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 – 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, were set to be suspended on August 1st due to a lack of funding. The program is now set to continue until at least mid-November.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/financially-strapped-legal-service-for-b-c-immigrants-gets-temporary-federal-help-1.4223123

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 […].

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/07/25/le-canada-peut-detenir-des-immigrants-indefiniment

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.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-region-chinese-immigration-fraud-1.4221538

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.

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/immigration-detention-system-is-legal-though-not-always-applied-perfectly-judge/wcm/44ba03f9-337a-4f6b-aeb1-aa4a688719cb

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.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/07/25/jailing-immigration-detainees-indefinitely-does-not-violate-charter-federal-judge-rules.html

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 […].

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201707/23/01-5118725-des-travailleurs-etrangers-menaces-dexpulsion-manifestent.php