Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

Le Nouveau-Brunswick est prêt à accueillir d’autres réfugiés syriens en dépit du fait que certaines familles syriennes arrivées à Saint-Jean l’hiver dernier se préparent à partir vers de plus grandes villes canadiennes. Le gouvernement Gallant veut toutefois évaluer l’accueil et l’intégration des quelque 1500 Syriens arrivés jusqu’ici avant d’ouvrir les portes de nouveau […].

http://ici.radio-canada.ca/regions/atlantique/2016/09/16/002-syriens-accueil-evaluation-nouveau-brunswick-depart-emplois-acadie.shtml

“Lavage de cerveau”, titre en une l’hebdo hongrois anti-Orbán HVG, dénonçant l’omniprésence des affiches anti-immigration qui ont fleuri dans le cadre de la campagne pour le référendum du 2 octobre qui porte sur le plan européen de relocalisation des réfugiés. Sur la couverture : le visage terrorisé d’un homme, lunettes 3D sur le nez, semblant visualiser l’éventualité que […].

http://www.courrierinternational.com/une/hongrie-les-affiches-anti-immigration-dorban-un-lavage-de-cerveau

Three researchers from Dalhousie University will soon head to New York for the first UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants. Dr. Howard Ramos is one of the researchers involved with the Canadian Refugee Child, Youth and Family Research Coalition. The goal is to look into how to measure the successful integration of refugees. […] The coalition’s research includes creating nation-wide data “to look at the experience of refugee children and youth.” Some of this will be statistical, and researchers will also speak personally with refugee children in their families.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/halifax/2016/09/15/halifax-researchers-un-summit-on-resettling-refugees-.html

More than half of the 6 million refugee children under the mandate of the United Nations have no access to school just as the refugee school-age population is exploding by 600,000 a year, a new report says. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees report, only 50 per cent of refugee children around the world have access to primary school education, compared with a global average of more than 90 per cent.

https://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2016/09/15/millions-of-refugee-kids-have-no-access-to-education-un-says.html

Leitch may not win her leadership contest, but the fact her naked appeal to prejudice can still spur “debate” in this country says it all. Polls suggest a majority of Canadians agree with Leitch’s call to screen immigrants for good values. Few of us really care about the content of the questionnaire. What we care about is our very Canadian right to demand that immigrants be questioned, scrutinized, and weighed against the comfort and well-being of those already established here.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/09/15/suspicion-of-immigrants-is-a-canadian-value-cole.html

The prime minister was taking part in a day-long conference hosted by Canada 2020, which describes itself as a progressive think-tank. Asked by the panel moderator what can be done to reduce fear of and discrimination against newcomers, Trudeau replied that what’s happening in Canada and around the world is “nothing new.” […] The prime minister said Canadians should engage with all communities.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/trudeau-compares-muslim-discrimination-to-italians-and-greeks-1.3763477