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.


CBC News – Winnipeg Band Performs to Raise Funds for Manitoba Migrant Workers, Reclaim Cinco De Mayo

Mariachi Ghost fuses traditional Mexican songs, electric guitar, synths and vocals. Lead singer Jorge Requena Ramos grew up in Mexico and says Cinco de Mayo is like a “Hallmark holiday” that most Mexicans don’t celebrate. Friday’s show, called “Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo,” is donating all proceeds to the Migrant Worker Solidarity Network, which does advocacy and solidarity work with agricultural migrant workers working on Manitoba farms.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/mariachi-ghost-cinco-de-mayo-fundraiser-1.6834697

CBC News – She Crossed 12 Countries ‘For Nothing.’ Asylum Seekers Rejected by Canada End Up Stranded in U.S.

Sitting at the bus and gas station in Plattsburgh, N.Y., 24-year-old Naomie shakes her head. She spent more than a year on what she calls le chemin de l’enfer, the road to hell, to escape persecution in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and meet up with a long-lost uncle in Montreal, only to end up exhausted and without any money back at this convenience store in upstate New York.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/plattsburgh-struggling-roxham-road-closure-1.6823298

CBC – 3 charged in India after complaint details family’s last moments before fatal St. Lawrence River journey

Human smugglers pressured the Indian and Romanian families into a boat in bad weather the night they died trying to cross the St. Lawrence River, according to a police complaint filed in India that led to charges against three Indian nationals.

The bodies of the two families, totalling six adults and two children, were pulled from the St. Lawrence River on March 30 and 31 near the Kanien’kehá:ka community of Akwesasne after a failed human smuggling attempt to take them into the U.S.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/akwesasne-river-deaths-india-charges-1.6832530

Radio-Canada – Projets pilotes d’immigration : des « essais », mais peu de candidats

Lancés en grande pompe par le gouvernement de François Legault, les projets pilotes d’immigration visant les préposés aux bénéficiaires, les travailleurs de la transformation alimentaire ainsi que les experts du secteur de l’intelligence artificielle auraient clairement manqué leur cible, selon le Parti libéral du Québec. Annoncés dès 2020 par l’ancien ministre de l’Immigration Simon Jolin-Barrette, ces programmes devaient permettre à un maximum de 550 personnes, annuellement et par catégorie, de bénéficier d’un accès rapide vers la résidence permanente.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1977029/immigration-emploi-ministre-frechette-opposition-plq-echec

Toronto Star – Here’s Why the U.S. Is Pushing Ottawa to Require Visas from Mexicans

When Canada lifted the visa requirements on Mexicans in late 2016, one of the first things Selene Mateos did was book a vacation to visit Vancouver with her girlfriend. Mateos was surprised when she learned from media reports this week that Washington has requested that Ottawa reimpose visas on Mexico after a surge of Mexican irregular migrants trying to cross into the U.S. through the northern border via Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/05/05/heres-why-the-us-is-pushing-ottawa-to-require-visas-from-mexicans.html

Toronto Star – This Ukrainian Tiktokker Found Community with Indigenous Peoples in Canada — And a Piece of Home that Tied Them Together

Andrian Makhnachov was back home in Kyiv, Ukraine last April, studying international relations, while the city and country he loves was being bombarded with fighting, violence and tragedy as the war with Russia raged on. He reluctantly moved to Canada— Regina, Sask., specifically. On a walk one day, he saw an Indigenous man who would connect him to the country he missed in a way he couldn’t imagine: through a floral scarf.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2023/05/05/this-ukrainian-tiktokker-found-community-with-indigenous-peoples-in-canada-and-a-piece-of-home-that-tied-them-together.html