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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 président des Etats-Unis a menacé de fermer la frontière avec le Mexique pour empêcher des milliers de migrants d’Amérique centrale de gagner les États-Unis, relançant un de ses thèmes de campagne favoris à trois semaines des élections cruciales de mi-mandat.
The incoming provincial government, led by the nationalist Coalition Avenir Québec party, has announced plans to outlaw the wearing of religious symbols by any public employees – including teachers. The proposed law will have a transition period, during which the affected can move to “non-authority” positions. After this, those who keep wearing religious articles “will have made the choice to no longer have a job if they wish to continue wearing a religious symbol”, said CAQ elected representative Geneviève Guilbault.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/17/canada-quebec-secularism-law-caq
Le gouvernement de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard a l’intention d’inciter un plus grand nombre de travailleurs étrangers à obtenir la citoyenneté canadienne pour maintenir ses niveaux d’immigration aux niveaux les plus élevés observés, à l’Île, depuis une décennie.
Si les tenants de l’interdiction du port de signes religieux prétendent que cette mesure est nécessaire pour protéger la laïcité de l’État, cette prétention ne résiste pas à la conception communément reconnue comme signifiant la séparation entre l’État et la religion. Nous devons celle-ci au philosophe John Locke, qui, dans sa Lettre sur la tolérance, rappelait qu’une telle séparation était nécessaire pour sauvegarder l’égalité des croyants, peu importe leur confession, et des non-croyants devant la loi. De là émerge un mode d’organisation de la société civile autour d’un contrat social dans lequel l’État doit non seulement briser ses liens avec la religion, mais doit aussi se garder de réprimer certains groupes pour leurs croyances religieuses personnelles.
https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/539155/signes-religieux-et-neutralite-de-l-etat
It seemed an insurmountable challenge for a Regent Park church congregation to come up with $12,000 for nine plane tickets from Burundi to Toronto, let alone for a penniless refugee living in a shelter. Then a church member came across the website of Miles4Migrants, an American charity that uses donated frequent flyer miles to book flights that reunite refugees with their loved ones separated by conflict and persecution. The Burundian family’s arrival in September is the first time the charity worked with a Canadian organization to reunite refugees.
With the United States border largely closed to refugees fleeing war-torn Syria, a Pittsburgh group is funding churches in Canada to resettle families from the troubled country. The organization, Ananias Mission, was co-founded by Ed Wethli, who, like many people around the world, had been moved by the heart-wrenching tales of the refugees. “Ignited” by the photo in September, 2015, of the lifeless three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned on a Turkish beach, he called some friends together and formed the Ananias Mission.