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.
The Record – School Program Helps Young Refugees Get Up to Speed
The students in this classroom at Forest Hill Public School in Kitchener are all refugees who recently immigrated to Canada from war-ravaged countries. Understanding Canada and fitting in here can be a difficult task. Burjoski makes it easier for them. She allows the students to feel like experts by teaching the lesson using something they are familiar with. She ties in their homeland with their new home. The students are part of a board-run program called Accelerated Basic Literacy Education, or ABLE. The program is for students, ages nine to 13 who have recently arrived in Canada and have limited prior schooling. There are three school sites: Forest Hill, A.R. Kaufman in Kitchener and MacGregor in Waterloo. At the Waterloo Catholic District School Board, students attend the Newcomer Reception Centre where settlement workers assist with integration into neighbourhood schools. Many of the students lived in refugee camps. Some went to school in the camps, others did not. In Burjoski’s classroom, the students are comfortable and eager to learn. They feel safe here.
National Post – Deaf Russian Painter Refused Permanent Residency in Canada Because He Failed Verbal Language Tests
A Russian painter, deaf since birth, has been refused permanent residency in Canada because he did not meet the language proficiency requirement when tested verbally, despite getting near perfect scores when tested using sign language. The decision to reject Dmitri Smirnov’s bid to remain in Canada because he did not meet listening and speaking language requirements angered deaf advocates who blasted it as discriminatory and called for American Sign Language to be seen as equivalent to English and French for immigration purposes. […] Mr. Smirnov appealed to the Federal Court of Canada, arguing the sign language marks should have been taken into account and claiming the rules discriminate against the deaf. Mr. Smirnov’s Ottawa lawyer, Peter Stieda, argued the requirements to read, listen, speak and write in English or French violate Mr. Smirnov’s Charter rights, which guarantee the law will apply equally to all without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.
The Chronicle Herald – Border services: Dartmouth business exploited foreign workers
A Dartmouth businessman whose employees once cleaned Halifax Regional Municipality facilities faces dozens of counts of immigration fraud after a Canada Border Services Agency investigation. The agency believes 28 people were victims of the fraud.
Radio-Canada International – Le Canada pratiquerait l’esclavage de ses travailleurs domestiques internationaux
Depuis que l’Organisation internationale du travail (OIT) a adopté la convention 189 sur le travail décent pour les travailleuses et les travailleurs domestiques, le 16 juin 2011, dix pays seulement l’ont ratifiée dont le Canada. Mais, le Canada aurait-il abdiqué ses responsabilités envers cette main-d’oeuvre étrangère? La question devient brûlante d’actualité alors que des syndicats et des bureaux d’avocats canadiens proposaient cette semaine de traîner en cour les gouvernements du Canada et du Québec. On leur reproche d’avoir abdiqué leurs responsabilités à l’endroit de travailleurs souvent sans défense. En fait, le Canada entretiendrait un régime qui favorise l’esclavage de cette catégorie de travailleurs.
Reuters – EU Lawmaker to Canada Asylum Seeker: A Roma’s Long Trek
As a political asylum seeker, [Viktoria Mohácsi] hopes to convince Canada that the life of a former member of the European Parliament could be in danger in a democratic country like Hungary. […] In a test case for the Canadian government’s new immigration policy that considers nearly all EU countries “safe”, Mohácsi, a Roma, claims she would be in danger of violence from hate groups and persecution by authorities if she went home to Hungary. If she loses, she will be deported home. If she wins, her case could give hope to other Central and East European asylum seekers from the Roma community who at present are considered by some in Canada to be economic migrants or worse – criminals trying to abuse a generous immigration system.
The Record – Newer Refugees Struggle More Over Time
Waterloo Region has resettled 5,444 international refugees over the past decade. To assess how they fare over time, the newspaper mined a national database that links immigration and tax records. Statistics Canada keeps the database and upon request extracted individual tax filings between 1996 and 2010, stripping identities. All incomes are expressed in constant 2010 dollars to eliminate inflation, compare years and reflect real changes. […] The analysis shows that refugees who landed after 2000 start with average incomes almost $1,000 higher than earlier refugees. This may reflect stronger government and community support in their first year here. However, by three full years here that advantage has been erased and new refugees are behind earlier refugees by just over $1,000. By five full years the gap has grown — newer refugees are behind earlier refugees by $1,800
