Media Roundup

La revue de presse fournit des liens aux articles récents et archivés, à la fois en anglais et en français, sur l’immigration et la diversité lesquels ont été publiés dans les média locaux et nationaux. Il y a également des articles internationaux. Cette section est mise à jour hebdomadairement.


CBC News – Ottawa Offers Reprieve for Hundreds of Haitian Nationals Stuck in Limbo in Canada

Due to civil unrest in the country, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) offered a temporary reprieve for 421 Haitian nationals awaiting deportation last Friday. It did not indicate how long the moratorium might last. One man living in Montreal who had his Feb. 20 deportation stayed told CBC News that he has been working to send money back to his family still living in Haiti. “I can’t return to Haiti, that’s one of the reasons I came to Canada,” he said, speaking under the condition of anonymity.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/haitian-deportation-montreal-1.5023959

 

La Presse.ca – « Marche contre la construction d’une prison pour migrants à Laval »

La construction d’un nouveau centre de détention pour migrants à Laval a suscité la colère de manifestants, dimanche à Montréal, où une cinquantaine de personnes ont marché pour demander l’arrêt du projet. «Les Québécois suivent avec attention ce que Donald Trump fait aux États-Unis, mais ils ne réalisent pas qu’on emprisonne des familles migrantes dans leur cour arrière», a dit Sam Hoffman, porte-parole du groupe Ni Frontières, Ni Prisons, qui organisait la marche.

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/grand-montreal/201902/17/01-5215096-marche-contre-la-construction-dune-prison-pour-migrants-a-laval.php

Le Devoir – « Librairie Racines, la diversité en toutes lettres »

La librairie Racines est située sur le boulevard Henri-Bourassa, dans un secteur de Montréal-Nord où les lieux d’échanges et de rassemblements culturels sont rares. C’est précisément pour cette raison que Gabriella Garbeau, alias Gabriella Kinté, a décidé d’y ouvrir une librairie qui se consacre aux ouvrages écrits par les membres de communautés racisées ou portant sur celles-ci. Elle-même a grandi à Montréal-Nord, et n’a jamais visité Haïti, le pays d’origine de sa mère.

https://www.ledevoir.com/lire/548076/racines-une-librairie-a-montreal-nord

CTV News – Canadian Trapped in Syria After Fall of ISIS Wants ‘Second Chance,’ Misses Home

Another Canadian woman who says she followed her husband to Syria when he left to fight for ISIS tells CTV News that she wants to come home. “I had no idea how much I could miss my own country,” said Kimberley, one of four Canadian women who spoke to CTV’s London Bureau Chief Paul Workman from inside the Al-Hawl camp in eastern Syria. “What I know of Canadians is that they are very loving, very accepting people for the most part,” she said.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canadian-trapped-in-syria-after-fall-of-isis-wants-second-chance-misses-home-1.4302618

Globe and Mail – Working Knowledge: Quebec Expands On-The-Job French Lessons for Newcomers

As the province seeks to ensure newcomers can work and function in French, it’s increasing funding by $450,000 for on-the-job lessons offered at neighbourhood businesses across Montreal. Learning French is essential to building their new lives, but they’re unlikely to find time to visit a classroom after long hours on the job. The on-the-job courses have become a success story within Quebec’s vast undertaking known as “la francisation” – the province’s multimillion-dollar efforts to turn immigrants into French speakers.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-working-knowledge-quebec-expands-on-the-job-french-lessons-for/

Montreal Gazette – Demonstrators Want Halt to Planned Immigration Detention Centre in Laval

About 100 demonstrators marched through Montreal’s St-Henri neighbourhood on Sunday afternoon to protest a planned new immigration detention centre by the Canada Border Services Agency in Laval and an architecture firm with two multi-million-dollar contracts to design it. Protesters carried banners and posters with the names of people deported from Canada during the past couple of years and chanted slogans including “Prisons are cages; we will block construction at all stages.”

https://montrealgazette.com/news/demonstrators-want-halt-to-planned-immigration-detention-centre-project-in-laval