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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.
Blaming immigrants for the housing crisis in Canada is something that all political parties say they’re keen to avoid, yet there have already been risky remarks on that score, across the board. And there will probably be more.
A deal Canada struck this year to stem the flow of asylum seekers entering from the U.S. was, at first glance, a quick success: Within days, the number of people caught at unofficial crossings along the border dwindled to a trickle.
But five months later, the overall number of people filing refugee claims in Canada has risen instead of falling. Many now come by air, while others sneak across the border and hide until they can apply for asylum without fear of being sent back, people working with migrants told Reuters.
Après avoir envisagé la possibilité de forcer tous les futurs médecins spécialistes à pratiquer en région dans sa réforme du réseau, le ministre de la Santé, Christian Dubé, ne cible maintenant plus que les étudiants étrangers venus chercher leur formation au Québec. Une disposition prévue au projet de loi 15 (PL-15) « visant à rendre le réseau de santé et de services sociaux plus efficace » pourrait permettre au ministre d’obliger les étudiants en provenance de l’extérieur de la province à pratiquer leur spécialité médicale en région pour une période de quatre ans à partir de l’obtention de leur permis.
The federal government is asking a judge to combine two separate lawsuits, after another Afghan Canadian alleged Canada discriminated against Afghan refugees by treating them differently than they did Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
A former Canadian language and culture adviser who served NATO in Afghanistan filed a lawsuit at the end of July alleging the government has not allowed his family in Afghanistan to seek refuge in Canada.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9935623/2nd-afghan-canadian-refugees-lawsuit-ukraine/
Nova Scotia has become the first province to stop holding immigration detainees in its jails on behalf of the federal government.
Canada Border Services Agency spokeswoman Rebecca Purdy says the province ended the practice Aug. 8.
Other provinces, including British Columbia and Alberta, have said they too would stop holding immigration detainees. However, both of those provinces have agreed to temporarily continue housing high-risk detainees in jails, but are not accepting new inmates.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9934231/nova-scotia-stop-immigration-detainees/
A Toronto church that opened its doors to hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers who were unable to access the city’s shelter system is calling for more help from all levels of government with the space that was used for newcomers now needed for other programs with school just around the corner.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/asylum-seekers-refugees-toronto-church-shelter-1.6931538