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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.
A federal court judge made “palpable and overriding” errors when she found a Canada-U.S. agreement to turn back asylum-seekers violated individuals’ right to life, liberty and security of the person, a government lawyer argued Tuesday. The Canadian government returned to court for a two-day hearing to defend the Safe Third Country Agreement after the pact was found unlawful last year.
A two-year-old research project between the federal government and Stanford University’s Immigration Policy Lab is offering hope for a tool that might someday point skilled immigrants toward the community in which they’d most likely flourish and enjoy the greatest economic success. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is eyeing a pilot program to test a matching algorithm that would make recommendations as to where a new immigrant might settle, department spokesperson Remi Lariviere told the Star.
Étant placée sous la thématique « L’avenir, c’est maintenant », l’édition 2021 du Mois de l’histoire des Noirs vise à reconnaitre et à mettre en valeur les efforts des Canadiens noirs. La jeunesse noire franco-ontarienne souhaiterait une meilleure visibilité dans le milieu communautaire. Selon les données du recensement de Statistique Canada de 2016, les Noirs représentaient près de 3,5 % de la population canadienne et 26,6 % d’entre eux étaient âgés de moins de 15 ans.
Des groupes communautaires réclament la libération des personnes migrantes détenues au Centre de surveillance de l’immigration (CSI) de Laval à la suite d’une éclosion de COVID-19 dans l’établissement. Selon les informations obtenues par Solidarité sans frontières, certains de ces détenus ont entamé une grève de la faim pour protester contre les conditions d’hygiène insalubres, le confinement en solitaire et le risque pour leur santé et leur sécurité personnelles.
The Canadian government says it did not know that the Beijing police own a company that operates its visa application centre in the Chinese capital, saying such information isn’t normally scrutinized by Ottawa in awarding contracts. On Monday, VFS Global, the company paid to run Canada’s visa application centres abroad, told the House of Commons committee on citizenship and immigration that the Canadian government approved its use of Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Co., which the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau owns.
A story about the difficulties faced by an Ottawa refugee family has brought an outpouring of support from the community. This newspaper was inundated with offers of support for Peter Oladipo and his family after publishing a story recounting their hardships. A medical catastrophe during childbirth last September left Motunrayo, Oladipo’s wife and mother of their three daughters, fighting for her life.