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.
Radio-Canada – Forcés de grandir trop tôt : des enfants d’immigrants ouvrent les factures
Traduire le menu au restaurant, déchiffrer la carte des transports en commun, ou encore vérifier que tel article est bien en solde, c’est le genre de petites tâches du quotidien que des enfants d’immigrés sont amenés à faire lorsque les parents ne parlent pas la langue de leur nouveau pays. Plus aptes à assimiler une nouvelle langue et plus précoces à acquérir les normes sociales, les enfants sont souvent un relais pour les parents. Dans certains cas, ils deviennent des médiateurs et se retrouvent impliqués dans des enjeux qui les dépassent.
CTV News – Expect Long Passport Lineups This Week, Post-Strike Immigration Backlog: Ministers
A federal minister is advising Canadians to expect long lines at passport offices this week as the public service resumes work following a 12-day strike. Families minister Karina Gould says the job action did not create a significant backlog, as the federal government received only about 20 per cent of the typical volume of passport applications during the strike. Meanwhile, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says about 100,000 decisions regarding immigration files were not processed during the strike.
CBC News – Sewing Class Teaching Newly-Arrived Afghan Women More Than Just Sewing
A class for Afghan women starting new lives in Calgary is using sewing machines to help them craft a fresh start in a new country. The women fled violence in their home country after the Taliban returned to power there in 2021. The federal government has brought more than 30,000 vulnerable Afghans to Canada, with many now settling and starting new lives in cities like Calgary.
CBC News – Immigrant Doctor Must Return to Iran to Practise in New Brunswick
Dr. Neda Asgharzadeh says she has delivered more than 5,000 babies and performed more than 1,000 surgeries, including hysterectomies and removing ovarian cysts. She managed a private clinic in Iran, and worked in a general hospital as well as a private hospital, she said. Asgharzadeh has been living in Saint John since 2020 and wants to help patients in New Brunswick too, but her credentials and 15 years of experience — two years as a general physician and 13 years as a specialist — aren’t recognized.
Al Jazeera – Canada Reaches Deal with 120,000 Striking Federal Workers
Canada has reached an agreement with 120,000 striking federal workers, effectively ending one of the largest public-sector work stoppages in the country’s history, which had crippled services from passport renewals to immigration. A third of Canada’s public workers – around 155,000 people – began striking on April 19, hitting picket lines at hundreds of locations around the country with demands for cost-of-living raises and telework flexibility.
Canada has finished six evacuation flights that began last week, the last of which took place on Saturday, National Defence Minister Anita Anand said Sunday. Those six flights evacuated nearly 550 people, while around 400 Canadians and permanent residents have been evacuated on both Canadian and other countries’ flights. Anand said there are another 230 Canadians still in the country looking for help and information from Global Affairs Canada.
