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 – Lives on Hold, Potential Immigrants Devastated by Pandemic Delays
Hopeful immigrants to Canada say they’ve quit their jobs, sold their homes and put their lives on hold — only to be paralyzed by the processing delays and lack of communication from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The IRCC website estimates six months to process a PR application for federal skilled workers. Gharachorloo, who has been waiting 22 months and wants to move to Ottawa, said the lack of answers from IRCC is “mentally torturing.”
Le Devoir – Se sentir Canadien ou Montréalais… mais pas Québécois
Faisant face à plusieurs difficultés dans leur communauté, plusieurs Québécois de deuxième génération d’origine africaine s’identifient au Canada et à Montréal, mais ne ressentent pas de sentiment d’appartenance par rapport au Québec. Ce sont du moins les conclusions de la thèse d’une doctorante de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), qui sera déposée prochainement. Bénédict Nguiagain, elle-même d’origine camerounaise, a parlé à 21 Québécois de 18 à 33 ans issus de l’immigration africaine de deuxième génération. Ces jeunes sont nés et ont grandi au Québec et pourtant, tous les jours, ils disent vivre des situations qui ne les font pas sentir comme s’ils étaient chez eux.
Financial Post – Posthaste: Move Over America, Canada Is Now the Most Desirable Destination for International Workers
A global survey of 208,807 workforce respondents in 190 countries shows Canada is now the most desirable destination for international workers, surpassing the United States. As many as 24 per cent of respondents said they were willing to relocate to Canada, followed by 20 per cent each willing to move to the United States or Australia. It was the first time in the survey’s eight year history that the U.S. lost the top spot as the most attractive destination for international workers.
Antra Mukherjee and her family, who had been living in the United Arab Emirates, applied to come to Canada a year ago through the Atlantic Immigration Pilot, launched four years ago as a way to lure immigrants to the Atlantic region to take jobs in hard-to-fill positions. As an early childhood educator, Mukherjee quickly matched her skills to a job at the Dartmouth Child Development Centre, which joined the program to find enough staff to keep the decades-old non-profit daycare from having to shut its doors.
CTV News – COVID-19 Pandemic Prompts Recent Newcomers to Leave Canada for Their Home Countries
The economic and life disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some recent immigrants to leave Canada and return to their countries of origin, where they have more social and family connections. The number of permanent residents who have been in Canada for less than five years declined by four per cent to 1,019,000 by the end of 2020 from 1,060,000 the year before, according to an analysis of Statistics Canada’s labour force survey that measures the number of workers between 15 and 65 years old by their immigration status.
Le Soleil – Des immigrants récents quittent le Canada en raison de la pandémie
Les perturbations de l’économie et de la vie quotidienne causées par la pandémie de COVID-19 ont incité certains immigrants récents à quitter le Canada et à retourner dans leur pays d’origine, où ils ont davantage de liens sociaux et familiaux. Le nombre de résidents permanents qui sont au Canada depuis moins de cinq ans a diminué de 4% pour s’établir à 1 019 000 à la fin de 2020 par rapport à 1 060 000 l’année précédente, selon une analyse de l’enquête sur la population active de Statistique Canada qui recense le nombre de travailleurs entre 15 et 65 ans par leur statut d’immigration.
