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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.
Canada’s universities combine outstanding quality, relevance and affordability. They offer safe and welcoming learning environments. In the globally competitive international education sector, this is an enviable place to be. So why – in a recent survey of students, parents and education advisers in Brazil, China and India – was Canada not on the map?
President Barack Obama says America must “seize the moment” to seek an overhaul of the immigration system and he expects that work to start soon after his inauguration for a second term. In his first news conference after winning re-election, Obama says conversations are already taking place among his staff and members of Congress. The president says comprehensive immigration reform should include a path to legal status for those who came to the U.S. illegally seeking work. He says those immigrants should pay back taxes, learn English and potentially pay fines.
Two elderly women — one Canadian, the other American — crossed the border into the United States on Wednesday, after exhausting efforts to stay in Canada together. […] Inferrera has been living in Guysborough County with Sanford, who has heart problems and is in the early stages of dementia. Inferrera said she provides care for Sanford but her application for permanent residency has been refused, as has her appeal on humanitarian grounds.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/11/14/ns-elderly-friends-leave-canada.html
The Sudbury Chamber of Commerce and local MemberAll Media of Parliament Glenn Thibeault are speaking out against the closure of the city’s Citizenship and Immigration Office. The loss of the office is putting a drain on the local economy by sending immigrants and their employers far out of their way to get services they used to get much closer to home, said Glenn Thibeault, the MP for Sudbury. In-person services are no longer available in Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie or Thunder Bay since those offices were closed down in April, following federal budget cuts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/story/2012/11/13/sby-citizenship-immigration-office.html
The Department of Citizenship and Immigration spent almost $750,000 monitoring ethnic media over the past three years, including assessments of election campaign events and “perceptions” of minister Jason Kenney. […] “A series of interviews and appearances by minister Kenney and his representatives were strong contributors to the upswing in the ministerial image,” says a report from May 5, 2010, under a pie graph titled “Minister Overall Perception.”
Nice guys don’t get any points in Canada’s immigration system. Chosen by a system that values technical skills above everything, immigration consultant and author Lionel Laroche warns newcomers to this country often arrive with only half the tools they’ll need to make a successful transition into Canada’s workforce. Laroche told a Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion forum Monday success in Canada’s workforce demands more than just being technically strong — it also demands a set of “soft skills,” without which newcomers suffer on the job.