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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.
The catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that slammed southwestern Asia is adding to the misery of Syrian refugees who fled to Turkiye to escape civil war. There are more than 3.5 million registered refugees in Turkiye, many of whom live along the border straddling Turkiye and Syria near the epicentre of Monday’s quake, which has decimated the region.
Internationally trained doctors are being sidelined in Canada while six million Canadians do not have a family doctor. The project emerged from Trained To Save Lives, a social media campaign about the role of internationally educated health-care professionals in British Columbia’s COVID-19 response. We conducted interviews with 11 internationally trained doctors in B.C. While this study was conducted in B.C., the findings highlight licensing barriers for internationally trained doctors across Canada.
L’entente Canada-Manitoba relative aux services en français se termine cette année, et des consultations sont en cours pour la renouveler. Bien que la province ait davantage d’obligations linguistiques, le montant de ce financement n’a pas changé depuis 2009. L’Entente Canada–Manitoba sur les services en français soutient l’offre de services provinciaux et municipaux dans des secteurs tels que l’immigration, la santé, l’éducation de la petite enfance, la culture et le tourisme. Les initiatives liées à l’éducation scolaire et postsecondaire sont financées dans le cadre d’une autre entente.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1955121/financement-canada-manitoba-services-francais
Le ministre fédéral de l’Immigration, Sean Fraser, a déclaré que le Canada pourrait accélérer les demandes d’entrée au Canada de victimes des récents tremblements de terre dévastateurs en Turquie et en Syrie. Le bilan des victimes dans les deux pays ne cesse d’augmenter; il atteignait jeudi plus de 20 000 morts et au moins 75 000 blessés. Des dizaines de milliers de personnes sont par ailleurs sans abri, en plein hiver, et ont du mal à obtenir de la nourriture, de l’eau et un toit.
Wahid Ibrahimi’s family gathered in a hotel room in Ottawa on Wednesday evening, exhausted but incredibly relieved, after months of struggling to survive in Pakistan while they waited to come to Canada. Just a few months ago, the family’s spirits were at their lowest. They are from Afghanistan, where Mr. Ibrahimi worked as a security guard at the Canadian embassy in Kabul until summer 2021.
Several Ukrainian refugees in Southwestern Ontario are in mourning after the recent death of a friend and fellow refugee who moved to the Stratford area last year from Poland after escaping war in the Ukraine. Raman Kotvytskyi and Vlocolyslocv Supranenko – close friends with Oleksandr Buzenko since they were in college together more than a decade ago – said Buzenko, 26, was among the first to immigrate to Canada last year through a Stackpole International program.