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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.
Plongés dans la boue après les intempéries, des milliers de migrants survivent en attendant de traverser la Manche pour atteindre l’Angleterre. Reportage à Grande-Synthe, dans la banlieue de Dunkerque. Près de 3 000 personnes se réchauffent devant le feu de plusieurs braseros. Elles y cuisinent aussi des fèves, y font bouillir du lait ou […].
Les organismes d’accueil de réfugiés syriens sont confrontés à des réalités qui les forcent à s’adapter — et à demander du temps pour reprendre leur souffle, dans certains cas. Ils ont été notamment pris de court par la taille des familles syriennes qui arrivent en sol canadien et par un nombre plus élevé que prévu de réfugiés ne parlant ni anglais […].
Entre cousins tout est si simple!
Pas tant que çà, a constaté Élodie Danon en s’installant à Montréal en 2007. Croyant, comme plusieurs, que la vie ne serait qu’un copié-collé de sa réalité lyonnaise, elle réalise vite que les francophones d’Amérique sont fondamentalement différents. Les repères ne sont pas les mêmes, la culture est tout autre, la façon d’aborder le marché du travail […].
http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2016/01/21/vivre-au-quebec-pas-si-evident-meme-pour-nos-cousins-francais/
While Vancouver and Ottawa are scrambling to find housing for all their government-sponsored Syrian refugees, Montreal has been strangely underwhelmed, with only 31 having arrived since Jan. 1, 2015 (22 since Dec. 1). Of course thousands of privately-sponsored Syrian refugees have arrived in Quebec — 2,947 to be exact — with more than 2,800 settling in Montreal and Laval. But left scratching their heads are the people who gave up their holidays to welcome what they thought would be hundreds of government-assisted refugees (GARs) from the Middle East — a flood that turned into a trickle.
International students hoping to brush up on their english proficiency skills have a new welcoming portal. University of Windsor’s Vanier Hall, previously a catering facility dedicated to Claire and Anne Winterbottom, has been completely transformed. The WinClare annex will be a Centre for English Language Development and contains four state-of-the-art classrooms, office space and student lounge. “This is a new home for our English training programs,” said Alan Wildeman, president of the University of Windsor. “Those are programs that attract students from all around the world as a first step toward becoming a student at the university. We have students from more than 50 countries that come and study English here.”
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/u-of-w-opens-centre-for-international-students
The federal minister responsible for refugees spoke in error Wednesday about the situation in Saskatchewan where provincial officials say things are going smoothly. In Toronto on Wednesday morning the federal immigration minister addressed questions about how some communities, including Toronto and Halifax, were asking for a temporary delay on the arrival of new refugees. John McCallum noted there were parts of the country that were “crying out for more refugees.” “New Brunswick, Quebec, Saskatchewan — those are places that really can use the refugees,” McCallum said. His statement, however, caught Saskatchewan’s minister responsible for immigration a bit off guard.