Latest news happening in the settlement sector of Ontario.
Here we post new publications (studies, reports), government notices and more.
Beth Macdonell CTV News Toronto Feb. 16, 2023
The mayor of Niagara Falls is calling on the federal government to come up with a plan and provide resources for thousands of migrants staying in the city’s tourist district after entering Canada through the unofficial border crossing at Roxham Road in Quebec.
Linda Gyulai • Montreal Gazette Feb 21, 2023
Black students in Quebec are overrepresented in special education and behavioural classes, and the researchers behind one of the first studies to gather data on systemic racism in schools in the province are calling on the Quebec education department to officially recognize that it exists.
By Jacob Serebrin | February 21st 2023 National Observer
MONTREAL — Quebec's premier is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the flow of migrants across an irregular border crossing in southern Quebec a priority during a meeting next month with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Erik White · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023
February is Black history month, but with the Black population of northern Ontario growing rapidly in recent years, the present and the future deserve just as much attention.
More than 5,000 people in the region describe themselves as Black in the 2021 census, double what it was 10 years earlier.
"I think Sudbury is experiencing a new face entirely," said Adebola Adefioye, who came to the city two years ago.
Nate Vandermeer CTV News Ottawa Feb. 21, 2023
Asylum seekers crossing into Quebec from the United States continue to arrive in Cornwall, Ont. and the city says it needs federal help to handle the situation.
Around 800 people are now being housed in Cornwall at the Dev Centre and the former Ramada Inn on Brookdale Avenue, after crossing the Canada-U.S. border at Roxham Road into Quebec.
Irem Koca The Star Tue., Feb. 14, 2023
OTTAWA Turkish Canadians are calling on Ottawa to expedite the visa applications of family stranded in Turkey, after the devastating earthquakes.
An online petition signed by more than 7,800 people asked Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for a two-tiered approach to resettle Turkish citizens in Canada.
Christian Collington The Canadian Press Feb. 15, 2023
StatCan numbers reveal the percentage of permanent residents who become Canadians has plummeted over the past 20 years.
The Institute for Canadian Citizenship says Statistics Canada data points to a 40 per cent decline in citizenship uptake since 2001.
The group's CEO, Daniel Bernhard, calls the drop alarming and says it should serve as a "wake up call" to improving the experience newcomers have in Canada.
Paul Rellinger Kawartha Now February 14, 2023
Walk, for a moment, in the footsteps of an immigrant or refugee newly arrived in Peterborough.
As a stranger in a strange land, everything is, well, strange. Add fear of the unknown to the equation. Trepidation rules as they wonder whom to turn to for the most basic of goods and services, including access to health care.
Loraine Centeno Waterloo Chronicle Thursday, February 16, 2023
The cancellation of classes for students in a medically fragile class at a Kitchener school is just one among dozens of establishments that have been forced to close due to staff shortages.
Sawyer Bogdan Global News February 15, 2023
A new report looking at the impact the pandemic had on the exploitation of migrant workers in Canada is raising concerns about an increase in labour trafficking.
The groups involved in the report say a major labour shortage, coupled with the status of temporary foreign workers, is leading to more situations of migrant workers being taken advantage of.