Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Rose Tohme still remembers the moment she walked into the Prince George, B.C., airport for the first time. “Our plane was delayed, so it was late. It was 1 a.m.,” she recalled.

A welcoming committee was there to greet her family. “We were overwhelmed. I remember, you know, I cried.” This greeting, in the early hours of Jan. 8, 2016, was unlike anything the Tohmes had experienced since fleeing their home in Syria four years earlier. They had already been denied by Switzerland and Germany, and so were biding their time in Lebanon. “It was hard,” Tohme remembered. “We felt a kind of rejection.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/one-year-on-syrian-refugees-in-prince-george-b-c-still-between-worlds-1.3925253

Refugee sponsorship groups in Saskatoon say empty apartments and basements full of furniture have gone unused for months while they wait for families to arrive. For more than a year, members of the P.O.R.C.H. refugee sponsorship group have been storing household items, ready for the day they find out the family is on its way. But that day has not arrived.

Margi Corbett is part of the group of about 20 people who have applied to sponsor an Iraqi family that has been waiting in Lebanon for about four years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/refugee-sponsorship-groups-saskatoon-1.3926797

Blizzards and dangerously low temperatures persisted in parts of Europe on Sunday, prompting Pope Francis to draw attention to the homeless suffering in freezing weather. In Serbia, aid workers scrambled to help hundreds of migrants sleeping rough in parks and makeshift shelters.

The extreme winter weather that has gripped Europe in the past days has caused more than a dozen deaths, left villages cut off, caused power and water outages, frozen rivers and lakes, grounded flights and led to road accidents. Serbia’s authorities on Sunday banned river traffic on its stretch of the Danube — one of Europe’s main rivers — because of ice and strong wind.

Two men died of cold in Poland on Saturday, bringing the nation’s death toll from winter weather to 55 since Nov. 1, authorities said Sunday. Temperatures dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius in the mountains of southern Poland.

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/01/08/europe-scrambles-to-help-homeless-migrants-as-deep-freeze-grips-continent.html

“The fact that we have decided to not hold a referendum in the first mandate is a way of improving the atmosphere,” Lisée said during a news conference in Montreal on Sunday.The new PQ leader made the comments as he announced several measures to improve his party’s relationship with immigrants, many of whom often vote Liberal in provincial elections.  The party has appointed longtime sovereignist Évelyne Abitbol as a special adviser and asked her to develop links with various immigrant groups before the next provincial election.

http://montrealgazette.com/news/lisee-reaches-out-to-cultural-communities-to-boost-pq-support

La première ministre britannique Theresa May a laissé entendre dimanche qu’elle donnerait la priorité au contrôle de l’immigration en provenance de l’Union européenne sur l’accès au marché unique européen lors des négociations sur le Brexit. «Nous pourrons avoir le contrôle de nos frontières, de nos lois…

http://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/201701/08/01-5057514-brexit-pour-theresa-may-limportant-cest-le-controle-de-limmigration.php?utm_categorieinterne=trafficdrivers&utm_contenuinterne=cyberpresse_B13b_europe_287_section_POS3

Médecins sans frontières a dénoncé, samedi 7 janvier, les violences policières à l’encontre des migrants en errance qui dorment dans les rues de la capitale. Selon l’association humanitaire, les forces de police « harcèlent les migrants en confisquant leurs couvertures, utilisant parfois des gaz lacrymogènes » […].

http://www.lemonde.fr/immigration-et-diversite/article/2017/01/08/msf-denonce-les-violences-policieres-contre-les-migrants-a-paris_5059437_1654200.html