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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.
Amal Mohamud is on alert the moment she leaves her home. But lately, Mohamud has been hyper vigilant, reflecting what she calls the new normal of living in a city that has seen at least nine attacks reported against Muslim women, most of them Black and wearing a hijab, since December. Calgary has seen at least three Islamophobic attacks since March.
Advocates are calling on the City of Toronto to designate Chinatown a heritage site to help protect the historic neighbourhood from the pressures of the pandemic, rising racism and downtown real estate development. It follows a call from Chinese community leaders across the country to create a national action plan to help Chinatowns recover after COVID-19. The rise of anti-Asian racism and discrimination have also brought additional challenges for residents and businesses of Chinatown, they say.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/chinatown-heritage-district-toronto-1.6088784
Local support services in the region want community members shaken by recent Islamophobia incidents to know that they are never alone. Sandra Cocco, executive director of Immigrant Services Guelph Wellington said after the recent incident in London and the TikTok video filmed in Harriston, fear and confusion in the community increased. She said many who live in rural communities might believe that they don’t have access to the kinds of support people would in the city have which is not the case. “You’re not alone,” said Cocco.
Pour des dizaines de milliers de personnes, dont beaucoup déjà établies au Canada, le 1er juillet est un douloureux rappel que leur rêve tarde à se concrétiser. Les monstrueux retards accumulés dans le traitement des dossiers d’immigration, doublés d’une dispute fédérale-provinciale sur l’admission des immigrants au Québec, plombent les plans de ceux qui souhaitent faire leur vie au pays.
When Nazanin Moghadami started reading the Discover Canada guidebook in 2018 to prepare for her citizenship exam, she says she felt like she was being lied to about the country’s real history. While there were paragraphs about Hudson’s Bay and hockey, she says she found nothing helpful and accurate about Indigenous history, treaties and residential schools. “It was the most triggering text I have read in a long time,” recalls Moghadami, who said she had educated herself about Indigenous history and culture before she started preparing for her citizenship test.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadians-waiting-citizenship-guide-1.6084736
En raison des délais de traitement qui s’éternisent, des candidats à l’immigration doivent payer à nouveau des centaines de dollars pour des examens médicaux qui ont expiré. Outre les frais à payer, repasser un examen médical n’est pas toujours de tout repos. Loin de là. Le Canada ne dispose pas d’un médecin agréé dans chaque pays, et la logistique, déjà très coûteuse, peut aussi s’avérer extrêmement complexe.