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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.
Laval resident Parwiz Haidari is worried about his brother who is stuck in Tajikistan waiting for his Quebec immigration application to be processed. If it isn’t done soon, his brother may be sent back to their home country of Afghanistan after having fled there more than a year ago, just before the Taliban took over.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/laval-afghanistan-quebec-immigration-1.6648573
Roman Lakhnyuk began volunteering as a translator at a couple of refugee centres in Warsaw. He soon met another Canadian volunteer, Bruce Callow, and they began talking about the Ukrainians they’d met who had received Canadian visas but couldn’t afford the airfare. They decided to find a way to help and they started out by matching one donor with two refugees. From there they began fundraising to pay for more flights and so far they have helped 30 refugees come to Canada.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ukraine-refugees-canada-fundraiser/
After January 1, 2023, it will be illegal for any non-Canadian to purchase residential property anywhere in Canada. The prohibition is contained in a law passed by Parliament in June called the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act. But the law may well be unconstitutional. Under pending regulations, it is expected that vacant land and cottages outside of major metropolitan areas will be exempt from the ban.
Entretien – La cible de l’immigration francophone reste inchangée dans le Plan des niveaux d’immigration 2023-2025, malgré des assouplissements dans le système Entrée express. Le ministre Sean Fraser assure qu’il faudra ajouter plusieurs outils à ce système revampé pour augmenter le nombre d’immigrants francophones, plutôt que de mettre en place un seul programme d’immigration économique pour les francophones hors Québec.
Kamila Jamili has called Saskatoon home after being sponsored and arriving in the city during the summer after fleeing Afghanistan due to the Taliban. While she has friends, a roof over her head, and is slowly adjusting to her new life, there’s one important person who is missing, her younger 18-year-old brother Ali. In October 2021, Ali managed to escape but still isn’t safe.
After spending years pleading with the federal government to expedite their brother’s application to come to Canada, Layla and Amal Alhussein have finally reunited with their 13-year-old brother, Ayad. The last time Layla and Amal saw their brother was in Iraq, where their entire family was captured by ISIS in August 2014. The sisters came to Canada in 2018 as refugees through the federal government’s 2017 commitment to settle 1,200 Yazidi refugees and ISIS survivors.