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The Media Roundup provides links to recent and archived articles, in both English and French, on immigration and diversity appearing in the national and local news. Some international content is also included. Articles are updated weekly.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada News Release – Attracting Entrepreneurs Through Canada’s Start-Up Visa
Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Chris Alexander, met with Kitchener-Waterloo-based business incubator Communitech and other business leaders to discuss the Start-up Visa and its potential for attracting entrepreneurs to Canada who have the vision and ability to build innovative companies that can create jobs and long-term prosperity. […] Alexander discussed the importance of the program with a number of local business leaders and encouraged organizations to continue their efforts in identifying exciting start-up opportunities, as well as the dynamic entrepreneurs behind them, with the help of the Start-up Visa. Launched last year, the Start-up Visa Program brings together Canadian venture capital funds, angel investor groups and business incubators with entrepreneurs from abroad.
Today, Costas Menegakis, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, attended the grand opening of a Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) centre and announced an investment of more than $2 million for settlement services. The new CNC centre will provide newcomer parents with child care services while they take advantage of settlement programs. Located at Windsor’s Unemployed Help Centre, CNC provides onsite child care for newcomers who want to take advantage of long-term settlement services, such as language training or to access child care for brief periods, in order to attend appointments or participate in short-term settlement programming. The settlement services ensure newcomers are able to contribute to the Canadian economy more quickly and achieve success in the labour market. The Unemployed Help Centre is a non-profit charitable organization that provides various programs and services, such as employment, educational and career counselling in the Windsor and Essex County areas.
Toronto Star – Anti-Immigration Flyers Surface at York University
Anti-immigration flyers have appeared at York University, less than a week after similar flyers resurfaced in Brampton. The York Federation of Students, which represents the university’s 53,000 undergraduates, said students began bringing the flyers to their attention on Wednesday. The page includes the York University logo, and displays two photos of York sports teams: one is black and white and shows white men only, while the second, more recent picture shows students of various ethnicities. The flyer is titled “The Changing Demography of York University,” and says that if “mass third world immigration continues, Canadians will be reduced to a persecuted minority, not only at York, but in their own country!! It doesn’t have to be this way!!” […] Peel Regional Police, after consulting with the Crown attorney’s office, said in May that the flyers did not constitute hate speech.
Windsor Star – Unemployed Help Centre Opens Child Care for Newcomer Families
Parents looking to attend the newcomer programs at the [Windsor] Unemployed Help Centre can do so without worrying about their children thanks to a new on-site child care service. The Care for Newcomer Children program, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, provides on-site child minding for children ages 19 months to six years at no cost, while parents receive education and training needed to help them integrate into the community and find employment. The Unemployed Help Centre celebrated the grand opening Thursday morning with a guest speakers and a ribbon cutting ceremony. Costas Menegakis, parliamentary secretary of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, announced the investment of more than $2 million for settlement services. […] The Newcomers Enhancing Employability and Awareness, Ready to Work and Language Instruction for Newcomer to Canada programs offer English classes, computer training and workplace essentials, and certification training which are used to secure jobs in customer-related fields including tourism and hospitality.
La Tribune – Kathleen Weil entame ses rencontres régionales pour une nouvelle politique d’immigration
La ministre de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion, Kathleen Weil, amorce ses rencontres régionales à Sherbrooke pour recueillir des opinions sur la nouvelle politique en matière d’immigration, de diversité et d’inclusion. « Bien que le Québec se soit enrichi, au cours des dernières décennies, de la contribution des personnes immigrantes, force est de constater que plusieurs font encore face à des obstacles majeurs qui limitent leur participation à notre société, notamment leur accès à l’emploi. Pensons aux difficultés liées à la reconnaissance des compétences et à la gestion de la diversité. Nous devons travailler ensemble, acteurs des milieux institutionnels, économiques et de la société civile, pour créer les conditions favorables au plein épanouissement des personnes issues de la diversité au sein de notre société », a affirmé la ministre. Le contexte international et l’évolution de la société québécoise ont motivé la tenue de ses rencontres, qui se déroulent dans une période de diversité culturelle en Estrie.
Radio Canada International – Le Canada a-t-il encore besoin d’immigrants ?
C’est la question que se pose la Canado-Libanaise Carole Chelhot, membre du barreau du Québec et avocate spécialisée en droit de l’immigration. Elle partage son temps entre Montréal et Beyrouth. Mme Chelhot s’inquiète de certains changements apportés à la Loi sur l’immigration au Canada, et de leur impact sur ceux qui espèrent s’installer ici. Les modifications à la Loi canadienne sur l’immigration, qui sont entrées en vigueur le 1er août dernier, ont eu des échos dans certains journaux à l’extérieur du pays. C’est le cas de L’Orient-Le Jour, un journal libanais, qui mettait à la une le fait que le gouvernement canadien resserre les critères pour ceux qui désirent émigrer au Canada. Maryse Jobin a joint à Beyrouth au Liban, Carole Chelhot, avocate en droit de l’immigration. Elle critique certains changements mis en vigueur depuis le 1er août.
