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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.
Refugees in Calgary have been getting a lesson on the importance of professional networking when it comes to their economic success in a new country. Around 100 refugees took part in an event at Platform Calgary this week organized by Jumpstart Refugee Talent, focused on finding work and forging new connections with established newcomers and business leaders who once had to overcome the same obstacles.
La rencontre annuelle des ministres responsables de la francophonie mettra l’accent sur l’immigration francophone au pays, une priorité pour les communautés francophones dans toutes les provinces et les territoires. La rencontre du Conseil des ministres de la francophonie canadienne a lieu jeudi et vendredi, à Vancouver. La politique d’immigration francophone est directement liée à la pénurie de main-d’œuvre francophone qui est généralisée au pays. C’était déjà une question prioritaire lors de la rencontre ministérielle à Regina en 2022.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1993713/francophonie-rencontre-ministres-ottawa-vancouver
Firecrackers popped as lion dancers rippled and tossed lettuce through the doorway of Vancouver’s historic Wing Sang Building. The crowd outside 51 East Pender St. cheered as they snapped photos with their phones. They gathered to witness the official opening of the Chinese Canadian Museum on Canada Day, 100 years after the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, also known as the Chinese Exclusion Act.
https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_41febc00-810a-5533-9ab1-ff74edd8ca21.html
Looking directly into news cameras on Wednesday, mayor-elect Olivia Chow put the blame for unhoused refugees sleeping on the street on the shoulders of the federal government. Ottawa “is not paying a cent right now for refugee housing,” Chow told reporters in Scarborough after the first of her three “transition” meetings about housing, mental health and homelessness with a range of experts.
The RCMP worked with London police and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to launch a probe this year and determined suspects were advertising abroad for labourers to work in Canada, police said. Recruited workers were placed in businesses across Southwestern Ontario by the suspects, who withheld their travel documents, paid them substandard wages and housed them in poor conditions, police allege. Investigators searched several London region locations June 8 and rescued 31 workers, all Mexican nationals aged 20 to 42, police said.
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/london-men-charged-in-human-trafficking-case-released-on-bail
Atlantic Canada has so far welcomed 504 asylum seekers who entered Canada using the former Roxham Road irregular border crossing in Quebec. New Brunswick says 242 of these claimants were staying in the province. Nova Scotia welcomed 164 of these people, while 94 others are in Newfoundland and Labrador, and four in Prince Edward Island. Newfoundland lawyer Michele Grant, who specializes in immigration, pointed out in an interview last Friday that it’s a huge challenge for these people to settle legally, especially as there are no permanent federal immigration employees in the province.