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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.
Environ 200 migrants ont passé en force la frontière franco-italienne vendredi à Menton, mais une grande majorité d’entre eux ont été rapidement interpellés en vue d’être reconduits à la frontière, selon la préfecture des Alpes-Maritime. Après une première tentative le matin, les migrants, qui avaient quitté un camp de la Croix rouge […].
People who have recently immigrated to Canada are four times more likely to be unable to swim, yet very few courses aimed specifically at newcomers are offered in Manitoba. Chris Love, Lifesaving Society Manitoba’s water smart co-ordinator, said swim classes for immigrants are something that could help save lives. “We don’t have that funding yet in Manitoba, and it is something that we continue to work towards,” Love said. In Ontario, especially in Toronto, a number of pilot programs have been set up to fill the gap in swimming skills, he said. The programs introduce swimming to people who may have never experienced being near or in a body of water before.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-newcomer-swim-classes-1.3706555
Plus de cent réfugiés venus de Turquie accostent chaque jour en Grèce depuis le coup d’État manqué contre Erdogan. Un air de déjà-vu flotte sur les îles de la mer Égée, bordant les côtes turques. Depuis deux semaines, des embarcations de fortune, chargées de dizaines de migrants et réfugiés, accostent sur les plages hellènes de Lesbos […].
Julio Cesar Ambrocio Guarcas est un Guatémaltèque de 22 ans. Il est le deuxième travailleur étranger à venir gagner sa vie à Rose Drummond depuis les cinq dernières années. C’est en alternant quelques mots d’anglais, des bribes d’espagnol, trois ou quatre mots de français, plusieurs mimes et avec beaucoup de collaboration […].
A whopping 90 percent of Metro Vancouver residents support the region’s new 15-percent tax on foreign buyers of residential real estate. At the same time, only three percent of respondents to the same poll, conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, say the tax goes far enough, and 71 percent describe it as simply a step in the right direction.
Syrian children play, sing songs and make crafts at First Avenue Public School in Ottawa’s Glebe neighbourhood — enjoying the care-free experience of a Canadian summer — while their mothers learn a new language and a new way of life. The strategy aims to involve more Syrian mothers in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes and the wider Ottawa community.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/syrian-refugees-ottawa-summer-camp-learning-mothers-1.3705718