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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.
CNW Telbec – La CRÉ de Montréal félicite les partenaires d’affaires du projet Alliés Montréal reconnus au palmarès des Meilleurs employeurs pour les nouveaux arrivants
La Conférence régionale des élus (CRÉ) de Montréal félicite les partenaires d’affaires du projet Alliés Montréal reconnus au palmarès des Meilleurs employeurs pour les nouveaux arrivants 2013, soit : Banque Nationale du Canada, Banque Royale du Canada, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young et Xerox Canada ltée. Ils voient ainsi leur engagement et pratiques en matière d’intégration des nouveaux arrivants reconnus parmi les « Meilleurs employeurs au Canada ». Ce prix vise à reconnaître les pratiques exemplaires des entreprises pour leurs employés qui sont des personnes immigrantes arrivées récemment. En devenant des milieux plus accueillants, elles permettent aux nouveaux arrivants de faire une transition réussie, tant au sein de l’organisation que dans la communauté d’accueil, tout en devenant productifs plus rapidement.
The Guardian – Theresa May Relaxes Immigration Rules for Senior Executives and Elite Graduates
The [U.K.] home secretary, Theresa May, has responded to business pressure and moved to relax some of the immigration rules for senior company executives and elite graduates. She has tabled changes to the “graduate entrepreneur scheme”, which will allow up to 1,000 international graduates with masters degrees in business administration to stay on in Britain to work for 12 months after they finish their course. In a major change to the clampdown on the “post-study work route”, all graduate students who now complete a PhD will be allowed to stay in Britain for a further year to find skilled work or set up as an entrepreneur. She has also moved to scrap an English test for senior business executives who come on intra-company transfers and earn more than £152,100 a year who want to extend their time in Britain.
Winnipeg Free Press – 1 in 3 [U.S.] Counties Now Dying, with Rural and Exurban Areas Hit Hard; Immigrants Help Avert Losses
“Immigrants are innovators, entrepreneurs, they’re making things happen. They create jobs,” said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, at an immigration conference in his state last week. Saying Michigan should be a top destination for legal immigrants to come and boost Detroit and other struggling areas, Snyder made a special appeal: “Please come here.” The growing attention on immigrants is coming mostly from areas of the Midwest and Northeast, which are seeing many of their residents leave after years of staying put during the downturn. With a slowly improving U.S. economy, young adults are now back on the move, departing traditional big cities to test the job market mostly in the South and West, which had sustained the biggest hits in the housing bust.
Winnipeg Free Press – Federal Budget to Target Mismatch Between Skilled Workers and Labour Shortages
“The single most pressing issue for members of the Canadian chamber and businesses across the country relates to the skills and labour shortages that are affecting Canada’s competitiveness,” the Canadian Chamber of Commerce said in its pre-budget presentation to the House of Commons finance committee. The quickest way to solve the skills gap is through more aggressive immigration and faster processing of temporary foreign workers, says the chamber. But while immigration may be part of the budget package, the government is likely to have a more domestic focus that will encourage businesses to get more involved in training and skills development, said NDP human resources critic Chris Charlton.
Ottawa Citizen – Immigrant Doctor Fast Tracked Down Dead-End Road
Being a medical doctor got Manuel Peiris permanent resident status before he even set foot in Canada. But three years later, the Sri Lankan is still trying to get a hospital internship — a requirement doctors from most foreign countries have to fulfil before they can be licensed to practise here. Peiris, 43, works as a part-time care provider at an Ottawa retirement home. […] If Peiris doesn’t get a chance to practise here — and that appears to be a good possibility — their move to Canada might turn out to be a waste of time and money. He is considering moving his family again — possibly to the United States, where the need for international medical graduates (IMGs) is greater, to Australia, where he would work under the supervision of a physician for a year before getting a licence to start his own practice, or even back to Sri Lanka.
Canadian Lawyer Magazine – Immigration Consequences Can Affect Sentencing, SCC Rules
The Supreme Court of Canada has granted a convicted drug dealer a reduction in his sentence so that can appeal his deportation from Canada. In his first written decision since joining the top court’s bench in October, Justice Richard Wagner ruled a court may change a sentence if the sentencing judge was not made aware of the accused’s immigration consequences. “An appellate court has the authority to intervene if the sentencing judge was not aware of the collateral immigration consequences of the sentence for the offender, or if counsel had failed to advise the judge on this issue. In such circumstances, the court’s intervention is justified because the sentencing judge decided on the fitness of the sentence without considering a relevant factor,” Wagner wrote in Pham v. R.
