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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.
For a health practice that planned to help about 200 refugees a year, the Transitional Clinic for Refugees in Halifax has surpassed all expectations in just two short months. Since January, 692 government-assisted Syrian refugees have been assessed by medical staff at the clinic, which opened on Mumford Road last May.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-health-clinic-syrian-refugees-transition-1.3501243
The Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber Of Commerce is applauding the federal government’s changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Under a new one-year exemption, employers in seasonal industries can hire an unlimited number of low-wage workers — as long as they work fewer than 180 days. Prior to the changes employers would have faced a 10 per cent cap on these workers this season.
Faute de majorité, le chef de l’État devrait renoncer à cette mesure symbolique qu’il avait annoncée devant le Congrès de Versailles au lendemain des attentats du 13 novembre. Après le vote du Sénat, qui aura lieu ce mardi, François Hollande doit décider du sort de sa révision constitutionnelle.
Le dirigeant de l’Agence des Nations unies pour les réfugiés voudrait que le modèle canadien de parrainage privé soit exporté partout dans le monde. Filippo Grandi reconnaît que les gouvernements ont une responsabilité importante dans le développement des programmes d’accueil de réfugiés, mais l’implication des citoyens eux-mêmes contribue à accroître le sentiment de solidarité auprès des plus vulnérables de ce monde, selon lui.
By the time they’d been in Canada nine years, about 5.3 per cent of immigrants owned a private company, meaning they formed new businesses more quickly than the Canadian-born population, where the rate is 4.8 per cent. Another 19.6 per cent of immigrants were unincorporated self-employed persons, compared with 16.1 per cent for the Canadian-born group. Longer-term immigrants, who had been in Canada from 10 to 30 years, also appeared to be more entrepreneurial than the Canadian-born, Statistics Canada said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/immigrant-businesses-study-1.3500813
Des centaines de migrants ont rallié dimanche les îles grecques de l’Égée, au premier jour de l’entrée en vigueur de l’accord UE-Turquie censé couper cette route migratoire et dont la mise en oeuvre démarrait laborieusement en Grèce. Ces traversées ont fait quatre morts selon des sources policière et humanitaire: deux fillettes d’environ un et deux ans […].