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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.
A two-year federal ban to stop people and corporations that aren’t Canadian from buying residential property goes into effect on Jan. 1. It’s a move that supposed to help make housing more affordable for those that live in this country. The legislation comes with a host of exceptions, including international students and refugees. But some critics say it still goes too far.
Pour améliorer les conditions de détention des personnes immigrantes, Ottawa vient d’inaugurer un nouveau « centre de surveillance » de 50 millions de dollars. Larges fenêtres laissant entrer la lumière naturelle, « espaces récréatifs » garnis de livres et de jeux de société, salle d’entraînement, trois repas par jour : le projet vise à offrir un traitement « humain » aux nouveaux arrivants. Cet édifice flambant neuf, situé sur la montée Saint-François à Laval, reste tout de même une prison.
https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/776368/immigration-une-prison-doree-pour-les-immigrants
Barret Kropf has spent his holidays under a stack of seemingly endless paperwork and appointments, but there’s nothing he’d rather be doing. The general manager for the Prairie Hockey Academy in Caronport, Sask. recently welcomed a pair of Ukrainian refugees after a friend of his from Europe informed him of a 14-year old hockey player living in a Polish refugee camp looking to resettle in Canada.
https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/sask-hockey-coach-helps-ukrainian-player-relocate-to-canada-1.6213530
Skilled immigrants are needed to increase Canada’s home supply as a wave of retirements closes in on the nation’s construction industry, the federal housing minister says. “We know there is over a million jobs in Canada that remain unfilled, so we need immigrants, skilled immigrants, to come in and help us fill those unfilled jobs and help us grow our economy,” Ahmed Hussen said.
https://globalnews.ca/news/9367235/canada-housing-immigration-ahmed-hussen/
The Pembroke Regional Hospital is very happy to welcome Dr. Pierre Zakko, Internal Medicine specialist, to its team of professional staff. Zakko who joined the hospital in mid-July was born and raised in Aleppo, Syria where he went to medical school and graduated in 2015. In 2016, he came to Canada as a Syrian refugee and spent two years in Montreal completing his equivalency exams and working at the Clinique Le Plein Ciel in Saint-Laurent, Que.
An international student who moved his wife and son from Jordan based on a government pilot program still doesn’t know why his college no longer qualifies for that program — and why he no longer qualifies for a work permit, as promised. Omar Burqan is set to graduate next month from the educational assistant program and has no idea whether he’ll receive the work permit Atlantic Business College in Fredericton promised him was part of the program.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/international-pilot-program-private-colleges-1.6699700