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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.
More than 40 demonstrators marched outside Red Deer’s Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School on Tuesday morning as part of an anti-immigration protest. The demonstration was staged after a fight last week involving students from Syria who critics say were unfairly spared punishment by school officials.
Enrolment of international students will be sharply higher, universities say, and the incoming freshmen include large numbers of high school students from the United States. Students from outside the U.S. say they are attracted to schools in Canada because of affordable health care, relative safety and the ease of immigration.
Nineteen-year-old Abdul Fettah Al Masoud, who arrived in Edmonton with his family last February, is now preparing to embark on another journey. He was chosen to represent Canada as a youth ambassador on “Canada C3,” a 150-day sailing expedition from Toronto to Victoria that follows the Northwest Passage. Three hundred Canadians — including youth, scientists, artists, historians and elders — will visit communities along the route, conduct research and collaborate on artistic projects.
Quelque 5000 migrants ont été secourus jeudi et vendredi, y compris pendant la nuit, en Méditerranée, au large de la Libye, au cours de nombreuses opérations organisées par les gardes-côtes italiens et libyens. Le corps sans vie d’un migrant a été repêché, ont en outre indiqué samedi les gardes-côtes italiens, annonçant un nouveau bilan de la dernière série d’opérations de secours.
Ron Atkey was in Cabinet for just nine months but, in that short time, he set Canada on the path to accepting tens of thousands of refugees in need of safe haven. As Minister of Employment and Immigration under Prime Minister Joe Clark, Atkey, who died May 9 at age 75, drastically increased Canada’s intake of “boat people” fleeing war-ravaged Vietnam.
A good chunk of the legal aid services for refugees will be suspended starting on July 1 as Legal Aid Ontario struggles to find 40 per cent in budget savings from serving the vulnerable group.
It is too early to confirm what services would be cut from the refugee law program as a province-wide consultation is set to begin on Thursday, but three options are under consideration: suspending all refugee and immigration services; restricting coverage to representation during refugee proceedings; and limiting services to the preparation of the claim only, but continuing to represent clients at the refugee appeals tribunal and federal court.