, revealed that $10.5 million of the total $138 million to rebuild immigration detention centres in Quebec and Vancouver will be devoted to increase health and mental health care for detainees. The new immigration detention centre will be in Surrey, B.C.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mental-health-funding-detainees-immigration-1.3725497