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 – Ontario Volunteers Needed for Refugee ‘Welcome Wagon’

A project that connects newly-arrived government-assisted refugees with Canadian families is expanding beyond the GTA. The Together Project matches groups of Canadian volunteers, called Welcome Groups, with refugee families. The project applies Canada’s unique private refugee sponsorship model, which sees groups help newcomers for at least a year after their arrival to the country, to government-sponsored refugees. The biggest difference is that Welcome Group volunteers aren’t financially responsible for the families they’re teamed up with.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-together-project-expanding-1.4328710

Toronto Star – Leamington Is at the Frontlines of the Boom in Migrant Workers. Here’s How It’s Changed

Like many of Ontario’s downtowns, Leamington’s has seen better days. But the thousands of low-wage temporary farm workers from Mexico and the Caribbean, the work they provide and the money they spend here — Mayor John Paterson figures $15 million a year — have transformed the local economy. While these migrant workers and their effects on the community are particularly obvious in Leamington, the racial tension between them and the locals is far from unique in a rural Canada increasingly reliant on the labour provided by the migrant worker program.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/migrants/2017/10/09/leamington-is-at-the-frontlines-of-the-boom-in-migrant-workers-heres-how-its-changed.html

Le Devoir – Merkel accepte de limiter à l’avenir le nombre de réfugiés en Allemagne

Angela Merkel a accepté dimanche pour la première fois un objectif de plafonnement annuel du nombre de réfugiés acceptés en Allemagne, cédant à la pression de sa famille politique conservatrice qui réclamait un durcissement après les récentes élections législatives.

http://www.ledevoir.com/international/europe/509945/merkel-accepte-de-limiter-a-l-avenir-le-nombre-de-refugies-en-allemagne

Toronto Star – Bill Would Protect Against Discrimination Based on Genetics, Immigration Status and Police Records

The private member’s bill, tabled by Liberal legislator Nathalie Des Rosiers, would expand and modernize Ontario’s human rights code which was first established in 1962. If passed, the legislation would add the four new areas of rights protection to the code and give anyone discriminated against recourse they currently don’t have at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. Des Rosiers, a former human rights lawyer, said the code as it stands has gaps and doesn’t fully protect many of the province’s residents, especially those in poor or marginalized communities.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/10/08/bill-would-protect-against-discrimination-based-on-genetics-immigration-status-and-police-records.html

Toronto Star – Canada Blasted for ‘Needlessly Punitive’ Immigration Detention System

A group of prominent human and civil rights organizations has filed a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on the eve of its periodic review of Canada’s domestic human rights conditions and records. The review, scheduled for early 2018, is conducted once every four years. Despite progress made by the federal government in the past year in addressing some systemic issues with the detention system, the group said its treatment of immigration detainees, including children and individuals with mental health issues, continues to violate binding international law.

https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2017/10/06/canada-blasted-for-needlessly-punitive-immigration-detention-system.html