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 – Lucia Vega Jimenez Found Hanging in CBSA Shower Stall
The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed that 42-year-old Lucia Vega Jimenez was found hanging from a shower stall in the immigration holding centre at the Vancouver airport, on Dec. 20, 2013. She died one week later in a Vancouver hospital without regaining consciousness and was removed from life-support with her family present, says the coroners service in a written release. News of Vega Jimenez’s death coming to light more than a month after it happened has angered many in international and local communities. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says it wonders what took so long and whether there have been other in-custody deaths with the Canada Border Services Agency that have not been reported. […] A written release from [No One Is Illegal] said Vega Jimenez had a job as a hotel worker in Vancouver when she was arrested last month over an unpaid transit ticket, transferred to jail, then sent to the CBSA holding cells at the Vancouver airport to await deportation.
24 Hours Vancouver – Job Gap Exists in Canada Between Skilled Immigrants and Locals
The employment gap between immigrants and those born in Canada is highest among those with university-level education, according to new BC Stats data. The findings released Wednesday revealed that while 90% of Canadians with degrees had jobs in the province as of the fourth quarter of 2013, only 77% of their immigrant counterparts did. That translated to 3.5% fewer university-educated immigrants with jobs in the same period in 2012. The numbers, however, don’t address what types of jobs the immigrants are holding. A foreign-trained doctor working at a fast-food restaurant is still considered employed.
CBC – Refugee Health-Care Cuts by Ottawa Before the Courts
A federal court judge questioned Thursday whether provincial governments have truly filled in the gap left by cutbacks to health-care coverage for refugee claimants announced 18 months ago. […] Justice Anne Mactavish is hearing a legal challenge launched by Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. Government lawyers have argued refugee claimants can still access health care through other programs, including those put in place by some provinces to reinstate access to essential and emergency care. But though Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario have all taken steps to bridge the gap, not all offer the same level of coverage. […] Neeta Logsetty, who represents Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said many refugee claimants had also received donations from pharmaceutical companies and help from doctors, as well as provincial assistance.
Changement de cap partiel à la Commission de l’immigration et du statut de réfugié du Canada (CISR). L’organisme a finalement décidé de publier toutes les décisions qui seront rendues par la Section d’appel des réfugiés (SAR), du moins pour un certain temps. Cela permettra aux avocats d’avoir accès à l’ensemble de la jurisprudence. Le Devoir avait révélé le 16 janvier que seules les décisions jugées « d’intérêt public » seraient rendues publiques par ce tribunal fédéral mis sur pied en décembre 2012. […] Or, dans un courriel envoyé ces derniers jours aux intervenants du milieu et obtenu par Le Devoir, la CISR revient en partie sur sa décision.
Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada – Communiqué – Plus d’options pour les demandeurs de citoyenneté de l’Ontario
Le ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l’Immigration du Canada, Chris Alexander, a annoncé aujourd’hui qu’à compter du 30 janvier 2014, Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada (CIC) acceptera comme preuve de la connaissance de la langue, à l’appui d’une demande de citoyenneté, les certificats présentés par les personnes qui terminent avec succès le programme ontarien de cours de langue. La reconnaissance de ce programme de formation linguistique facilitera l’accès à la citoyenneté pour les demandeurs de l’Ontario.
The United States has wound up a special resettlement programme for Myanmar refugees in camps on the Thai-Myanmar border, the United Nations said Wednesday. The last candidates for the US “group resettlement programme” were accepted on Jan 24, marking the end of the 9-year scheme. The US initiated it in 2005 to ”accept as many Myanmar refugees as possible under simplified procedures”, said Vivian Tan, information officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Bangkok. ”Since 2005, the United States has welcomed more than 73,000 Burmese who have resettled in towns and cities across the United States,” said assistant secretary Anne Richard of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration. There are still an estimated 120,000 Myanmar refugees in the nine camps in Thailand, including about 40,000 who were not registered by the Thai authorities. […] Another 19,000 Myanmar refugees from the Thai camps have been resettled in other countries including Australia, Canada, Finland and Japan in the last nine years, UNHCR said.
