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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.
Len Senater runs the Depanneur, an informal kitchen in Toronto’s Annex area hosting culinary experiments of all kind. His newest project was founded on a simple idea: bringing Syrian women into a large, shared kitchen so that they could cook meals for their families while they were stuck in hotels on arrival.
Ships manned by humanitarian organizations, the Italian navy and coast guard helped rescue about 4,500 boat migrants on Thursday as calm seas returned to the Mediterranean, prompting a surge in departures from North Africa.
http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAKCN0Z91NG
The federal government’s decision to freeze the cap on the number of temporary foreign workers businesses can hire at 20 per cent of their workforce is being welcomed, cautiously, by Alberta businesses that face labour shortages in spite of the economic downturn. The announcement Thursday came a week before a rule limiting businesses to having TFWs as no more than 10 per cent of their workforce was to go into effect July 1.
A “blitz” intended to hasten the arrival of privately sponsored Syrian refugees amid complaints from Canadians exasperated with long delays, ended last Friday with thousands of arrivals still months away. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said it was sending over 40 additional staff to the Middle East on May 9 to finalize applications for privately sponsored refugees for a period of seven weeks. The staffing boost was not extended as some private sponsors had hoped, instead it ended a week earlier than expected.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syrian-refugee-immigration-staff-1.3649862
La Conférence ministérielle sur la francophonie canadienne s’est conclue jeudi matin à Saint-Jean, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, sur une note optimiste quant à l’avenir de la francophonie. La rencontre aura surtout permis aux représentants provinciaux de partager des idées sur des dossiers communs.
Plus de 65 millions de personnes dans le monde, soit 1 personne sur 113, ont été déracinées de leur pays d’origine, selon un rapport publié cette semaine par le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés. D’où viennent-elles et où vont-elles?À la fin de 2015, plus de 3,2 millions de personnes attendaient une décision concernant leur demande d’asile, un record sans précédent.