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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.
We like to think of economic migration as people coming to Canada to live, work and eventually become full citizens. While this still happens, it has been eclipsed by growth in temporary migration through two main government streams: the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), and the International Mobility Program (IMP).
Even with its current jobless rate of 7 per cent, Canada is coping with severe shortages of skilled workers throughout the economy. Among the most prominent examples are in health care; engineering; entrepreneurship and leading-edge business management practices; advanced construction methods; and scientific and technological research and development.
http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/10/16/why-immigration-is-a-chequebook-issue-olive.html
Turkish leaders accused Europeans on Friday of treating their country shabbily and warned that a new deal with the EU to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe was not completely finalised. Officials in Brussels, where EU leaders agreed overnight to offer Ankara cash, easier visa terms and a “re-energized” consideration of its EU membership bid, voiced cautious optimism that Turkey would do its part to encourage Syrian refugees not to head to Europe and to deter economic migrants from Asia.
Almost one month after the Conservative government announced measures to accelerate the resettling of Syrian refugees in Canada, it still has not doubled the number of staff handling sponsorship applications. […] As for a promise to providing additional agents to deal with visas in embassies, the department is talking about sending more in the future.
L’Union européenne a arraché un « plan d’action commun » à Ankara pour endiguer les flux migratoires à ses frontières extérieures, alors même qu’un Afghan venant de Turquie était abattu en tentant d’entrer illégalement en Bulgarie. L’Afghan, abattu par des gardes-frontières bulgares, faisait partie d’un grand groupe de migrants qui ont essayé d’entrer en Bulgarie depuis la Turquie, a annoncé un porte-parole du gouvernement bulgare.
Malgré de nombreuses promesses d’aide financière pour faire face à la crise des migrants, les pays européens se montrent mauvais payeurs. La répartition des demandeurs d’asile, pourtant décidée, semble elle aussi compliquée à mettre en œuvre. De la parole aux actes, il y a un abîme que les dirigeants européens ont tenté de combler au cours de leur sommet jeudi à Bruxelles. Lors de leur dernière réunion le 23 septembre, ils avaient promis des milliards d’euros pour aider les quelque 4 millions de Syriens réfugiés en Turquie, en Jordanie et au Liban.