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.
Radio-Canada – Le temps presse pour les demandeurs d’asile accueillis à Toronto
Par un après-midi d’été, les babillages d’enfants se font entendre à travers les portes closes et se répandent dans les corridors déserts d’une résidence étudiante de Toronto. Les 54 chambres du Collège Centennial accueillent temporairement 344 demandeurs d’asile, dont 96 familles. Des centaines d’autres personnes dans la même situation sont hébergées dans une autre […].
Toronto Star – Lost for Words: One in Every 20 Torontonians Can’t Speak English or French, Study Finds
More than 132,700 Toronto residents are unable to have a conversation in either official language and they account for 20.5 per cent of the 648,970 non-English and non-French-speaking population across Canada, according to the Social Planning Toronto report which is believed to be the first ever to profile this cohort. Census data collected between 1996 and 2016 found the number of people without knowledge of either official language has increased by more than 175,000 in Canada over the two decades.
Globe and Mail – Deadline Looms for Hundreds of Asylum Seekers Temporarily Housed in Toronto Student Residences
Fifty four-bedroom dormitories at Centennial College now serve as temporary homes for 344 asylum seekers, including 96 families. Hundreds more are currently being housed in another student residence. But with less than a month before students return ahead of the school year, time is running out for refugee claimants who have yet to find a more permanent home. The Aug. 9 deadline has been the focus of political discussions in recent weeks.
CBC News – U.S. Fisherman Says Canadians not Alone in Being Stopped by Border Patrol Agents
John Drouin of Cutler, Maine, said Friday that he was out about two weeks ago when U.S. patrol agents came alongside his boat in the so-called Grey Zone to him to ask where he was from and to see his paperwork. The veteran fisherman said he was slightly bemused by the encounter, having rarely seen patrol boats in the area over four decades of fishing. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in an email late Thursday that agents were enforcing “immigration laws and other violations of federal law.”
Radio-Canada – L’immigration et les services au cœur de la Conférence sur la francophonie canadienne
La 23e Conférence ministérielle sur la francophonie canadienne s’est terminée vendredi à Whitehorse, au Yukon. Les ministres provinciaux, territoriaux et fédéral qui y étaient rassemblés ont discuté de plusieurs dossiers touchant les communautés francophones du pays. Lors de la rencontre, il a notamment été question de l’immigration francophone au Canada […].
Canadian Lawyer – Feds Need to End Detention of Children, Say Human Rights Groups
Human rights groups are calling on Ottawa to reform the immigrant detention system by legislating against indefinite detention, detaining non-citizens with mental health conditions and eliminating the detention of children. The International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law joined Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change in delivering an open letter July 6 to the Trudeau government, telling them to accept recommendations made by four United Nations member states to address “severe rights violations” in Canada’s immigrant detention system.
