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.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says the government will get back on track by the end of the year after COVID-19 caused a major backlog in the processing of immigration applications and long waits for people seeking status in Canada. The government last year announced it would spend $85 million to plow through the backlogged applications, which Fraser says will be used mainly to hire more staff.
Not having a computer or a cellphone can be a major barrier for Afghan newcomers to Canada, especially during the pandemic when so much of life, from attending school to accessing social programs, can only be done online. To help those dealing with that barrier, the tech firm First Class Conferencing Facilitation partnered with the Afghan Women’s Organization to collect devices donated from across Ontario.
A detainee who was being held at the immigration detention centre in Laval has died after an ambulance had to be called for them on Friday, the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) says. First responders were called after the detainee was found in medical distress, the agency said in a statement Sunday. Employees who were on site provided CPR until paramedics arrived. The person later died in hospital a few hours later.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/detainee-dies-holding-centre-laval-1.6333063
Newcomers arriving in London, and elsewhere in Canada, need better information about legal services — and affordable options to tap into them — to adjust to life in their new land. Those are among the conclusions stemming from a study led by a Western University researcher looking at the legal challenges immigrants face when arriving in Canada. As part of the study, researchers interviewed 21 newcomers in London and Toronto who faced legal challenges about their experiences accessing services and getting support.
Demonstrators gathered at Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino’s constituency office on Saturday to protest what they say is Islamophobia in the Canada Border Services Agency. “We are protesting because we have a group of CBSA officers who are meant to represent the minister of public safety,” said Mostafa Mahmoud, a Toronto representative of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy, noting the group believes CBSA agents wrongly denied refugee status to Egyptians based on Islamophobia.
Plus d’un an après l’ouverture du programme spécial de régularisation, de nombreux demandeurs d’asile ayant travaillé au Québec dans le milieu de la santé durant la première vague de la pandémie s’impatientent devant la lenteur à obtenir leur résidence permanente. Sur 2275 dossiers (représentant 4535 personnes) déposés depuis le début du processus, à peine 28 % ont été finalisés, selon les plus récentes données fournies par Immigration Canada au Devoir. La plupart des dossiers (69 %) ont été approuvés, mais sont dans le camp du gouvernement fédéral, à la dernière étape du processus.
https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/665463/immigration-des-anges-gardiens-du-quebec-s-impatientent