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.


Radio-Canada – Immigration et logement : les enjeux indissociables de 2022, selon un économiste

L’immigration et le logement sont deux enjeux indissociables qu’il faudra surveiller en 2022 au Nouveau-Brunswick. La manière dont s’articuleront les politiques publiques pour solutionner la crise du logement pourrait être la clé au problème persistant du manque de travailleurs dans plusieurs domaines. Le spécialiste en politiques publiques rappelle que chaque année, environ 12 000 Néo-Brunswickois arrivent à l’âge de la retraite tandis que seulement 8000 autres entrent sur le marché du travail.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1851045/economie-nouveau-brunswick-2022-inflation-penurie-main-oeuvre-logement

Toronto Star – Asylum Seeker Who’s Been in Canada for 21 Years Granted Permission to Stay

After 21 years in immigration limbo, Samuel Ndesanjo Nyaga is finally free to live the rest of his years in Canada. The 74-year-old failed refugee and pillar of Toronto’s Kenyan community has been granted permission to stay after the Star and other media outlets reported last week that he was being deported on Jan. 4. “It means a lot because it is what I know,” said Nyaga, his joy spilling through the phone.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/12/31/asylum-seeker-whos-been-in-canada-for-21-years-granted-permission-to-stay.html

Reuters – Canada to Resettle Female Afghan Judges, Families Living in Limbo

Canada will take in female Afghan judges and their families who have been living in limbo, primarily in Greece, since their evacuation from Afghanistan in the fall, a spokesperson for the immigration minister said Friday. In addition to the judges and their families, a group totalling about 230 people, Canada will also resettle an unspecified number of Afghans from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities who had been referred by a third-party aid organization, the spokesperson said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/canada-resettle-female-afghan-judges-families-living-limbo-2021-12-31/

CBC News – Meet the Young Somali Canadian Playwright Taking the Story of Toronto’s Dixon Road to the Stage

When Fatuma Adar thinks of home, her memories are filled with the sights and sounds of Toronto’s Dixon Road community, its beloved convenience stories, aunties who would run daycares from their apartments and a neighbourhood whose character she’s never quite been able to find anywhere else. Now she’s bringing those personal stories to the stage in Dixon Road, a musical inspired by the Dixon Road community,

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatuma-adar-dixon-road-somali-canadians-toronto-1.6295223

Toronto Star – How a Misspelled Name Threw This Couple Down the Rabbit Hole of Canada’s Immigration Bureaucracy

Nearly a year after Jack Harold Cockcroft filed for, and was granted, permanent residence, one thing is still holding up his paperwork: a typo — one made by the immigration department that’s left him entangled in bureaucracy in his and wife’s efforts to get it fixed. It’s an issue the Toronto couple say highlights the struggle for applicants to tackle a siloed and irresponsive immigration department, even to fix a simple mistake its staff made.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/12/30/their-error-should-not-become-our-problem-say-couple-fighting-immigration-department-to-correct-misspelled-last-name.html

CBC News – Saskatchewan Man Fears for Ethiopian Family Displaced by Violence

Ted Jaleta, an accomplished Regina-based athlete, said he feels powerless to help his brothers who have lost their homes and livelihoods as ethnic violence grips Ethiopia. The well-known running coach and community volunteer made the Saskatchewan capital his home after fleeing violence in the African country nearly 40 years ago. Now he fears for his family members and other ethnic minorities who are under threat.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/ted-jaleta-fears-for-family-ethiopia-humanatarian-crisis-1.5856023