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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.
The southwestern Ontario college had 37,000 study permits approved and extended in 2023 — the most in Canada — which marks a 31-per-cent increase from the previous year. Its student population has more than doubled in four years to about 45,000, and international students now vastly outnumber domestic ones. The main campus in Kitchener, Ont., alone is now home to more than 20,000 students.
The rich world is in the midst of an unprecedented migration boom. Last year 3.3m more people moved to America than left, almost four times typical levels in the 2010s. Canada took in 1.9m immigrants. Britain welcomed 1.2m people and Australia 740,000. In each country the number was greater than ever before. For Australia and Canada net migration is more than double pre-covid levels. In Britain the intake is 3.5 times that of 2019.
International students will be able to work off-campus for up to 24 hours per week starting in September, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday. The Liberals temporarily waived the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages. That waiver expires Tuesday.
Le ministre fédéral de l’Immigration, Marc Miller, a annoncé que les étudiants étrangers pourront travailler hors campus jusqu’à 24 heures par semaine maximum à partir de septembre. Les libéraux avaient temporairement suspendu le plafond de 20 heures de travail pour les étudiants étrangers pendant la pandémie de COVID-19 dans le but d’atténuer les pénuries de main-d’oeuvre. La nouvelle limite de travail intervient alors que le gouvernement fédéral prend des mesures face à l’augmentation des inscriptions d’étudiants étrangers à travers le pays.
Le ministre de l’Éducation, Bernard Drainville, montre du doigt l’arrivée d’immigrants temporaires pour expliquer les retards du gouvernement dans l’ouverture de classes de maternelle 4 ans. En un an, Québec a ouvert 74 de ces classes : il y en a donc 1660 en activité, par rapport à 1586 à pareille date l’an dernier. En parallèle, « on a 1267 classes de francisation et d’accueil pour les immigrants temporaires », a souligné mercredi le ministre Drainville. Il s’est dit incapable d’ouvrir davantage de classes de maternelle 4 ans.
Quebec is “going on the offensive” to protect and promote French, Minister Jean-François Roberge said Sunday as he presented a $603-million plan to counter what he described as the language’s decline. Roberge, the Quebec cabinet minister responsible for the French language, said the government’s nine priorities include better monitoring of language trends, boosting the French cultural offering and improving students’ mastery of French. Several of the measures are linked to immigration, including increasing the percentage of economic immigrants who speak French and speeding up permanent residency for international students who graduate from francophone programs.