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.
Radio-Canada – Une soirée placée sous le signe de la diversité à Regina
C’est samedi soir, à Regina, qu’avait lieu le lancement de la 3e semaine nationale de l’immigration francophone sous le thème « Une diversité qui nous unit ». Pour l’occasion, le Réseau en immigration francophone (RIF) de la Saskatchewan avait convié la communauté à une soirée spectacle. Cette dernière a eu lieu dans les locaux de l’Association canadienne-française de Regina (ACFR), au Bistro du carrefour des Plaines, devant une trentaine de personnes.
Radio-Canda – Une journée d’accueil pour les nouveaux arrivants à Edmonton
La troisième semaine de l’immigration francophone a commencé à Edmonton avec la Journée d’accueil pour les nouveaux arrivants. L’événement de samedi a permis aux participants de découvrir le caractère multiculturel de la francophonie et d’apprendre comment aider les immigrants à s’intégrer à leur nouvelle société. Cette initiative était organisée par le Centre d’accueil et d’établissement du nord de l’Alberta et par d’autres organismes francophones.
Toronto Star – Helping Immigrant Nurses a “Win-Win” for Canada: Study
As baby boomers age, Canada faces a looming health-care crunch that will be exacerbated by a projected shortage of tens of thousands of nurses. That makes it more important than ever for Canada to help foreign-trained nurses qualify to practice here, according to a Conference Board of Canada study. Each dollar invested by Ottawa and provincial governments in helping registered nurses acquire Canadian licences generates $9 in future income tax revenue — a nine-fold return, according to the study — not to mention their contributions to the care of the country’s rapidly aging population.
Toronto Star – Protesters Target Greek Border Fence Over Refugee Deaths
Protesters clashed with police guarding a border fence in northern Greece Saturday, following a series of sea accidents that killed dozens of migrants and a warning from authorities that the death toll is likely rise in coming weeks. About 500 anti-government protesters, who travelled from Athens and several towns in northern Greece were involved in the clashes near the border with Turkey after challenging a police cordon blocking access to the fence that spans more than 10 kilometres.
Toronto Star – Canadian Volunteers Secretly Interview Migrants in Jordan. A Lucky Few Will Make it to Canada
In theory, Canada is doing its own refugee selection, taking in especially vulnerable cases referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). […] But for now, the Canadian team — all volunteers for the Office for Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto (ORAT) — is the only group on the ground, and the team knows from experience how complex the task is. ORAT will prepare a list of mini profiles for parishes responding to Project Hope, the Archdiocese’s $3-million emergency appeal to resettle 100 families, and for Lifeline Syria/ Ryerson University, which hopes to accept 250 families over two years.
CBC – Industrial-Scale Misery as Soaked Refugees Pour Onto Greece’s Lesbos
European governments have pledged to help Greece set up some 50,000 refugee places at “reception centres” by January, in the expectation that migrants will be processed and screened for the EU’s much-vaunted, and so far unexecuted, quota-sharing system for refugees within the 28-nation bloc. […] Alessandra Morelli, the seemingly tireless country director for the UN High Commisson on Refugees in Greece, admits there is a big problem ahead.
