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.
CBC News – Financially Strapped Legal Service for B.C. Immigrants Gets Temporary Federal Help
A program that provides free legal services to B.C. immigrants and refugees has been given a temporary reprieve after the federal government provided it with a $386,000 emergency cash injection.
The services provided by the Legal Services Society, wereset to be suspended on August 1st due to a lack of funding. The program is now set to continue until at least mid-November.
TVA Nouvelles – Le Canada peut détenir des immigrants indéfiniment
Détenir en prison des immigrants indéfiniment pendant que le gouvernement se penche sur leur dossier ne viole pas la Charte des droits et libertés, a estimé la Cour fédérale. Dans une décision émise mardi, le juge Simon Fothergill a indiqué que la détention de personnes en vertu de la […].
CBC News – Immigration Scam Targeting Chinese Community in GTA ‘Too Good to be True’: Police
Police in Peel Region are sounding the alarm over what they say are a set of immigration scams promising to help customers secure documents for relatives to travel from China to Canada. The ads, which were published in several Chinese-language daily newspapers throughout the Greater Toronto Area, were directed towards the Chinese community, Const. Mark Fischer told CBC Toronto on Tuesday. Police say a “fictitious” company called Gao Sheng Investment Corporation advertised for visitor visas, work permits and immigration documents to foreign residents.
National Post – Federal Court Accepts Long-term Immigration Detention Is Legal but Cautions on How It Is Used
The Federal Court of Canada rejected a constitutional challenge attacking the legality of detaining immigrants, saying checks and balances give enough protection to keep Canada’s immigration act on the right side of legal. After hearing a battery of complaints about the detention of immigrants who are difficult to deport, however, Justice Simon Fothergill said cases deviating from the expected process are a problem of bad management by the Immigration and Refugee Board not the legality of the process.
Toronto Star – Immigration Detainees Can Be Jailed Indefinitely, Federal Judge Rules
Canada’s practice of indefinitely jailing immigration detainees does not violate the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday. Lawyers representing former immigration detainee Alvin Brown — who spent five years in a maximum-security jail before the government was able to deport him to Jamaica last September — had argued that Canada’s entire immigration detention regime was unfair and unconstitutional. They called upon the court to set a maximum length of time the government could detain non-citizens while trying to deport them, as is the case in some other countries.
La Presse – Des travailleurs étrangers menacés d’expulsion manifestent
Des travailleurs étrangers menacés d’expulsion demandent à pouvoir rester au Canada pour mener une bataille judiciaire contre une agence de placement qui les aurait floués. La grand-messe célébrée hier à l’oratoire Saint-Joseph pour les travailleurs agricoles mexicains et […].