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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.
Chronicle Herald – Staff Recommend City Sign Immigration Deal
Halifax council should give the green light to the municipality’s signing of a proposed immigration-services agreement with Ottawa, city staff have recommended. A municipal staff report says the $146,472 deal with Citizenship and Immigration Canada would be for three years, “and is intended to support a part-time staff person and administrative costs.” Regional council is to consider the recommendation Tuesday at its meeting at city hall. […] The money is to go to establishing and running the office of an immigration partnership co-ordinator.
Vancouver Sun – China, Japan Entering Global Competition for Foreign Workers
According to Chinese news media, China will be introducing a list of skills currently in demand in the country, in order to aid its recruitment of foreign talent. […] The wording strikes an uncanny resemblance to what Canadian immigration minister Chris Alexander said in Vancouver just two weeks ago — that the federal government, through its Expression of Interest program, is looking to fill areas where there is specific labour needs with foreign talent. Also shared by Beijing’s announcement and Alexander’s speech was a call to private enterprise to help the central governments compile the most up-to-date list possible, so the foreign talent being brought into the country can immediately integrate and contribute. Coincidence? More than likely. But the fact that a major power in global politics is now taking a similar model as Canada in identifying and addressing domestic talent deficiencies demonstrates both the effectiveness of the Canadian system and the fierce competition for the best and the brightest around the world.
Toronto Star – Parkdale School Mourns Deported Roma Students
For the past four years, the schools of Parkdale have wrapped Roma students and their parents in support — hiring Hungarian-speaking hall monitors, settlement workers and counsellors, creating extra English as a Second Language classes, putting extra teachers in regular classes, holding workshops in Hungarian to explain everything from report cards to exams, and working very, very hard to convince Roma parents they had their children’s best interest at heart. […] Over the past 18 months, especially since Canada tightened up its refugee rules last December, hundreds of Toronto’s Roma families have been deported or given up and gone back. […] Parkdale’s school council has written Ottawa citing the latest European Court of Human Rights ruling in January 2013 against Hungary’s placement of Roma in special needs schools, but has had no reply, said parent John Doherty.
Journal de Montréal – Coopération canado-américaine pour une évaluation plus serrée des demandes d’immigration
Le Canada resserre ses règles dans l’évaluation des demandes d’immigration et du statut de réfugié et utilisera dorénavant un système de partage de données avec les États-Unis. En vertu de nouveaux règlements rendus publics samedi, les autorités canadiennes et américaines partageront à compter de novembre les informations personnelles sur les demandeurs de visa, de permis de travail, du statut de réfugié ou d’immigrant. Des fonctionnaires canadiens ont précisé que le principal avantage de ce programme résidera dans «l’identification d’un plus grand nombre de demandeurs inadmissibles et une réduction de la criminalité, puisqu’un plus grand nombre de criminels connus se verront refuser l’entrée au pays».
La Presse – É-U: des milliers de personnes dans la rue pour une réforme de l’immigration
Plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté samedi aux États-Unis, à New York et Los Angeles notamment, pour réclamer des élus américains qu’ils adoptent une réforme de l’immigration. […] La «Marche pour la dignité et le respect des immigrés» de la métropole new-yorkaise entrait dans le cadre d’une journée de mobilisation nationale où des manifestations devaient avoir lieu dans 160 villes américaines. Les manifestants exigeaient du Congrès qu’il approuve au plus vite la réforme qui permettrait aux 11 millions de sans-papiers, dont 7 millions de Mexicains, installés aux États-Unis d’obtenir un statut provisoire avec des papiers à la clé.
Medicine Hat News – Kenney Meets With Local Businesses Friday
Employment Minister Jason Kenney was in Medicine Hat discussing the issue of temporary foreign workers with members of the local fast-food, manufacturing and agricultural industries. […] He said that despite the economy doing well in southeastern Alberta, there remains a shortage of workers. “We’ve been trying to address that through our pro-growth immigration reforms,” Kenney said. But, the minister added, foreign workers are a “last resort, not first resort.” […] But Kenney gave a sneak-peak into the final piece of the Harper government’s immigration reform. He said the government will be creating “a huge pool of pre-qualified perspective folks from around the world who are interested in coming to Canada. Employers will be able to go online in a system we operate and search for folks that they need.”
