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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.
When her Canadian wife was offered an exciting new job in Thunder Bay in the summer of 2019, Christy Tashjian and her family made the big decision to move from Texas to northwestern Ontario. Trained and working as a nurse practitioner in the United States, Tashjian told CBC News that she didn’t think it would be a big deal to transfer her licence and get her registration to work in Ontario.
In a pandemic first, the southern Ontario farm where a massive COVID-19 outbreak claimed the life of a migrant worker and sickened scores more is facing prosecution for a raft of alleged workplace safety violations. Scotlynn Growers and proprietor Scott Biddle are charged with 20 offences that allegedly occurred last year, when about 200 migrant workers tested positive for the virus. Amongst them was 55-year-old Juan Lopez Chaparro, who died from COVID-19 following the Scotlynn outbreak in June 2020.
Canada has doubled to 40,000 the number of Afghans fleeing the Taliban that it plans to take in, the Canadian foreign minister said Monday, fulfilling a campaign pledge made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The announcement, which came a week after Mr. Trudeau’s party won re-election, was certain to be welcomed by humanitarian groups in Canada. They had been pressing the government to do significantly more when it initially committed last month to take in 20,000 refugees after the Taliban swept into power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/world/americas/canada-afghanistan-refugees.html
A social media push to debunk myths about immigrants kicks offs this month by highlighting the contribution of London-area newcomers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The I am London campaign is an initiative of the London and Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership, a London-area resettlement agency. It aims to debunk narratives that paint immigrants as taking advantage of the system and inspire other immigrants to pursue their dreams by highlighting other newcomers’ successes, project co-ordinator Huda Hussein said.
Hamadi Hamisi and his family spent 10 years trying to survive on meagre rations in a refugee camp in Kenya, living in a mud house with a bamboo roof. This year in Fredericton, as newly arrived refugees looking for a place to live, they stood in a dark, dank basement apartment, where mould grew on the walls, there was no proper ventilation, and the single, tiny window in one of the three bedrooms was broken. But the resettlement agent helping the couple had warned they would have to find a place on their own if they didn’t take this one.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/fredericton-newcomers-housing-crisis-1.6184036
There’s this thing I do when I’m walking down the street with my partner. When someone crosses our path, I’ll say something in perfect, crisp English, loud enough for that stranger to hear. I do it to offer myself just a little bit of protection as if to say, ‘Please don’t say anything racist to me. Look how well I played the game. I speak this language perfectly, without an accent — I swear, I’m one of you.’
I feel like the biggest loser when someone says, ‘Wow, your English is so good!’ | CBC News