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With a still undetermined number of Syrian refugees to begin arriving in Windsor over the coming weeks, Greater Essex County School Board officials said plans are already in place to handle the expected wave of new students. They say they will avoid pushing new students into schools with already established ESL programs.
http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/school-boards-ready-for-expected-influx-of-syrian-students
Début décembre, l’Allemagne a accueilli son millionième réfugié depuis le début de l’année. Le pays peut-il tenir ce rythme et intégrer tous ces nouveaux venus à la société? « Pour notre pays, qui est riche, 500 000 réfugiés ou même 1 million, ce n’est pas un problème, affirme Wolfgang Kaschuba, professeur à l’Université Humboldt […].
Le mécanisme d’accueil des réfugiés syriens a trouvé maintenant son rythme de croisière et la cadence devrait atteindre très bientôt deux avions par jour en moyenne, a indiqué mercredi le ministre fédéral de l’Immigration, des Réfugiés et de la Citoyenneté. Les prochains réfugiés, […], sont en majorité parrainés par le gouvernement.
A throng of well-wishers gathered at Halifax’s airport Wednesday and shared smiles and tears as a privately-sponsored Syrian family stepped off a plane from Toronto and into view in the arrivals area. The Al Habash family, sponsored by a refugee committee from Saint Benedict’s Catholic Church, has been living in Lebanon for the last two years after they were displaced by conflict in Syria’s capital of Damascus.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/syrian-family-arrives-1.3368885
The next planeload of Syrian refugees is set to arrive on Friday and the pace is then expected to pick up to an average of two planes a day between now and the end of the year. The Friday plane will mainly carry government-sponsored refugees. The government will be able to provide an updated arrival schedule next week, Immigration Minister John McCallum said Wednesday.
The federal government is setting aside a number of refugee applications due to unspecified “concerns,” officials said Wednesday morning. Those cases will be put on hold until after the current surge of refugees have been processed and the applicant can be interviewed again. The government officials, speaking on background, emphasized that the delayed applications did not necessarily represent security concerns.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2404743/canada-putting-aside-refugee-applications-that-cause-concerns/