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.
Radio-Canada – Des réfugiés syriens à Ottawa inquiets pour leurs proches à Alep
Alors que la situation reste fragile à Alep, des familles de réfugiés syriens à Ottawa attendent nerveusement des nouvelles de leurs proches toujours coincés dans la ville syrienne. Alia Alheso s’est établie à Ottawa avec son mari et ses enfants en février dernier. Elle a laissé en Syrie ses parents, ainsi que sept de ses frères et sœurs.
Acadie Nouvelle – Le fédéral assouplit les règles pour les travailleurs étrangers
Les modifications au Programme des travailleurs étrangers temporaires donnent un coup de pouce aux propriétaires d’usines de transformation de fruits de la mer du Nouveau-Brunswick. Depuis de nombreuses années, le vieillissement de la main-d’oeuvre et l’exode rural forcent les usines à dépendre davantage des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (TÉT).
Fédération des communautés francophones et acadiennes du Canada – Rapport du comité permanent sur les langues officielles : des recommandations pour « reconstruire la capacité des communautés »
La Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne (FCFA) du Canada accueille très positivement le rapport Vers un nouveau plan d’action pour les langues officielles et un nouvel élan pour l’immigration francophone en milieu minoritaire, déposé hier par le Comité permanent sur les langues officielles.
Brandon Sun – Killarney Home Feels Like Heaven to Immigrant Family
Zoe Dickson and Felicia Joh became sisters when they had no one else. In the early 1990s, the friends — who once played on opposing kickball teams — fled Liberia separately during a bitter civil war.
National Post – Businesses Applaud Changes to Allow Temporary Foreign Workers to Stay as Long as Permits Renewed
Ottawa’s decision to scrap a controversial rule that limited how long foreign workers can stay in Canada is being welcomed by businesses, analysts and migrant worker advocates as the first step in a series of reforms they hope will ultimately transform the immigration system.
The government announced Tuesday afternoon it will allow migrant workers to continue filling jobs in industries ranging from meat-packing to tourism for as many years as their employers continue to renew their permit – in effect, making the presence of these temporary workers more permanent.
Al Jazeera – Germany Deports Rejected Afghan Asylum Seekers
At least 34 Afghan asylum seekers arrived in their home country after being deported from Germany a day earlier, a Kabul airport official said. The group was the first to arrive back in Afghanistan after a new agreement was made between the German government and Kabul in October. The Kabul airport chief of police, Mohammad Asif Jabarkhil, said the deportees, all young men without families, landed around 5am on Thursday. Many expressed disappointment over their deportation, saying they had lived and worked in Germany for years and were now forced to come back without any job prospects.
