Media Roundup

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.


CBC News – Canada ‘On Track’ to Resettle 1,200 Victims of ISIS Genocide, Sexual Slavery

Canada is on track to resettle 1,200 survivors of ISIS atrocities by year’s end, and the vast majority of those who have arrived so far are Yazidis. According to new information provided to CBC News by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, 81 per cent are Yazidi. About 38 per cent have come from Iraq, another 36 per cent from Lebanon and 26 per cent from Turkey. All remaining arrivals are expected to be from Iraq, and the government is “on track” to meet its commitment, said IRCC spokeswoman Nancy Caron.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yazidi-isis-victims-canada-1.4369673

BBC News – One in Five Canadians Is Immigrant, Highest in 95 Years

New census figures show over one in five Canadians report being immigrant, some with permanent residency. Over 1.2m people settled permanently in Canada between 2011 and 2016, most coming in as skilled economic immigrants. The proportion of visible minorities has also grown and is now over 22% of the population.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41742338

CBC News – Alberta Surpasses B.C. as Immigration Destination

For the first time in decades, Alberta has surpassed British Columbia as a destination for recent immigrants. That’s according to the latest census data, released Wednesday by Statistics Canada, which shows how immigration patterns have shifted toward the Prairie provinces in general — and Alberta, in particular. “Over the past 15 years, the share of recent immigrants in the Prairie provinces has more than doubled,” the federal agency said in a release.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-recent-immigrants-2016-census-data-1.4370779

Global News – Census 2016: More Than One Fifth of Canadians Are Foreign-Born, Proportion from Asia Growing

More than one fifth of Canadians were born in another country, according to the 2016 census released Wednesday by Statistics Canada. It’s the second census in a row to show that more than 20 per cent of Canadians were foreign-born – a proportion not seen since the first three decades of the 1900s. Asian countries accounted for seven out of the top 10 source countries for immigrants in the last five years, according to census data.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3823778/canadians-immigrant-foreign-born-asian-census-2016/

Maclean’s – New Figures Show Just How Big Canada’s Immigrant Wage Gap Is

In spite of their ostensible importance to the Canadian economy, immigrants have yet to catch up to other Canadians in terms of economic outcomes. Census data from 2006 showed, at a national level, first-generation immigrants earned wages 12.6 per cent less than the average wage of native Canadians. In 2011, the gap dropped slightly to 10 per cent, but the new census data shows it’s climbed significantly to 16 per cent.

http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/new-figures-show-just-how-big-canadas-immigrant-wage-gap-is/