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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.
Le cliché en noir et blanc a été réalisé par le photographe indépendant australien Warren Richardson dans la nuit du 28 août 2015. Parmi un groupe de réfugiés, un bébé passe des mains de son père à une personne non identifiée sous les barbelés, à la frontière entre Horgos, en Serbie, et Roszke, en Hongrie.
De plus en plus de réfugiés érythréens en route vers l’Europe sont arrêtés en Israël et envoyés en Ouganda sans aucun contrôle d’identité. Y a-t-il un lien entre ces expulsions et le commerce des armes florissant entre Israël et l’Afrique de l’Ouest ? Die Tageszeitung a mené l’enquête.
Le gouvernement fédéral pourrait complètement revoir les règles encadrant les travailleurs étrangers temporaires. Le leader du gouvernement à la Chambre des communes, Dominic LeBlanc, confirme que le gouvernement étudiera la question. Cette situation plaît aux industries qui dépendent des travailleurs étrangers temporaires […].
Austria said on Thursday it would go ahead with introducing daily caps on migrants despite warnings from Brussels that the move broke European Union rules, which have already been badly stretched by the migration crisis engulfing the bloc.
All refugee health care benefits will be fully restored to pre-2012 levels by April 1, Canada’s Liberal government announced Thursday. Refugees from any country of origin will be covered once again, following several years of confusion and patchwork solutions after the previous Conservative government scaled back the interim federal health program in an effort to save an estimated $20 million annually. In addition, Immigration Minister John McCallum and Health Minister Jane Philpott announced Thursday that starting April 1, 2017, additional coverage would be offered to refugees before their departure for Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mcallum-philpott-interim-federal-health-program-refugees-1.3453397
New immigrants to Canada may have an easier time qualifying for citizenship with changes coming in the next few weeks to the Citizenship Act, says Immigration Minister John McCallum. “We are in general trying to reduce the barriers people have to overcome to become a citizen,” McCallum said in an interview on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics Thursday. […] One of those barriers is a test to prove language proficiency in English or French. Bill C-24 expanded the age range for people required to take that test, to those aged 14 to 64 from a range of 18 to 54.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mccallum-immigrants-citizenship-act-language-requirement-1.3453658