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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.
Le démographe François Héran, titulaire de la chaire Migrations et sociétés au Collège de France, bat en brèche nos idées reçues sur les migrations et explique à CNRS Le Journal pourquoi, avec plus de 800 autres chercheurs, il appelle à la création d’un Giec des migrations.
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/les-migrations-a-rebours-des-idees-recues
Les enfants de réfugiés qui arrivent à Winnipeg sont désormais accueillis avec des colis de bienvenue contenant des ours en peluche et des poupées auxquels ils peuvent s’identifier afin de pouvoir être réconfortés pendant le processus de réinstallation.
Emad Mishko Tamo looks excitedly at his bright-green mountain bike and talks about how he’s looking forward to summer cycling adventures with other Yazidi refugee children in his community. For the 14-year-old boy, the bicycle stands for freedom, something that only a few years ago was snatched away from him and his family when they were taken by Iraqi militants and held captive for three years. Now, he’s behind a movement to bring new bicycles to all Yazidi refugee children in Winnipeg.
The United Nations‘ special representative for international migration, Canadian Louise Arbour, is taking aim at what she calls the rampant misinformation surrounding the Global Compact for Migration. “It creates no right to migrate. It places no imposition on states… It is not legally binding,” she told reporters on Sunday. Arbour, who served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Canada, said she expected the pact to “stand the test of time,” even though the U.S., Australia, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Latvia and the Dominican Republic have pulled out.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4745117/un-migration-pact-louise-arbour/
Police say the man was arrested for allegedly assaulting an RCMP officer. Following an Ottawa Police investigation, he is being charged and will be released pending a court appearance. Eight other people were also arrested, but were released, according to Joseph Law a spokesperson for the Parliamentary Protective Service. An estimated 400 demonstrators filled the west lawn of Parliament Hill in dueling protests over Canada’s immigration policies. Anti-migration protesters rallied against Canada’s commitment to sign an international migration pact.
Canada is set to adopt an international migration pact that has drawn scorn from critics who say the document is a threat to sovereign immigration policies. About 167 countries have agreed to adopt the United Nations Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, a 36-page document that lays out a collaborative approach to dealing with growing global migration. It sets out 23 objectives for treating migrants humanely and efficiently.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/global-compact-un-hussen-1.4935492