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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.
En permettant aux usines de transformation de poissons et de fruits de mer de l’est du pays d’employer davantage de travailleurs étrangers temporaires, le gouvernement fédéral a raté une occasion d’encourager ces entreprises à offrir de meilleures conditions de travail, selon une note interne consultée par Radio-Canada.
Ils sont douze en tout. Deux femmes, quatre enfants et six hommes. Douze réfugiés syriens renvoyés, mercredi 27 avril, depuis l’île grecque de Lesbos vers la Turquie voisine. Escortés par des agents de l’agence européenne de gestion des frontières extérieures (Frontex), ils ont pris un avion jusqu’à la ville d’Adana […].
Le maire de Québec a fait de l’immigration son cheval de bataille à l’occasion de sa première rencontre avec le ministre fédéral des Finances, Bill Morneau. Régis Labeaume demande au gouvernement fédéral d’assouplir les règles pour les Français qui voudraient s’établir au Québec.
Ever tighter restrictions on migrants and refugees in Europe are giving the wrong signal about countries’ obligations under international humanitarian law, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday. Ban, the first foreign dignitary to address a session of the Austrian parliament in Vienna, expressed his concern a day after legislators passed some of Europe’s toughest asylum rules and plans for a fence at Austria’s Alpine border with Italy were unveiled.
An immigration settlement program run by the YMCA has expanded its reach in Nova Scotia to include Port Hawkesbury and Kentville. Y Reach has offices across the province from Sydney to Yarmouth, and has offered assistance to immigrants since 1991, according to Barbara Miller Nix, the YMCA’s chief operating officer. […] Working in partnership with other community groups and sponsors, Y Reach has a wide-ranging mandate, Miller Nix said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ymca-program-immigrant-settlement-1.3557129
When the Syrian Refugee Support Group’s (SRSG) warehouse closed its doors earlier this month, the logical question is: what’s next? Sam Nammoura, co-founder of the SRSG said although they no longer have a physical community hub anymore, the group is continuing their support efforts, but now they’re shifting their focus. “There are only two ways to integrate, only two ways we can guarantee the success of the Syrian refugee resettlement in Canada—language and jobs,” he said.