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The Canadian government is advising temporary housing suppliers to plan on receiving Syrian refugees by early December as it scrambles to find sufficient homes for 25,000 asylum seekers from both private providers and the military. This notice sent out by the Department of Public Works on Thursday is the first indication of when the Syrians might start arriving.
At this point, it’s not clear what the breakdown will be between government-assisted and privately sponsored refugees. (In privately sponsored cases, some refugees do utilize the loans, while others have their travel costs covered by the sponsors.) It’s safe to assume, however, that the bulk of the 25,000 Syrians about to land in Canada will be GARs. Will they pay their own way to get here, as such refugees typically must? Or will the government make a rare exception under these exceptional circumstances?
http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/will-syrian-refugees-pay-their-own-airfare-to-get-here/
Naheed Nenshi can often speak eloquently about the pluralistic wonder he considers Canada. But as one of the most high-profile Muslim figures in the country, the Calgary mayor admits he has been “shaken” by the closed-minded, even racist nature of some of the debate over the Syrian refugee crisis. […] “I haven’t heard stuff like that in a long time, and I think the really divisive rhetoric [around accommodating Syrian refugees] during the election gave people permission to say stuff that wasn’t polite to say in modern society. And that is absolutely different than it was six or seven months ago.”
Typically, a person seeking asylum here needs to pass through several layers of approval and screening, which includes running the refugee’s file against databases maintained by the Canada Border Services Agency, Interpol, CSIS and similar databases in allied countries.
http://globalnews.ca/news/2349421/heres-how-refugees-are-screened-before-arriving-in-canada/
Amid a small but vocal backlash against aiding Syrian refugees who are fleeing both the atrocities of ISIS in their homeland and the onset of winter, it’s encouraging to read about a small Halifax group whose raison d’etre is to aid refugees. The Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia focuses on people whose sexuality or gender puts them at risk of discrimination, brutality and even death in many countries. Founded in 2011, the group welcomed its fifth refugee, Jahu Camara of Gambia, last month.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/editorials/1323260-editorial-rainbow-association-leads-way-on-refugees
La présence de terroristes cachés dans les rangs de réfugiés syriens est fort peu probable, selon l’ancien agent du SCRS (Service canadien de renseignement et de sécurité) et consultant en sécurité Michel Juneau-Katsuya. Ce qui m’a frappé, c’est l’impression de déjà vu. Des attaques coordonnées à différents endroits, on a vu ça à Mumbai. L’attaque dans un théâtre, on a déjà vu cela à Moscou. L’attaque de café, on a vu cela en Australie.
http://journalmetro.com/actualites/national/876252/accueil-des-refugies-des-terroristes-caches/