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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 – Planning for Success, Putting Canada First
Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander today announced an immigration plan that will drive economic growth in 2014 and position Canada for success in the years ahead. […] After tabling the Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration, Alexander said Canada plans to welcome 240,000 to 265,000 new permanent residents in 2014, with record admissions forecast in both the Canadian Experience Class (CEC) and the Provincial Nominee Program.
Les opposants à la Charte des valeurs québécoises prennent de nouveau la rue dimanche. Une autre manifestation pour dénoncer le projet du gouvernement Marois doit se dérouler à Montréal. Le rassemblement doit avoir lieu au Carré Phillips, à 14 h. La manifestation est organisée par l’Association des musulmans et des Arabes pour la laïcité au Québec, le Congrès maghrébin au Québec ainsi que les Québécois musulmans pour les droits et libertés. Le regroupement se dit en accord avec le principe de la neutralité religieuse de l’État, mais il estime que les mesures prévues dans la Charte sont discriminatoires envers «un groupe de citoyens». Les manifestants disent «en avoir assez du climat qui entoure le débat».
La Presse – Aide aux devoirs pour enfants d’immigrants : se jumeler pour persévérer
Bien souvent, les parents immigrants peinent à aider leurs enfants à faire leurs devoirs de maths, d’anglais ou de français, non pas par manque de compétences, mais plutôt bloqués par la barrière de la langue. Pour remédier à ce problème, le Centre pour femmes immigrantes de Sherbrooke lance une activité de jumelage scolaire avec la collaboration bénévole d’élèves du Collège Mont Notre-Dame et d’étudiantes en psychoéducation de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Le samedi 2 novembre prochain, 25 jeunes filles du Mont-Notre-Dame se regrouperont au Centre pour femmes immigrantes pour aider une vingtaine d’enfants d’immigrants de 14 ans et moins à faire leurs devoirs.
The Star Phoenix – Most Rural Doctor Positions Filled
Intensive recruiting and a significant cash outlay has helped the Saskatoon Health Region fill all but three rural physician vacancies as of September. A year ago, 11 doctor positions were vacant in the small communities outside of Saskatoon, and 15 were vacant the year before that. […]Many of the new applicants are landed immigrants whose families are here but who were forced to return to the their home countries for four to six months each year to practise medicine because they didn’t qualify to practise in Canada. SIPPA [Saskatchewan International Physicians Practise Assessment] helps them meet the Canadian requirements in exchange for a two-year return-for-service contract..
Now that one in five Canadians are immigrants, and nearly as many are second-generation citizens, you’d think the ethnic marketing of the last two decades would be reaching fever pitch. Instead, forecasters predict the opposite will soon be true, with growing emphasis on a “post-multicultural” nation. […] A March 2013 survey for the Association for Canadian Studies found roughly one-third of immigrants (32 per cent) identify as Canadian first, followed by their country of origin. A quarter (24 per cent) identify equally as Canadian and as being from their origin country, nearly one in five (17 per cent) identify as Canadian only, and just two per cent identify as being exclusively from their origin country.
Globe and Mail – Markham’s Rapid Change into Canada’s Most Diverse City
Markham has a far bigger proportion of visible minority residents than the City of Toronto proper (49.1 per cent). It puts other famous immigrant magnets such as Brampton (66.4 per cent), Mississauga (53.7) and Richmond Hill (52.9) in the shade. […] Markham seems a world away from the downtown immigrant ghettos of the past, or for that matter from the low-income pockets of the downtown and the inner suburbs where many newcomers struggle to get by in today’s Toronto. A report from the Wellesley Institute this month showed that 70 per cent of the immigrants surveyed in Toronto’s east end reported individual income of less than $30,000 a year.
