Une alliance nationale visant à fournir une base factuelle pour l'établissement et l'intégration des nouveaux arrivants, ainsi que pour la promotion de communautés accueillantes au Canada
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.
Le Devoir – Triage à la frontière : l’Ontario s’estime déjà débordé
Le gouvernement fédéral assure qu’il a toujours l’intention d’instaurer un processus de « triage » à Lacolle, afin d’envoyer directement les migrants qui le souhaitent vers l’Ontario. Mais le plan, qui devait commencer à prendre forme ces jours-ci, se fait toujours attendre. Et ce, alors que la Ville de Toronto prévient à son tour que ses propres centres d’hébergement sont déjà […].
CBC News – Iranian U of Sask. Student Waiting on Permanent Residency Can’t Go Home to Visit Father Fighting Colon Cancer
Mohsen Sanayei, who left Iran four years ago, would desperately like to go back to see his father, who has been fighting colon cancer. But Sanayei, a PhD student at the University of Saskatchewan, cannot return home. He’s been caught in limbo, waiting months for his permanent residency and so far unable to get a re-entry visa to leave and come back to Canada. He said he, and many fellow Iranian students, are waiting months longer than normal to get their permanent residency approved.
CBC News – ISANS Using Literacy App to Accelerate Refugee Children’s English Reading Skills
Squiggle Park is a reading game created by a Halifax start-up in 2015 to help accelerate kids’ reading skills in only 30 minutes of weekly play. The app has been used at Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS) children’s centres since February as part of a pilot program sponsored by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Roxana Pouladi, an early childhood educator at ISANS, has for the last two months noticed a huge improvement in the kids’ English skills.
Le Devoir – Demandeurs d’asile : les douaniers appréhendent le pire à Lacolle
Les agents des services frontaliers et d’immigration nagent en plein mystère alors que les installations temporaires du poste de Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle s’emplissent depuis l’entrée en vigueur des nouvelles « balises » fixées par le gouvernement québécois. Le taux d’occupation des centres d’hébergement temporaire situés au Québec est, lui, passé de 69 % à 74 % depuis […].
CBC News – Whistler, B.C., Group Fights to Bring Syrian Man Stranded in Malaysian Airport to Canada
A group of Canadians has sent an urgent request to Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen asking him to help a Syrian man who has been stuck in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur airport for 50 days. Hassan Al Kontar, 36, has been living in the transit section of the airport since he was turned away from a Turkish Airlines flight. Laurie Cooper, who lives in Whistler, B.C., got in touch with Al Kontar when she heard of his predicament. Now, a group of Whistler residents have raised the money required to sponsor him.
CTV News – More Funds Needed to Address Influx of Refugee Claimants in Shelter System: Tory
Toronto has issued an urgent appeal to the federal and provincial governments for help dealing with the growing number of refugee claimants in its shelter system. Mayor John Tory says the number of refugee claimants in the city’s shelters has grown from an average of 459 per night in 2016, to an average of more than 23 hundred per night this month. Federal spokeswoman Beatrice Fenelon says the department will continue to work with the city and province on the issue
