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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.
Des soldats américains qui ont trouvé refuge au Canada pour éviter d’être déployés en Irak exhortent le gouvernement fédéral à leur accorder la résidence permanente et à mettre un terme aux démarches judiciaires à leur endroit. Dans la foulée d’un rapport britannique n’ayant trouvé aucune justification valable pour l’invasion militaire de […].
Un total de 2628 migrants qui s’étaient regroupés dans un campement sauvage dans le nord de Paris ont été évacués vendredi, dans la plus grosse opération de ce type depuis le début de la crise migratoire. C’est la 26e opération de «mise à l’abri» lancée dans la capitale depuis les premières évacuations de juin 2015 par les autorités, confrontées […].
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday there was a clear link between illegal immigration to Europe and terrorist attacks on the continent.
One way to accomplish this goal is to convert the temporary foreign worker program into a preliminary permanent resident program. While temporary foreign workers can become permanent residents, the process for doing this is clunky. Making the temporary foreign worker program the first step to permanent residency would show recognition that foreigners selected by Canadian employers are the most successful immigrants.
Eighty per cent of Ontarians felt that we had come a long way in eliminating racist attitudes from the 1950s and 75 per cent felt that we are now more accepting of immigrants than we were back then. The other news is decidedly less encouraging. For example, in spite of the fact that three-quarters of us acknowledged that immigrants are important to our cultural identity, the same number agreed that we need more focus on “taking care of people here” rather than spending money on refugees.
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2016/07/21/attitude-to-immigrants–is-less-than-welcoming
By and large, we do a great and enviable job of making immigrants feel welcome, but we don’t always do a great job of admitting, either to ourselves or to the rest of the world, the ways in which we fall short. We may not have politicians openly calling for the building of an actual border wall or the deportation of Muslims. […] But there are dangerous sentiments in this country, just as there are anywhere else, and we do ourselves no favours by ignoring them.