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.
CBC News – ‘Love Letter’ to Filipina Nurses Who Immigrated to Canada Opens Prairie Theatre Exchange Season
Commissioned to write a story about life in rural Canada, Toronto playwright Marie Beath Badian found inspiration close to home. Her play, Prairie Nurse, opening Thursday night at Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange, tells the story of two Filipina nurses working in small-town Saskatchewan after coming to Canada during a wave of immigration from the Philippines in the 1960s. It’s a story Badian knows well — her mother worked at a nurse in Arborfield, a small Saskatchewan town, after arriving from the Philippines in 1967.
CBC News – Immigration Department Changed ‘Illegal’ to ‘Irregular’ on Webpage About Asylum Seekers as Debate Flared
The change in July came 18 months after the web page, titled “Claiming asylum in Canada – what happens?,” was first published — and just one day after federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen suggested the provincial Progressive Conservatives were mistaken in the way they were describing the status of people entering Canada at non-official entry points. Throughout the web page, which is intended to provide information on Canada’s asylum laws, the words “illegal” and “illegally” were switched to “irregular” or “irregularly” in six separate instances on July 10, 2018.
Le Soleil – Signes religieux : les récalcitrants perdront leur emploi, prévient la CAQ
Les employés de l’État en position d’autorité qui refuseront d’enlever leurs signes religieux sous le gouvernement Legault seront relocalisés ou licenciés, a affirmé la députée Geneviève Guilbault. Selon elle, les policiers, juges, procureurs, gardiens de prison et enseignants récalcitrants seront les artisans de leur propre malheur, puisqu’ils choisiront de laisser tomber leur emploi.
Le Soleil – Lévis veut mieux accueillir ses immigrants
La Ville de Lévis et l’organisme Tremplin organiseront chaque année une fête soulignant l’apport des immigrants au développement de Lévis. Le maire de Lévis, Gilles Lehouillier et le président du Tremplin, Elhadji Mamadou Diarra, ont également procédé mercredi à la signature d’une déclaration commune en faveur de l’accueil des personnes immigrantes.
Chronical Herald – Filmmaker, Rohingya Refugee Talk Crisis at Film Screening
Subtitled A Genocide in Four Acts, I Am Rohingya from director Yusuf Zine at least contains a kernel of hope. Its portrayal of the production of a play by Rohingya youths from the Kitchener-Waterloo area about their own experiences of fleeing their homes and arriving in Canada is helping to spread the word about the growing crisis. The film, which can be streamed or downloaded at www.iamrohingyafilm.com, shows the cast’s transformation from refugees into activists, appearing at awareness-raising rallies for the Rohingya people by its end.
Globe and Mail – Woman Wearing Hijab Was Entitled to Testify, Quebec Top Court Rules
The judgment by the Quebec Court of Appeal on Wednesday ends a legal saga for Rania El-Alloul, who was told by a provincial court judge three years ago that her Muslim headscarf violated the rules of courtroom decorum. The three justices from Quebec’s highest court unanimously found that nothing in the rules forbids a woman from wearing a hijab in a courtroom if the practice stems from sincere religious belief. ” I didn’t do this for me, I did it for everybody, because I didn’t want them to face what I did,” said Ms. El-Alloul.
