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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.
Confrontés à une hostilité grandissante, les migrants ont de plus en plus de mal à accéder à l’aide humanitaire et aux services vitaux dans les pays d’accueil, au mépris du droit international, dénonce la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge dans un rapport publié mardi (en anglais).
A report from the Angus Reid Institute says nearly one-half of those born outside of Canada received material support from a faith-based group, while 63 per cent relied on them to form a social network. “They don’t know anyone, so they go to their church, synagogue, temple or whatever, and that’s where they find people,” says Angus Reid, chairman of the Angus Reid Institute. The survey, Reid says, didn’t differentiate between services from religiously based organizations and those provided directly from congregations.
Between January and April of this year, 75 Syrians have settled in Nova Scotia, 40 in New Brunswick, 35 in PEI, and 15 in Newfoundland and Labrador. “We are receiving refugees from other parts of the world as well,” said Nabiha Atallah, the manager of communications and research for the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia. “In our opinion, we could increase our numbers. We did so well with the large number of Syrian refugees who came in 2015/16.”
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/immigration-to-maritimes-slows-after-influx-of-syrian-refugees-1.4006650
The federal minister of immigration objected Monday to the new Ontario Tory government’s references to people claiming refugee status as “illegal border crossers.” Last week, a spokesman for Premier Doug Ford used the term in a statement sent to the media, saying the recent influx of asylum seekers has resulted in a housing crisis in Toronto and “threats to services that Ontario families depend on.” On Monday, an e-mailed statement sent to The Canadian Press from Ford’s office repeated the “illegal border crossers” terminology.
Par un après-midi d’été, les babillages d’enfants se font entendre à travers les portes closes et se répandent dans les corridors déserts d’une résidence étudiante de Toronto. Les 54 chambres du Collège Centennial accueillent temporairement 344 demandeurs d’asile, dont 96 familles. Des centaines d’autres personnes dans la même situation sont hébergées dans une autre […].
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1111508/demandeurs-asile-toronto
More than 132,700 Toronto residents are unable to have a conversation in either official language and they account for 20.5 per cent of the 648,970 non-English and non-French-speaking population across Canada, according to the Social Planning Toronto report which is believed to be the first ever to profile this cohort. Census data collected between 1996 and 2016 found the number of people without knowledge of either official language has increased by more than 175,000 in Canada over the two decades.