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.
Global News – Canada’s Immigration Backlog Rose in May. What’s Behind It?
Canada’s immigration backlog rose for the month of May, with officials saying more kinds of applications are being tallied even as the department gets better at handling claims within the target timeframes. In April, there were 809,000 immigration applications in backlog. The figure included temporary resident applications, permanent applications and citizenship grants. On June 16, the IRCC’s updated data revealed that the number of backlogged applications had risen to 820,000.
CBC News – Migrant Worker Advocacy Group Calls for Better Protections at Rally in Front of Local MP’s Office
Advocates for migrant workers gathered in front of Windsor—Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk’s office to deliver a report card full of Fs. Taneeta Doma is a lawyer with Justice for Migrant Workers (J4MW), the group behind the Sunday-evening protest. They organized it to highlight what she said were shortcomings of the open work permit for vulnerable workers that was supposed to make life better for temporary farm workers.
Radio-Canada – Surrey, une destination de moins en moins abordable pour les nouveaux arrivants
La ville de Surrey est depuis longtemps une alternative à sa voisine Vancouver, notamment pour de nombreux immigrants comme ceux venant de l’Asie du Sud. Alors que la crise du logement abordable perdure, des agents d’établissement affirment que les immigrants s’installent cependant toujours un peu plus loin. Cela signifie qu’ils s’éloignent notamment des services, des communautés et des infrastructures, dédiés à les soutenir dans leur processus d’installation.
CBC News – Surrey Used to Be a Destination for Newcomers. Some Settlement Experts Say Rising Costs Are Changing That
Surrey, B.C., has long been an affordable alternative to Vancouver. It’s also traditionally been an enclave for immigrants, many of them South Asian. But as the affordable housing crisis deepens, some settlement workers and immigration experts say newcomers are moving further afield — and away from the services, communities and infrastructure that is there to support them. “They’re being priced out of these historic cities where they felt a lot of safety,” said Meheret Bisrat, senior manager of community development with DiverseCity Community Resources Society.
Graduation marks a time of celebration and the promise of new beginnings for thousands of students across the country. But for St. Demetrius’s 33 refugees – in a class of 56 students in all – the excitement is mixed with worry about leaving a public school that has become a haven, and with anxiety about when it will be safe to reunite with their families. In the days leading up to their graduation, Adriana and four of her classmates describe leaving their homes in Ukraine, often without their fathers.
Radio-Canada – La communauté chinoise de Calgary se souvient de la loi sur l’immigration chinoise de 1923
Plusieurs Sino-Canadiens de Calgary étaient présents à la commémoration du centenaire de l’adoption de la Loi sur l’immigration chinoise, une loi qui visait à arrêter la venue de Chinois au Canada. Cette loi adoptée le 1er juillet 1923 exigeait que toutes les personnes chinoises, même celles nées au Canada, s’inscrivent auprès du gouvernement et qu’elles soient munies d’un certificat d’identification avec photo, sous peine d’amende, d’emprisonnement ou d’expulsion, précise le gouvernement fédéral.
