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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.
Quatre hommes considérés comme des migrants clandestins ont été retrouvés dans un conteneur du Port de Montréal ce jeudi matin. Ces migrants ont été transportés à l’hôpital Santa-Cabrini plus tôt ce matin.
La Fédération des Québécois de souche, un groupe nationaliste, appose depuis quelques jours dans différentes villes du Québec, dont Sherbrooke, des autocollants pourfendant l’immigration. Des autocollants sur lesquels il est écrit « Ils ne nous feront pas taire » […].
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s SAIL program, now in its second year, teaches teenage newcomers English and math, along with other life skills. This year’s cohort of 35 students has taken part in scavenger hunts at grocery stores, where they learn what an “aisle” is and figure out how to count Canadian money. For the teens from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea, these everyday tasks can be daunting, according to high school principal Mark Harris, who’s spending his summer as a SAIL teacher.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/summer-program-gives-young-refugees-skills-confidence-1.4203804
Les pays de l’UE se sont dotés lundi de nouvelles règles pour pouvoir empêcher l’exportation vers la Libye de canots gonflables et moteurs hors-bord utilisés par les migrants cherchant à rejoindre l’Europe par la Méditerranée.
Chinese millionaires are flocking to Canada for its attractive lifestyle and property investment opportunities, according to a new survey. The survey results show Canada has surpassed the United Kingdom as the second-most popular foreign country to live in for Chinese individuals worth between 10 million to 200 million yuan ($1.8 million – $37.3 million Canadian).
Frustrated by delayed promises from the U.S. military for citizenship, and in fear of Daesh if he were deported back to Iraq, Ranj Rafeeq has given up the American Dream for a Canadian one. Rafeeq’s plans to serve imploded as the Pentagon’s program, designed to leverage medical and language skills of immigrants in exchange for fast-tracked citizenship, was log-jammed with additional security measures for recruits last fall, stressing an already overburdened screening process. The program was put on hold in September 2016 — just as he was scheduled to report for training — sparking fear in Rafeeq and across the recruit population that their path to citizenship would abruptly end.