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.
CBC – Ottawa, Kingston Syrian Refugee Groups Continue their Work – with Questions
People working to bring Syrian refugees to eastern Ontario say Tuesday’s federal government announcement of more details on their arrival still leaves them with questions and plenty of work to be done. […] The executive director of Ottawa’s Catholic Centre for Immigrants, which has traditionally been the receiver of government-assisted refugees in Ottawa, said he didn’t hear everything he wanted to hear on Tuesday but he’s not getting impatient. “We can see where the file moving is along, it’s not a glacial pace,” Carl Nicholson said. “This is going at a breakneck pace compared to other [campaigns] we’ve been in.”
CBC – Nova Scotia to Welcome up to 30 Syrian Families in December
Nova Scotia will be welcoming 20 to 30 Syrian families as part of the first wave of privately sponsored refugees expected to land in Canada in December. The sponsoring groups are mostly churches as well as the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia, said Immigration Minister Lena Diab at a news conference Wednesday.
The Canadian government says it will resettle only 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of this year – less than half the number it promised earlier. But it said was still committed to bringing another 15,000 refugees from Syria by the end of February. […] The refugees will be both privately sponsored and government-assisted, either registered with the UN Refugee Agency or with the government of Turkey.
The Globe and Mail – Overseas Security Screening to Slow Down Refugee Arrivals: Ottawa
Instead of the 25,000 taxpayer-sponsored refugees by Dec. 31, as Mr. Trudeau promised in dramatic fashion during the election, Ottawa will bring in 15,000 government-assisted asylum seekers and 10,000 refugees sponsored by individuals or groups by the end of February, 2016. Security drove the decision. The Liberals have decided to take more time to do screening of all applicants overseas rather than bringing them to Canada and leaving themselves open to a scenario where would-be refugees are rejected for security concerns but now on Canadian soil.
Les organismes communautaires et les municipalités accueillent favorablement le plan d’action d’Ottawa pour l’accueil des réfugiés, même si des zones d’ombre subsistent. […]. « Les organismes commençaient à être inquiets, car jusqu’à ce matin, on n’avait aucune clarification sur les mandats et les ressources disponibles », a exprimé au Devoir Stephan Reichhold, directeur de la Table de concertation des organismes au service des personnes réfugiées et immigrantes (TCRI).
Le Huffington Post – Les réfugiés plus vulnérables aux problèmes de santé mentale
Les réfugiés sont plus vulnérables aux problèmes de santé mentale et présentent souvent de hauts taux de dépression et de consommation abusive, rapportent certains experts canadiens. Psychiatre au Centre de toxicomanie et de santé mentale, le docteur Kwame McKenzie affirme que les défis pour les nouveaux arrivants vont souvent bien au-delà de seulement surmonter le trouble de stress post-traumatique (TSPT) hérité du temps passé en zone de guerre et en camp de réfugiés.
