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 – Where Is Officer DM10032? Applicants Stumped, Stranded by Idle Immigration Worker

Several permanent residency (PR) applicants told CBC News they’ve been assigned to an officer they know only as “DM10032” at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). They all live outside of Canada, applied in 2019, and their files have been largely stuck since March 2020. Applications are processed at both the Ottawa visa office and in Sydney, N.S. Applicants who spoke to CBC News say they know dozens of others under DM10032 and have rallied together online for moral support.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/immigration-permanent-residency-applicants-dm10032-1.6317882

Globe and Mail – Migrants Seek Asylum Through Reopened Canadian Border

Whenever a bus arrives at the Greyhound station in Plattsburgh, New York, a small band of taxi drivers waits to drive passengers on a half-hour trip to a snowy, dead-end dirt road. A renewed stream of migrants  have begun seeking refuge in Canada after a 20-month ban on asylum requests designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Families are once again lugging suitcases and carrying children across a remote, snow-covered ditch to the border.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-migrants-seek-asylum-through-reopened-canadian-border/

La Presse – Un « signal d’alarme » indiquant un problème plus grand, dit une experte

La découverte de quatre personnes qui ont péri dans le froid en tentant de traverser la frontière canado-américaine pourrait donner un nouveau tournant au débat sur l’immigration aux États-Unis. L’experte des frontières Kathryn Bryk Friedman, et professeure de droit à l’Université de Buffalo, qualifie cela de signe troublant que les problèmes d’immigration du pays s’aggravent. Un effort organisé pour faire entrer des groupes de personnes aux États-Unis depuis le Canada est nouveau, selon Mme Friedman.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-01-22/famille-morte-de-froid-a-la-frontiere/un-signal-d-alarme-indiquant-un-probleme-plus-grand-dit-une-experte.php

CTV News – Family of Asylum-Seekers Claims Discrimination as They Fight to Stay in Canada

Attia Elserafy said he feared for his safety after a military coup deposed President Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The family of seven went to Turkey before Elserafy, his wife and three of their children came to Canada, where they made refugee claims. Elserafy says the refugee application process has stalled because a report from an officer with Canada Border Services Agency pointed out links between the Freedom and Justice Party and Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. Neither group appears on Canada’s list of terrorist entities. Speaking through a translator, Elserafy accused the Vancouver-based CBSA officer of discrimination and Islamophobia.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/family-of-asylum-seekers-claims-discrimination-as-they-fight-to-stay-in-canada-1.5751149

CBC News – Internationally-Trained Nurses Are Entering the Battle Against COVID-19. But Is It Too Little, Too Late?

Many health-care workers breathed a sigh of relief when the Ontario government announced internationally-trained nurses will be deployed in hospitals across the province, but advocates warn it won’t be enough to make up for all the nurses who’ve left. They say the move, which comes almost two years into the pandemic, is coming too late to adequately address a nursing shortage that made itself felt long before COVID-19. According to a November brief from the RNAO, Ontario entered the COVID-19 pandemic nearly 22,000 registered nurses short.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/internationally-trained-nurses-are-entering-the-battle-against-covid-19-but-is-it-too-little-too-late-1.6317775

Radio-Canada – L’homme soupçonné de migration clandestine au Manitoba lié à d’autres affaires

Selon les documents judiciaires déposés jeudi auprès d’un tribunal du Minnesota, l’homme pourrait être impliqué dans trois autres cas récents de migration clandestine. L’agent spécial raconte qu’un membre de la patrouille frontalière a fait mention de trois autres incidents récents de migration clandestine, les 12 et 22 décembre 2021 et le 12 janvier 2022, à l’endroit où Steve Shand a été arrêté.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1856124/migration-clandestine-manitoba-etats-unis-morts-arrestation-judiciaire-shand