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.
CBC News – Immigrant Nurses in B.C. Say Language Proficiency Tests a Barrier to Practice
Anne Ignacio and her parents, all internationally educated nurses (IENs), immigrated to Canada from the Philippines almost a decade ago with hopes of continuing to work in their profession. But after multiple attempts at passing the English proficiency exam, she said they had to make the difficult decision to switch careers. “The required scores for the English exams, I find it ridiculous,” Ignacio said. “They require an overall score … and they also require you to meet a certain score for each category.”
Francopresse – Règlementation des consultants en immigration : « Le Canada devrait aussi bien examiner ses pratiques »
Le gouvernement veut serrer la vis aux consultants en immigration fraudeurs. À cette fin, le Collège des consultants en immigration et en citoyenneté (CCIC) ouvrira ses portes le 23 novembre prochain. Il aura un pouvoir de surveillance et de sanction envers les consultants en immigration peu scrupuleux, qui se font passer pour des consultants ou qui escroquent leurs clients. Mais pour Luisa Veronis, professeure agrégée à l’Université d’Ottawa, ce sont plutôt les processus d’immigration du Canada qu’il faudrait scruter.
CTV News – Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Waiting in Camps to Start Their New Lives
Nearly 10,000 Afghans, now out of the Taliban’s reach, are waiting in German refugee camps desperate for their new lives to begin. “We are supposed to be in Canada,” Naeem, who worked as an interpreter for a Canadian-funded project, told CTV National News. He escaped Afghanistan with his wife and six young children in a harrowing journey that lasted days before they were able to fly out of the country at the end of August.
Toronto Star – Left Behind in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan, Here Is the Story of How One Interpreter and His Family Escaped En Route to Canada
Hussain’s family — 16 people in total, including his brothers, their spouses and children — had been issued a “facilitation letter” for resettlement to Canada. They got a call to show up at the northwest gate of the Kabul airport for an evacuation flight on Aug. 25, the day before Canada ended its military mission in Afghanistan. But amid the whirlwind after the fall of Kabul, they were denied entry at the airport gate, and had no choice but to return yet again to the safe house.
Le Devoir – Des obstacles au parrainage des réfugiés afghans
Compte tenu de la crise actuelle en Afghanistan et du succès du Canada en matière de réinstallation des personnes réfugiées, pourquoi le gouvernement fédéral ne réagit-il pas maintenant comme il l’a fait en 2015, lorsque les images d’Alan Kurdi ont galvanisé des millions de Canadiennes et de Canadiens ?
Le Devoir – Les cégeps dans l’angle mort de l’anglicisation à Montréal
L’explosion du nombre d’étudiants étrangers qui ne maîtrisent pas le français menace l’équilibre linguistique à Montréal. Dans un nouvel essai à paraître le 7 octobre, que Le Devoir a obtenu, le chercheur Frédéric Lacroix braque les projecteurs sur ce qu’il considère comme un angle mort du projet de loi 96 : le recrutement massif de futurs citoyens du Québec par la porte d’entrée de l’enseignement en anglais.
