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.
Des fonctionnaires du gouvernement fédéral devraient se rendre cet automne dans le nord de l’Irak pour tenter de déterminer comment amener au Canada des centaines de réfugiés qui vivent actuellement dans cette région. Pour la première fois, des employés canadiens iront à Erbil, la capitale du Kurdistan irakien, précisément pour cet objectif.
More than a year after Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan died in immigration custody, Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared the officers responsible for guarding him at a hospital from any wrongdoing. […] There have been at least three other deaths of immigration detainees so far this year, including Chilean man Francisco Javier Romero Astroga, 39, at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton; Melkioro Gahungu, 64, a Burundian migrant at Toronto East Detention Centre, and an unnamed 24-year-old man in Edmonton Remand Centre.
A Canadian priest has been charged over stealing more than $500,000 intended for the resettlement of Syrian refugees, and then gambling it away. […] The priest had been involved in a sponsorship program for refugees for several years. He was suspended by the diocese of Hamilton, Ontario after police opened an investigation in February.
Rahimi established the soccer academy in April because he knew, as a refugee himself, how important the sport can be to adapting in a new country and creating a new home. Born in a refugee camp in the desert in Iraq, Rahimi came to Canada in 2000. “I remember when I first came here it was really hard to make friends, it was really hard to get to anything, to find jobs, go to school but when I played soccer I easily made friends,” he said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/syrian-refugee-soccer-camp-for-kids-1.3682466
The city needs to do what it can to ensure those who bring temporary foreign workers to Abbotsford are providing adequate housing, Coun. Ross Siemens said Monday as council allowed a farm to continue housing its workers in a renovated machine shed. And an advocate for such farmworkers says the federal government also has to take a look at its rules allowing workers to be housed on-site.
A GTA family whose immigration was impacted by their son’s Down syndrome has left the country — tired of waiting after the federal government failed to meet the promised timeline for a decision. […] Montoya moved his family to Canada when he accepted a job as an environmental studies professor at York University. But, when they applied for permanent residency in 2013, the Montoyas were told their son could be an undue burden to the country’s health system.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/toronto/2016/07/15/family-with-down-syndrome-son-leave-canada.html