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.
CBC – New Greek National Party Puts Montreal Community on Edge
The presence of a new Montreal chapter of a right-wing nationalist Greek party is polarizing members of Montreal’s Greek community. […] The party’s anti-immigrant stance is considered racist and anti-Semitic by many in the international community. […] When CBC News asked members of the local Greek community how they felt about the party, many of them said although they don’t condone Golden Dawn’s violent actions, they understand the sentiment that there are too many illegal immigrants in their homeland.
Hamilton Spectator – Family Fights for Migrant Worker
The family of a Peruvian man who is in a Hamilton hospital rehab centre after being injured in a February crash that killed 11 other migrant workers, wants the federal government to let him stay on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. […] Sulla Puma is one of three survivors of a Feb. 6 crash in Hampstead, Ont., northeast of Stratford. He was airlifted to Hamilton General while the two other survivors were taken to London, Ontario. Both are also still recovering from their injuries and have recently asked to stay in Canada.
Globe and Mail – Plagiarism Alleged in Some Canadian Refugee Board Decisions
In a letter to the IRB last week demanding a fresh hearing for his client, Mr. Battista said that copying passages from other decisions has no place in decisions involving potential life and death. […]The case points to an increasingly contentious issue in the legal world. Concern is rising at all levels of courts about passages copied from other documents and decisions, often without a trace of attribution. […] The practice appears to be particularly prevalent in federal Immigration and Refugee Board decisions. Raoul Boulakia, former president of the Refugee Lawyers Association, said in an interview that he has encountered many decisions that regurgitated entire passages from other decisions without providing any reference to sources or the fact that they were recycled.
Globe and Mail – Seed Capital: How Immigrants Are Reshaping Saskatchewan’s Farmland
The Zous are part of a new wave of immigrant investors who are changing the face of Saskatchewan’s countryside. These investors, who come mainly from China, South Korea and India, are buying up farmland, by the hectare, often in cash, and frequently becoming landlords to dozens of local farmers. […] New immigrants represent only a portion of the roughly 30,000 annual farmland sales in Saskatchewan. But real estate agents say the number of deals to non-residents has soared in the past couple of years and the influx of Chinese immigrants in particular is getting noticed.
Globe and Mail – Survey Shows American Feel Less Threatened by Immigration Than in Previous Years
The number of Americans who consider a large influx of immigrants to be a “critical threat” to the United States has shrunk to 40 per cent, a survey published Thursday found. It was a sharp drop from a peak of 72 per cent in 1994, and the first time since then that the number of Americans who feel threatened by immigrants fell below 51 per cent in a survey by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
For the second time, a Federal Court judge has overturned a decision by the Immigration and Refugee Board denying an Ottawa refugee claimant asylum. In a decision dated Oct. 1, Justice Mary Gleason ruled that the reasoning in the decision of the IRB member who turned Gabino Zacarias down last year was “so erroneous that it must be set aside.” […] The IRB member’s findings, Gleason found, were “based on impermissible conjecture and conclusions that contradict the evidence before the board and thus cannot stand.” […] Gleason found that “overly subjective conclusions based on an individual’s posture or perceived attitude are not within the appropriate purview of a credibility assessment.”
