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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.
More than a hundred incidents of racial abuse and hate crime have been reported since the UK voted to leave the European Union. Many of the alleged perpetrators cited the decision to leave the EU explicitly.
Currently, only highly skilled workers have a clear path to permanent residency. For what the government calls low-skilled workers, pathways to permanent residency are only available in certain provinces (one of which is Manitoba). Because employers must prove that no Canadians are willing and able to take a job before being able to hire temporary foreign workers, they should be allowed to assist their employees to apply for permanent residency if the shortage of workers remains chronic.
Residents of Bloor West Village rallied in support of refugees and tolerance Saturday, countering an anti-Islam group’s message during a march from the week before. More than 60 community members unfurled signs reading, “Refugees Welcome,” and chanted, “Refugees in, racists out,” drawing car honks and thanks from passersby under the midday sun Saturday. […] A dozen or so people from Pegida, an anti-immigrant group that began in Germany and has recently metastasized overseas, strolled the same ground on June 18.
Switzerland will propose in talks with Brussels that it should be allowed to protect economic sectors in specific regions against immigration from the European Union, its president told a Sunday newspaper. Switzerland only has until February to implement a binding 2014 referendum demanding limits on the influx of foreigners to a country whose population is already a quarter foreign.
Dans la dernière ligne droite de son second mandat, le président américain, Barack Obama, a essuyé, jeudi 23 juin, un sérieux revers dans son programme de réformes. La Cour suprême des États-Unis a en effet bloqué son projet sur l’immigration, qui visait à régulariser plus de cinq millions de personnes en situation irrégulière.
Il y a six mois, les premiers réfugiés syriens arrivaient au Canada après avoir été pris en charge par le gouvernement fédéral. Ils sont aujourd’hui 28 000 et leur adaptation demeure difficile alors que comme Oswah Labanieh, beaucoup d’entre eux sont hantés par leur passé. Oswah Labanieh est arrivée à Toronto l’an dernier après avoir fui son pays en 2013.
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/ontario/2016/06/25/002-oswah-labanieh-syrie.shtml