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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.
On Saturday, Svitlana Korchadova and her 6-year-old son took part in a Canadian milestone — going to their first hockey game. The mom and son attended the Manitoba Moose game thanks to their scouts group called Plast. The Ukrainian-focused youth organization brought around 120 people to the game, about half of them recent Ukrainian immigrants.
Avec une cible d’immigrants francophones déjà trop basse à 4 %, que le gouvernement fédéral échoue à atteindre année après année, il est plus que temps qu’Ottawa redresse la barre et revoit cette cible à la hausse, estime le nouveau ministre des Relations canadiennes et de la Francophonie canadienne, Jean-François Roberge. Ottawa n’a jamais réussi à atteindre cette cible dans le passé. Selon lui, le gouvernement Trudeau doit plutôt fixer « un seuil de réparation » de 12 % à 20 % d’immigrants francophones.
A study led by SickKids hospital in Toronto and non-profit research institute ICES compared 23,287 resettled refugees to 93,148 Ontario-born children and youth aged under 17 from 2008 to 2018. It found that health-care utilization is generally high among refugees but overall excess demand on the health system is minimal during their first year in Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-refugee-children-health-1.6672973
The federal government revealed last month a plan to up the number of new immigrants the country brings in each year to 500,000 by 2025, and while that number does seem quite substantial, it’s tough to tell on its own. Mikal Skuterud, Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo, said, with these latest federal targets, Canada has essentially set a goal to hit as high as 1.2 per cent of overall population by 2025, which he said would make Canada a bit of an outlier, comparatively.
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/local-news/is-canada-set-to-become-an-outlier-on-immigration-6190881
In the 1980s, thousands of Baha’is fled Iran and began new lives in Canada – many brought over through the federal government’s Iranian Baha’i refugee program. These refugees have watched the protests in Iran of the last two months – the biggest since the revolution in 1979 – with a mix of familiarity and horror. But given that this movement, sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, has gained broader appeal and international attention than any previous uprisings, many also see hope for lasting political and social change.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-iran-protests-2022-canada-bahai/
A 19-year-old Western University student from Afghanistan is racing against the clock to raise the $10,000 he still needs to bring his family to Canada before all the spots in a federal program expediting sponsorships for people fleeing the Taliban are taken. Fayaz Alamyar, who is studying computer sciences at Western through a scholarship, arrived in Canada last September after being granted political asylum.