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.
Globe and Mail – B.C. to Probe Report Foreign Workers Made to Pay Fees for Jobs
The B.C. government is investigating allegations that foreign workers applying for jobs in the province may have been told they had to pay fees to apply for mining positions in the province. The investigation will look at whether there have been any infractions of the provincial Employment Standards Act, a spokesman for B.C.’s Ministry of Jobs, Skills and Tourism said on Monday. Temporary foreign workers come to Canada under a federal program but once on the job, are subject to provincial labour laws. Those laws prohibit fees being charged to would-be employees, the spokesman said.
Winnipeg Free Press – Immigrants Face Intimidating Health-Care Test
Deborah Olukoju is accompanying female immigrants in Winnipeg on a “field trip” for a Pap smear. The counsellor at Winnipeg Technical College helps women studying English as an Additional Language take care of themselves. […] “One of the biggest barriers is not knowing how or where to access health care,” said Sophia Ali, community development co-ordinator at Youville Centre. […] “We have Muslim women doctors come and speak and nurses who talk about breast, ovarian and cervical cancer to an all-women audience,” said Shahina Siddiqui, executive director of the Islamic Social Services Association. […] Some newcomers have had bad experiences in their countries of origin and don’t trust doctors, Siddiqui said.
The Tyee – Why Temporary Foreign Workers are Political Dynamite
The controversy over the use of temporary foreign workers in mines isn’t about keeping foreigners out. The Steelworkers have been clear that they welcome immigrants and permanent residents who want mining jobs. The concern is about temporary workers who are bound like indentured servants, who have no practical recourse to defend their rights and whose employers may have played fast and loose with the requirements for obtaining a LMO.
Toronto Star – “Biased” Immigration Officials Kept Libyan Torture Victim from Returning to Canada
Canadian immigration officials showed a troubling level of bias when they prevented the return to Canada of a torture victim and his family on humanitarian grounds, the Federal Court has ruled. In a ruling released Monday, Justice Mary Gleason slammed Canadian visa officials in the Rome embassy for their “lack of objectivity.” She ordered that a different visa office review the case within 90 days and awarded the claimant, former Mississauga resident Adel Benhmuda, $5,000 in court costs. […] The ruling points to a string of “offending” emails from immigration officer Laurent Beaulieu, who at the time was based in Rome. One email “indicated that the entire Rome visa post had reached the conclusion that the applications were to be dismissed, before they had even been submitted,” Justice Gleason wrote.
Toronto Star – Late Refugee Can’t Be Buried in China Because Citizenship and Immigration Canada Lost her ID
Three years after Lin Mei Zhang died of cancer, her ashes remain in storage at a Toronto funeral home because immigration officials have lost the refugee’s Chinese ID card. “My mother’s will was to be buried at her birthplace. Without her proof of citizenship in China, we can’t get her a cemetery plot or send her back there,” her son, Gao Zhi Xiang, said in an interview in Mandarin. […] The department “has conducted a thorough investigation on the whereabouts of Ms Lin’s ID document, to no avail,” said a terse letter, offering no apology.
CTV News – Immigration Program for Haiti Earthquake Survivors is Slow, but Yielding Results
Soon after an earthquake destroyed much of Haiti in 2010, the Canadian and Quebec governments announced plans to fast-track the immigration of families impacted by the disaster. Under the plan, siblings would be able to sponsor their brothers and sisters. […] Nearly three years after an earthquake destroyed much of Haiti, 3,824 people from the devastated country have immigrated to Quebec.
