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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.
A man who defied a murderous dictatorship, escaped his native El Salvador under death threats, and then fled into church sanctuary in British Columbia under the former Conservative government has finally been handed his freedom.
Ottawa will adjust its immigration loan program to ensure government-sponsored refugees receive more help covering the cost of medical exams and flights to resettle here without being indebted for years – a change made amid criticism that Canada is the only country in the world to charge interest on such loans.
Canada is the only country in the world with a formal, private sponsorship program for refugees, but in recent years, under the previous Conservative government, the Canadian Council for Refugees worried the system was headed towards a refugee resettlement system that would be government run, but privately funded.
The Canadian Forces’ refugee operations in Lebanon are going well, despite delays in Turkey, Canada’s commanding officer in Lebanon says. […] He said Canadians are successfully working with the UN to assist refugees in five locations in Lebanon and one location in Jordan.
The Ontario government will contribute $1.3 million to three Ottawa groups that are helping the Syrian refugees who have begun to arrive in town. The money announced Monday is part of a pot of $8.5 million the province had promised over the next 2 1/2 years for refugee settlement and sponsorship.
Une fête de Noël destinée aux nouveaux arrivants a été organisée, samedi soir, par la Communauté des Africains francophones de la Saskatchewan. L’événement avait lieu pour la première fois à Regina, au Bistro du Carrefour des plaines. Selon Jean Nepo Murwanashyaka, qui fait partie du conseil d’administration de l’organisme […].