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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.
Thousands of people have marched in support of a Canadian Muslim family run over and killed by a man driving a pick-up truck last Sunday in an attack the police described as a hate crime. The four victims, spanning three generations, were killed when Nathaniel Veltman, 20, ran into them while they were out for an evening walk near their home. A fifth family member, a nine-year-old boy, survived.
Education officials on Prince Edward Island say there has been a significant increase in the number of newcomer students in classrooms in western P.E.I., and many require extra language training. Five years ago, there were about 100 newcomers in schools from Summerside to Tignish — that has grown to about 300 for the 2020-21 school year.
On Saturday, London, Ontario’s Muslim community will lay to rest four members of a family killed in what police say was a racially motivated attack. Police say the family were victims of a premeditated attack – singled out for their Muslim faith. The violence has left London reeling, and triggered a nationwide outpouring of grief. The loss has sent a shock of anxiety through members of Canada’s Muslim community, now confronted with the question of their own safety when they step outside.
« Choc et incompréhension » : depuis quelques mois, c’est ce que disent ressentir plusieurs organisations canadiennes dirigées par des personnes noires. Elles ont été nombreuses à recevoir en début d’année une réponse défavorable dans le cadre de l’initiative fédérale « Appuyer les communautés noires du Canada », sous prétexte qu’elles ne répondaient pas au critère d’être gouvernées en majorité par des personnes noires. Six mois plus tard, les leadeurs de ces organismes attendent toujours une réparation concrète.
From insufficient access to toilets to cramped living conditions, a new report that includes testimonies from migrant farm workers in Canada paints a bleak picture of their housing conditions. “We are living in conditions of modern-day slavery,” said one migrant worker, in one of the anonymous testimonies. The report, based on feedback from 453 workers and a survey specific to 330 of them, was assembled in response to the federal government’s proposed Mandatory Employer-Provided Accommodations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/migrant-farm-workers-housing-conditions-new-report-1.6060423
Canadian neighbourhoods where visible minorities live had a COVID-19 death rate about two times higher than areas that had a low proportion of immigrants, says a study from Statistics Canada. The study looked at the pandemic from early March to July last year, when there were more than 8,300 deaths. About 67 per cent of those deaths were reported in Quebec, 28 per cent in Ontario and three per cent in B.C. Of those, immigrants made up 48 per cent of the fatalities in Quebec, 45 per cent in Ontario and four in British Columbia.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7940380/covid-19-deaths-immigrants-statcan/