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.
Star Phoenix – Suspects Arrested in Deaths of Migrants Abandoned in Truck [Austria]
The number of migrants found dead in a truck abandoned on an Austrian highway climbed to 71 Friday, as police disclosed that it had travelled through Hungary along the Western Balkans migration route. […] The new details about one of the most tragic incidents in Europe’s recent migration crisis came as Hungary was accused of inhumane treatment of refugees. A spokesman for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) described the ordeal faced by refugees on Hungary’s southern border as “unacceptable.” Police in the Austrian state of Burgenland gave the first complete account of the deaths of the migrants inside the truck. Three men have been arrested by Hungarian police, including two Bulgarians who are believed to have driven the truck. […] Hundreds of kilometres southeast of where the truck was found, thousands of migrants continued a daily struggle to enter Hungary from neighbouring Serbia. […] “This is just unacceptable. You have people collapsing at the door of Europe without receiving any help. It’s a desperate situation,” said Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UNHCR.
Radio-Canada – Un programme de mentorat pour aider les élèves immigrants à Banff
La rentrée scolaire a lieu plus tôt cette année pour une vingtaine d’élèves de l’école secondaire communautaire de Banff récemment arrivés au Canada, car ils participent à un programme de mentorat pour les aider à s’adapter à leur nouvelle vie dans cette école albertaine. Les nouveaux élèves sont jumelés à des jeunes qui comprennent bien leur expérience, puisqu’ils viennent eux-mêmes de familles immigrantes. Le programme Newcomer Orientation Week (NOW) permet aux élèves qui font leur première rentrée au Canada de s’ajuster à un système d’éducation différent de ce qu’ils connaissaient jusqu’à présent, explique Jeanie Godfrey, la superviseure des services d’établissement de la Vallée-de-la-Bow. Les mentors vont entre autres faire visiter l’édifice de l’école, expliquer comment consulter un horaire de cours, apprendre à utiliser un cadenas pour les vestiaires et s’adapter à un système d’éducation basé davantage sur la participation des élèves.
Journal de Montréal – Le fédéral intervient en faveur des pomiculteurs
Le ministère Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada est intervenu jeudi en faveur des pomiculteurs qui étaient en attente de travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Ces derniers risquaient de ne pas recevoir leur permis de travail avant la fin de la récolte. «On vient d’apprendre que nous aurons droit aux 11 travailleurs attendus, immédiatement», s’est réjoui François Jodoin, des Vergers Jodoin, en Montérégie. Au début du mois d’août, Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada ne lui promettait ses ouvriers agricoles latino-américains que pour la mi-novembre, soit trois semaines après la fin des récoltes. Jeudi, le ministère fédéral a proposé à la Fédération des producteurs de pommes du Québec (FPPQ) que les pomiculteurs fournissent sur un formulaire Excel la liste des noms des travailleurs prévus pour la cueillette dans leurs vergers pour accélérer le traitement de leur dossier. «Avec cette liste en main, Immigration Canada s’est engagé à les extraire de la banque de données des travailleurs étrangers temporaires qui existe en Alberta. Le ministère promet de les traiter en priorité», s’est félicitée la présidente de la FPPQ, Stéphanie Levasseur.
Yahoo News – Are Canada’s Post-Secondary Schools Taking Advantage of Foreign Students?
A $55-million lawsuit against Ontario’s Niagara College by some of its former international students raises questions about how Canadian educational institutions recruit overseas students and the immigration policies that help sweeten their marketing efforts. The class action lawsuit, filed earlier this month, claims students lost out on promised three-year Canadian work permits because the college failed to ensure its general arts and sciences diploma program would qualify them under Canadian immigration rules. Their legal claim says that although the college told them the four-month-long program – coupled with a previous year of Canadian studies and a bachelor’s degree from their home country – would make them eligible, they were denied the permits by Citizenship and Immigration Canada because most of the courses were online and considered “distance learning,” which did not count. […] Those claims still have to be demonstrated in court. But it’s no secret that post-secondary institutions across the country have benefited from the special status Canada’s immigration system gives to foreign students who graduate from their programs, say immigration lawyers. […] Tuition charts for Niagara College show international students can be charged $11,400 for a one-year diploma program, compared to $2760 for a student from Canada.
The Peterborough Examiner – New Immigration Strategy for Peterborough For the Next Five Years Plotted
Integrating into Peterborough’s community hasn’t been easy ride for newcomer Naser Miftari. Miftari immigrated to Peterborough from Kosovo in 2011 with his wife and son. He has a PhD in political science and a masters in journalism, though he hasn’t be able to land a secure job in either of his fields. […]That’s one of the reasons Miftari attended a community consultation on the 2015-2020 Immigrant Integration Strategy of Peterborough Thursday. Hosted by the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration (PPCII) and the New Canadians Centre, the event took place in the Peterborough Public Library’s auditorium. The consultation was a chance for individuals and organizations to provide input on the PPCII’s new strategy that’s to launch in November. The three key areas of focus for the plan are social infrastructure and planning, economic infrastructure and planning and outreach and policy change.
Vancouver Sun – Faster Timelines Mean Less Access to Justice for Refugees
Prior to the reforms to the refugee system in 2012, claims would take a year or two to be decided, in part because for many years the government was not naming new decision makers. The reforms, coupled with new decision makers and less claimants, have focused on making the refugee determination system move faster. The speed and rigidity of the new system has made experienced counsel even more important. Instead, our recently-released research report finds that the Conservative government’s 2012 changes to the refugee determination system — reforms widely criticized at the time — have made it even more difficult for refugee claimants in B.C. to work with a lawyer to put their best case forward in what has become an unforgiving system. With the shorter timelines in the new system, a claimant has to submit a detailed narrative setting out the basis for their claim just 15 days after arrival […] Most claimants have never testified before and are often terrified. When the day of the hearing arrives, many have not had a full night’s sleep since their arrival in Canada only a few weeks earlier.
