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.
Toronto Star — Canada ended this temporary foreign worker program. It may affect how food gets to your table
Ottawa is not renewing or replacing an immigration program that has been lauded by the agri-food industry for securing a stable and permanent workforce for employers while helping to protect vulnerable workers. The Agri-Food Pilot, launched in 2020, offered a permanent residence pathway for full-time, year-round temporary foreign workers in the meat processing, mushroom and greenhouse production, and livestock-raising industries to fill ongoing labour needs.
CBC News — Steep drop in international graduate student enrolment at Laurentian University projected for the fall
Laurentian University’s Board of Governors has approved a balanced budget for the 2025-26 taking into account a steep decline in international graduate students and financial instability posed by American trade policy.
Both factors have created additional costs, resulting in academic units and administrative departments being asked to contract their non-salary spending from last year’s levels, although staffing levels remain stable.
“The next fiscal year will be a significant one for Laurentian University in a number of historic ways,” wrote President Lynn Wells.
Le gouvernement Legault a conclu une entente avec « ses partenaires du réseau de l’éducation » pour s’assurer que les élèves qui suivent des cours de francisation dans le réseau scolaire ne se retrouvent pas Gros-Jean comme devant, comme ce fut le cas l’an dernier. « Je veux que, l’an prochain, on francise le même nombre de personnes, mais mieux, sans psychodrame », a expliqué le ministre de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration, Jean-François Roberge, mercredi matin, en mêlée de presse à l’Assemblée nationale.
City News — US government expands grounds for canceling international students’ legal status
The federal government is expanding the reasons international students can be stripped of their legal status in the U.S., where thousands have come under scrutiny in a Trump administration crackdown that has left many afraid of being deported. Attorneys for international students say the new reasons allow for quicker deportations and serve to justify many of the actions the government took this spring to cancel foreign students’ permission to study in the U.S. After abruptly losing their legal status in recent weeks with little explanation, students around the country filed challenges in federal courts.
CTV News — ‘Opportunity in this country’: Immigrant MP candidates push for a new Canadian dream
However, a November 2024 survey of 2,500 Canadians commissioned by the federal government found that 54 per cent believed too many immigrants are coming to the country. That figure dropped when respondents were told that Ottawa planned to admit fewer newcomers in 2025, in a sharp shift on immigration levels. Among those who still felt that Canada is accepting “too many” immigrants, the housing crisis and economic worries were listed among the main reasons.
Radio-Canada — Pas question de retourner aux États-Unis! disent des étudiants américains au Canada
Étudiants en médecine, en neuroscience ou encore en science politique, futurs épidémiologistes, gynécologues ou chercheurs, leurs aspirations sont diverses. Mais ils ont tous en commun d’être Américains, d’étudier au Canada et de réfléchir sérieusement à changer leurs plans d’études, et même de carrière, en raison de la situation politique aux États-Unis. Quelques heures passées à ratisser le campus de l’Université McGill à Montréal auront suffi pour tirer ce constat : la grande majorité des étudiants américains rencontrés, tant au premier cycle qu’aux cycles supérieurs, sont inquiets pour leur avenir.
