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.
Our Windsor – Refugee Health Reversal an Important Step Toward Coverage for All
An estimated half a million people in Canada are ineligible for health coverage due to their immigration status. This includes newly arrived immigrants in the three-month waiting period in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec, international students not provided coverage by their schools or in limbo between school and work, temporary foreign workers between contracts, undocumented people, and even returning Canadian citizens who have left the country for a period of time.
Reuters Canada – UNHCR Warns Against Immediate Refugee Returns to Turkey
Conditions for refugees in Greece are worsening and arrival numbers rising but the safeguards needed to start returning some of them to Turkey next week are not yet in place, aid agencies said on Friday. […] Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal migrants from Greece on Monday under a deal with the European Union, but neither side is fully ready and any start may only be symbolic.
CBC – Refugee Health Care Benefits Restored April 1, but Concerns Over Access Remain
Expanded health-care coverage for refugees and asylum seekers was restored Friday as the Liberal government acted to end cuts that a judge called cruel and unusual. Thousands of people claiming asylum and thousands more resettled from abroad now have their health care costs fully covered by the federal government with the restoration of the interim federal health program.
Le Devoir – Ottawa haussera le nombre des réfugiés syriens parrainés le privé
Le ministre de l’Immigration, John McCallum, revient sur certaines décisions visant à modifier le programme de parrainage privé de réfugiés syriens. La Presse canadienne a appris que le ministère de l’Immigration traitera toutes les demandes de Syriens ayant été reçues jusqu’à ce jour, avec l’objectif d’accueillir 10 000 Syriens additionnels au Canada d’ici à la fin de cette année ou au début de l’an prochain.
Winnipeg Free Press – School Program to Ease Resettlement Woes
The simple-sounding act of daily living can be overwhelming in a strange place with different languages, laws, customs, climate and food. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is funding a new program at 12 Winnipeg schools starting next week to help resettled refugees get accustomed to and become a part of their neighbourhoods.
The New York Times – A Syrian Refugee’s Message to the European Union
We fled a war, and now the European Union is making war against us, a psychological war. When we hear rumors that we’ll be let into Europe, we celebrate. These leaders give us new hope, then they extinguish it. Why did you open the door to refugees? Why did you welcome people? If they had stopped it before, we would not have come. We would not have risked death, me and my children, and thousands of others, to make the crossing.
