Voies vers la prospérité: Canada

It has been about nine months since Saint John began welcoming dozens of Syrian families to the city. However, in that time a number of families have left the city. Many others are preparing to go and several more say they’re seriously considering moving on. The families are leaving for a variety of reasons, interpreter Rhama Bakir says most simply don’t see a future in the port city and feel isolated.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2925916/several-syrian-refugee-families-leaving-saint-john-others-considering-moving/

Le Premier ministre a mis en cause le quotidien américain pour un article présentant des témoignages de femmes musulmanes en France. Le journal se défend vigoureusement. L’article du New York Times était une rareté : une suite de témoignages recueillis en ligne suite à un appel sur les réseaux sociaux, où des femmes musulmanes, principalement en France […].

http://www.courrierinternational.com/article/polemique-burkini-le-new-york-times-repond-manuel-valls

Le vice-président du Front national se désolidarise des propos tenus par le maire de Béziers et juge que «la France, ce n’est pas une couleur de peau». «Je laisse à Ménard la responsabilité de ses propos. Il n’est pas au FN, il est maire de Béziers», tranche ce mardi matin Louis Aliot, invité d’iTélé. Le vice-président du FN était appelé à réagir aux propos tenus par Robert Ménard la veille.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/couacs/2016/09/06/25005-20160906ARTFIG00149-france-blanche-louis-aliot-brocarde-la-citation-raciste-employee-par-menard.php

Nearly half of the people in the Hamilton ages 65 and older were born outside Canada. “But a huge majority of those people have been here for 40 years and don’t feel like immigrants,” said Sara Mayo, a social planner with Hamilton’s Social Planning and Research Council. Look at the city’s entire population and just a quarter of all Hamiltonians are immigrants to Canada. That’s actually below the provincial average of 29 per cent, according to a new demographic analysis of the city produced by the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton.

http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6841458-the-changing-face-of-hamilton-no-longer-the-city-of-immigrants/

While Pearson has its own information booths to orient travellers, Arif Abu, manager of International Student Support at Ryerson University, which oversees the program on a contract with the city, says the ISWP’s emphasis on peer-to-peer support has set it apart. “New students don’t feel that fear when they are talking to someone on the other side of the booth,” he said. Other cities are looking at emulating Toronto’s program. Abu says he’s received calls from the University of Chicago and Simon Fraser University, who are looking at rolling out similar airport welcome wagons.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/09/05/welcoming-a-new-class-of-international-students-starts-at-the-airport.html

Enrolments over the past five years have grown almost 40 per cent, from 13,145 in 2011-12 to 18,203 in 2015-16, with international students now making up 6.8 per cent of the post-secondary student body in the province. That’s in line with a national trend toward a steady rise in the number of overseas students arriving in Canada who, according to one government report, contribute more than $7.7 billion to the economy through “tuition, accommodation and discretionary spending.”

http://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/international-student-numbers-rise-40-per-cent-in-five-years-at-albertas-post-secondary-schools