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More than 3,000 boat migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean over the past two days and two bodies have been recovered, Italy’s coastguard said on Thursday.The coastguard coordinated rescues of migrants from 15 different boats on Thursday, bringing 1,950 people to safety. Two bodies were recovered from a rubber boat. Some 1,100 migrants were rescued at sea on Wednesday.
A local counselling service has hired an Arabic-speaking therapist to assist Syrian refugees in Waterloo Region. Therapist Rasha Mardini will start seeing clients at KW Counselling Service’s seven agencies throughout Waterloo Region, beginning July 4th. KW Counselling Services received $60,000 in funding to offer her a one year term, made up of community donations, matched through The Kitchener and Waterloo Community Foundation.
Changes made to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program by the Harper government since 2014 increase the risk that low-wage migrant workers who come to Canada will be abused, according to a report released Wednesday afternoon by the Metcalf Foundation, a charitable organization in Ontario. “We’ve seen a rise in concern about the widespread exploitation of workers under the program, but what we know well is that those experiences of exploitation are a product of the system we’ve created,” said Fay Faraday, the report’s author and a human rights lawyer who has done extensive research on the TFWP.
The first year of the Liberal government’s marquee Syrian refugee resettlement program came in about $136 million under budget, the government said Thursday. Bringing in 25,000 people between November and the end of February cost $319 million, with the biggest costs being transporting and welcoming them, figures released by the Immigration Department show. Transportation was cheaper than expected, temporary military housing was never used and neither was a contingency fund, Immigration Minister John McCallum told a House of Commons committee in explaining the cost savings.
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La première année du programme phare du gouvernement Trudeau pour accueillir 25 000 réfugiés syriens au pays a coûté 136 millions de dollars de moins que ce qui était prévu dans le budget initial, selon les chiffres fournis jeudi par le ministère de l’Immigration. La venue au pays de 25 000 réfugiés entre novembre et la fin février a coûté 319 […].
European Union ministers will look on Friday into ways of stemming the flow of migrants who set sail for Europe from Libya and elsewhere in north Africa after a deal with Turkey has cut arrivals via Greece to a trickle. The EU fears the central Mediterranean route to Italy may become the main one now as calmer seas encourage more people to try the perilous journey.