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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.
Un sénateur australien s’est attiré mercredi un déluge de critiques pour avoir préconisé une «solution finale», en l’occurrence un vote populaire, au «problème de l’immigration» et a recommandé un retour à l’ancienne politique discriminatoire dite de «l’Australie blanche». Le sénateur du Queensland Fraser Anning a sidéré mardi son auditoire en reprenant à son compte […].
Le navire humanitaire Aquarius est arrivé mercredi 15 août à Malte, où il a été finalement autorisé à accoster après avoir erré plusieurs jours en Méditerranée avec 141 migrants épuisés à son bord. Le navire, affrété par les ONG SOS Méditerranée et Médecins sans frontières (MSF), est entré peu après 14 heures dans le port de La Valette, après un accord pour répartir entre cinq pays […].
The public awareness campaign, titled “Got Citizenship? Go Vote!”, is being spearheaded by Immigration Partnership Winnipeg (IPW) in partnership with leaders in Winnipeg’s ethnocultural community. The campaign includes posters, videos, a website and other social media with information in 12 languages. IPW director Abdikheir Ahmed says that his organization knows anecdotally that many newcomers don’t vote. That’s partly because many of them don’t become citizens for several years after they land in Canada, so they often feel disconnected from the civic process, he says.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/got-citizenship-go-vote-campaign-1.4785215
Shared all over social media, the clip shows a young toddler in a diaper, standing on the second floor roof of a house on King Street East in downtown Hamilton while several bystanders look on in concern. While others watched, Khalid Tabateb acted. The 18-year-old Syrian refugee was in the passenger seat of his father’s car on Wednesday when they said they happened upon the scene. Tabateb said he told his father to stop the car and dashed toward the house’s front door.
Panashe Chaya, 23, is alleged to have produced fake permanent residency documents and then sold them to post-secondary students in Saskatoon and across Canada. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) launched an investigation into Chaya’s activities in January, which led to the execution of a search of his home on April 26, 2018. Chaya was charged on July 25 with three counts under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) and three counts under the Criminal Code.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4386547/immigration-fraud-saskatoon-man-cbsa/
Bolante Alo, the Nigerian man who died after an altercation with Canada border services officers last week, promised he wouldn’t go quietly if ordered out of the country, his detention hearing documents show. Evidence submitted by Kenzie Wingert at the first of Alo’s two detention hearings outlines how his refusal to co-operate with any potential deportation order escalated over time. Some of Alo’s testimony in the transcripts provides a glimpse into his fear of returning to Nigeria.