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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 Parlement bulgare a adopté vendredi une loi interdisant le port du voile intégral en public, devenant avec la France et la Belgique l’un des rares États européens où une telle disposition est en vigueur, alors que le pays enregistre une montée du salafisme. La nouvelle législation « interdit le port sur les lieux publics de vêtements dissimulant partiellement ou complètement le visage » […].
La ministre de l’Immigration, de la Diversité et de l’Inclusion, Mme Kathleen Weil, le député de Sherbrooke et ministre responsable de la région de l’Estrie, M. Luc Fortin, et le maire de Sherbrooke, M. Bernard Sévigny, ont officialisé une entente qui favorisera l’établissement durable des personnes immigrantes.
Illegal immigrants are not entitled to compensation from public funds for a motor vehicle accident, says Ontario’s court of appeal, which has rejected a hard-fought claim from a Brazilian man hurt in a hit-and-run when walking across a Toronto street. Jarley Silva was run down in 2011 while he was walking across Bloor Street West. The driver was never identified. […] “(The judge) recognized that de facto physical presence in Ontario, even if continuous, does not automatically establish ordinary residency in Ontario for the purpose of access to the Fund. The appellant was present in Ontario illegally, was subject to deportation on discovery and had already been deported once,” Justice Eleanore Cronk wrote on behalf of the appeals panel.
On Sept. 7 the provincial government announced that it will be providing funding to a number of projects in Ottawa, 28 of which are based at the University of Ottawa. Among the newly funded projects is the University of Ottawa Refugee Assistance Project (UORAP), led by Jennifer Bond, associate professor from the U of O’s Faculty of Law. […] The UORAP’s work focuses on training refugee support staff—social workers, housing specialists, women’s counsellors, and faith-based groups—on how best to prepare their clients for legal proceedings.
http://thefulcrum.ca/news/u-o-refugee-project-receives-provincial-funding/
As Alberta sank deeper into recession over the past year, almost 3,000 more people left for other provinces than arrived from them — and women accounted for almost all of the losses, the latest figures from Statistics Canada suggest. […] Caroline McDonald-Harker, a sociologist at Mount Royal University, says she isn’t surprised. […] Many immigrant women who came to Alberta and Calgary during the boom for jobs in the service industry are also now probably returning to Ontario, B.C. and Quebec, she added.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-population-migration-statistics-canada-1.3783914
Documents posted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Thursday show the department is planning to spend as much as $250,000 for new studies on how best to integrate Syrian refugees into their new community. […] Over the summer, the Senate’s committee on human rights warned of urgent needs facing newcomers — for language training, for mental health support after fleeing a war zone, and the financial burdens refugees face upon arrival in their new country.