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.
Montreal Gazette – Mexican Immigrants in US Say PRI’s Return May Dissuade Them from Returning to Homeland
Mexico’s new president may dissuade some immigrants from returning home, despite promising economic opportunities there and a faltering U.S. job market. The vast majority of the 40,000 Mexican expatriates who voted in Sunday’s election cast ballots against President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto. Many immigrants said Monday they were shocked that his Institutional Revolutionary Party — which largely convinced them to leave their homeland — has returned to power.
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Mexican+immigrants+PRIs+return+dissuade+them+from+returning+homeland/6873285/story.html
Toronto Star – A Markham Street Reveals Much About GTA Ethnic Enclaves
By 2006, the suburbs had become the gateway to Canada. From Toronto’s bustling inner city, the site of integration has moved to the sprawling subdivisions of service-challenged suburbs. Visible minority residents suddenly became a majority in Markham and Brampton. Yet 95 per cent of immigrant services, according to one academic study, remain in Toronto. Isolation and affordable housing are pressing issues.
London Community News – Funding Will Help Newcomers Into the Local Economy
Ontario and Canada are now working together to help more than 520 skilled newcomers in London get the training and support they need to find work in their fields and contribute to the local economy. During an announcement held at Fanshawe College on Friday (June 29) representatives of the both the provincial and federal governments joined with officials from the school, as well as the employment sector, to unveil a combined $1.3 million for five bridge funding projects in London.
Winnipeg Free Press – Federal Government Seeks Comments on Tighter Rules for Foreign Students
The Immigration Department is looking at tightening the rules covering foreign students, and wants to know what Canadians think. A notice in the latest Canada Gazette asks for written comments from interested parties on proposals that would ensure students from overseas actually go to school, and would prevent them from staying here legally if they quit their studies. […] Anyone interested in commenting has 30 days to write to the department.
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/federal-government-seeks-comments-on-tighter-rules-for-foreign-students-160872935.html
Winnipeg Free Press – Kenney Defends Cuts to Extended Health-Care Benefits for Refugees
Kenney says he doesn’t understand why the provinces are more concerned about providing supplementary health benefits like dental care and eye care to rejected asylum seekers than to their own citizens. “Their own citizens, including seniors on fixed incomes, don’t get these supplemental benefits,” he told a news conference. “So why should they be forced to pay for them through their taxes for, for example, rejected asylum claimants? So I think that perhaps some of the provinces who are raising this have put their priority in the wrong place. They should be more focused on their own citizens and residents than people who, in many cases we’re here talking about, (are) effectively illegal immigrants. That is to say, rejected asylum claimants who are under removal orders from Canada.”
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/ontario-health-minister-says-changes-to-refugee-health-care-creates-class-system-160800325.html
Globe and Mail – How Applicants are Stumbling on the Final Step to Becoming Canadians
In 2010, the Conservatives overhauled the [citizenship] test, requiring a higher score to pass, emphasizing a need to speak English or French and making questions about Canadian history, identity and values more challenging. […] Across the board, the failure rate jumped from less than 4 per cent in 2009 to nearly 15 per cent last year. Nearly half of the Afghan-born immigrants vying to become Canadians last year, for example, failed; that’s compared to only 21 per cent in 2009. Meanwhile, fewer than 2 per cent of immigrants born in Australia, England and the United States failed last year.
