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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.
The scale of the exodus of wealth from China caused by investor immigration is much larger than previously estimated, according to China Daily’s interviews with emigration agents and experts. Last month, Legal Evening News, a Beijing Metropolis daily, said 10 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) has found its way abroad annually since 2009.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2012-03/16/content_14845619.htm
I applaud Alberta’s decision to bring in tougher rules to regulate employment agencies. This is an important and positive step towards protecting foreign workers from unscrupulous labour recruiters. Temporary foreign workers can fall victim to dishonest agencies, which might mislead them in any number of ways – including exaggerated promises of employment opportunities or of their chances of becoming Canadian citizens.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/statements/2012/2012-03-16a.asp
A dispute between a Moroccan immigrant and the City of Gatineau over a controversial guide for newcomers to the area is headed for mediation at the Quebec Human Rights Commission. Kamal Maghri, who has been living in Gatineau for more than a decade, complained to the commission in December as part of an ongoing dispute over the guide the city published in late November as a means of helping immigrants adapt to life in Quebec.
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Dispute+over+Gatineau+immigration+guide+headed+mediation/6314050/story.html
Sarkozy also oversimplifies and misrepresents the EU’s policies on border control and immigration. Despite the dramatic images of boats in the Mediterranean and camps at Calais suggesting that borders are repeatedly breached by cunning illegal immigrants, the reality is that governments have not entirely lost control in the way that they suggest, but instead reorganised and repositioned their controls.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says it’s time to put a premium on selecting skilled immigrants who can quickly fill gaps in the country’s labour market. It’s a strategy that makes a great deal of sense. “The time has come for fundamental change to our rigid, slow-moving immigration process and this government will deliver that change,” Kenney told the Economic Club of Canada last week.
This article is no longer available online. Please contact the media source directly for more information. Original Source: http://www.windsorstar.com/business/Kenney+plan/6304684/story.html
Allowing Canada’s Muslim and Jewish communities to slaughter livestock according to centuries-old dietary rules is a reasonable accommodation of religious minorities. The practice harms no one. And those who object can buy non-halal or non-kosher poultry and beef. The controversy over halal meat in Quebec has less to do with legitimate concerns about animal cruelty, then, and more to do with intolerance toward Muslims and Jews.