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.
France-Amérique – Un Québec indépendant doublerait l’immigration française
Si le Québec devait accéder à l’indépendance, son gouvernement doublerait le nombre d’immigrants français, qui constituent actuellement le deuxième contingent de nouveaux arrivants, a déclaré lundi le ministre des Relations internationales de la province canadienne. La province francophone comptait en 2012 plus de huit millions d’habitants, dont près de 250 000 immigrés accueillis entre 2007 et 2011. Le Maroc et l’Algérie sont traditionnellement les premiers pays d’origine des nouveaux arrivants, notamment en raison de la place de choix accordée par le Québec aux personnes francophones et qualifiées.
Toronto Star – Canada Needs Smarter Immigration Selection Criteria
One of the reasons British psychiatrist Dr. Kwame McKenzie, an international expert on the mental health of immigrants, moved to Canada was its famed cultural mosaic. He looked forward to seeing it for himself when he accepted a job as a senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) six years ago. But he was in for a letdown. Rather than the pluralistic society he was expecting in which newcomers and native-born Canadians fit together like pieces of a multicoloured collage, he found “a whole bunch of pieces dropped indiscriminately.” […] A disproportionate number of his patients were poor, unemployed or underemployed immigrants struggling to get a foothold in their new country. Most lived outside Toronto’s 85-per-cent-white downtown core. Some faced overt discrimination; most didn’t know why they were being passed over by employers, shunned by landlords and marginalized by society.
Globe and Mail – What to Expect from Obama’s State of the Union Address
Assert with confidence that immigration reform is an idea whose time has come, and that it has support from business and organized labour alike. Done right, putting 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship will help lift middle-class wages, not undercut them, he is likely to argue. Left unsaid will be the message that Latinos overwhelmingly supported him in November and that if Republicans hope to get right with that growing voter bloc, they cannot get in the way of immigration reform.
Hamilton Spectator – Human-Trafficking Victim Faces Deportation to Hungary
Janos Bognar survived the largest human-trafficking ring ever prosecuted in Canada, but now fears he will end up back in Hungary at risk of being targeted by the crime family he helped put in jail. Despite immigration changes that are supposed to offer human-trafficking victims temporary resident permits, the 45-year-old father of three adult children has had his refugee claim denied. Bognar has been cut off by legal aid and can’t afford to pay for a lawyer. He lives in subsidized housing in Hamilton, collects welfare and cannot work because refugee claimants can’t get permits.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué — Le ministre Kenney annonce le renouvellement du mandat d’une juge de la citoyenneté
Jason Kenney, ministre de la Citoyenneté, de l’Immigration et du Multiculturalisme, a annoncé aujourd’hui le renouvellement du mandat de la juge de la citoyenneté Sharon Robertson, de Kitchener, en Ontario. Nommée pour la première fois en janvier 2010, la juge Robertson a obtenu un nouveau mandat de trois ans, à temps partiel.
Radio-Canada – Québec aidera les assistés sociaux et les immigrants à trouver du travail
Québec entend mettre à contribution les assistés sociaux, les travailleurs préretraités et les immigrants pour combler les pénuries de main-d’oeuvre qui s’annoncent avec le vieillissement de la population. Selon les projections d’Emploi Québec, il y aura 1,4 million d’emplois disponibles au Québec d’ici 2021.
