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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 – ‘Our Lives Have Come to a Screeching Halt’: Canada’s Immigration Backlog Reaches 2.4M
The immigration backlog in Canada has ballooned to 2.4 million people, with over 250,000 applications adding to the pile over a one-month span alone. That’s according to recent data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) across all categories, from temporary residence and permanent residence to citizenship applications. The increased backlog has already led to frustrations for those waiting to receive an application update from IRCC.
National Post – Visa Backlogs Leave Noted U.K.-based F1 Analyst Out of Montreal’s Canadian Grand Prix
Canadians standing in all-night passport office lineups aren’t the only ones suffering the effects of the backlogs bogging down Canada’s immigration bureaucracy. As the Canadian Grand Prix brings the sounds and thrills of Formula 1 racing back to Montreal this weekend after a two-year hiatus, noted Sky Sports motorsports analyst Karun Chandhok will instead watch the race from a U.K. studio — because six months after renewing his visitor visa with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, his application remains in a bureaucratic limbo.
CBC News – Nova Scotia Able to Welcome Hundreds More Immigrants This Year
The Nova Scotia government has announced a huge jump in the number of allocations to the provincial nominee and Atlantic immigration programs. The province said in a news release Thursday it can approve a total of 5,430 applicants this year — 40 per cent more than the 3,857 it approved to settle in Nova Scotia in 2021. The increase includes 400 new spaces, or 17 per cent more than last year, through the provincial nominee program.
Global News – Volunteers Worry About Housing as Ukrainians Refugees in Calgary Find Housing in Homeless Shelter
With more Ukrainians expected to arrive in Alberta over the next two months, settlement agencies and volunteers in the Ukrainian community are worried there may not be enough places for them to stay. “If we cannot step up and help Ukrainian evacuees coming to Calgary, we are going to have a humanitarian crisis,” said Yulia Gorbach, a volunteer with St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Sobor, which is helping find host families. She said the greatest need for newcomers is temporary housing.
UNHCR: Global Displacement Hits Another Record, Capping Decade-Long Rising Trend
The number of people forced to flee their homes has increased every year over the past decade and stands at the highest level since records began, a trend that can be only reversed by a new, concerted push towards peacemaking, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today. By the end of 2021, those displaced by war, violence, persecution, and human rights abuses stood at 89.3 million, up 8 per cent on a year earlier and well over double the figure of 10 years ago, according to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends report.
Toronto Star – Canada Was Urged to Plan Afghan Evacuation Months Before Fall of Kabul, Documents Show
More than three months before Kabul fell to the Taliban, Global Affairs Canada was urging the federal government to make special immigration plans for its domestic staff in Afghanistan, according to official documents. At a meeting on May 3, 2021, GAC’s assistant deputy minister Paul Thoppil raised the issue with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, based on the “specific threats” the domestic staff faced amid “a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan.”
