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.
Femi Biobaku came to Canada more than a year ago fleeing persecution from the Nigerian authorities, forcing him to leave his wife, two children, community and job as an accountant back home. He landed in Ottawa in July 2022 and stayed with a host family for nearly a month before moving into a dorm at the Ottawa Mission homeless shelter, where things took a turn for the worse.
After spending days or weeks living in an emergency shelter at a Toronto church, dozens of asylum seekers and refugees want action from the provincial and federal government. On Thursday, asylum seekers who have been living at Pilgrim Feast Tabernacles in Etobicoke staged a protest outside Premier Doug Ford’s constituency office at 823 Albion Road. Nadine Miller, a director with the church, says its been housing about 150 people and neglecting bills to pay for their food.
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Canada is on track to bring in 900,000 international students this year, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said in the interview aired late on Saturday, which was more than at any point in history and roughly triple the number who entered the country a decade ago. The university ecosystem that brings in foreign students “is very lucrative and it’s come with some perverse effects, some fraud in the system. Some people taking advantage of what is seen to be a backdoor entry into Canada,” Miller said.
The Canadian government has been ordered to reinstate a travel document for a Roma couple who were kept from making a trip to this country at least partly because their hosts were former refugees. The Federal Court ruled this week on a case that put a spotlight on the Canada Border Services Agency’s use of “association with refugees” as an “indicator” to vet travellers.
Karate athlete Hamoon Derafshipour came to Canada as a refugee from Iran in 2019. He dreamed of being in the Olympic games and, in 2021, represented the first refugee team in history at the Tokyo Olympics. After the games, he opened up his own dojo in Kitchener, Ont. He trained four students who are representing Canada in the Pan American Karate Federation Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships this week in Santiago, Chile.
Depuis son ouverture, le 1er juin dernier, Francisation Québec fait face à un achalandage record : en moins de trois mois, près de 30 000 immigrants se sont inscrits sur ce nouveau guichet unique, a appris Le Devoir. Or, croulant sous la tâche, le ministère de l’Immigration peine à répondre à la demande — et près de 95 % des nouveaux inscrits ne vivront pas de rentrée scolaire ces jours-ci. Selon les données fournies par le ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI), des 23 500 détenteurs d’un dossier jugé complet, seuls 1500 peuvent s’asseoir sur les bancs d’école.