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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.
Almost 80 per cent of the people who were invited to apply for permanent residence through Express Entry were already in Canada, the government said in its year-end report on the new immigration system, released on Thursday. Slightly more than 31,000 invitations were issued in 2015, a number that will grow in coming years as Express Entry becomes the main pathway for economic immigrants.
Une congrégation religieuse vient d’effectuer un généreux don afin d’aider à la venue de nouveaux arrivants au Restigouche dont, entre autres, d’éventuels réfugiés syriens. La congrégation des Filles Marie-de-l’Assomption de Campbellton vient de remettre un montant de 20 000$ à l’Association multiculturelle du Restigouche afin de l’aider à mettre en place une structure d’accueil pour les nouveaux arrivants.
Une semaine à peine après son arrivée avec ses deux filles et son époux, Marie Dodosh est en stage chez sa cousine, dans l’arrondissement Saint-Laurent à Montréal. Elle arrange des bouquets qui seront livrés à un mariage et passe le balai. Des gestes qui ne lui sont pas étrangers : la famille de Marie possédait une petite entreprise spécialisée en organisation d’événements à Damas.
Edmundston devient la première collectivité du Nord du Nouveau-Brunswick à accueillir des réfugiés syriens. La ministre responsable du dossier de l’immigration, Francine Landry, a fait savoir que la première famille de réfugiés syriens est arrivée dans la communauté, mercredi soir.
The Liberals are committing to finding new ways to get Syrian refugees to Canada and into other countries as the United Nations seeks nearly half a million spaces for Syrians by the end of 2018. But Canada did not directly pledge any more spaces at a high-level conference in Geneva on Wednesday devoted to finding new solutions for the refugee crisis. That will come later this year, when the Liberal government intends to unveil a new approach to immigration, moving away from setting levels for a single year in favour of a plan that will cover 2017-2019.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mcallum-geneva-refugees-un-1.3511948
After fulfilling an election promise to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees, the federal Liberal government is scaling back its efforts to help settle Syrians in Canada. For the sponsors awaiting their arrival, that is frustrating. For the refugees waiting, that’s a life-altering decision. It means many refugees will have to stay put wherever they are until next year before their applications are processed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/syrian-resettlement-1.3512161