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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.
La seule mosquée à Moncton doit encore agrandir ses espaces pour accueillir le flot de réfugiés syriens qui se sont installés en ville récemment. Selon Riaz Akhtar, trésorier de l’Association musulmane de Moncton, la congrégation a doublé au cours des six derniers mois. Environ 200 personnes vont à la mosquée chaque vendredi.
Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Deneuve, Elton John, Audrey Tautou, Sharon Stone, Mick Jagger, Bryan Adams et Woody Allen figurent parmi les nombreuses célébrités qui ont accepté d’offrir un de leurs jeans pour une grande vente internationale à l’intention des réfugiés.
A group of Afghan-Canadians in Halifax are fundraising to try to offer a young student from Afghanistan a better quality of education at an Atlantic Canadian university. Neptune Azimi, president of the Canadian Afghan Association of Atlantic Canada, estimates there are about 60 families from Afghanistan in the Halifax area. […] Azimi and three others will examine the education system in Afghanistan and try to find students who are interested in applying to Atlantic Canada to study.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/afghanistan-international-students-1.3691116
Les premiers ministres provinciaux et territoriaux se sont mis d’accord pour « atteindre une cible de 5 % d’immigration francophone à l’extérieur des frontières du Québec ». Les dirigeants étaient réunis à Whitehorse pour le Conseil de la fédération. « À l’aube du 150e anniversaire de la Fédération, nos leaders ont reconnu l’avantage francophone […].
American soldiers who fled to Canada rather than fight in Iraq joined activists and a Liberal backbencher on Friday to urge the government of Justin Trudeau to end legal action against them and grant them residency status.
Foreign-trained workers in Newfoundland and Labrador will get help to have their foreign credentials recognized, allowing them to get good jobs in their fields, under an agreement signed today between the Honourable MaryAnn Mihychuk, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour, and the Honourable Gerry Byrne, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Minister of Advanced Education and Skills.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/cnw/release.html?rkey=20160722C2286&filter=5599