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.
Globe and Mail – Ottawa was warned two years ago high immigration could affect housing costs, documents show
Federal public servants warned the government two years ago that large increases to immigration could affect housing affordability and services, internal documents show.
Documents obtained by The Canadian Press through an access-to-information request show Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada analyzed the potential effects immigration would have on the economy, housing and services, as it prepared its immigration targets for 2023 to 2025.
La Presse – Ottawa avait prévenu des impacts de l’immigration
Des fonctionnaires fédéraux ont averti le gouvernement du Canada il y a deux ans que de fortes augmentations de l’immigration pourraient affecter l’abordabilité du logement et les services, selon des documents internes. Ces documents obtenus par La Presse Canadienne grâce à une demande d’accès à l’information montrent qu’Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada a analysé les effets potentiels de l’immigration sur l’économie, le logement et les services, alors qu’il préparait ses objectifs d’immigration pour 2023 à 2025.
Maria Kartasheva, 30, has lived in Ottawa since 2019.
She was convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the full-scale invasion in of Ukraine in February 2022. The law prohibits “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”
CTV – Canada’s immigration minister says there isn’t a hard cap on temporary visa program for Palestinians
Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government’s stated 1,000-person limit on temporary resident visas for Palestinians looking to flee Gaza is not a hard cap, despite previous suggestions.
In an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play, Miller told host Vassy Kapelos that “no,” the limit as previously stated is not set in stone.
The Conversation – What a recent court ruling on Canada’s Citizenship Act means for ‘lost Canadians’
In December 2023, Ontario’s Superior Court determined that what’s known as the “second-generation cut-off rule” in the federal Citizenship Act violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by discriminating on the basis of national origin and sex.
CBC – Migrant farm workers pay into EI, but can’t access it. Now they’re suing the federal government
Migrant agricultural workers in Canada pay into employment insurance (EI), but they are not able to access it when their contracts expire and they return to their home country.
They also have employment contracts that are tied to one employer, preventing them from changing their employer while they’re in Canada.
