Media Roundup

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.


CTV News – Here’s what international students wished they knew before coming to Canada

There are three basic needs international students in Canada deserve access to, according to student advocate Kairvee Malik.

These are education, housing and food.

“If you don’t have the basic needs, you lose trust, you lose interest and you are scared,” she told CTVNews.ca in an interview. “You don’t want to come to Canada anymore.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/here-s-what-international-students-wished-they-knew-before-coming-to-canada-1.6758034?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

CBC – Palestinian Canadians say their families are dying in Gaza while they wait to come to Canada

Maher Alanqar sat and watched his nephew suffer. The video — shot by a CBC News freelancer — captured every scream, every spasm as 10-year-old Adam Abu Ajwa called out for help after the home where he was sheltering with his parents and siblings in Khan Younis, Gaza was hit by a grenade on Jan. 17.

Adam suffered third-degree burns; his older sister Zeina, 26, escaped with burns and broken bones after being trapped under rubble for hours. They were the only ones in the house to survive. Their mother Hana and oldest brother Amr died and were buried in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, one of the main hospitals in the central Gaza Strip.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/palestinian-canadians-visa-delays-1.7105188

CBC – Cap on international study permits sparks fear of rising tuition, program cuts, layoffs on campus

Vicky Quao was in class this week when she got an email about a new two-year cap on international student study permits — intended to stem an unsustainable boom and unscrupulous players in this post-secondary sector.

“I stopped dead in my tracks” and felt disappointment and sadness, recalled the psychology major, who is minoring in business at Memorial University’s Grenfell campus in Corner Brook, N.L.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/campus-impact-intl-students-cap-1.7094629?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

La Presse – L’interdiction d’acheter une maison prolongée jusqu’en 2027

Le gouvernement fédéral continuera d’interdire aux ressortissants étrangers d’acheter une maison au Canada pendant encore deux ans, alors que les problèmes d’abordabilité du logement continuent de troubler les villes du pays. La ministre des Finances, Chrystia Freeland, a annoncé dimanche que le Canada prolongeait jusqu’en 2027 l’interdiction d’achat de logements par des étrangers. En vertu de l’interdiction, entrée en vigueur pour la première fois en 2023, les gens qui n’ont pas la citoyenneté canadienne ou qui ne sont pas des résidents permanents et les entreprises commerciales ne sont pas autorisés à acheter une maison au pays.

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/marche-immobilier/2024-02-04/ressortissants-etrangers/l-interdiction-d-acheter-une-maison-prolongee-jusqu-en-2027.php

CTV News – Feds unveil web tool to track representation, pay disparity for women, minorities

Ottawa launched a new pay transparency website Friday to better illustrate how women, visible minorities, people with disabilities and Indigenous Peoples are represented and paid at federally regulated private sector employers.

The new site, called Equi’Vision, provides a visualization that allows users to compare data on workforce representation rates and pay gaps experienced by all four groups.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/feds-unveil-web-tool-to-track-representation-pay-disparity-for-women-minorities-1.6753493?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

CTV News – Many immigrants leaving Canada within years of arriving: StatCan

More than 15 per cent of immigrants decide to leave Canada either to return to their homeland or immigrate to another country within 20 years after admission as permanent residents, according to a new study.

Statistics Canada examined the emigration of immigrants from 1982 to 2017 in the study(opens in a new tab) released Friday.

The study also found that 5.1 per cent of immigrants admitted between 1982 and 2017 emigrated within five years of their admission.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/many-immigrants-leaving-canada-within-years-of-arriving-statcan-1.6753003?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar