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.
BBC News – Ahmed Hussen: from Somali Refugee to Canada’s Parliament
Hussen’s journey took him from Mogadishu to Toronto and then on to Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, where the former Somali refugee was named this week as the country’s newest minister of immigration in a reshuffle of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Cabinet. It was a fast political rise for the rookie politician, and will put Hussen, who arrived in Canada in 1993 as a 16-year-old, in charge of the complex portfolio that oversees who is welcomed into the country.
La Presse – Plusieurs manifestations contre la position de Trump en matière d’immigration
Des manifestants se sont réunis dans plusieurs villes américaines, samedi, pour défendre les droits des immigrants et s’exprimer contre le discours anti-immigration du président élu Donald Trump. M. Trump a promis de construire un mur à la frontière des États-Unis et du Mexique pour contrer l’immigration illégale et a manifesté son intention d’empêcher bon nombre de musulmans d’entrer au pays.
Radio-Canada – Intégrer les réfugiés syriens par le cinéma francophone
Afin d’améliorer leur français et de briser l’isolement, 200 réfugiés syriens des secteurs de Hull et d’Aylmer ont assisté à une projection cinématographique, samedi. C’était une occasion en or de pratiquer la langue de Molière pour ces nouveaux arrivants, selon l’organisateur de l’événement Jacques Laberge.
Toronto Star – Champion of Migrant Workers gets Last-Minute Reprieve from Deportation
Gina Bahiwal, 42, who was recruited to Canada in 2008 as a vegetable packer in Leamington, Ont., was to be removed to the Philippines on Sunday morning under a now rescinded rule introduced in 2011 that banned foreign workers from Canada for four years after they had worked here for four. Although the federal government, under the Liberals, got rid of the so-called four-in-four-out rule, workers like Bahiwal whose work permits expired before December were bound by the old regulation.
CBC – FAQ: How Refugee Claimants Seek Asylum in Canada
The Canada and the United States have a security deal called the Canada-U.S. Safe Third Country Agreement. It says refugee claimants have to apply for refugee protection in the first safe country they arrive in, with some exceptions, including things like public interest and family. […] some claimants have been denied based on violating the Safe Third Country Agreement
CBC – Migrants Freezing to Death in Greece, UN Says
Refugees and migrants are dying in Europe’s cold snap and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders and subjecting them to violence, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. […] Cecile Pouilly, spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), cited five deaths so far from cold and said about 1,000 people including children were in unheated tents and dormitories on the Greek island of Samos, calling for them to be transferred to shelter on the mainland.
