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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.
Les navires privés de secours aux migrants complices des trafiquants ? Le débat agite l’Italie, alimenté par les déclarations controversées d’un magistrat et la surenchère des politiques. La polémique couvait depuis plusieurs semaines, alors que le procureur de Catane (Sicile), Carmelo Zuccaro, s’était interrogé en février sur la dizaine de navires privés, qui à la suite de […].
Le gouvernement manitobain n’a jusqu’ici pas réussi à résoudre avec le gouvernement fédéral la question du financement qu’il lui demande relativement à l’afflux de réfugiés sur son territoire. Les deux gouvernements ne s’entendent pas sur le nombre de personnes traversant la frontière canado-américaine par le Manitoba et qui font leur demande d’asile dans cette même province.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1031008/financement-migrants-clandestins-ottawa-manitoba-entente
I arrived in Canada in 2008. I worked for 24 months. I applied for permanent residency in 2010. My sons and my husband and me, we were so excited. I didn’t hear anything till 2014. They asked for our medical examinations. My second son, Harold, has an intellectual disability. But he’s perfectly healthy. Takes care of himself, he feeds himself, he bikes, swims, sings, dances. But they said our whole family would be refused because of Harold, unless we had $23,000 a year to support him.
A transitional home for Muslim women fleeing domestic violence in B.C. has become a refugee haven as dozens of women and children who have walked across the U.S. border since November’s presidential election seek refuge in Canada. “They come here because they have no option — the last option they have is to come here,” said Yasmine Yousef, a social worker at Nisa Homes in Surrey.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-muslim-refugee-shelter-1.4088916
A group of refugees living in Winnipeg got a brighter smile thanks to some much-needed dental work Saturday. About 40 refugees were invited by the United Way to the Odyssey Dental Care centre to get cleanings, fillings and extractions, all free of charge. […] The federal government only pays for dental care for refugees in urgent situations.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/refugees-winnipeg-dental-care-1.4092154
Le ministère fédéral de l’Immigration a aboli l’obligation pour les résidents permanents parrainés par un époux ou un partenaire de vivre avec leur répondant pendant deux années afin de maintenir leur statut. Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada en a fait l’annonce par voie de communiqué, vendredi, précisant que cette mesure […].