Category: Immigration

CORRIERE CANADESE / Grandi aspettative e più grande resilienza

TORONTO – Se fossi stato una figura politica canadese negli anni ’50, avrei acquistato i diritti della canzone Casetta in Canadà, Festival di San Remo, 1957, e avrei investito nella sua distribuzione tra nazioni e popoli desiderosi di una vita migliore altrove (qui per essere precisi). Il nostro Paese sarebbe stato invaso da immigrati caratterizzati dal loro ottimismo, grinta, e coraggio, proprio come il protagonista della canzone… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

Great expectations and greater resilience

TORONTO – Had I been a Canadian political figure in the 1950s, I would have bought the rights to the song Casetta in Canada, Sanremo Festival, 1957 and invested in its distribution among nations and peoples desirous of a better life elsewhere (here to be specific). Our country would have been overrun with immigrants characterized by their optimism, drive and grit, just like the protagonist in the song. 

Foreign interference: Canadian parties system leaks like a sieve

TORONTO – Choice of candidates and party financing: these are the two “doors” that allow hostile foreign states to “enter” Canada to interfere, or at least try, in the elections and, consequently, in the country’s politics. This is what, in a nutshell, the head of Elections Canada, Stéphane Perrault (Chief Electoral Officer of Canada), reported to the Foreign Interference Commission. 

Migrants, exodus from Canada to the USA: almost 20 thousand in a few months

TORONTO – The US Customs and Border Protection (CPB) saw a record number of migrants on the border Canada – United States between October 2023 and July of this year: almost 20 thousand people tried to leave Canada to enter the United States illegally. CBP reported encountering 19,498 migrants at border crossings on the northern border between October 2023 and July 2024, including 15,612 in the Swanton sector, which runs along Quebec’s border with New York and Vermont.