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 – ‘Very Difficult’ to Meet Canada’s Immigration Targets After Pandemic Drop: Immigration Lawyer

Canada welcomed 341,000 new immigrants in 2019, and continued to accept high levels of new immigrants at the beginning of last year, but those efforts and the immigration system were completely derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A Statistics Canada report said that Canada’s population “essentially stopped” due to COVID-19, increasing by just 2,767 from July 1, 2020 to Oct. 1 2020 – virtually zero per cent.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/very-difficult-to-meet-canada-s-immigration-targets-after-pandemic-drop-immigration-lawyer-1.5266518

Toronto Star – Report Urges Northern Ontario to Focus on Attracting, Retaining Newcomers

Communities in northern Ontario should be inclusive and make newcomers feel welcome if they want to help bolster dwindling populations, a newly released report urges. The Come North report, which is the product of two conferences held by the Northern Policy Institute last February, suggests the communities develop a “co-ordinated marketing plan” to attract immigrants and people from other parts of Canada.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/01/14/report-urges-northern-ontario-to-focus-on-attracting-retaining-newcomers.html

Le Devoir – Bochra Manaï, première commissaire à la lutte contre le racisme à Montréal

La mairesse Valérie Plante a annoncé la nomination de Mme Manaï mercredi, dans la foulée du rapport très critique de l’Office de consultation publique de Montréal (OCPM) sur l’échec de la Ville dans sa lutte contre le racisme et la discrimination au sein de l’appareil municipal.

https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/montreal/593223/bochra-manai-nommee-commissaire-a-la-lutte-contre-le-racisme-a-montreal

Le Devoir – Échec de Québec dans le dossier du recrutement d’étudiants étrangers

Le gouvernement Legault vient de subir un revers dans le ménage qu’il a entrepris dans le recrutement d’étudiants étrangers : traîné en Cour supérieure par un collège privé, Québec a convenu de relancer les admissions qui avaient été suspendues dans 10 établissements soupçonnés de pratiques douteuses.

https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/593166/un-autre-college-prive-s-adresse-a-la-justice-pour-recruter-des-etudiants-etrangers

Global News – ‘Please Help Me’: Okanagan Woman Issues Desperate Appeal as Deportation Looms

An Okanagan Falls woman said she’s exhausted almost all legal avenues and will be deported to her home country of South Africa next month. Lea Thorne, a failed refugee claimant, said she fears for her life if she were to return. “That fear of rape and death will never leave me,” she told Global News on Monday. Thorne said she is making a last-ditch, desperate appeal to the federal government.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7572353/okanagan-woman-appeals-deportation/