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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.
It’s a sign that Canada’s oilsands city will not only rebuild, but thrive in the face of the wildfire disaster. Immigrants and temporary foreign workers — who clean, pour coffee and pump gas in the boom town of Fort McMurray — are bound and determined to stay, despite huge personal losses.
Jusqu’à ces dernières semaines, il s’appelait Ali. Mais, depuis Pâques, la vie de cet Irakien de confession musulmane a changé. Sept mois après son arrivée en Allemagne, à Stuttgart, il a décidé de se convertir. Il est désormais protestant et s’appelle Adam. Un prénom que ce grand gaillard de 24 ans, un peu timide, dit « avoir toujours aimé ».
http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2016/06/06/la-foi-d-apres_4938175_3214.html
Le Canada se joint aux États-Unis afin d’organiser le Sommet des dirigeants sur les réfugiés, qui se tiendra au mois de septembre prochain à New York. Les ministres des Affaires étrangères et du Développement international en ont fait l’annonce lundi par voie de communiqué.
http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2016/06/06/le-canada-organise-un-sommet-sur-les-refugies
A new welcome centre in Vancouver for immigrants and refugees has opened its doors — in time for the arrival of a second group of government-sponsored refugees from Syria in the coming months. The facility, which was built by the Immigrant Services Society of B.C., offers English language classes, employment and settlement programs, a mental-health program and more.
Canada’s immigrant communities are not breeding grounds for terrorists, as some would argue, but should be enlisted to reduce any violent radicalization in their midst, says a newly released report. The research, ordered by the Harper government in 2014, appears to repudiate Conservative measures that alienated Muslim communities in the months before last year’s election. The authors examined four diaspora communities in Canada — Afghan, Somali, Syrian and Tamil — and found them to be willing allies for rooting out extremism among their often young and isolated members.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/radicalization-rcmp-terrorism-csis-muslim-violence-1.3613341
English classes have been put on hold for the summer by COSTI, an organization that helps settle refugees in Toronto, because of a lack of funding from the federal government. That is short-sighted. Ottawa spent $341 million across all federal departments in 2015-16 to bring Syrian refugees to Canada. Now that they are here, it’s in everyone’s best interests that Ottawa spend a little more to help them find jobs and successfully integrate into Canadian society.