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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.
Nearly two dozen international university students have come to Lethbridge from Mexico to improve their English. The 23 Mayan indigenous women are getting a crash course on what it’s like to be Canadian while also learning about First Nations culture in the area.
Les réfugiés syriens et les nouveaux arrivants de divers pays représentent un formidable apport pour le Québec, constate une spécialiste de l’intégration… Elle-même s’avère un bel exemple de réussite. La première chose que veulent faire les réfugiés syriens en arrivant au Québec, c’est de s’intégrer à notre société.
Certains délégués internationaux ne pourront être à Montréal pour participer au Forum social mondial, dont le coup d’envoi sera donné mardi, faute de visa. Le gouvernement du Canada refuse l’entrée à au moins 200 demandeurs, indique le comité organisateur du FSM.
A Roma family that was ordered last month to leave Canada has been granted a reprieve after a deportation order was cancelled. The Canada Border Services Agency told the Lakatos family on July 28 that they had to leave the country by Aug. 11. On Thursday, the order was rescinded. Gilda Lakatos, 17, arrived in Canada in June 2011 along with her mother Katalin Lakatos and her brother and father. The family claimed asylum on the grounds that they had faced racist police and healthcare providers in Hungary due to their Roma heritage.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/deportation-order-for-roma-mother-daughter-cancelled-1.3016274
The Obama administration is on track to make its goal of admitting and resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees before the end of September, despite concerns that Islamic militants could enter with them. […] The Obama administration has been under intense pressure from aid agencies and advocacy groups that raised doubts the resettlement goals would be met. In May, more than half of the Democrats in the Senate signed a letter urging the president to accelerate the program after Canada resettled 25,000 Syrian refugees this year.
La Société de sauvetage du Manitoba affirme que des cours de natations destinés aux nouveaux immigrants pourraient prévenir les noyades. Cette annonce survient peu après la mort de deux enfants récemment arrivés au pays, à Grand Beach. Des cours de natations dispensés aux nouveaux immigrants pourraient sauver bien des vies […].