Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.
Halifax Today – Peace by Chocolate’s Tareq Hadhad to Become Canadian Citizen Next Month
Nova Scotia’s best-known chocolatier will soon become a Canadian citizen. Tareq Hadhad took to social media earlier this week to share the news that he just aced his citizenship test. Hadhad’s father owned a chocolate factory in Damascus. Hadhad arrived in Canada in late 2015, and was followed by his siblings and parents a month later. Sponsored by a group in Antigonish, they settled in the community and soon restarted the family business, launching Peace by Chocolate in 2016.
CBC News – Supreme Court to Decide Whether to Hear Appeal from Former Nazi Interpreter
Canada’s top court will decide Thursday whether to hear an appeal from a 95-year-old ex-Nazi interpreter fighting to retain his Canadian citizenship — a decision that ultimately could lead to Helmut Oberlander’s deportation. The Waterloo, Ont., man has been engaged in a legal battle with the the federal government since 1995, when the RCMP launched an investigation into his alleged involvement in war crimes. That triggered the process to strip him of his Canadian citizenship, which he has challenged through the courts.
CBC News – ‘Why Is This Happening to Me?’ Immigration Issues Keep B.C. Man and Wife Apart for 20 Years of Marriage
Paramjit Basanti, a Canadian living in Surrey, B.C., wed Charanjit Kular — an Indian citizen who is now 52 — in an arranged marriage in February 1999. Since then, he has tried to sponsor her five times. All five times, she was rejected. His lawyer, Narindar Kang, said it’s a symptom of the Canadian immigration system’s misplaced focus on preventing “bad faith” marriages. Those are marriages where a couple marries solely to get one partner Canadian citizenship with no intention of staying together.
National Post – Saskatchewan Government Seeks More Immigration Powers for Province, like Those in Quebec
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he wants more provincial say over immigration. Moe says he wants additional control over selecting classes and skills to help achieve his goal of growing Saskatchewan’s population by 300,000 residents to 1.4 million over the next decade and creating 100,000 new jobs. The economic and family classes are the immigration areas Moe says he’s most interested in. He says he wants the province to have the ability to change the proportion of immigrants coming in under those categories as needed.
CTV News – Pregnant Woman Faces Deportation Despite Doctors Warning It’s Unsafe for Her to Travel
The Canadian Border and Services Agency has scheduled Farhana Sultana’s flight home for Jan. 10 after her permanent residency application was rejected last month. Sultana told CTV News Toronto that she’s now simply begging the federal agency to at least let her stay until she gives birth to her baby girl, who is due on March 1, to ensure no harm is caused to her child or herself. A doctor, who specializes in high risk pregnancies, wrote to the CBSA that Sultana is under her care for investigation of cardiac issues in pregnancy.
Info Radio-Canada – Laïcité de l’État : la juge en chef Duval Hesler reporte une conférence
Au cœur d’une controverse, la juge en chef du Québec, Nicole Duval Hesler, prend ses distances par rapport à l’Association de droit Lord Reading, qui a déposé une procédure devant les tribunaux afin d’intervenir dans une contestation de la Loi sur la laïcité de l’État. La juge ne donnera donc pas sa conférence prévue la semaine prochaine sur le thème Comment éviter les conflits d’intérêts à la Cour d’appel. Le souper-conférence organisé par l’association Lord Reading devait avoir lieu le 10 décembre à la synagogue Shaar Hashomayim à Westmount.
