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.
Times Colonist – Human Smuggling Series: Free on Streets of Fear
Because Thailand is not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, asylum-seekers and refugees are treated like illegal immigrants and not allowed to work, go to school or receive social welfare. Many have to wait years while their cases wind their way through the refugee system. […] “Life is tough for them,” said Vivian Tan, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangkok. “Most refugees have little access to public services. They can’t work. They find work in the grey economy doing dirty, dangerous, difficult jobs that no one else wants to do. Their children can’t go to school. They are subject to arbitrary arrest and detention and they’re not guaranteed a solution.” […] It’s these dire circumstances that often push asylum-seekers in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia to pay human smugglers to get on dangerous boats heading for Australia, and, on two occasions in the past three years, to Canada.
Toronto Star – Denying Health Care for Refugees Gives Canada a Black Eye
The stories are heartbreaking — and decidedly un-Canadian if you believe in our country’s tradition of giving medical care to refugees. Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews has already criticized Immigration Canada for new rules that deny refugees medical care. And last week, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall (no softie on social issues) slammed the federal government for refusing to pay for chemotherapy for a Middle East refugee. […] The Interim Federal Health Program paid for the care of 128,000 refugees last year, at a cost of $84 million. That is 0.04 per cent of Canada’s overall health bill — surely not too much to care for people who are fleeing desperate lives of torture, violence or rape.
The New York Times – Mexican Immigrants in NY and NJ Left Homeless, Jobless in Superstorm Sandy’s Aftermath
Superstorm Sandy plunged some immigrants living illegally in the U.S. into darkness and even deeper into the shadows. Some of those who need help to get temporary housing and food are afraid to come forward because they risk deportation. And many have returned to damaged, powerless, moldy homes because they have no other place to stay. […] “If you are here illegally and you are at your home and see the National Guard and people in military uniform, going up and down, sure, you are going to be afraid,” said Gonzalo Mercado, executive director of El Centro del Inmigrante, a nonprofit that helps day laborers and their families in Staten Island.
Toronto Star – Provincial Premiers Ask Federal Government for More Control Over Immigration
The premiers are calling on the federal government to give provinces greater control over immigration as they seek to improve their respective economies. The provincial and territorial leaders concluded a meeting Friday on the economy in Halifax, where they said their governments — and not Ottawa — are best positioned to deliver settlement services and address their labour market needs through immigration.
Toronto Star – Kidney Donor Denied a Canadian Visa to Help Desperate Toronto Relative
Vilma Serrano has end-stage renal disease and needs a new kidney, but only Immigration Minister Jason Kenney can help. The 44-year-old Toronto woman has been on a wait list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor since 2009, and was thrilled when a living donor, a relative by marriage in El Salvador, offered to donate one of his kidneys. […] Twice, Novas, 38, who lives in El Salvador, applied for and was denied a visitor’s visa to come here for further tests and a possible transplant, once in October 2011 and again this past January.
The Globe and Mail – Unions Granted Standing in Foreign Workers Case
A federal court judge has granted court standing to two labour unions in a case involving temporary foreign workers, giving them a green light to challenge federal decisions that allowed an estimated 200 Chinese workers to be hired for jobs at a British Columbia coal mine. […] Earlier this month, the unions applied for a judicial review of federal government decisions that cleared the way for Vancouver-based HD Mining to bring at least 200 Chinese mine workers to the Murray River coal project near Tumbler Ridge.
