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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.
Over the coming few years, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come to Canada to work, study and settle. This year, the federal government has set a target of welcoming 485,000 new permanent residents.
While many of those people come to Canada with hopes of establishing new and better lives, integrating and finding one’s way around a new country can often be challenging.
In June 2023, Canada’s population reached 40 million. For the first time in history, the population grew by more than a million (2.7 per cent) in a single year. Temporary and permanent migration accounted for 96 per cent of this population growth.
https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-the-dramatic-shift-in-canadian-public-opinion-about-immigration-levels-219193?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
Manitoba is waiting to find out how many Gazans will come here under Canada’s temporary immigration program for 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza who have family in this country.
“We’ve indicated that we would like to know as soon as possible so we can properly respond,” Immigration Minister Malaya Marcelino said Thursday.
On Dec. 21, federal Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller announced temporary immigration measures for those wanting to flee the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and have family in Canada to support them financially.
A critic of the Kremlin could be barred from obtaining Canadian citizenship because she has to prove to immigration officials here that it isn’t a crime in Canada to criticize the Russian army.
Maria Kartasheva, who has lived in Ottawa since 2019, has been convicted under a Russian law passed shortly after the invasion of Ukraine which bars “public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.”
Des « ajustements » dans le discours du gouvernement sur l’immigration attirent l’attention d’experts, qui analysent les sources, les limites et les potentiels dangers de ce changement de ton. Cheolki Yoon, professeur adjoint à l’École de communication sociale de l’Université Saint-Paul à Ottawa, parle d’un « virage des discours » depuis la fin de l’été 2023, après le remaniement ministériel. C’est lors de cet évènement, le 26 juillet dernier, que Sean Fraser prononce ses derniers mots en tant que ministre d’Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada (IRCC) : « J’invite tout le monde à faire preuve de prudence lorsqu’il affirme que la solution à la crise du logement consiste à fermer les portes à l’immigration. »
Des Gazaouis qui ont des proches au Canada s’impatientent avant l’entrée en vigueur, le 9 janvier, de nouvelles mesures d’immigration temporaires annoncées par le gouvernement fédéral. En vertu de cette nouvelle politique, les membres de la famille élargie de citoyens canadiens ou de résidents permanents, par exemple des grands-parents, des frères et des sœurs, directement touchés par la crise dans la bande de Gaza pourront obtenir une résidence temporaire au Canada.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2039132/gaza-canada-immigration-temporaire-temoignage