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.
Le Soleil – La prison dans la collectivité pour avoir embauché 178 travailleurs illégaux
Trois entrepreneurs en entretien ménager qui ont fait travailler 178 employés illégaux dans des hôtels de la grande région de Québec – et engrangé des revenus de 2,3 millions de dollars – écopent d’une peine de 12 mois qu’ils purgeront dans la collectivité. Les trois entrepreneurs affectaient les travailleurs à des hôtels, les transportaient et les rémunéraient en argent comptant, sous le seuil du salaire minimum.
Le Devoir – Un traitement « inhumain » pour des milliers de réfugiés en attente
Tirage au sort, lourdeur administrative, longs délais… À l’occasion de la Journée mondiale des réfugiés, des groupes et des organismes de parrainage dénoncent le traitement « peu humain » que le Québec et le Canada réservent à des milliers de réfugiés qui attendent dans divers endroits du monde qu’on analyse leur dossier. Au-delà des délais, le système par tirage au sort, qui en est à sa 2e année, continue d’être décrié. En plus de jouer avec des « vies humaines », on lui reproche de ne pas tenir compte des désistements.
Manitoba – Le conseil consultatif de l’immigration lance des rencontres publiques
Le conseil consultatif de l’immigration du Manitoba lance une série de rencontres publiques pour éclairer les améliorations à recommander aux politiques et programmes d’immigration actuels, ont annoncé aujourd’hui les coprésidents, soit M. Lloyd Axworthy et le ministre de l’Éducation postsecondaire, du Développement des compétences et de l’Immigration, M. Jon Reyes.
Edmonton Journal – Recent Afghan Refugees Play Vital Role in Welcoming 296 Newcomers to Edmonton
When Afghan refugee Nasrin Hashemi first arrived in Canada in January, she was instantly welcomed outside the airplane by someone speaking her language of Dari. The greeting put her nerves at ease, such that she wanted to pass on the experience. Earlier this month she did just that, heading to the Edmonton International Airport among a group of 30 Afghan refugees who volunteered to welcome 296 more newcomers from their country. “I felt relaxed that there was someone to help me in my own language because in my country back home I never speak in English, never,” Hashemi said.
Global News – Play Tells Story of Ukrainian Immigrant’s Escape from Banff Internment Camp
A Canadian playwright is hoping his play will raise awareness about how immigrants and refugees have been treated in this country. Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison tells the story one of over 8,000 eastern Europeans who were sent to internment camps during the First World War. Norman Nawrocki wrote the play after learning that his family name was on a list of prisoners. In the play Nestor, a Ukrainian-Canadian citizen, is imprisoned in a federal camp. He rebels and manages to escape.
Globe and Mail – ‘We Are at Risk’: Taliban Tracking 200 Afghans They Claim Are Canadian Spies
Two hundred Afghans, mostly women who worked on Canadian-funded aid projects in Afghanistan, are being tracked down by the Taliban and are in hiding after the militants obtained their names from a confiscated cellphone. A pair of Afghan women, whose names were on the seized phone, say their lives are in imminent danger because the Taliban obtained their phone numbers, pictures of themselves and saw text messages where the women criticized the country’s hard-line Islamist rulers.
