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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.
Police in Akwesasne announced Friday that a local man who had been sought since his boat was discovered in March near the bodies of eight migrants in the St. Lawrence River has been found dead. The Akwesasne Mohawk Police said the Quebec coroner’s office identified a body found earlier this month in the river as 30-year-old Casey Oakes.
Hundreds of shelter beds city council opened up to temporarily house refugee claimants less than two weeks ago are already full, and the cash-strapped municipality has nowhere to put asylum seekers sleeping in crowded conditions at two local churches, according to Mayor Olivia Chow. Chow made the remarks Friday after touring the Revivaltime Tabernacle Church in North York, where for more than a week more than 100 asylum seekers have been living in close quarters.
A mayor southeast of Quebec City says a body has been found in the river where a Ukrainian refugee was reported missing nine days ago. Police have not named the missing man, but the Ukrainian Canadian Congress has said he is Sumit Shyder, a 21-year-old who had fled the war in Ukraine with his family and had been in Canada since the beginning of the month.
La forte augmentation de la population se perçoit dans la communauté francophone. L’immigration est le principal facteur qui explique la hausse de la population sur l’île, en particulier dans la région de la capitale, Charlottetown, où des milliers de nouveaux arrivants se sont installés ces dernières années. C’est aussi là où l’on trouve le plus de gens qui parlent français. Entre 1991 et 2021, le nombre de personnes capables d’avoir une conversation en français à Charlottetown a doublé, passant de 6000 à 12 000 résidents.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1999670/personnes-qui-parlent-francais-ipe
Si elle se maintient, la forte hausse du nombre d’immigrants au Canada se traduira par un accroissement de la pénurie de logements, des taux d’intérêt plus élevés et des difficultés accrues à répondre aux besoins en matière de santé, de filet social et d’infrastructures, estime une étude de la Banque TD. La population canadienne a augmenté de 1,2 million de personnes l’an dernier, soit de plus du double qu’en 2019, avant que ne survienne la pandémie de COVID-19, et pas tellement moins que la population américaine (+1,7 million), pourtant près de 10 fois plus importante.
Canada’s immigration landscape has been dramatically changed by a program that has let provinces select their own skilled immigrants, a new study shows. For the past two decades, it has seen newcomers spread more evenly across Canada — beyond the three traditional immigrant destinations: Ontario (mainly Toronto), British Columbia and Quebec.