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.
Windsor Star – Trucker Who Smuggled 11 Nigerians Across Bridge Hopes to Avoid Jail
A trucker who claimed he had no idea there were 11 people crowded behind a curtain in the driver’s cab of his commercial rig as he crossed the Ambassador Bridge in 2017 is hoping a Windsor judge might see his human smuggling action as that of a Good Samaritan. It was actually the judge who brought up that term during a sentencing hearing on Tuesday for Paul Ngoue-Ngamelou to describe a possible motivation behind his efforts to illegally conceal the would-be refugee stowaways.
CBC News – Federal Government Has ‘Failed’ to Reunite Families, Canadian Women with Foreign Spouses Say
Eight women from across the country sent a letter to the minister of immigration, the prime minister and the high commission in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, asking them to address the departmental issues causing “unreasonable” delays to their husbands’ permanent residency applications. They say the government is a barrier to their families being reunited in Canada as they wait for years for interviews with immigration officials.
Chronicle Herald – First Overview on Atlantic Immigration Pilot: We Can Be Cautiously Optimistic, Expert Says
Out of the 3,517 applications for permanent residence that Nova Scotia approved last year, almost half are from the Atlantic Immigration Pilot program (AIP). Last week, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) released its first evaluation of the pilot, three years after the initial landing of the program’s first cohort.
Radio-Canada – Québec veut combler les « failles » exploitées par des collèges privés
Paiement en avance des frais de scolarité, dépôt en liquide de milliers de dollars, déclarations trompeuses pour obtenir un permis d’enseignement : le gouvernement Legault déplore des situations « très préoccupantes » dans des collèges privés. « Il faut qu’on mette des garde-fous », assure la ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, Danielle McCann. Cette dernière, dans une entrevue accordée à Enquête, évoque une situation « très préoccupante » dans le réseau des collèges privés non subventionnés, qui a poussé Québec à lancer des enquêtes contre dix établissements.
Globe and Mail – Federal Government Urged to End Contract with Visa Application Centre in Beijing
The Canadian government is facing calls to cancel an arrangement in Beijing where Chinese police own a company that collects details of people applying for visas to Canada. As The Globe and Mail reported earlier this week, Canada’s visa application centre in Beijing is operated by Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, which is owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. And at least some of the people working inside the centre are members of the Chinese Communist Party, recruited from a school that trains the next generation of party elite.
CBC News – Longtime Refugee Advocate Taking Over Helm of Manitoba Museum
A well-known advocate for refugees and immigrants in Winnipeg is the new chief executive officer of the Manitoba Museum. Dorota Blumczynska leaves her position as the executive director of the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization of Manitoba, where she has worked for 13 years, and will take over her new position May 3. “There are so many vibrant and diverse communities who’ve only begun their journey in Manitoba in the last several decades, every single Manitoban should see their story within the Manitoba Museum,” Blumczynska said
