Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

The federal government is laying the groundwork for an attempt to dissuade more diaspora groups in the United States from fleeing to Canada, replicating a recent outreach effort to dispel rumours that drew thousands of Haitian asylum seekers in recent months. The outreach, which will take place over the coming weeks, will also include “multilingual communities” in Canada, spokesman Hursh Jaswal said.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/federal-government-works-to-clarify-immigration-policies-for-public/article36181071/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

A refugee who lost fingers to frostbite while coming to Canada is chasing his dream of becoming a professional soccer player. Seidu Mohammed is ready to fight for his team, the Wasps, which was sitting second place in the Manitoba Major Soccer League as of Tuesday.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/seidu-mohammed-chasing-soccer-dreams-1.4273340

Hiba, jeune migrante soudanaise, mère célibataire de deux enfants, ­venait d’arriver au Caire lorsqu’elle a été approchée par des « courtiers » qui lui ont proposé de leur vendre un rein. A la clinique, le médecin lui a donné 40 000 livres égyptiennes (1 900 euros) […].

http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2017/09/04/les-migrants-cibles-du-trafic-d-organes_5180796_1650684.html

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security told 58,000 Haitians in late May that they should prepare to return home when their TPS expires in January. That advisory coincided with a wave of thousands of Haitian migrants crossing into Canada, most in July and August. But 195,000 Salvadorans, 60,000 Hondurans and 2,500 Nicaraguans are also awaiting word on their status. The current designations are set to expire in January for Hondurans and Nicaraguans, and in March for Salvadorans.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/09/04/salvadorans-hondurans-could-form-next-wave-of-asylum-seekers-us-advocates-warn.html

For 20-year-old Ayan Abdi, her only hope of escaping a lifetime in the world’s largest refugee camp was winning a generous scholarship from the World University Service of Canada. But she had to first make a long journey to the interview and impress a panel that she was ‘the best girl in the camp based on merit’.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/09/04/her-only-hope-of-escaping-a-kenyan-refugee-camp-a-canadian-scholarship-competition.html

For three months, the federal government has been secretly spiriting gay Chechen men from Russia to Canada, under a clandestine program unique in the world. The evacuations, spearheaded by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, fall outside the conventions of international law and could further impair already tense relations between Russia and Canada. As of this week, 22 people – about a third of those who were being sheltered in Russian safe houses – are now in Toronto and other Canadian cities.

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/canada-chechnya-gay-asylum/article36145997/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&