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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.
As part of The Globe’s Immigrant Answer series, East Asia correspondent Mark MacKinnon has written about Canada’s shifting image in China. “Canada is increasingly considered by many Chinese more as a great place to retire than work,” Mr. MacKinnon wrote in one recent piece and in Monday’s Globe he reported on the return of many expatriates to China from Canada.
In Nova Scotia’s case, what immigrants who paid $130,000 to join the program were promised in management positions — to learn, hands-on, the running of businesses — bore little or no relation to what they received. Some were offered menial jobs; others were told not to bother reporting for work at all. Meanwhile, companies which participated often profited by as much as $80,000 per immigrant they purportedly hired, but with whom they often had little to no contact. In P.E.I., business owners, expressly supported by the provincial government, injected funds provided by immigrants directly into their operations, and hence the provincial economy.
Canada has traditionally competed for India’s skilled migrants with Australia, Britain and the United States. But now there’s a new country in the mix, a destination with increasing appeal for young, educated and ambitious Indians: India.
[A] common complaint is that Canada’s shifting immigration policies now favour those with money to invest over the skilled workers they used to emphasize (although changes to the Federal Skilled Worker Program proposed by Immigration Minister Jason Kenney seek to address that). Once seen as a great place to live and work, Canada is increasingly considered by many Chinese more as a great place to retire.
Government-assisted refugees receive resettlement funding – comparable to what they would receive on welfare – from the federal government the first year they’re in Canada and social assistance from the province after that if necessary. Of the 185 immigrants interviewed by Vancouver researchers, half of government-sponsored refugees spent between 51 and 75 per cent of their income on housing, as did 41.9 per cent of refugee claimants. This compares with 28.4 per cent of economic immigrants and 28.1 per cent of non-immigrants who spent that much on housing.
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Hamilton doctors are raising the alarm about refugee claimants losing drug, vision and dental coverage at the end of June. […] The doctors will take their fight to City Hall Monday with the support of Ward 1 Councillor Brian McHattie. He intends to bring forward a motion indicating to the federal government the expected impact on Hamilton.
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/723350–doctors-fight-for-refugee-health-care