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.


La Presse — Les inscriptions d’étudiants étrangers en chute libre

Les inscriptions d’étudiants étrangers s’effondrent dans les universités québécoises, où la chute dépasse parfois 50 %. Les établissements mettent en cause le resserrement des règles d’immigration, qui ternit l’image du Canada et du Québec à l’international, selon eux. À l’Université de Sherbrooke, les inscriptions d’étudiants internationaux au premier cycle ont dégringolé de 58 % par rapport à l’automne dernier, du jamais vu dans les années récentes. La baisse pourrait se traduire par « des centaines de milliers, voire des millions de dollars » de pertes de revenus pour l’établissement, prévient la vice-rectrice aux études et à la vie étudiante, Isabelle Dionne.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/education/2025-08-29/universites/les-inscriptions-d-etudiants-etrangers-en-chute-libre.php

City News — Quebec newcomers locked out of public daycare spots turning to private

With new provincial rules limiting public daycare for newcomers to Quebec holding open work permits, some families in Montreal are no longer eligible for reduced-rate spots. And it’s not just newcomers turning away; long public CPE waitlists have also pushed many parents to look at private options. That’s the reality for Garderie Jardin William, a private daycare in Griffintown. At an open house hosted Thursday, the private daycare is filling in the gaps that have been left wide open by the government’s overloaded childcare system. According to Apollon-Auguste, many families turning to private daycare are citing long waitlists and, in some cases, being forced out of the public system as the main reasons.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/08/28/quebec-newcomers-public-private-daycares/

Radio-Canada — De Dadaab à Algoma : deux étudiants réfugiés entament leurs études grâce au PER

Deux étudiants en provenance du camp de réfugiés de Dadaab, au Kenya, rejoignent l’Université Algoma, dans le Nord de l’Ontario, cet automne pour commencer leurs études grâce au Programme d’étudiants réfugiés (PER). Leur arrivée marque la relance du PER, une initiative nationale de l’Entraide universitaire mondiale du Canada (EUMC), qui permet aux campus d’accueillir et de parrainer des étudiants réfugiés. Algoma avait accueilli son dernier étudiant en 2021 avant de suspendre sa participation.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2188616/algoma-kenya-etudiants-refugies

The Conversation — Workplace injuries: Why immigrants take longer to recover

In Québec, immigrants are more likely to be injured at work than people born in the province. Yet the hardest part for immigrant workers often starts after the accident, when they have to navigate a complex rehabilitation system that slows their recovery and their return to work. In 2016, we found that foreign-born people had a 31 per cent higher rate of workplace accidents than Québec-born individuals, according to a study based on data from the province’s Commission des normes, de l’équité, de la santé et de la sécurité du travail, combined with other ministerial data (the Commission on Standards, Equity, Health and Safety in the Workplace, or CNESST).

https://theconversation.com/workplace-injuries-why-immigrants-take-longer-to-recover-263602

CTV News — Poilievre says temporary foreign workers taking jobs from young Canadians

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday accused the federal Liberals of allowing temporary foreign workers to take jobs away from young Canadians while youth unemployment is high. Statistics Canada data shows youth unemployment hit 14.6 per cent in July. This is the highest it’s been since 2010, outside of the COVID-19 pandemic. His latest comment on immigration, coming at a news conference in Prince Edward Island, came a few days after the government released immigration data for the first half of 2025. Poilievre says the data showed government is overshooting the targets it set for foreign worker visas, an allegation the immigration department dismissed as untrue.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/poilievre-says-temporary-foreign-workers-taking-jobs-from-young-canadians/

Statistics Canada — Temporary foreign workers in health care: Characteristics, transition to permanent residency and industry retention

Temporary foreign workers (TFWs) are playing an increasingly important role in addressing labour shortages in Canada’s health care sector. This study uses an integrated longitudinal administrative database and examines the number and characteristics of TFWs employed in the health care sector since 2000. It also tracks their transition to permanent residency (PR) and analyzes the percentage of individuals who remain in the sector after gaining PR. The number of TFWs in the health care sector grew significantly from 3,200 in 2000 to 57,500 in 2022. In the early 2000s, most TFWs held health-occupation-specific work permits and were primarily employed in ambulatory health care services or hospitals.

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2025008/article/00002-eng.htm