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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.
Des manifestants se sont réunis dans plusieurs villes américaines, samedi, pour défendre les droits des immigrants et s’exprimer contre le discours anti-immigration du président élu Donald Trump. M. Trump a promis de construire un mur à la frontière des États-Unis et du Mexique pour contrer l’immigration illégale et a manifesté son intention d’empêcher bon nombre de musulmans d’entrer au pays.
Afin d’améliorer leur français et de briser l’isolement, 200 réfugiés syriens des secteurs de Hull et d’Aylmer ont assisté à une projection cinématographique, samedi. C’était une occasion en or de pratiquer la langue de Molière pour ces nouveaux arrivants, selon l’organisateur de l’événement Jacques Laberge.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1010907/integrer-refugies-syriens-cinema-francophone
Gina Bahiwal, 42, who was recruited to Canada in 2008 as a vegetable packer in Leamington, Ont., was to be removed to the Philippines on Sunday morning under a now rescinded rule introduced in 2011 that banned foreign workers from Canada for four years after they had worked here for four. Although the federal government, under the Liberals, got rid of the so-called four-in-four-out rule, workers like Bahiwal whose work permits expired before December were bound by the old regulation.
The Canada and the United States have a security deal called the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement. It says refugee claimants have to apply for refugee protection in the first safe country they arrive in, with some exceptions, including things like public interest and family. […] some claimants have been denied based on violating the Safe Third Country Agreement
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/how-refugee-claimants-seek-asylum-1.3933386
Refugees and migrants are dying in Europe’s cold snap and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders and subjecting them to violence, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. […] Cecile Pouilly, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), cited five deaths so far from cold and said about 1,000 people including children were in unheated tents and dormitories on the Greek island of Samos, calling for them to be transferred to shelter on the mainland.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/migrant-europe-cold-weather-1.3933968
Around 25,800 unaccompanied children crossed the Mediterranean to reach Italy in 2016, UNICEF said, with the majority originating from Eritrea, Egypt, Gambia and Nigeria. […] Last year a record 181,000 boat migrants, mostly from Africa, reached Italy. The majority paid Libyan people traffickers to make the journey.