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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 président Recep Tayyip Erdogan a menacé vendredi d’ouvrir les frontières de la Turquie pour laisser passer les migrants vers l’Europe, et répété qu’il était prêt à valider un rétablissement de la peine de mort, malgré les avertissements de Bruxelles. Au lendemain d’un vote du Parlement européen demandant le gel des négociations d’adhésion de la Turquie à l’UE […].
Délais d’attente interminables, information difficile à trouver, soins en santé mentale insuffisants… Ce sont là les principales doléances qui sont ressorties de la consultation semi-annuelle du Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés (CCR), qui se termine aujourd’hui à Montréal. Des réfugiés, travailleurs sociaux et autres acteurs du milieu de l’immigration à travers le pays ont pris part à un […].
A request for extra money in next year’s budget to help resettle Syrian refugees will be considered by city councillors next week. […] Last year, council promised to give the NCC $25,000 in 2016 and the same sum again in 2017. But now the NCC says it needs more money; they’re looking for a total of $75,000 in 2017. A city staff report says they’ll use the money to hire Arabic-speaking staff and to help bolster the support for all refugee families arriving in 2017. (There are already about 220 refugees here now, according to the report.)
The head of the European Commission has said that the EU-Turkey refugee deal must be respected. […] On Friday, Erdogan threatened to walk away from the agreement, a day after the European Parliament angered Ankara by backing a freeze of its EU accession talks. […] On March 18, Ankara and Brussels forged a deal for Turkey to halt the flow of refugees and migrants to Europe — an accord that has largely been successful in reducing numbers crossing the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/eu-turkey-locked-war-words-refugee-pact-161126160826522.html
Lors d’une entrevue en direct à l’émission Gravel le matin, jeudi, une directrice du réseau de la santé a mis en doute les faits rapportés par notre journaliste Thomas Gerbet. Dans son reportage, il révélait que sur le territoire du CSSS Bordeaux-Cartierville Saint-Laurent, la moitié des travailleuses sociales qui oeuvrent auprès des jeunes sont en congé prolongé et ne sont […].
Premier Brian Pallister plans to have a backlog of provincial nominee program applications cleared by April 2017. Pallister made the announcement in Brandon Friday afternoon, saying that the program will be improved under the Progressive Conservative government. […] More than 4,000 nominee applications are still waiting for a response from the province, down from more than 8,000 at the beginning of the year — some dating back to 2008, according to Education and Training Minister Ian Wishart.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/provincial-nominee-changes-1.3868651