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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.
Salim Hasan, along with hundreds of other Yazidi refugees, harvested more than 9,000 kilograms of produce this year as part of a special farming project in Manitoba. The food was given to refugee families and leftovers were sold at farmers markets or given to food banks. “It’s an incredible sense of pride that they are able to work themselves,” said Nafiya Naso, a Yazidi resettlement co-ordinator.
A string of human trafficking charges laid against three Londoners accused of illegally recruiting migrant workers and forcing them to live in “deplorable” conditions underscores the need for stronger protections for foreign workers, a labour advocate says. The charges were laid last week by London police as part of a year-long investigation involving Bethesda Agricultural Enterprises Inc., a recruitment firm that matched migrant workers with London employers and which allegedly brought workers into the city from Guatemala between 2015 and 2017.
The investigation was carried out by the London Police Service’s human-trafficking unit and began after officers say information was sent to police in September 2018. According to police, the information concerned three Londoners who reportedly operated a recruitment business to match migrant workers with local employers. The three people worked at the business, called Bethesda Agricultural Enterprises Inc., between 2015 and 2017, police say.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6330348/london-police-labour-trafficking-investigation-3-arrested/
L’association calgarienne The Immigration Education Society (TIES) publie sur son site internet et sur sa chaîne YouTube, des vidéos dans lesquelles des immigrants cuisinent des spécialités de leur pays d’origine. Ce projet a été lancé l’an dernier. Jusqu’à maintenant, 13 recettes ont été mises en ligne. Des spécialités russe, asiatique, grecque ou encore de Syrie et même du Bhoutan comptent parmi les recettes proposées. Il y en a pour tous les goûts : du houmous au taboulé, en passant par le filet mignon et les smoothies.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1445420/immigrants-recettes-cuisine-youtube-alberta-grow
Racism often captured headlines and took up space in public discourse in 2019 — but a new poll shows those discussions didn’t necessarily change Canadians’ opinions. An Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Global News found 49 per cent of Canadians don’t think racism is a serious problem in the country, while 43 per cent do. Those numbers are similar to April findings, when 46 per cent said racism was a serious problem.
https://globalnews.ca/news/6321879/canada-racism-blackface-don-cherry/
In an era of low global interest rates, currency traders will have to look elsewhere for an impetus. In Canada, they can bank on population growth. The flood of immigrants and non-permanent residents to levels not seen in a century has been one of the main drivers supporting Canada’s economic expansion over the past several years. That has kept the Bank of Canada as an outlier in the global easing trend as it held its policy rate unchanged, bolstering the allure of the loonie.