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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.
Plutôt que de tenter à tout prix de traverser la Manche, les migrants de la jungle de Calais auraient intérêt à s’installer en France, où le système d’asile est relativement protecteur, estime le quotidien de gauche. On savait que transférer les habitants de la “jungle” vers de nouveaux hébergements en dur n’allait pas être facile pour le gouvernement français.
L’UE a proposé mercredi un budget humanitaire inédit de 700 millions d’euros (1,02 milliards $ CAN) pour aider ses États membres en première ligne face à l’afflux massif de migrants, comme la Grèce, où quelque 10 000 personnes sont toujours bloquées à la frontière macédonienne.
On foot or by taxi, hundreds of exhausted refugee families trying to reach Western Europe flocked Tuesday to a burgeoning tent city on Greece’s border with Macedonia, which has not allowed anybody in for 24 hours, citing a similar policy by Serbia further north.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-migrants-unhcr-1.3470338
The federal Liberals are about to remove one of the major components of the previous government’s campaign against marriage fraud that typically involved immigration applicants from China and India. Immigration Minister John McCallum was quoted in The Hill Times newspaper saying he plans to move in “a matter of months” to fulfil a 2015 election promise to end the two-year probation period before overseas spouses sponsored by their Canadian partners obtain permanent residency status.
The dollars are still being counted, but the amount of money donated by Canadians for overseas Syrian relief efforts will likely fall well short of the maximum $100 million the government had promised to match. Monday marked the final day for Canadians to give money for Syrian aid in order to ensure those dollars were matched by the federal government.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/syrian-refugee-matching-fund-1.3470457
Pour la plupart des immigrants, la recherche d’un emploi qui soit à la hauteur de leurs compétences reste l’étape la plus difficile du processus d’immigration. Différents organismes et conseillers les épaulent dans leur intégration professionnelle ou les mettent en relation avec des entreprises, comme Véronique Lauzon […].