Pathways to Prosperity: Canada

Plus de 60 000 Sud-Soudanais fuyant la guerre et la famine sont entrés au Soudan au cours des trois premiers mois de 2017, a annoncé mercredi l’agence de l’ONU pour les réfugiés. Le Soudan du Sud, indépendant depuis 2011, a déclaré en février l’état de famine dans certaines régions du pays où 100 000 personnes seraient en proie à la faim.

http://www.lapresse.ca/international/afrique/201703/29/01-5083357-plus-de-60-000-sud-soudanais-entres-au-soudan-en-3-mois.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B13b_afrique_289_section_POS1

En activant, mercredi 29 mars, la procédure de divorce d’avec l’Union européenne (UE), la Grande-Bretagne s’engage sur un chemin incertain. C’est une décision qui va affaiblir les vingt-sept pays demeurant au sein de l’UE et qui annonce, à coup sûr, dix ans, sinon plus, d’instabilité pour les Britanniques. En 1973, Londres, non sans arrière-pensée, adhérait à l’aventure européenne […].

http://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2017/03/29/la-question-des-ressortissants-pieges-par-le-brexit-doit-etre-reglee-en-priorite_5102525_3232.html

The Newfoundland and Labrador government’s new immigration strategy aims to boost the number of people coming to the province from other countries by 50 per cent in the next five years — but what do immigrants already living here think of that plan? CBC’s St. John’s Morning Show put together a panel of three immigrants who all said that employment is the key to keeping new citizens.  

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/immigration-panel-newfoundland-1.4043649

International students in Quebec—with the exception of those from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, and Switzerland—don’t have a choice in the health insurance they take. They are forced to accept whatever private health insurance their university offers. At Concordia, that provider is Blue Cross, and their prices of health insurance for international students are the most expensive in Quebec.

https://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/international-students-say-they-deserve-better-health-care

Statistics recently released by the federal government say 207 asylum seekers were apprehended by the B.C. RCMP in January, compared with 245 arrests in Quebec and 19 in Manitoba. But while the numbers jumped in Quebec and Manitoba the following month, B.C. saw a sharp decline. In February, Quebec had 432 people intercepted by police, Manitoba had 142 and B.C. saw 84. The data did not indicate precisely where in the provinces those arrests were made.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/border-crosser-arrests-drop-steeply-in-bc-rise-elsewhere/article34468463/

Over 90 per cent of Canadians think the government’s current approach to dealing with asylum seekers in Canada needs to change, a new poll from Ipsos reveals. While respondents to the survey were sharply divided on exactly how the rules should be adjusted, just 8 per cent said they were content with the status quo as more and more asylum seekers make their way across the border illegally.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3339834/canadians-refugee-rules-must-change-ipsos-poll/