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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.
Le nouveau décret migratoire du président américain Donald Trump a rencontré un premier obstacle judiciaire majeur avec la décision d’un juge fédéral américain de le suspendre provisoirement pour l’épouse et l’enfant d’un Syrien réfugié aux États-Unis. La décision du magistrat William Conley, qui siège à Madison dans l’État du Wisconsin, ne s’applique […].
A grassroots project in Vancouver is trying to give Syrian refugee families who have arrived in Canada a quintessential childhood experience: riding a bicycle. Lulu Leathley, a Vancouver-based music facilitator, started working with Syrian refugees families last year. “I talked to a 12-year-old girl and asked her what was one thing you had that was positive for you when you were in the camp in Jordan, and she said I learned how to ride a bike.”
CHEO has been a key part of the medical response that Ottawa has mounted to last year’s influx of Syrian refugees. More than 2,000 government and privately sponsored refugees from the war-torn country arrived in the city last year, many of them suffering from neglected chronic illnesses, development issues, post-traumatic stress and other ailments. Family doctors, pediatricians and Ottawa’s community health centres have addressed most of the refugees’ health problems; CHEO has dealt with their medical emergencies and complex care needs.
Nineteen asylum-seekers braved a fierce blizzard and whiteout conditions on the open prairie to cross into Canada near the Manitoba border community of Emerson, the area’s reeve said Wednesday. […] More than 200 people have walked across open fields and through ditches near Emerson since Jan. 1 — part of a growing number that have also crossed the border near Hemmingford. Que., and other communities.
Le Canada et les États-Unis ont décidé vendredi de coopérer pour déterminer les causes de l’afflux de migrants traversant la frontière illégalement, a annoncé le ministre canadien de la Sécurité publique, Ralph Goodale, à l’issue d’une rencontre avec son homologue américain John Kelly. «Personne ne suggère la construction d’un mur le long de la frontière canadienne» […].
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/03/10/le-canada-et-les-etats-unis-enquetent-sur-lafflux-de-migrants
The girls had come to the Al Rashid Mosque after school Wednesday to paint, but also to practice their English. The mosque has started a new after school Snack n’ Study program primarily for Syrian refugee students to practice their English. […] Canada has opened its doors to thousands of Syrian refugees, but the biggest barrier for many remains learning the language.