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.
Toronto Star – UN Refugee Report Warns South Sudan Could Be Next Syria
South Sudan had the world’s fastest growing refugee population last year and could be the next Syria, warns a new report by the United Nations Refugee Agency. The number of refugees from the fledgling country, established six years ago, spiked by 64 per cent in the last six months of 2016 to over 1.4 million, the majority of them children, according to the refugee agency’s annual global refugee trends report released Tuesday on World Refugee Day.
CBC News – After Fleeing Egypt, Vancouver Migrant Aims to Give Back to Refugees with Coding
Omar Sabry fled his home country of Egypt during the political unrest of the Arab Spring in 2013. Sabry said it was a desperate time, but things started looking up when he signed up for a coding class at the University of British Columbia. Sabry said the skills he picked up in the UBC program — including how to create a website — have helped him as a business owner. Now, he wants to help give other refugees the same opportunity for education he had.
Toronto Star – Refugee Sponsorship Groups Urge Ottawa to Clear Backlog
Andrew FitzGerald of Canada4Refugees, a grassroots advocacy group for the private sponsorship community, made a plea to Ottawa on World Refugee Day: please clear the backlog of the private sponsorship program by June 30, 2018. It’s a demand echoed across Canada by church and community groups, some having been waiting for as many as five years to resettle their matched refugees to Canada for a safe, stable life.
Premier Ministre du Canada – Déclaration du premier ministre du Canada à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau a fait aujourd’hui la déclaration suivante à l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés : « À l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, nous rendons hommage à la force et à la résilience des millions de gens dans le monde qui fuient les […]
Radio-Canada – Un adolescent d’Ottawa honoré pour son engagement auprès des réfugiés syriens
Difficile de s’imaginer à travers quoi ont dû passer les milliers de réfugiés syriens qui ont élu domicile au Canada. Heureusement, certains d’entre eux peuvent compter sur la bienveillance de généreux citoyens qui les ont pris sous leurs ailes.
Le Monde – Collomb veut « une réflexion globale sur l’immigration et le droit d’asile »
Le ministre de l’intérieur, Gérard Collomb, a annoncé mardi matin 20 juin la possible « ouverture de centres d’accueil » pour migrants sur le territoire français, sans en préciser le nombre ni la localisation. Interrogé en marge d’une visite à l’Office français de protection des réfugiés […].
