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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.
After months of looking for a new home, the St. John’s-based Refugee and Immigrant Advisory Council (RIAC) has a temporary fix. Common Ground, which describes itself as a coworking space and startup house, offered RIAC the space after the council had to move out of its Water Street location last fall due to a lack of funds.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/riac-common-ground-1.3937385
As the chief operating officer of a large community services organization in Surrey, where most of B.C.’s refugees land, Tahzeem Kassam of DIVERSEcity is at the forefront of the local Syrian resettlement effort. Both DIVERSEcity and the ISSofBC have websites inviting people to sign up as volunteers to help refugees, but matching volunteers with people in need is not always easy, she says. […] “It’s great that the community wants to help, but then how do we make that matchup? Who does that and how do we mitigate any risks associated with that and how do we train people appropriately for it?”
http://www.timescolonist.com/life/offers-of-help-for-refugees-overwhelm-support-groups-1.7529072
Canada will meet its commitment to bring an unspecified number of persecuted Yazidis to Canada by late February, according to the federal government’s new immigration minister. In an interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics, newly minted Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen said his government would soon provide a detailed update on its Yazidi efforts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ahmed-hussen-interview-pandp-1.3938169
The 28-nation EU already has a controversial deal to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey, which has agreed to try to stop the number of migrants leaving the country and to take back thousands more. In exchange, Turkey is supposed to receive billions of euros, visa-free travel for its citizens, and fast-tracked EU membership talks. Now, the EU wants to adapt this outsourcing pact to the African nations that migrants are leaving or are jumping off from to reach Europe, despite criticism that the agreement sends asylum-seekers back to countries that could be unsafe for them.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/crisis-warnings-sound-as-eu-gears-up-for-new-migrant-wave-1.3241953
Le président désigné Donald Trump a estimé qu’Angela Merkel avait commis «une erreur catastrophique» en ouvrant son pays aux migrants, et a accusé l’Allemagne de dominer l’UE, dans une interview diffusée dimanche soir. «Je pense qu’elle a fait une erreur catastrophique et que c’était de prendre tous ces migrants illégaux, de prendre tous ces gens d’où qu’ils viennent» […].
Hussen’s journey took him from Mogadishu to Toronto and then on to Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, where the former Somali refugee was named this week as the country’s newest minister of immigration in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet. It was a fast political rise for the rookie politician, and will put Hussen, who arrived in Canada in 1993 as a 16-year-old, in charge of the complex portfolio that oversees who is welcomed into the country.