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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.
Toronto city staff are predicting that 2,000 to 2,500 refugees fleeing Syria’s brutal civil war will settle in the GTA between now and the end of March. […] While the numbers may seem daunting, Toronto should have no problem accommodating the influx, Chris Brillinger, Toronto’s executive director of social development, told a city committee this week.
“We are going to be having many, many refugees, probably into the hundreds, coming to Guelph,” says Mayor Cam Guthrie.[…] On Dec. 7, Guthrie plans on bringing forward a notice of motion for council to consider having municipal staff explore how the city can best prepare for the hundreds of Syrian refugees expected to settle in Guelph over the next year or so. […] Transportation, health care, education, clothing, food and possible counselling for those who have gone through trauma — these are issues that need to be looked at, he said.
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/6139836-a-time-to-step-up-for-guelph/
Multicultural groups and businesses in Moncton are busy preparing for the looming demand for language educators when the influx of Syrian refugees come into the province. […] Justin Ryan, the public education and communications co-ordinator at the Multicultural Association of the Greater Moncton area, says his organization already provides this service to immigrants, however, they were at maximum capacity before the crisis even developed in Syria.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/language-teachers-syrian-refugees-1.3339485
People helping undocumented migrants enter Canada by steering the ship or acting as a lookout cannot automatically be branded as human smugglers, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In one of two related judgments Friday, the court ruled in favour of several Tamils who arrived in B.C. aboard a rickety boat called the MV Sun Sea. The court called Canada’s human smuggling laws “overbroad,” saying it would lump in family members and humanitarians helping people seek asylum in Canada.
Des migrants qui aident des proches, de la famille, ou qui fournissent de l’aide humanitaire ne peuvent pas être considérés comme des passeurs. C’est la conclusion à laquelle en vient la Cour suprême du Canada dans deux jugements unanimes rendus vendredi. Le plus haut tribunal du pays s’est penché sur deux cas qui mettaient en cause des migrants.
Alors que la crise des migrants européens fait les manchettes depuis quelques mois, une communauté religieuse à Winnipeg a décidé de parrainer uniquement des réfugiés non syriens. Selon le Comité central mennonite du Manitoba, bien qu’il y ait un flot de soutien canadien apporté aux Syriens, il existe des familles qui attendent depuis des années pour fuir leurs pays ravagé par autant de guerre et de terrorisme.