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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.
Les États-Unis semblent vouloir s’inspirer du Canada pour mettre en place un système de parrainage privé des réfugiés – l’un des derniers pays à prendre exemple sur le programme canadien qui s’est fait connaître lors de la crise migratoire en Syrie. Un groupe qui travaille avec le gouvernement pour réinstaller les réfugiés a dit qu’un projet pilote était dans les plans.
The Canadian government was aware and warned repeatedly years before an arcane law began stripping longtime Canadians of their citizenship, says a man who spent decades lobbying for change. Bill Janzen, the former head of the Mennonite Central Committee’s office in Ottawa, said he and his colleagues met with the federal government throughout the 1980s and 1990s to find a fix to the so-called 28-year rule. The provision was part of a 1977 law that automatically removed citizenship from people born abroad to Canadian parents who were also born outside the country.
Local immigrants in Winnipeg are learning to sautée their way to employment thanks to a free food handlers’ course offered by Food Matters Manitoba. The program, which launched in July and runs once a month, has seen about 75 participants so far and a wait list much longer, according to program coordinator Amy Henderson, who’s looking to expand. If they had room, Food Matters would accept 100 people per session, she said. But they can only take in about 30 at the North Centennial Recreation and Leisure Facility, located at 90 Sinclair St., said instructor Maria Paguiligan.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/2016/10/10/winnipeg-kitchens-food-handlers-course.html
Immigrants accused of misrepresenting themselves in order to get into the country will continue having their citizenship revoked, according to court documents sent Friday by the Justice Department. Ottawa will not heed the demands of two civil society groups and impose a moratorium on its practice of citizenship revocation, said lawyer Angela Marinos, in a letter to the Federal Court. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers (CARL) launched a constitutional challenge to the federal law because they say there is no proper appeal process.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/revoke-citizenship-misrepresent-birth-1.3797283
Two weeks ago, I spoke to a London group that discussed Leitch’s claim that more needed to be done to screen newcomer applicants to Canada. The opinions were mixed. As I explained the various processes, a general admission emerged that they had been unaware of the strictures placed on both the immigrant and refugee processes. One woman noted that if people responding to the recent polls had been provided the information in advance, the results would likely have proved much different. Perhaps.
http://www.lfpress.com/2016/10/07/pearson-illusion-of-knowledge-steers-us-wrong
Par un bel après-midi ensoleillé, une dizaine d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants sont assis autour d’une table en bois chez Cédric Herrou, un agriculteur de 37 ans. Ils se demandent en riant qui cuisinera ce soir-là. Cela pourrait n’être qu’une simple réunion de famille dans le décor bucolique des Alpes françaises, juste au nord de la frontière […].