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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 principal blocage concerne le souhait britannique de restreindre l’immigration des ressortissants européens. «Inacceptable!» L’adjectif n’est venu ni d’Angela Merkel ni de François Hollande, mais d’un responsable polonais dont les vues sur l’Europe étaient naguère presque identiques à celles de David Cameron.
Après leur ultime Conseil de 2015, jeudi 17 et vendredi 18 décembre, à Bruxelles, les Européens n’ont toujours pas trouvé de vraie solution à la crise des migrants, et ils semblent même plus divisés que jamais. Ils ont donc adopté des conclusions qui mettent surtout en lumière leurs difficultés à traduire en actes de précédentes décisions.
Advice pours out when the topic of Syrians comes up. What emerges from these discussions with Somalis in Toronto is a picture of how complex and sustained any successful refugee integration must be. A constellation of people has to be involved, from the usual suspects (teachers, settlement workers, the refugees themselves) to informal and sometimes unwilling actors, such as landlords, police, the legal profession, even pharmacists and grocers.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/refugees-helping-refugees/article27870128/
While the arrival of planeloads of government-sponsored Syrian refugees the last two weeks garnered loads of media attention, a Vaughan-based organization has been quietly helping dozens of people who fled their war-torn homeland settle in Canada for the past few months. Humanity First Canada, a humanitarian relief organization headquartered in Concord, plans to bring more than 300 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of 2016.
There’s hope that private sector contributions to a national housing fund for refugees could leave a legacy beyond the needs of the newcomers now arriving from the Middle East. Earlier this week federal Immigration Minister John McCallum met with some Canadian business leaders and launched a $50 million dollar challenge to the private sector to raise money for affordable housing for Syrian refugees.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/refugee-housing-fund-could-help-others-1.3370480
For decades Canada has been relying on immigration to do more than enrich the country, in just about every way imaginable – culture and cuisine, aesthetics and fashion, to name a few. We’ve also used the recent annual average 250,000 new arrivals to keep our economy prosperous by countering otherwise dropping birth rates.This pattern isn’t only going to continue; it will accelerate. So much so that, by 2030, it is expected that all population growth will result from immigrants.