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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.
Vancouver Sun – Cap on Immigration Applications Unfair to Workers: Labour Head
A decision to bar foreign retail and restaurant supervisors from applying to the much-vaunted Canadian Experience Class immigration stream is raising questions about whether the federal government’s handling of the temporary foreign worker program has allowed low-skilled workers to gain easy access to permanent residency. The federal government announced late last week that it was capping immigration applications to the Canadian Experience Class, a pathway that’s supposed to facilitate residency for international students and skilled foreign workers with jobs in Canada. The government said it would accept just 12,000 applications this year and that cooks, food and retail supervisors, administrative assistants and bookkeepers would no longer be eligible for the program.
CNW Telbec – Des communautés de couleur se joignent aux communautés autochtones pour un engagement envers la vérité, la justice et la réconciliation
Des organisations communautaires représentant diverses communautés de couleur organisent une journée de dialogue pour démontrer leur solidarité avec les communautés autochtones et promouvoir la vérité et la réconciliation. L’événement « Du souvenir à la réconciliation – Un dialogue communautaire commun sur nos rôles comme peuples visés par des traités », qui a lieu aujourd’hui, àOsgoode Professional Development, 1, rue Dundas Ouest, 26e étage, salle C, marquera également le 250eanniversaire de la Proclamation royale de 1763 et le 25e anniversaire de la Loi sur le multiculturalisme canadien.
Chronicle Herald – Immigration a Buoy for Atlantic Canada
More people lived in Atlantic Canada 20 years ago than today, and the rate of growth of the Atlantic labour force today is less than half the national average and economic immigration as a percentage of the population is lower still. Not exactly a stellar foundation for strong future growth. Immigration matters on so many fronts — economically, socially, culturally. The diversity it generates strengthens everyone, from startups to mature companies, from classrooms to research labs, from literature and the arts to cuisine, from communities to countries. If we are to successfully tackle our aging demographics, we need to increase our working-age population growth on a sustained basis. Immigration is an integral part of the 4Front Action Plan, developed at the recent 4Front Atlantic conferences featuring key players from Atlantic Canada’s private and educational sectors.
Cambridge Times – Could this Man in Canadian Jail be South Africa’s Missing Anti-Apartheid Icon?
A man who has been languishing in immigration detention in Canada for almost a decade is believed to be a South African anti-apartheid icon whose disappearance has remained a mystery. […] The belief that it is Makhubu who’s being currently detained in Lindsay, Ont. is supported by members of his family, who were shown his photo by South African officials contacted by CBSA earlier this summer. […] “He was pressed for his true identity but refused to provide it, saying that if he did provide the true identity he would be returned to South Africa, and he held on to the fact that as long as he does not provide his true identity a travel document cannot be issued for him,” Immigration and Refugee Board adjudicator Ama Beecham said at Vinnetou’s latest detention review in October.
La Presse – Moins d’interceptions de voyageurs étrangers au pays
De moins en moins de voyageurs étrangers sont interceptés à leur descente d’avion au Canada pour cause de documents de voyage ou d’immigration contrefaits ou non valides, voire parce qu’ils n’ont aucun papier en poche. Le Canada profite-t-il de mesures mises en place dans d’autres pays, mais absentes ici? Si, en 2005, on dénombrait 1640 cas de «ressortissants étrangers non munis des documents réglementaires» pincés par les douaniers canadiens, les statistiques n’ont cessé de décroître pour chuter à 588 cas en 2012. En revanche, la somme des contraventions imposées aux transporteurs aériens concernés est variable, même si elle est globalement en décroissance. Elle a atteint un record de 1,7 million de dollars en 2008.
Durham Region – Durham has GTA’s Lowest Percentage of Immigrants
Recent data from Statistics Canada shows Durham has the lowest percentage of immigrants in the GTA at 21 per cent. But local experts say that number doesn’t tell the whole story. “When you break it down to the lower-tier municipalities, it’s quite a different look,” says Audrey Andrews, manager of diversity and immigration for the Region of Durham. Ajax, for example has a population that is 34 per cent immigrants, a four-per cent increase over 2006, while Pickering sits at 31 per cent. […] In comparison, Peel Region has the GTA’s highest percentage of immigrants at 50 per cent, followed by Toronto at 49 per cent, York Region at 45 per cent, Halton Region at 26 per cent and Hamilton at 25 per cent.
