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.
A candidate to succeed Ban Ki-moon as United Nations secretary general is among those denied a visa by Canadian immigration officials for this week’s World Social Forum in Montreal. Aminata Traoré, a high-profile anti-globalization activist and a former minister of tourism and culture in Mali, said the visa controversy is a stain on Canada’s reputation as an open country.
Learning the rules of the road is hard enough but some new immigrants in Saskatchewan face additional challenges when trying to get their driver’s licence. On Wednesday, Sherwood Chevrolet donated $5,000 to the Saskatoon Open Door Society for 10 new residents and refugees to get driving lessons to help them find a job. “There are many positions where driving is an essential duty of the job or is required to commute to more remote workplaces,” said Saskatoon Open Door Society executive director Ali Abukar.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/donation-saskatchewan-newcomers-driving-lessons-1.3715188
Nearly two dozen international university students have come to Lethbridge from Mexico to improve their English. The 23 Mayan indigenous women are getting a crash course on what it’s like to be Canadian while also learning about First Nations culture in the area.
Les réfugiés syriens et les nouveaux arrivants de divers pays représentent un formidable apport pour le Québec, constate une spécialiste de l’intégration… Elle-même s’avère un bel exemple de réussite. La première chose que veulent faire les réfugiés syriens en arrivant au Québec, c’est de s’intégrer à notre société.
Certains délégués internationaux ne pourront être à Montréal pour participer au Forum social mondial, dont le coup d’envoi sera donné mardi, faute de visa. Le gouvernement du Canada refuse l’entrée à au moins 200 demandeurs, indique le comité organisateur du FSM.
A Roma family that was ordered last month to leave Canada has been granted a reprieve after a deportation order was cancelled. The Canada Border Services Agency told the Lakatos family on July 28 that they had to leave the country by Aug. 11. On Thursday, the order was rescinded. Gilda Lakatos, 17, arrived in Canada in June 2011 along with her mother Katalin Lakatos and her brother and father. The family claimed asylum on the grounds that they had faced racist police and healthcare providers in Hungary due to their Roma heritage.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/deportation-order-for-roma-mother-daughter-cancelled-1.3016274