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 – Whistler Tourism Soars, but Crackdown on Foreign Labour Hurts Business
It’s been the best summer in years for tourism in Whistler, but the worst in terms of staffing as the resort town struggles with a crackdown on foreign workers. […]Help wanted signs are all over the resort town, which has a population of about 9,800 and hosts about 2 million visitors annually. Employers said worker shortages are due to restrictions to Canada’s temporary foreign worker program, which laid out plans to limit foreign workers last year. Mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden said the chamber of commerce is trying to get some relief through the program. “It’s a problem of success,” Wilhelm-Morden said. “We’ve had our busiest summer on record.” The community offers a lot of support for staff through an affordable housing program and community services but they just need to attract more employees, she said. The shortage is compounded by the fact that a lot of students who work in the town will be leaving at the end of August.
CBC – Meet Me At the Bell Tower Welcomes Local Immigrant Community
An initiative that aims to end violence in Winnipeg’s North End welcomed newcomers to Canada into the fold Friday night, at a meeting that organizers hope will “break stereotypes.” Meet Me at the Bell Tower started in the fall of 2011. The gathering, led by Aboriginal Youth Opportunities (AYO), brings people from the neighbourhood together for a weekly meeting in the area of Selkirk Avenue and Powers Street. This week, organizers extended an invitation to the city’s immigrant population to participate. […] Mandela Kuet, a member of Winnipeg’s South Sudanese community, said he was excited to take part because immigrants have a lot in common with Canada’s indigenous community. “We were very passionate about being youth leaders and being active in our community and advocating for our rights and the rights of young people,” said Kuet.
New Statesman – Europe Shouldn’t Worry About Migrants. It Should Worry About Creeping Fascism
Living standards have certainly gone down across the eurozone, but that has very little to do with immigration. The chosen minority must summon the fears of every social class at once. That’s why migrants, the bogeyman of choice, are presented as a paradox, just as the Jews were in the 1930s. Nobody can quite decide whether migrants are a problem because they work so hard that they’re taking all the jobs (the biggest fear of a working class pummelled by unemployment and falling wages) or because they’re too lazy to work so they’re taking all the benefit money (the biggest fear of a middle class suffering with rising rents and cuts to social services); It cannot be both at once, and in fact it isn’t – but it’s important that the paradox is maintained nonetheless. That’s why the Migration Advisory Council is imposing new, stricter controls on “skilled migrants” entering the country even as it cracks down on an already miserly state support system for asylum seekers. […] Human decency, however, has been factored out of the equation – on purpose. Britain and the rest of Europe have deliberately been whipped up into a state of panic over migration, and when people are panicking, they don’t really listen to reason.
Radio-Canada – Pas de permis de conduire pour les demandeurs d’asile en Alberta
Service Alberta refuse de donner aux demandeurs d’asile un permis de conduire en raison de leurs documents d’identification. Depuis février 2014, le gouvernement albertain n’accepte plus les papiers d’identification et le permis de travail fournis par le gouvernement fédéral aux demandeurs d’asile comme pièces d’identité pour l’obtention d’un permis de conduire ou une pièce d’identité provinciale. L’organisme d’aide CANAVUA d’Edmonton offre de nombreux services aux immigrants, dont des cours de conduite. Le directeur de l’organisme, Dicky Dikamba, accompagne souvent des demandeurs d’asile au bureau des registres pour qu’ils obtiennent leurs permis. Il voit depuis 2014 de nombreuses personnes se faire refuser leurs pièces d’identité. « On remarque qu’il y a des situations de précarité au jour le jour. Il y a des portes qui se ferment une à une. ». Puisqu’ils ne peuvent pas obtenir de permis de conduire et de pièces d’identité de la province, certains demandeurs d’asile n’arrivent pas à garder un emploi.
Our Windsor – On Syrian Refugee Crisis, Canada Failing Miserably
The Syrian Civil War has generated the largest refugee crisis in decades. Since 2011, when the conflict began, over 4 million people have fled Syria. An additional 8 million find themselves displaced within the country itself, unable or unwilling to go abroad. Many are exceptionally young, and have experienced little but the trauma of violence, dispossession, and displacement. […] Canada, for its part, has failed miserably. While the federal government has pledged humanitarian, development, and security assistance, it has essentially refused to participate in the resettlement effort in a meaningful way. […] An additional problem concerns the fact that Canadian officials have made it clear that they are essentially prioritizing claims from members of “religious minorities,” a euphemism for Christians and Yazidis. This practice runs contrary to the non-discriminatory approach to status determination required by the 1951 Refugee Convention. Roughly 90 per cent of all Syrians (and the vast majority of those who have been displaced and persecuted) identify as Muslims. Their suffering and vulnerability should be taken just as seriously as that of non-Muslims.
Toronto Star – International Students Add Brainpower to Research Projects
They’re bright young minds from around the world — India, Mexico, China — and a record number have been lured here this summer to add brainpower to some of Canada’s most cutting-edge research. Some 750 international university students — nearly 60 per cent more than last year — are here under a federally funded program called Globalink that pays undergrads to come to Canada for a 12-week summer research stint. Some 64 are working in the GTA this year, and 357 have come to Toronto’s universities over the past three years. “The objective is to attract highly qualified undergraduates to do research with a Canadian professor at a Canadian institution, with Canadian research,” said math professor Alejandro Adem, head of the national, non-profit MITACS program that runs Globalink and other research partnerships between Canada and the world. […] The federal government has provided $20 million over three years to Globalink to bring students to Canada. Students come largely from India, China, Brazil, France, Mexico and Australia.
