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 – Liberals Miss Deadline to Resettle ISIS Survivors of Rape, Genocide Due to Flight Restrictions

The Liberal government missed its target to resettle 1,200 Yazidis and other survivors of ISIS in Canada by the end of 2017 because of an extended ban on international flights at a key airport in northern Iraq.

According to figures provided to CBC News from Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees Canada (IRCC), the department has issued just over 1,200 visas to government-sponsored survivors, but as of Dec. 31, 2017, only 981 had arrived in Canada, 81 per cent of them Yazidi.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/yazidi-target-liberal-refugee-1.4487490

Yukon News – Sponsored Syrian Families Depart Yukon

The two families of Syrian refugees sponsored by the Riverdale Baptist Church have left Whitehorse and moved south. The Omar family moved to Calgary and the Ahmet family moved to Windsor, Ont. said Hillary Gladish, one of the organizers who helped bring the families to the Yukon. In both cases members of the families were able to find work in Whitehorse. They’ve now been connected with churches and other organizations that can help them in their new homes, Gladish said.

https://www.yukon-news.com/news/sponsored-syrian-families-depart-yukon/

CTV News – ‘Twice the Headache’: Why It’s Getting Harder for Canadians to Enter U.S.

In 2016, more than 1.1 million Canadians were granted temporary visas to work in the United States. That’s one-third of all applicants seeking visas to work in the U.S. Thanks to NAFTA, Canadians have the ability to apply for special work visas that aren’t available to other nationalities. However, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to rip up the agreement and reform his country’s immigration system, some Canadians applying for visas are encountering stricter guidelines and longer waits.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/twice-the-headache-why-it-s-getting-harder-for-canadians-to-enter-u-s-1.3761804

Radio-Canada – Une exposition à Halifax célèbre l’immigration francophone

En parallèle à son exposition permanente, le Musée canadien de l’immigration du Quai 21, à Halifax, met en relief ce mois-ci l’importance des nouveaux arrivants francophones au Canada et l’aspect résolument moderne du fait français au pays. La nouvelle exposition temporaire L’immigration francophone au Canada fait le choix de laisser de côté les premiers colonisateurs français, pour s’attarder plutôt aux immigrants d’expression française plus récents.

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1078094/immigrants-francophones-canada-musee-canadien-immigration-quai-21-halifax-acadie-exposition

CBC News – York First Canadian University to Give ‘Dreamers’ a Chance at a Degree

A pilot project at York University — the first such program in Canada — is allowing 10 young people whose immigration status is uncertain to study for a degree. FCJ Refugee Centre, Toronto’s oldest agency assisting refugees, collaborated on the pilot project with York University. While many Canadian schools, including those in the Toronto District School Board, have a “don’t ask, don’t tell policy” when it comes to students of uncertain immigration status, there’s no such policy governing the next chapter of their lives after they graduate from high school.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canadian-dreamers-york-university-1.4488252

CBC News – Abdoul Abdi To Be Set Free, But His Fight to Stay in Canada Isn’t Over

A former child refugee from Somalia at risk of being deported will soon be set free, but his fight to stay in Canada isn’t over. Abdoul Abdi, who spent the last week and a half detained on immigration grounds in jails in the Maritimes and Ontario after serving a four-year prison sentence, could be released as early as tomorrow, according to his lawyer, Ben Perryman. But Canada still wants him sent back to Somalia, he said.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/abdoul-abdi-refugee-somalia-immigration-deportation-1.4487995