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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.
Une douzaine de Juifs séfarades d’origine espagnole ont juré loyauté au roi et à la Constitution le 19 janvier dans la résidence de l’ambassadeur espagnol en Israël. Ils seront les premiers à bénéficier de la nouvelle loi concernant les descendants des Juifs séfarades expulsés d’Espagne en 1492.
Les groupuscules d’extrême-droite accusent les autorités de vouloir taire l’enlèvement et le viol présumé par des réfugiés d’une adolescente de 13 ans. Agression fictive, assure la police. L’agression n’a pas eu lieu, selon la police allemande. Pourtant la télévision publique russe a relayé l’affaire: l’enlèvement et le viol présumé par des réfugiés […].
Radio-Canada apprenait le 8 janvier dernier qu’une famille de réfugiés syriens pourrait venir s’installer en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Le responsable des projets internationaux du club Rotary d’Amos, Christian Leblanc, confirmait avoir lancé une initiative collective de parrainage. Cette nouvelle a poussé le président de Tea Taxi, Simon Letendre, à […].
http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/abitibi/2016/01/20/012-tea-taxi-emplois-refugies-syriens.shtml
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship John McCallum says the government is considering waiving loan repayments for Syrian refugees who arrived in Canada before the Liberals came to power. As a general rule, refugees coming to Canada take out loans to cover the cost of their flights, but are expected to start repaying that loan – with interest – within three months of landing. But Syrian refugees who arrived since the Liberals took charge on Nov. 4 have not had to pay for their flights, causing a disparity with Syrians who arrived before that date and who are now receiving notices asking for repayment.
European Council President Donald Tusk issued a stark warning on Tuesday that the European Union had “no more than two months” to tackle the migration crisis engulfing the 28-nation bloc or else face the collapse of its passport-free Schengen zone. usk was speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg amid growing frustration in Brussels and Germany – the bloc’s biggest economy and main destination for migrants arriving in Europe – that the EU seems unable to get its act together on its worst migration crisis since World War Two.
With the thousands of refugees already in Ontario or arriving in the coming days, weeks and months, plans are being made to not only train the immigrants to be added to the province’s skilled workforce but also to use their knowledge of their home country to better assist local businesses getting access to those emerging markets. As part of that planning, on Wednesday morning members of the Greater Kingston Chamber of Commerce met with Cristina Martins, the parliamentary assistant to the minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade, and Kingston and the Islands MPP Sophie Kiwala for an employment table consultation at the chamber’s office at Innovation Park.
http://www.thewhig.com/2016/01/20/workplaces-will-benefit-from-refugees-experiences