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.
Radio-Canada – Sudbury : destination de choix pour les nouveaux arrivants?
Plusieurs immigrants qui arrivent dans le Grand Sudbury éprouvent des difficultés d’intégration. La ville nord-ontarienne n’est pas la première destination des nouveaux arrivants francophones. Lorsqu’ils arrivent à Sudbury, ils sont pour la plupart passés par les métropole: ils ont vécu à Toronto ou à Montréal pendant quelques années. La plupart des immigrants qui arrivent à Sudbury, c’est qu’ils ont décroché un emploi dans la région. Alors la pertinence d’un salon de l’emploi pour les nouveaux arrivants francophone, organisé aujourd’hui par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada, se pose. Est-ce vraiment ce dont les immigrants ont besoin? Mona Haouas, originaire de la Tunisie, est arrivée à Montréal en 2009 et depuis quatre ans, elle vit dans le Grand Sudbury. Comme plusieurs, elle a de la difficulté à s’intégrer.
Journal de Montréal – Le gouvernement Harper opposé au port du niqab pour l’obtention de la citoyenneté, mais pas dans la fonction publique
Tout en s’opposant au port du niqab lors des cérémonies d’assermentation de la citoyenneté canadienne, le gouvernement Harper défend le droit des femmes de travailler à visage couvert dans la fonction publique fédérale. Le débat sur le port des signes religieux qui a fait rage au Québec semble se transposer sur la scène fédérale, depuis que la Cour fédérale a rendu un jugement, le mois dernier, qui renverse une règle mise en place par les conservateurs pour interdire le port du niqab durant ces cérémonies. Après avoir annoncé l’intention du gouvernement d’en appeler de la décision, qualifiant le port du voile dans cette circonstance «d’offensant», le premier ministre Stephen Harper est revenu à la charge, mardi aux Communes, en affirmant qu’il s’agit d’une pratique «enracinée dans une culture misogyne». Le chef du Parti libéral du Canada, Justin Trudeau, et le chef du NPD, Thomas Mulcair, se sont pour leur par rangés derrière la décision du tribunal. Tout en soutenant la position du premier ministre, le président du Conseil du Trésor, Tony Clement, a pour sa part déclaré que les femmes musulmanes pouvaient porter le niqab et travailler pour l’État.
CBC – Rainbow Refugee Assistance Program Extended for 2 Years
One of the people involved in helping to bring three gay men to Nova Scotia as refugees is happy the federal government has extended funding to the project for another two years. However, Corrie Melanson is still worried over the long-term future of the Rainbow Refugee initiative. “They’re extending for two years. They’re continuing it as a pilot. And so my mixed emotion is that it’s not becoming a permanent program,” she told CBC news on Tuesday. “We’re not guaranteed that this will continue beyond the next two years. And there’s a real need for this program to be permanent.” The Rainbow Refugee Assistance Program receives third-party funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada to help cover the cost of sponsoring overseas LGBT refugees to come to Canada. When the program started four years ago, a total of $100,000 was set aside to help sponsor LGBT refugees within the private sponsorship stream. A spokesperson with Citizenship and Immigration Canada said Tuesday another $100,000 will fund the program for the next two years.
Star Phoenix – Federal Government “Mean Spirited” Toward Refugees, Expert Says
Canada’s federal leaders have “descended into the gutter when they talk about refugees,” says Amnesty International secretary general Alex Neve. Both Immigration Minister Chris Alexander and his predecessor Jason Kenney “have embraced, with great passion, the term ‘bogus refugees,’ ” Neve said Tuesday in Saskatoon. The term, which is “peppered throughout the speeches, and comes up in media interviews all the time … as if it was a category,” is an “ugly, hate-filled, discriminatory and unfounded term” used to create support for the federal government’s initiatives and to undermine Canadians’ long-held support for the rights and needs of refugees, Neve said. Inflammatory language is just one aspect of the “miserly, mean-spirited and punitive” attitude the federal government has shown towards refugees at a time when the Syrian crisis has created the largest mass displacement of people in a generation, Neve said.
CBC – John Williamson Faces Heavy Criticism After “Whities” Comment
Conservative MP John Williamson is facing heavy criticism after comments he made about the Temporary Foreign Worker program over the weekend where he referred to “whities” and “brown people.” Williamson told delegates at a conference in Ottawa that it makes no sense to pay “whities” to stay home while companies bring in “brown people” as temporary foreign workers. By Saturday, the New Brunswick Southwest MP had apologized “unreservedly” on Twitter for his “offensive and inappropriate language.” […] The MP said in a statement that the comments are the biggest mistake of his political career. The comments were resonating in his riding on Monday. Esthela Pyett, the president of the New Brunswick Filipino Association, said she was “hurt” by Williamson’s comments. Pyett said the MP has helped many Filipino residents in the riding, but he clearly chose the wrong words at the conference. “I think that’s what he meant by the browns are coming here to work and they really work hard. And at the same time they pay taxes,” she said. “Not all temporary foreign workers are brown, by the way.”
CTV News – Younger Immigrants at Greater Risk of Developing IBD: Study
Young immigrants to Canada are at greater risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease — including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis — according to the findings of a new Canadian study released Tuesday. Researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) say that children who immigrate to Canada appear to take on the same risk level that Canadian children face. And the younger the age of the children when they arrive to Canada, the greater their risk of developing IBD. IBD is a painful and debilitating condition that causes inflammation in the digestive tract. The researchers compared health administration data and immigration data to establish Canadian incidence rates of IBD between 1994 and 2010. They then compared rates of IBD among immigrants to Canada and their children with rates among non-immigrants. Researchers found that the younger an immigrant was at the time of his or her arrival in Canada, the greater the risk for developing IBD. […] The findings establish a correlation between early exposure to the Canadian environment in immigrants and the risk of developing IBD, the researchers said.
