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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.
Quelques dizaines de migrants se sont rassemblées devant la station de métro De La Savane mardi après-midi dans le cadre d’une semaine de manifestations. Ils réclament du gouvernement fédéral un meilleur traitement pour les milliers de sans-papiers au pays. Cette fois, ils hèlent les passants, les invitant à une grande marche de dimanche à Ottawa pour exiger « un statut pour tous ».
Two Saskatchewan institutions are receiving nearly $13 million in funding from the province for education and skills training. Immigration and Career Training Minister Jeremy Harrison said this will help grow a skilled workforce in the province. He added it will help engage under-represented people in the workforce, create long-term care jobs and increase the number of apprentices in the province.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8043336/saskatchewan-government-skills-training-programs/
A former Syrian refugee — who achieved a certain amount of international recognition after being stranded in a Malaysian airport for months — says travelling to northern B.C. for a temporary job assignment has broadened his Canadian experience. Hassan Al Kontar, 40, has been working as an emergency health worker with the Red Cross in Fort St. John since early July — after living 2½ years in the Lower Mainland working with Vancouver’s Red Cross.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hassan-al-kontar-fort-st-john-1.6110554
The Southwest Newcomer Welcome Centre has been visiting communities in the southwest this summer through a program it hopes will help engage children in their new environments. The program, which is funded through the Settlement Worker in Schools Program, looks to help transition children into their new setting by showing them what the communities have to offer.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/07/20/summer-programming-a-welcome-initiative.html
In an election-style campaign stop in B.C., Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Ottawa is going to triple the number of parents and grandparents Canadians can sponsor to Canada in 2021 to 30,000. Flanked by two Liberal colleagues in Surrey, where South Asians make up almost 60 per cent of the population, the Ontario MP made an in-person appearance at a community centre to praise the importance of family reunification, a big issue for newcomer communities.
Une annonce serait imminente en vue de rapatrier au Canada un peu plus d’une centaine de traducteurs afghans qui ont oeuvré auprès des militaires canadiens lors des opérations des Forces armées canadiennes en Afghanistan. Le retrait des troupes américaines et les avancées des talibans sur le territoire afghan font craindre le pire pour ces interprètes, considérés comme des collaborateurs de l’ennemi par les forces talibanes.