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.
Près de trois ans après la mort par suffocation de 71 migrants dans un camion frigorifique découvert en Autriche en août 2015, la cour d’assises de Kecskemét, en Hongrie, a prononcé jeudi des peines de 25 ans de prison ferme à l’encontre des quatre principaux trafiquants impliqués. Originaires de Syrie, d’Irak et d’Afghanistan et en route pour l’ouest de l’Europe, les 71 victimes […].
A professor at Saint Mary’s University says the key to retaining immigrants in Nova Scotia is being able to offer meaningful employment, and sell them on “the smell of the sea.” Ather Akbari, chair of the Atlantic Research Group on Economics of Immigration, Aging and Diversity, said Nova Scotia’s 75 per cent retention rate can be improved by providing greater economic opportunity. Akbari will be presenting some of his findings Thursday as part of the International Conference in Intercultural Studies taking place at Saint Mary’s until Saturday.
The Senate has passed a critical amendment to the Impaired Driving Act that would spare permanent residents sentenced to less than six months from being deported. Bill C-46 intends to raise the maximum penalty for impaired driving in Canada from five to 10 years. As originally proposed, it would have automatically classified all DUI offences as “serious criminality.” That designation, under immigration law, would have resulted in the loss of permanent residence status even for a first-time offender who caused no bodily harm.
The government’s decision to no longer require Romanian citizens to obtain travel visas before coming to Canada has led to a “noticeable increase” in organized crime activity, according to a declassified report obtained by Global News. A Canada Border Services Agency Intelligence Advisory, obtained under the Access to Information Act, linked the growth of Romanian organized crime directly to the Trudeau government’s halting of the visa requirement six months ago.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4270171/intelligence-report-organized-crime/
The Conservatives are calling on the federal government to increase the number of LGBTQ refugees it accepts every year, and to make permanent the funding for a pilot project that helps LGBTQ refugees come to Canada. In March, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced that funding of $50,000 a year for the Rainbow Refugee Assistance Pilot Project would be extended for two years. The project assists people looking for refugee status in Canada due to persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender or HIV status.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lgbtq-refugee-rainbow-funding-1.4705254
Olajide Ogunye, 47, was born in Nigeria and became a Canadian citizen in 1996. But his citizenship and Ontario health cards did not convince CBSA officers of his identity when they approached him outside his Toronto home on June 1, 2016. According to Ogunye’s statement of claim, the officers ran his fingerprints, which they said matched the identity of failed refugee claimant who had been deported from Canada. Ogunye says he was locked up for a total of eight months, from June 2016 through February 2017.