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.
Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller says the federal government’s stated 1,000-person limit on temporary resident visas for Palestinians looking to flee Gaza is not a hard cap, despite previous suggestions.
In an interview on CTV News Channel’s Power Play, Miller told host Vassy Kapelos that “no,” the limit as previously stated is not set in stone.
In December 2023, Ontario’s Superior Court determined that what’s known as the “second-generation cut-off rule” in the federal Citizenship Act violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by discriminating on the basis of national origin and sex.
The second-generation rule was adopted in 2009 under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
Migrant agricultural workers in Canada pay into employment insurance (EI), but they are not able to access it when their contracts expire and they return to their home country.
They also have employment contracts that are tied to one employer, preventing them from changing their employer while they’re in Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-migrant-workers-lawsuit-1.7077847
The money allocated by the provincial government for interpreter services for family doctors and specialists has run out in Waterloo Region, according to the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre.
That means there will be a significant gap, as of Monday, for new immigrants and refugees when it comes to necessary care.
“We have been forced to cancel all medical interpretation assignments in Waterloo-Wellington,” said CEO Lucia Harrison.
Most Canadians support employers bringing in temporary foreign workers to fill jobs they can’t find Canadians to do, according to a poll for The Globe and Mail, despite growing numbers opposed to increased immigration.
The survey also found that more than eight in 10 Canadians feel that temporary foreign workers are important to the country’s economy.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-temporary-foreign-workers-nanos-poll/
Deux professeures de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) dénoncent les hausses de coût auxquelles font face les étudiants internationaux. Certains doivent travailler à temps plein en plus d’étudier, pour subvenir à leurs besoins. Marie-Hélène Forget et Audrey Groleau se disent bouleversées par la réalité qui attend les étudiants internationaux à leur arrivée à Trois-Rivières.