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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.
Des dizaines de compagnons de l’association Emmaüs ont rejoint samedi le Maroc depuis l’Espagne. Par ce voyage symbolique, ils entendaient rappeler que la libre-circulation figure dans la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme.
L’ONG Médecins sans frontières (MSF) fustige, dans une lettre ouverte aux gouvernements européens publiée jeudi, les mauvais traitements infligés en Libye aux migrants tentant de traverser la Méditerranée, et s’élève contre la politique migratoire de l’UE […].
Canada could indefinitely suspend deportations to Haiti and other countries devastated by Hurricane Irma, according to federal provisions that halt removals to nations deemed too dangerous because of conflict or disaster. Scott Bardsley, spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, said the Canada Border Services Agency will not deport anyone who has had their refugee claim rejected, or is deemed inadmissible to Canada, to a country coping with a hurricane. After the storm has passed, an evaluation will be carried out on the ground to determine its impact.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hurricane-irma-haiti-asylum-1.4278568
The UN said Friday that an “alarming number” of 270,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar by crossing into Bangladesh in the last two weeks. The new figure confirmed Friday by UN Refugee Agency spokesperson Vivian Tan is much higher than the 164,000 the agency had previously estimated had arrived since Aug. 25. “This is an alarming number,” Tan said. “The existing camps are full to the capacity. There is a lot of pressure on relief agencies to accommodate the rising numbers.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/rohingya-myanmar-bangladesh-1.4280333
Ottawa’s decision to give an American family with a medically inadmissible child a second chance to stay in Canada came as a huge relief Thursday. The Warkentin family, faced with a looming deportation deadline, learned this week Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is allowing them to renew their application for permanent residency.
The provincial government will begin collecting and analyzing data on the ethnicity of students in an attempt to improve school achievement. The move was announced today by Education Minister Mitzie Hunter as just one part of the province’s new equity action plan. The government describes the action plan as its “roadmap to identifying and eliminating discriminatory practices, systemic barriers and bias from schools and classrooms to support the potential for all students to succeed.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-students-race-based-data-1.4278303