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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.
Ils s’appellent Hala, Sama, Nourna, Anna, Maher ou Najem. Venus de Beyrouth, d’Alep, de Damas ou d’Irak, certains ne parlaient pas du tout la langue française lors de leur arrivée. Aujourd’hui, ces étudiants font partie des quatorze premiers admis dans le nouveau cursus délivrant un diplôme universitaire de langue et civilisation française […].
À Saskatoon, deux étudiants en médecine dentaire de l’Université de la Saskatchewan contribuent à l’aide offerte aux réfugiés syriens qui viennent de s’établir dans la ville en leur offrant gratuitement des soins dentaires. Pendant 10 jours, ils espèrent soigner 20 personnes qui ont de graves problèmes de santé dentaire, en raison d’un accès limité […].
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/saskatchewan/2016/06/03/005-soins-dentaires-syriens.shtml
Settlement agencies told a House of Commons committee Thursday that while the federal government did top up their budgets to deal with the influx of over 25,000 Syrians in a matter of three months, the money isn’t going far enough. So a difficult decision had to be made, said Mario Calla, the executive director of Costi, which settles government-assisted refugees in Toronto. Rather than scale back the number of classes altogether, they decided to just stop offering their 27 federally-funded courses over the summer.
Amnesty International has urged the European Union to stop plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey. The rights group issued a 35-page briefing saying the EU-Turkey deal to curb irregular migration was “illegal” and “reckless.” Turkey is hosting 3 million refugees, including 2.75 million Syrians, and expected to receive more as part of the deal.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/amnesty-demands-eu-stop-illegal-refugee-returns-to-turkey-1.2929257
With 35 per cent of male newcomers returning home and a growing middle class in developing countries less inclined to migrate, an internal government review is calling the future of Canadian immigration into question. The report by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada also points to the challenge of reconfiguring an immigrant-selection system in a rapidly changing labour market where a growing number of jobs are temporary and there’s “increasing mismatch” of available skills and the skills in demand.
The Trudeau government, despite its growing global reputation on refugees, must say no to taking some of the 1,600 asylum seekers detained in miserable conditions on two islands far from the Australian coast, Amnesty International Canada says. […] “Protecting the refugees who have been warehoused in places like Manus Island and Nauru is the responsibility and obligation of Australia,” said Amnesty’s Canada secretary general Alex Neve. “They’re responsible for providing protection and they’re certainly responsible for the human rights violations that these refugees are enduring.