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Saguenay accueillera ce printemps le tout premier forum consacré aux nouveaux arrivants qui désirent démarrer des entreprises dans les régions du Québec. Pendant deux jours, le Forum Horizons Nord Québec veut réunir des centaines de personnes pour discuter de l’entrepreneuriat issu de l’immigration.
La Ville de Montréal ne comptera pas le nombre d’employés portant des signes religieux. La mairesse Valérie Plante estime qu’un tel exercice serait discriminatoire alors que les vêtements arborés n’influencent en rien leur performance au travail.
A former refugee judge who once wrote that most refugees are liars was recently rehired by Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) to decide asylum claims, Global News has learned. Lubomyr Luciuk — who once said he “had no choice but to become ‘Dr. No’” because he denied so many refugee claims — gained notoriety for his views on Canada’s asylum system, including when he said Canada had become a haven for “assorted terrorists, drug peddlers and war criminals.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/4903246/immigration-refugee-board-dr-no-rehired-asylum-claims/
Five women and one 14-year-old girl have filed reports with York Regional Police. The victims are all Yazidis who survived an ISIS-led genocide in Iraq in 2014. They have handed over to police recordings of the phone calls and screen grabs of the texts, which reference the Islamic State and include pictures of beheadings and armed Jihadis. W5 has listened to the phone calls. York Regional Police have assembled a team to try to track where the calls are originating.
“Canada is stepping up … to address the most pressing needs of Venezuelans on the ground, including the almost three million refugees,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during his opening remarks at the summit. Canada has earmarked the new funds to help those Venezuelans who have fled to neighbouring countries in recent months due to an increasingly acute food shortage. The $53 million is in addition to the $2.2 million Canada has pledged already for similar efforts to help people grappling with the largest refugee crisis ever recorded in the Americas.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lima-group-ottawa-meeting-venezuela-1.5004086
Deux ateliers d’usinage de Valcourt et de Bonsecours ont décidé de se tourner vers les Philippines pour faire face à la pénurie de main-d’oeuvre qualifiée. De plus en plus d’entreprises recrutent des Philippins pour maintenir leur croissance même si le processus est long et coûteux. Le jeu en vaut la chandelle, assurent les entrepreneurs.