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.
La Presse – Une formation bonifiée pour les apprentis policiers
Le gouvernement Legault annoncera ce mercredi une bonification de la formation des futurs policiers afin qu’ils comprennent mieux les réalités des communautés racisées, ethnoculturelles et autochtones. Un bloc de 45 heures d’enseignement sera ajouté à la technique policière afin de mieux les outiller lors de leurs interventions auprès de ces citoyens. Dès l’automne prochain, les 11 cégeps et 2 collèges privés qui offrent le programme d’études en techniques policières pourront ajouter 45 heures à la formation qui en compte actuellement 2430. Cette bonification deviendra obligatoire pour tous les établissements en 2023.
CTV News – Migrants, Undocumented Workers Fear Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Could Lead to Deportation
Syed Hussan of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change said many fear that getting vaccinated could lead to deportation or detainment due to lack of identification or law enforcement gaining access to vaccine database information. Hussan said that what Canada needs is a “very clear system,” to ensure that “vaccination is provided for free, without a healthcard, with no name, address and ID information that is tracked – and if it is tracked, it’s not shared with federal law enforcement.”
ONFR + – Une mineure bilingue en études africaines en Saskatchewan
La Cité universitaire francophone de l’Université de Regina offrira, dès l’automne prochain, une mineure bilingue en études africaines. Ce programme a été inspiré en grande partie par la présence et la contribution des immigrants venus d’Afrique francophone qui ont choisi la Saskatchewan. Plus qu’une simple fenêtre sur l’Afrique, la mineure en études africaines pourrait devenir un pont entre la Saskatchewan et le continent africain puisque les étudiantes et étudiants inscrits au programme pourraient être appelés à se rendre de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique.
Halifax Today – Welcoming Wheels Gears Up for Another Year Helping Newcomers Work on Their Cycling Chops (5 Photos)
For newcomers to Canada, a bike can also be an important step in feeling welcome in the community, the city, and the country at large. The Welcoming Wheels program, run out of the Ecology Action Centre, understands this, and has made getting newcomers onto bikes a key part of their mandate. “Welcoming Wheels started in 2015, in response to the influx of Syrian refugees into Nova Scotia,” says Anika Riopel, director of the program.
Globe and Mail – Essential Jobs, Multigenerational Homes: Filipino Canadians Are Bearing a Heavy Brunt of COVID-19
Though Manitoba is the only province that can quantify the caseload for Filipinos specifically, physicians, labour unions and community advocates have said that in many parts of the country, this ethnic group has shouldered a disproportionate burden of the virus owing in part to how many take on essential jobs and live in multigenerational homes. While the collection of these data has been heralded, it may be too late into the pandemic to enact the policy changes required to correct that overrepresentation.
CTV News – LGBTQ+ Asylum Seeker in Montreal, Said to Face Nearly ‘Certain Death’ in Jordan, to Be Deported Monday
A man who walked into Quebec to seek asylum is set to be deported on Monday to what his lawyer calls “just about certain death,” at the hands of his own father. Samer, a 33-year-old man originally from Jordan, tried to apply for refugee status on the grounds that he’s bisexual. In a letter his lawyer says was filed at the Immigration and Refugee Board hearing, Samer’s relatives describe how he has “shamed the family,” and detailed how they’ll kill him if he returns home: by burning him or throwing him off a building.
