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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.
Pendant quelques minutes, la semaine dernière, Yoann a bien cru que le Canada allait l’expulser vers son pays d’origine, la France. Au bout du fil, un agent des services canadiens de l’immigration lui disait bel et bien que des policiers l’attendaient chez lui, prêts à l’embarquer dans le premier avion qui traverserait l’Atlantique.
La tentative de coup d’État de la semaine dernière en Turquie pourrait bien retarder encore davantage l’accueil au Canada de réfugiés syriens en provenance de ce pays. L’émission des permis de sortie de Turquie pour les réfugiés était déjà un mécanisme long et complexe, ce qui a empêché le gouvernement canadien d’atteindre son […].
Data from a controversial audit of Syrian refugee cases ordered by former prime minister Stephen Harper late last spring reveals of 546 people reviewed, three identified as Yazidi, a Kurdish minority group which practices an ancient faith. Immigration officials also told a House of Commons committee Monday that Yazidis were never highlighted specifically by the Conservatives as a group that should be prioritized for resettlement, even with their targeted approach to resettlement.
Immigrant seniors are less likely than their Canadian counterparts to receive government-funded home care and must count on family, friends and neighbours for help, a new study finds. Access to these services, such as help with bathing and light housekeeping, also varies drastically among newcomer communities, with visible minority groups least likely to be served, says the report released by the Wellesley Institute on Monday.
Des fonctionnaires du gouvernement fédéral devraient se rendre cet automne dans le nord de l’Irak pour tenter de déterminer comment amener au Canada des centaines de réfugiés qui vivent actuellement dans cette région. Pour la première fois, des employés canadiens iront à Erbil, la capitale du Kurdistan irakien, précisément pour cet objectif.
More than a year after Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan died in immigration custody, Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared the officers responsible for guarding him at a hospital from any wrongdoing. […] There have been at least three other deaths of immigration detainees so far this year, including Chilean man Francisco Javier Romero Astroga, 39, at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton; Melkioro Gahungu, 64, a Burundian migrant at Toronto East Detention Centre, and an unnamed 24-year-old man in Edmonton Remand Centre.