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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.
Avec plus de 350 nouveaux élèves provenant de l’étranger cette année, la Commission scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke (CSRS) connaît une année record de nouveaux arrivants. Du nombre, un élève sur sept provient de la Syrie, soit une cinquantaine d’élèves.
The federal government needs to take a good look at laws on immigration detentions, advocates have said. In wake of recent deaths of two inmates at the Lindsay, Ont. detention centre, calls are mounting to end indefinite imprisonment of immigration detainees and to overhaul the judicial process for those waiting to be deported. […] Inmates at the detention facility are on a hunger strike in an effort to draw more attention to their plight.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top EU officials have joined Turkey’s PM to visit a migrant camp on the Turkish-Syrian border, as they seek to bolster a controversial EU-Turkey deal. The team met children and inspected living conditions at the Nizip camp, home to some 5,000 migrants. […] However, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the EU officials had chosen to visit a “sanitised refugee camp”.
Immigrants can help boost Canada’s innovation performance. In its latest State of the Nation report, the Science, Technology and Innovation Council noted that immigrants are overrepresented as business owners, founders of high-tech startups and patent holders. […] A key issue is that the government denies labour market applications if it believes there are Canadians available in an occupation – even if the employer cannot find them. When a labour market application is approved, the employer and candidate still have to wait as long as six months for processing.
La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, accompagnée du président du Conseil européen Donald Tusk et du commissaire européen Frans Timmermans, est arrivée samedi après-midi à Gaziantep, dans le sud-est de la Turquie, pour apaiser les tensions au sujet d’un accord crucial entre Ankara et l’Europe sur les migrants.
It was never going to be easy but some Syrian refugees resettling in Saskatoon are facing more challenges than expected. Marilyn Garnett, a longtime volunteer with settlement organizations, said financial support for some families from the federal government has been slow to arrive. She said a recent three-week delay in monthly payments caused hardship for at least one father with a wife and four children.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/syrian-refugees-struggling-saskatoon-1.3547543