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 whopping 90 percent of Metro Vancouver residents support the region’s new 15-percent tax on foreign buyers of residential real estate. At the same time, only three percent of respondents to the same poll, conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, say the tax goes far enough, and 71 percent describe it as simply a step in the right direction.
Syrian children play, sing songs and make crafts at First Avenue Public School in Ottawa’s Glebe neighbourhood — enjoying the care-free experience of a Canadian summer — while their mothers learn a new language and a new way of life. The strategy aims to involve more Syrian mothers in English-as-a-second-language (ESL) classes and the wider Ottawa community.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/syrian-refugees-ottawa-summer-camp-learning-mothers-1.3705718
Human rights groups accused Australia on Wednesday of deliberately ignoring the alleged abuse of asylum seekers being held at a remote Pacific island detention facility in a bid to deter future refugees from trying to reach the country by boat. A scathing joint report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said detainees on the Pacific island nation of Nauru, where Australia sends asylum seekers, are routinely denied critical medical care, frequently attempt suicide and endure physical assaults by locals on the island.
A new immigration centre in Sydney, N.S., is working to help people from different countries settle in the region successfully. The Cape Breton Island Centre for Immigration opened in May and works with the newcomers, including the six Syrian families who have arrived in the past year. The centre, which is in the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation and has $175,000 in funding from the province, offers community outreach and help with job searches.
With over 20 years of experience as a mechanic in three countries, there isn’t much about working on cars that Mohamad Malli doesn’t know. But since he arrived in Nova Scotia in January, the language barrier was one problem that Malli, who is originally from Syria and most recently lived in Jordan, couldn’t fix on his own. Over the past month, Malli has been getting some assistance bridging that divide from an Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia program that helps him translate his skills as a mechanic to the Canadian context.
The Czech Republic should not accept any refugees, Deputy Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Wednesday, rejecting the European Union’s quotas and threatening legal action if sanctions are imposed.