Media Roundup

La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.


Radio-Canada — À peine 1100 nouveaux étudiants internationaux à l’Université Laval

Les inscriptions provenant de l’étranger sont en chute libre à l’Université Laval. Il y a à peine 1100 nouveaux étudiants internationaux à l’automne, en baisse de 50 % par rapport à 2023. Même s’il était possible d’en accueillir davantage avec les nouveaux seuils, les nouvelles politiques en matière d’immigration ont affecté le pouvoir d’attraction du Québec, selon le vice-recteur aux affaires internationales. Au cours de deux dernières années, les gouvernements fédéral et provincial ont imposé de nouveaux quotas sur les permis d’étude. La principale cause du déclin, c’est un effet réputationnel, analyse le vice-recteur, François Gélineau.

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2189819/entranger-rentree-universitaire-recherche-2025-automne

The Globe and Mail — There is no flood of newcomers anymore, Mr. Poilievre

Canada’s population has stopped growing. That’s an important point to remember when you hear Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre complain that immigration is “out of control” and people are pouring into the country. For a while, that was true. The numbers of international students and temporary foreign workers boomed in the years immediately after the COVID-19 lockdowns, when the Liberal government of then-prime minister Justin Trudeau made one of the biggest public policy failures in decades. But the feds – notably Mr. Trudeau’s last immigration minister, Marc Miller – slammed the brakes on that in 2024. Now net immigration is pretty much zero.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opinion/article-canada-immigration-population-newcomers-poilievre/

La Presse — Le nouveau visage de Sept-Îles

Le recours aux travailleurs étrangers temporaires connaît un essor fulgurant sur la Côte-Nord, et particulièrement à Sept-Îles, une ville de quelque 25 000 habitants où la grande industrie, avec ses gros salaires, gruge la main-d’œuvre dans les services et les PME. Mécaniciens, cuisiniers, conducteurs de camion lourd, techniciens en comptabilité, réceptionnistes, serveurs, enseignants, couvreurs, soudeurs, bouchers… L’immigration est présente partout. Il suffit de circuler en ville pour le constater de ses yeux.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/la-presse-a-sept-iles/coup-de-frein-au-boom-migratoire-et-au-commerce/2025-08-31/le-nouveau-visage-de-sept-iles.php#

City News — International student enrolment in Quebec plummets: report

International student enrolment is in freefall in Quebec universities, where the drop sometimes exceeds 50 per cent. At Concordia University, applications from outside the country were 37 per cent lower than in the fall of 2024, while they declined by 22 per cent at McGill University. At the Université de Montréal, new international undergraduate enrolments have dropped by 31 per cent compared to last year, according to preliminary data. Both enrolment and international applications are in freefall across the network, particularly in French-speaking universities. English-language institutions have also experienced a decline in their enrolment from the rest of Canada in recent years, due to tuition hikes made by Quebec.

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/08/29/international-student-enrolment-quebec-report/

National Post — Fewer foreign students and workers entered Canada in first half of 2025, Ottawa says

New data released by the federal government show that the number of international students coming to Canada dropped significantly in the first half of the year. Figures show there were 214,520 fewer arrivals in Canada between January and June of 2025 compared to the same period in the previous year. Of those, 88,617 represented a reduction in the number of new student arrivals, while the remainder, 125,903 fewer arrivals, was a drop in new foreign workers. For the month of June, there were 4,185 new student arrivals this year, compared to 11,287 last June. Those numbers tend to climb with the start of the new school year — last August saw an influx of almost 80,000 international students — but July and August numbers for 2025 when they are calculated are likely to continue the trend of fewer arrivals.

https://nationalpost.com/news/fewer-foreign-students-and-workers-entered-canada-in-first-half-of-2025-ottawa-says

The Globe and Mail — 14,000 migrants have returned south since Trump’s immigration crackdown began, report says

More than 14,000 mainly Venezuelan migrants who hoped to reach the United States have reversed course and turned south since U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown began, according to a report published Friday by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica. The phenomenon, known as “reverse flow” migration, is largely made up of Venezuelan migrants who fled their country’s long-running economic, social and political crises only to encounter U.S. immigration policy no longer open to asylum seekers.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-migrants-donald-trump-immigration-return-south/