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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.
MLA John Yap chaired the immigration task force’s first consultation Thursday, meeting with local stakeholders and industry experts in Prince George. The 10-member group is comprised of business and community leaders who will make recommendations about how to increase the number of skilled immigrants and investors in British Columbia.
For years, Canada has had one of the most generous immigration policies in the world, welcoming tens of thousands of asylum applicants who claim to be fleeing persecution in their homelands. But Canada’s Conservative government has begun rolling up the welcome mat, stepping up efforts to track down and deport thousands of asylum-seekers whose applications have been denied. The clampdown is likely to be felt not only across Canada, but in the United States.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-canada-immigration-20120115,0,4032232.story
The Free Press newsroom has been working for the past few months on an ambitious editorial project. We’ve been talking to Africans in Manitoba (and Manitobans in Africa) for a special All-Africa edition of the paper, which you’ll see Wednesday, Jan. 18, and online. […] Over the next year, in a series of monthly FYI sections, we will look at many of the immigrants who now call Winnipeg home — why they came, why they stayed and their impact on our community.
For months, people making EI claims have been complaining of a system that’s all but broken. Some people are now waiting more than eight weeks or more for the first cheque to arrive. The Canada Employment and Immigration Union says nearly a third of claims are now being processed after the 28-day limit promised by Service Canada. […]Deborah Gray is a national vice-president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union in New Brunswick. She says the average person often struggles to fill out these online forms, and now they will have nobody in their communities to help them.
A local group of service providers, health care representatives, business people and politicians have come together to create the Immigration Partnership Council to help immigrants and refugees integrate into Canadian society. For two years, the group met to talk about how to better assist new immigrants become part of the community. And on Friday, the group launched its beginning at the Tannery in Kitchener. The organization hopes to help immigrants settle, work and belong to the community. It’s one of 45 immigration councils across the province. The region’s council has a budget of $680,000 funded for the next two years by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Region of Waterloo and the United Way of Kitchener Waterloo and Area.
An ongoing human trafficking case in Hamilton has sparked sharp criticism of Canada’s immigration and refugee system. The case prosecutor, assistant Crown attorney Toni Skarica blames the removal of Hungarian visitors’ visa requirements for providing “the opportunity for the expansion of the … criminal organization into Canada,” he wrote in a court document.