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.


CTV News – New Film by Calgary Director Explores Nigerian Immigrants to Canada

A Calgary man is premiering a new film based on his experiences as an immigrant to Canada. Foreign Path is a story of two international students from Nigeria trying to adapt to life in Canada. Two young adults from different financial backgrounds come to Canada to further their education, but find themselves struggling to adapt to the new system, culture and particularly, the weather.

https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/new-film-by-calgary-director-explores-nigerian-immigrants-to-canada-1.5777198

Toronto Star – New Program Helps Newcomers Take on Leadership Roles

A Vancouver-based not-for-profit settlement organization recently received $213,250 from the government to help newcomers enter into volunteer leadership positions within the boards of directors of community-oriented non-profit organizations. According to a press release, MOSAIC, which serves immigrants and refugees, will be using the funds for a “newly expanded project to increase access to social and civic board positions for racialized newcomers, while fostering equitable social and civic engagement.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/02/10/new-program-helps-newcomers-take-on-leadership-roles.html

La Presse – Le poids du Québec continue de diminuer

Pourquoi le Québec voit-il son poids démographique diminuer au fil des ans ? Parce qu’il accueille moins d’immigrants que le reste du Canada. Le Québec et l’Ontario voient leur population augmenter sensiblement de la même façon (+ 0,2 % par an) par l’écart entre les naissances et les décès. La différence ? Toutes proportions gardées, l’Ontario accueille plus d’immigrants. Avant la pandémie, l’immigration a permis à l’Ontario de hausser sa population de 1,4 % en 2018-2019, contre une hausse de 1,1 % au Québec (+ 95 057 immigrants et résidents non permanents).

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-02-09/recensement-2021/le-poids-du-quebec-continue-de-diminuer.php

Reuters – Canada’s Population Surges from 2016-2021 on Immigration – Official Data

Canada’s population rose to 37 million people in 2021, up 5.2% from 2016, driven mostly by immigration, according to official data released on Wednesday, with the downtowns and distant suburbs of large cities seeing the strongest growth. Canada added 1.8 million people between 2016 and 2021, with nearly 80% of those new residents arriving from elsewhere in the world, retaining its position as the fastest growing G7 country, Statistics Canada said in its Census 2021 release.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canadas-population-surges-2016-2021-immigration-official-data-2022-02-09/

Toronto Star – These Syrian Refugees Won Their Court Fight. But They’re Still Waiting for Canada to Let Them In

Mohamad Basel Alnajjar’s decision to try to come to Canada with his wife and four children as privately sponsored refugees would become part of a case that raised questions about to what degree a refugee could pay their way into this country. Yet three years after winning a high-profile court fight, Alnajjar remains in Dubai, his bid to start a new life in Canada in limbo.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2022/02/09/these-syrian-refugees-are-languishing-with-nowhere-else-to-go-even-after-court-ordered-their-sponsorship-applications-be-reopened.html

Globe and Mail – Survey Shows New Immigrants in a Rush to Buy First Home

In its year-end market round-up, the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board presented some survey results from Ipsos Public Affairs, which has been working with TRREB on market insight surveys since 2015. Where in the past Ipsos did research on the share of foreign buyers in the market, this year it tackled the path new immigrants take to home ownership. Among the findings was data that suggested a large share of new immigrants are home buyers within their first five years of arriving in Canada, and that in general they are more interested in home ownership than the non-immigrant population.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/article-survey-shows-new-immigrants-in-a-rush-to-buy-first-home/